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SCOTT'S rOEMS
TIfE LADY OF THE LAKE
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R. W. TAYLOR, M.A.,
mLOW OK «T. J0...V^8 COLLKUK. CA.Mm.a.UK.
TO Wmcfl IS AODED
AN IXTRODUCTION TO SCOTT'S POEAls
(FllUM LAY OF LAST MLXSTKKL),
BY
J. SURTEES rmiXPOTTS, M.A.
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EDITOR'S PREFACE.
pocket dictionaiy. At the same time, I have not thouejlit
it wise tu explain every variation from the ordin.ir;, con-
struction-, uhicli a little thou!L(|it will solve.
As the interest of the tale depends on the secret of
Fitz-James's identity bein;; kept, it will be well, when the
whole i)oem is used, to let it be read through before the
notes are touched. The explanations of historical allu-
sions nece-sarily divul^je the secret
The notes have been gathered from various sources,
which I ha\e in most cases indicated. I have not thouL-^ln
this necessary in the etymological notes, excejDt where the
derivation given has appeared open to ciucstion. Besides
tlie standard dictionaries, I have found most valuable
help in M. Littrc's Dictionnaire de la Lniii^ite Francaise.
For names of places I have consulted Taylor's Words
find Places and Colonel Robertson's Gaelic To/^oi^mpliy^
a work which may be very useful to those who, like my-
self, think that his conclusions often rest on insut^icicnt
grounds. I have given where I can illustrations from
Scott's own poems and novels.
I am indebted to my friend and colleague, Mr. J. S.
Phillpotts, who has kindly looked over some of the pruof
sheets, for many valuable suggestions.
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l^'TKODUCllON.
/-^'/v on incident."- This is trn^^ nf fj,<. fir.i -^ ^
n.c,re of the poem is less varied l^^ZTn. "
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^KuuTCII OF LIFE,
Sir V/alter Scott was born i,i the r.ld ciiv of Edin
l'ur.^.h on the ,5th of Au^nist, ,;;.. lie was the nnah
ma fam,y of twelve children, seven of whom died in
early clnKlhoo<], and none of whom with the evcoption of
^a- Walter attamed to the nearest limits of dd a-e His
father was a w.iter to the S;\r,,,t; a Ic^^al cicrkin con-
nection with the City Solicitor. His mother was the
■ HiSh^^!" "' I^'-- Rutherford, Professor of Medicine in the
Lnivcrsity of Edinburgh.
Early years -It may be said of Scott, as it can be
said of few ot .ers. that he was never a child in some
respects. "In him the man and child refused to be
separated." When about eighteen n.onths old he lost
the use of one of his legs, and as the result of this
^^^^s sent to live with his grandfather to get the benefit
of the country air. For a considerable time it was
doubtful whether the tenderest care of his fond -rand-
paruits would be rewarded by the restoration of stren^^th
to the paralysed limb, but he was at length able to use
n, although he remained a cripple for life. He earlv
showed remarkable mental powers. Uefore he was^ix
years of age he had read a great deal. His rapidity
of development appears to have been accompanied with
the expenditure of an unusual amount of vital force
ile was too ardent and seemed to have too clear a
leahzation of the exciting in what he read. His ment-.l
organum while it should have been simply growin . "^s
urged by his enthusiasm to do the work if an adult mind
and to this far more than business perplexities or re.'
work n later years, should be attributed the terrible
d^r min't ''-'-'^^^'r^ ^'-'--d his declining
da> s. When strong enough his father brought him home
and sent hun to school ; first for a short time to p vl e
schools, afterwards to the High School. He was not
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remark^l/r; fvr his proficiency in his stud
occupierj a /)',>siuon "near the middle of his'cl
icndeiicy doivnward rather than
Til^llhoO'l— His father intend
ies, and usually
an upwards.
ass with a
IIS rather intended him for a lawyer, ana
ater.n apprenticeship and a training in the law clas.es
Wl n ^T'T' ''' ^''^''^^'^ '-^ al^«"t fourteen years.
When he had been nearly eight years at the bar he was
appointed Sheriff of Selkirkshire, lie married a Miss
Carpenter or Charpcntier, daughter of a French royalist
'n 1797. He had previously been a devoted but unsuc-
cessful suitor for the hand of Miss Margaret Stuart,
daughter of Sn- John Stuart Belches, of Invermay. His
legal practice ^vfter his appointment as Sheriff was merely
nommal. He devoted himself mainly to literary work!
and unfortunately soon entered into business relations
with the Lallantynes in the formation of a publishino-
house in Edinburgh. On the failure of tlie firm in 1826"
Sir Walter's rabiliiies were found to be nearly ^120,000'
He had made immense sums of money by his writings,
and ID other ways, but had been most extravagant in his
expenditure upon his estate, Abbotsford, the first portion
of which he purchased in 181 1. He paid enormous prices
for adjoining lands, and spent almost fibulous sums in
erecting a castle, and in beautifying his extensive pro-
perty. Great as was his indebtedness, however, he
declined to accept any composition with his creditor^,
and set to work with a resolute will to earn the mone"y
to pay all whom he owed. In about five years he had
nearly succeeded in accomplishing the desired result
le received /,ls,ooo for the life of Napoleon alone it
he .train and the inxiety were too grdat for him to bear
•nlern/^''"'';'"""^ -.vith paralysis lind his friends pi^I
iiopc tiiat lib health might thereby be restored H*-
aLVT T^." ^''^ ^'■^''^^ •"^^"^'^^ clouded/au ced li
Abbotsford, September 21st, 1832.
ind usually
lass with a
INTRODUCTION.
iwyer, and
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een years.
»ar he was
d a Miss
1 loyalist,
lit unsuc-
Jt Stuart,
lay. His
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relations
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died at
SCOTT'S POEMS,
-ET—
J. SURTEES rillLLPOTTS. M.A.
(From Lay of Last Minstrd).
JN studying Scott's poems we have the advanta-e of
Jinving notes by the Author. The value of Uicse
notes IS not so much that they support his statemcms
a:K pro^e his pictures to be drawn from the life ; it is
rather that they shew how Scott composed, and how lan-e
an element memory supplied in his imagination. 'Ihe
popular v.cw of imagination, as a faculty that invents out
oi nothmg, is contradicted at once by the practice of
inventors as well as by the philosophy of the mind,
iniagmation draws its food from the storehouse of
memory. It may in fact be defined as "productive
association," that is, a power of linking together o'd
impressions so as to produce rew combinations. Shakes-
peare did not build out of nothing : he took his plots from
Uie chroniclers or from former playwrights, a course
which Goethe most strongly recommends-" it is only
when facts and characters are provided that the poets
task begins of animating them into a whole." And in
this respect Ruskin happily compares Scott to Turner ■-
How far I could shew that it held with all great
mvcntors, I know not, but with all those whom I have
carefully studied (Dante, Scott, Turner, and Tintorct)
It seems to me to hold absolutely : that their imagina-
t.on consists, not hi a voluntary production of new
fjBl
scoT-r's roEMs
tl^c poets Z^, 0," 7\ ^'"•■^'^--^' -'CHlin. wi.h
painters, down to Cute fcl^^^T^ ''''''' ""'''' "'^'^ ^'^^
loaves or stones n, ^''^'^'f'^'^P^^', and shapes of
-asurah";; ;^L:;:::;^^f-'"!-•exedandin.
any moment exactly such ™s of •/ ".'T'" ''
lit each other • this T .^ "" ^ '"''''' '''' '^^''^'^ J"^"^'
t'^eimo,ina^.etn,:r;iVn:;'^'-^:^'""^'''^^'^
everyone^;,: :Ca, ,;: ".rr''"" ^ "■=>■ -P--
F uuLc ^ooct dia» ings or great thou-hts "i
it was this memory with "h;« J-.r •. w
'1- preparatory studies » vh „ ' ' "'"^ '"'"i"^' -
"piusc or nis composit bns T'.nf- q^ *.-
memory and diljcrence womM i.. ^^"'^^
inimnf^^i ., > "'^^ '^°"'^' have been nothin^r unless
animated by the mtcnsity of his enthusiasm A in
g.ven us a picture of Scott at six y a oTd ^' H^' '
-adm, to his mother a description of a sh pwrecf h"
passion rose with the storm h. re. aI ^^'^
'-ands ; there's the n ast^^ ' sajs he c H "" "^'
0^ w^ an perish .Aud:;.::^!:^;,-;^^^^^
ile used to interest us by tellino- n^ tl^n • • '
ca..ed thcnvvMch he ha<,i,:d:^e:;-;i'a^o:r';: ''!
1 RusKiN ^^</^,;, A,//./.;* Part v. ii. ,7.
.
at the
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H th the description of the glories l>e had seen. . .
The marvellous seemed to have sueh power over hhu
thatt eexpress.or. of his face shewed a deep intensity
o fcelmg ns ,fhe were awed even by his own recital."
He.-,ysofhMnse]f,"Thelove of natural beauty, more
espeoally when combined with ancient ruins, became
"•Jth me an msatiable passion.-^ In later years h was
often subject to (its of abstraction, becoming so com-
pletely absorbed in thick-coming fancies as to be un-
conscious of where he was and of what he was writing. "
Scott describes the powers of his own imagination^n
the Introduction of Alarmion :—
" ^itay ye!, ilhision, stay a while,
My wiltier'd fancy .s'.ill Ijeguile ?
1*Vom this high theme hovv can I part,
Kre half unloaded is my he.in !
For all the tears e'er sorrow drew,
And all the raptures fancy knew,
And all the keener rush of blood,
That throbs through bard in bar,l-Iike mood,
Were here a tril)ute mean and low.
Though all their mingJed streams could flow-
Woe, wonder, and sensation high,
In one spring-tide of ecstacy !—
It will not be— it may not last—
The vision of enchantment's past :
Like frostwork in the morning lay
The fancied fabric melts away ;
Each Gothic arch, n.°morial stone,
(Vnd long, dim, louy aisle, are gone ;
And lingeiing last, deception dea:,
w. x.vxiv. ^ i""ouin.iiun to Jie Olobe LdiUuu ol iicott, p. xia
2 fnii^r'H Manaz-m; aj>nd r.il^riave.
xii
SCOTT'S POKMS.
Tl)echr,ir'.l,i.hsou„.ls,|ieonmv'car
JN.nv slow return the lonely down'.
I'e silent pastnros bleak and brown,
The farn, begirt with cop^ewood wild.
i he Rambols of each frolic child
^'xin. their shrill cries with, he ;one
Of I weeds da. Ic waters rushin^ron...
Tliis imaginative power is the k-^v t^ t •
a romance writer » To it bl . , ' " -''^''^f^c'^s as
'■cali.in, the actLs of i 1 ''' '■' "-^^'-'^"1 po-erof
the scenes the; "e n Hi !"■?"' '^"' "^ ^^'^'^''"^^
his novels than > , bi! ^'"'''''^tncss appears tiiore in
narrative potV so r^V'^f '" '"'^^ '''^ ^'^^^
tlie meetin.. of'Fitrr ^"'''^ specimen of tliis ,s
desci^ipin of natur n\ • ""' "" ^'" ^"'"^^^^- ^he
on the Trosal 1 . , Pocms, such as the stanzas
Kind in the nc!;els ' "^"^ ^" "^^ '' '"^^ --'
dwarf, perhaps inventPd/o ^vas ami chievous
biund;.^ men' ;; : h ::r 'r "".— '-^^^^
a natural instinct to " ^over p r "t " ""7" '' '^
to vent our spleen on .nL ^ '"'' '*"'' '''^ ^'^^e
Now, we should aVuerS-^^^^^^^^ "'"' ^'^" ""^-'-^•
in our way; in earlier tin s:"ltl7h"""V°""'^'"-"
i-np as the cause of our m ; fo'tt ne sT^''-'' '""^
Cilpin Horner Hi. fi„n^ u ' ^"^^ an imp was
c-m. "Tint tint iu'r/'l Tf" T ^"^'^^ '^^ ^-
hearer answered^; Vhat^ 1 'I t ' "''^' ^" "'"^'^ ^'-
INTRDDUCIK.N.
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the name of Peter Bertram, and when he cn'Ied, the
dwarf said, "That is me : I must away"-llie s|)iiilini,'
away happily accoiintin;^ for the imp's disapi)e;uaiice
when Iiis mischief was done.
There are two obvious difficulties in founding a nv
niance on such a story.
In the first place, it is not very credible. This is met
by the plot being laid in barbarous limes before '' the
schoolmaster was abroad " in the land. If the poet has
art enough to make us identify ourselves with the actors,
we shall sympathise with their beliefs, and our imagina-
tion will make these our own for the time ; * especially
if the supernatural incidents do not take the bhapc of
isolated interferences with the general order of the
world, but win a poetic probability or fitness from having
magical surroundings. Thus the weird powers of the
Ladye of Branksome, ae Spirits of the Fell and of the
Flood, the Scaled Book, and Michael Scott, all relieve
and are relieved by the pranks of the elfish dwarf, while
there is a fitness in making the great traditionary magi
clan of the Scott family stdl interested in the fortunes of
his house. (It will be noticed that the poet wisely omits
the Peter Bertram of the tale, and hints it was Michael
Scott who called the dwarf away, vi. 26). In proper set-
ting, these superstitions themselves help to remove tlie
scene from the present day, since they form one of the
' notes' of the time of chivalry.
The second difficulty is that a poem must evoke our
hiterests, and even if we manage to realize a being who
is but half-human, we cannot feel even fear or hate, nor
anything but contempt for a creature who had the inglo-
rious province of deluding children. But the blunders of
deluded children may be intensely tragical, and may have
^ Cp. Note on i. 14.
m
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SCfjTT's POTMS.
.V"-'.T ii.ccleuch T ; '"' "'"''-'■^ '"^ ^''^'''"••^^ "^ '''«
coiDbat, in whirl," r ' ''"''"'f^' occisions the s'li-'e
^ve must also notice thn ..! • ''^''^''' '""^ P«em,
Sreat tests of a fi i n'i^ "' "- ' "''' ^'" '' ''-
t"e motives nn.s^ e e rd"" '"" °' ^'" ^^^^'^^ '"
"atmal therefore :^L f adequate. The super-
Perhaps n.os:t p^" L^rw^nt "'^ '^^ ''''''- ^' ^^
to an inward moiive • hus !. n ^"''' '" °"'^^'''''"'' '"'^'•'"
^'•th the eye wha '; 'e ,v "^".'' '^ '' '''''' '^ ^^«
»-»^- Th s in Ma be hi. '" 'k'""^* ^''^^^^^ °^ ^'^^
-^cl tangible, but a the I'mT t " T ^'"°"»'^^>' -^'
^lacbeth's ambitious thou "tL ho"' "^ "''" "^ ^-
outside himself and constr. 1. ' •V''''"' '''''''''Sly
the gods are perfecrrell or " Z''"' ^° '" "'^'"^^
human, feeling\.s ve do ev/ '" 1 ^"' ^'^"'^ P'^^^'^^^'v
jealousy and f^ar but IhehT """'' "^'^'"^^ ^^ P'-'de,
^^-e as it were in th ^'1'''^'"''^ ""''' '""^^^ "«
"^ove men to deeds of brlt '''' "^^"^"^'^^ ^^'^h
hidden laws of "Se" whth hi l""^^ themselves, and
^o here the magi ll po' 't d '^' "^°^^ '^^"-"'^ ^'"^<^'-^^-
natural motives^of i/C^^t^' T'' '' "'^^"^ »'-
»'^ - and bring them X": 7' ^''-^^er illustrate
dwarf's main action, when it ''^ '^''' '" the
''■till ler."
nnpsh countcnvitin.of tLe rlu I i d "■ 1 ^ ^"" '"
w.tl>the..ctionofthepiecl. "HcTfcn,,^
^" ';;;ai„ the Ladye's magi.: i. restrained fvon^ esrc^ ^e
oi-^iuibancc of the action Thonoi, d « i '""i^xrc^.ae
luobt me main complication of tho nlnf ti,„
I'-'-- i-e-..ppu,,ra„ce of lJol,„,,i„o, „l,ich leads TZZ
■--very, „„,„„ ,,,„„ ,,„ ,,„, ,^^ • „;;^^;,,r"' '° "'= 'i'^-
..u ..,ep,aa. ■„„,„, U,.':!: ^^ ZZZ ZZZi
teiecl in the open air of our centnru 'n,» ^"ibnei
so much " out of ti.„ c^nt"'y- Tlie poem seemed
ne ss„) of havmg some pitch-pi|,e wl.ich „,i„|„ nnle
pjW.catio,, I therefore introduced the old minstrel ,s
an appro„r,ate prolocutor, by whom the La" m 'ht be
<-un. or spoken, and tho .ntroduction of whoL bcu^een
1 i
V. 33-
-■ V. ,=
* So that the cntir Tcffrey ca)l
V. 24.
"■'ni ler." ''" ^'-"" '" P^rS^ t.'ie Lay of this unjjragdul
i
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^\\
scon's t'OEMs.
the cantos mi^ht remind tljc reader at intervals of the
time, place, and circumstances of the reritation. 'Miis
species of cufn; or frame, afterwards afforded the 1:0.111
its n.imc of tlie ' I ay of the Last iMinstrel.'"
- I
PATES OF SCOTT S LIFE,
Born the year before Coleri.Ifje, nnd year after Wordsworth. 1777
At 18 in Iiis father's office, the year of French Revolution . 17S9
-At 34 puhhsht'd /.(f>/, the year of irafnlfjar . . .iv"o-
Al 4j pubhshed Wavcrley, the year Ijeforc Waterloo . .'1S14
At 61 died, the year of Refoim Bill . , , , \^<^ ,,
'.lis of till.'
ion. '^lli^
the io,n\
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itiuii . 17S9
. I ^'03
. I S 1 4
A
T///I LADY OF THE LAKE.
CANTO FIRST.
J_J ARP of the Xorth ! tint .nrn.ldcrin^j lon^r l,ast \^^^r^^
* ^ On the wil. Ii-c ,11 tliat sli ul.s S .InP i.iiT '^
And clown the HtA,! b,...e Ihy nll.nU ^^" ^ ^^^^"'-
III envious ivy did nn.nnd thee clin-r ^'
IMn ilm^ vv„h vcrd.mt rin.,Iot every string-
Mnist.el Harp, still must thine acm^s sleco ?
M II. must thy sweeter sounds their silence kren
Nor L,d a warrior suule, nor teach a maid to wdv ?
Not thus, in ancient days of Caled.m,
\Vas thy voice mute amid the festal crowd.
\\ hen lay of hopelcs love, or ^^lory won, '
Aroused the (carlul, or subdued .he pmud. '
At each accordmg pause, was heard aloud
I nine ardent symphony stil;lime and hi.^h »
Pair dames and crested chic f. attention bowed •
v/ V- V'i" ^!!r'''" "f ^'•>' "'in.'^trelsy 'fiess ev,»
\.a. Kn.ohthood's dauntless deed, and Beautyi aiatX
O wake once more ! how rude soc'cr the hand
1 liat ventures o'er thy ma-ic nia/e to strav •
O wake once more ! thou-h scarce my skill command
Some fe.ble echoin- of thine ear'ior lay "'"''""^
i liouKh harsl, and faint, and soon to die away.
And all imwortiiy of thy nobler strain.
\ ct if one heart throb higher at its sway ^^'
1 he wuaid note has not been touched in vain
Then s.Icnt be no more ! Kiichantress, wake a^^in.
Ml
III
10
THE LADV OF THE LAICE. [,
CA.N'K.. I.
t \
I.
The sta.-:; at eve had diiin!: li
. ijcre danced 'the i;i
IS ll
oon on All
And deep Ids niidr.i-l.t lair had ni , '■ '
In lone (Jlcnaitncy's hazel shade ;
^j (I5ut,)\vhcn tlic sun his beacon red'
Had kindled on lU-nvoirlich's licvd
>Y The deep-mouthed bloodhound'o hea\ y 1 - y
Kcsounded up the rocky way,
; And faint, from fartlier distance born-
V\ ere heard the clan-ing huof and liu,':i.
\ II.
As Chief, who hears his warder call,
'To arms ! the foemen st rni the ull' 'L '
1 he anllered moiijuch of the waste "
%rung from his heathery couch in ha-^te ^
liut, ere his (leet career he took,
llie dew-drops from his Hanks he shook •
I.ikc crested leatler proud and hirh *-/•
Tossed his beamed frontlet to the sky
A moment gazed ad()^vn the dale, *
A moment snutied the tainted gale
A moment listened to the cry, '
That thickened as the chase drew ni-h«
T hen, as the headmost foes appealed', '
\\ ith one brave bound the cop-sc he cleared
And, stretching forward free and far, '
bought the wild heaths of Uam-Var.
III.
VcHcd on the view the oj^cning pack •
Rock, glen, and cavern paid them back:
lo many a mmgled sound at once
The awakened mountain gave response.
A hundred dogs bayed deep and stron ^
Clattered a hundred steeds along.
Their peal the merry horns rung out,
A hundred voices joined the shout ;
"•^/i'th hark and whoop and wild hal'.'oo
No rest Uenvuiilich's clIiols knew. '
ANIM I,
t *-.
CAXTO I.]
Far from the t
CI
OS
se in her
THE CHASE,
iimiilt flc-d the r
li
oe.
Tlie falcon, from h
co\ crt cowered the c!
Cast
on the rout a wond
er cairn on hi-h
'i'ill far bevond h
erin,L^ eye,
er piercir,i>; ken
1 lie hurricane had swept the <dpn
i;.'init, and more faint, its fai''''
inu
'^i
Keturned from cavern, chtf, and hnn,
And silence settled, wide and still,
Un the lone wood and mighty hill.
IV.
I-ess loud the sounds of silvan M-ar
iJi-. urbed the hei-hts of Uam-Var
.Mvl roused the cavern, where, 'lis hid
A giant made his den of old-
I'or ere that steep ascent was won,
i^ii'^h m his pathway lunv^ the sun,
And many a gallant, staid perforce,
^Vas fani to breathe his faltering Ikms^
And of the trackers of the deer
•Varce half the lessening pack was near ;
60 shrewdly on the mountain side
ilad the bold burst their mettle tried.
V.
The noble stag was pausing now,
bpoii the mountain's southern brow.
VVhere broad extended, far bene.ith
1 he varied realms of fair Menteith.'
H'lth anxious eye he wandered oVr
Mountain and meadow, moss and moor.
And pondered refuge from his toil,
M' far Lochard or Aberibjleju
'lUit nearer w^as the copse wood gr.iy,
liiat \va\ed and wept on Loch Aclirtiy.
And nimojcd with the pine-trees blue
On the bold cliffs of I'cn venue, p- '•
!■ resh vigour with tlu> liope returned,
\u(h flyinv loot the lie.iih he spun; d,
Held westward with umvearied r,.,'
And kft bel
)ind the ]) liitinv cimse.
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12
TIIC LADY OF THE LAKE. [canto j.
VI.
'Twcre long to tell what steeds gave o'er,
As swept the iuint through Canibus-more ;
What reins were tightened in despair,
When rose Benledi's ridge in air,
Who flagged upon Bochastle's heath,
Who shunned to stem the flooded Teith—
For twice that day, from shore tc- shore,
The gallant stag swam stoutly oer.
Few were the strag<;lers, followMg far,
That reached the lake of Vennachar ;
And when the Brigg of Turk w as won,
The headmost horseman rodf alone.
VII.
Alone, but with unbated zeal,
That horseman plied the scouigc and stcci;
For jaded now, ami spent with toil,
Embossed with foam, and dark with soil,
While every gasp with sobs he drew,
T he labouring stag strained full in view.
Two dogs of black Saint Hubert's breed.
Unmatched for courage, breath, and speed,
Fast on his flying traces came.
And all but won that desperate game;
For, scarce a spear's length from his haunch,
Vindictive toiled the bloodhounds stanch;
Nor nearer might the dogs attain,
Kor farther might the quarry strain.
Thus up the margin of the lake,
lletween the precipice and brake,
O'er stock and rock their race they take.
VIIL
The Hunter marked tliat mountain high,
T he lone lake's western boundary.
And deemed the stag must turn to bay.
Where that huge rampart barred the way;
Already glorying in the prize,
Measured his antlers with his eyes;
For the death-wound and death-halloo,
Mustered his breath, his whinyaid drew.
CA
.MXm. aa ro ir,! »»l| ( .Mi , « f t
[canto I,
CANTO I.]
THE CHASE.
^
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But thundering as he came prepared,
With ready arm and weapon bared,
The wily quarry shunned the shock,
And turned him from the oi:>posing roc,':;
Then, dashing down a darksome l^k-n,
Soon lost to hound and iuintcr's ken,
In the deep Trosachs' wildest nouk
His solitary refuge took.
There, while close couched, the thicket r'l. J
Cold dews and wild flowers on his head.
He heard the bafilcd dogs in vain
Rave through the hollow pass amain,
Chiding the rocks that yelled again.
IX.
Close on the hounds the Ilimtcr cam^,
To cheer them on the vanished game;
But, stumbling in the rugged doil,
The gallant horse exhausted fell.
The impatient rider strove in vain
To rouse him witli the spur and rein.
For the good steed, his labours o'er,
Stretched his stiff limbs, to rise no mere;
Then, touched with pity and remorse,
He sorro\Yed o'er the expiring horse;
' I little thought, wlien first thy rein
I slacked upon the banks of Seine,
That Highland eagle e'er should feed
On thy lleet limbs, my matchless steed !
Woe worth the chase, woe worth the day,
That costs thy life, my gallant gray!'
X.
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7.C
Then through the dell his horn resounds?
From vain pursuit to call the hounds. __!«
Fiack limped, with slow and crippled V^cc,'\ •> 'f.
1 he sulky leaders of the chase ; -^ " .^ "
Close to their master's side they pressr(\ ^U^cC (jU.
With drooping tail and humbled crcbi J
ir^^'J
)
But still the dingle's hollow throats /. ^^
Prolonged the swelling bugle-note./ ^L^r
The owlets started from tlieir dream,,* "'^
The eagles answered with their scrcar.ij ^
Nl
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14
[ind and around the sounds; wore cast
c.\>
R
Till echo sfcincd an answciin- bUbV
And on the hunter Iiicd liis way,
') join some comrades ot the dav •
so stran>;e the road.
\::\y
\et often paused, _.
So wondrous were the"sccnes'irsl^wed
XI.
The western waves of ehbinn- ,lav
Kolled ocr the <;!cn tlieir Irv, '
Tacn purple peak, each iiiniv sp„-c,
\\as batiied m Hoods of hvin- li,,.
hut not a settin- beam could^iow'
U ithin Mie dark ravines below
\\ here twined the patli in shadow hid.
Kound many a rocky pvramid
Miootm-abrupily frc.m'thedell
Its tJumder-spHmercd pinnacle •
j^'nmd many an insulated ma-s' '
1 he native bulwarks, f the pass'
;'uge as the towci.vhich builders y.vu
liesumptuouspiledon Shinars plain
i he rocky summits, split and rem ~^
I^ormed turret, dome, or battlemen't,
Ur seemed iar.tastically set ,
\\'ith cupola or minare'.
Wild ci ests as pa-od ever decked.
Ur moscjue of H.^^tern architect ^
Jjor were these carth-b.rn rasthtbare
Nor lacked they many a banner fair '
l^ov, from their shivered brows disiMasc.
far oer the unfadiomable Ldade
All twinklin- witli the dew-drops ^hren
I he bner-rose fell in streamers Lneen '
And creeping shrubs, of thousand d\<.s,
Waved m the west-wind's summer srd.s
V
XII.
f
poon nature scattered, fvcc. and wild,
iyich plant or flower,,the mountain's child
Here eglantine embalmed the air,
iiawthorn and hazel mingled theie •
i
ANlu 1.
CA.N
I
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THE CIIASa
The primrose palaand violet flower,
Found in e.ich clirf a narrow bowci ;
r^oxKlove and ni;>htshadc', side by side,
J^inblcins of punishment and pride,
Grouped their dark hues with every st.i:
The weathcr-lieaten cra;^'s rctainV ^
- With bounhs^tjiat (juaked at evcfy'bro it'),
' Gray birch and aspen wept beneath;
Aloft, the ash and warrior oak
Cast anchor in the rifted rock ;
And, hi«;hcr yet, the pine-tree hung
His shattered trunk, and frccjuent flun'^,
\Vhcre seemed the clil'fs to meet on hi^^Ii,
His boughs atliwart the narrowed sky."
Highest of all, where white peaks glanccl.
Where ylistenini,^ streamers waved and dauc
/The wanderer's eye could barely view
\lhc summ, r heaw'n's delicious blue ; .
So wondrous wild, the whole mi-ht iccm
Ihe scenery of a fairy dream.
XIII.
Onward, amid the copse ''^.-.n peep
A narrow inlet, still and ileep,
Affording scarce such breadth of Liim.
As served the wikl duck's brood to t\\ ;in.
^ ost for a space, through thickets a ce, .u'-,
Lut broader when again ajipearing
Tall rocks and tufted knolls their fac«\
Cou!d on the dark-blue mirror traci.. •
And farther as the hunter stravcd, '
Still broader sweep its channels mada
'Ihe shaggy mounds no longer stood.
ICmerging from entangled wood,
r>ut, wave-encircled, seemed to Hoar.,
Like castle girdled with its moat ; •
Vet broader tlood i extending still
I)ivide them from their parent hill^
Till each, retiring, claims to be
An islet in an inland sea. u
/.nd now, to issue from the g'en,
1.0 pathway meets the wm.deicr's ken,
dp
4 iSi ll
■fi
THE LADY OF THE LAKE. [canto i.
Unless lie climb, with footing nice,
A far projecting precipice.
1 he broom s tough roots his ladder mado.
I he hazel saplings lent their aid;
And thus an airy point he won,
Where, gleaming with the setting sun.
One burnished sheet of living gold
Loch Katrine lay beneath him rolled.
in all her length far winding lay,
With promontory, creek, and bay,
And islands that, empurpled bright.
Moated amid the livelier light,
And mountains, that like ^fants stand.
1 o sentinel enchanted Ir ,,d.
High on tlie south, huge Benvenue
Down on the lake in masses threw
Crags, knolls, and mounds, confusedly hurled
1 he fragments of an earlier world • '
A wildcrir.g forest feathered o'er '
I lis ruined sides and summit hoar,
\\ hile on the north, through middle air.
Len-an heaved high his forehead bare.
XV.
From the steep promontory gnzed
The Stranger, raptured and amazed.
And, ' What a scene wevc here,' he crier!
l or princely pomp, or churchman's pndei
On this bold brow, a lordly tower;
In that soft vale, a lady's bower;
On yonder meadow, far away,
The turrets of a cloister gray.
How blithely might the bu lo-horn
Chide, on the lake, the lingering morn I
How sweet, at eve, the luvu's hue
Chime, when the groves were still and mntel
AiKl, when the midnight moon should Live
Her foreliead in the silver wave,
I low solemn on the ear would come
The holy matins' distant hum,
While the deep peal's commanding tone
Should wake in yonder islet lone,
A sainted hermit from his cell,
CAN"
AN TO I,
CANTO I.]
THE CHASE.
To drop a bead with every kncIl —
And bugle, lute, and bell, and all,
Should each bewilder, d stranger c;
To friendly feast, and lii^htcd hall.
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XVI.
'Llithc ■were it then to wander here!
Ikit now, — bcshrew yon nimble deer, —
Like that same iiennit s, thin and si).iie,
'I'hc copse must .nive my evening fare;
Some niussy bank my couch must be,
Some rustling oak my canopy.
Yet pass we that ; the war and chase
Give little choice of resting-place ; —
A summer night, in greenwood spent,
Were but to-morrow's merriment:
But hosts may in these wilds abound,
Such as are better missed than found ;
To meet with Highland plunderers her;
Were worse than loss of steed or deer.—
I am alone; — my bugle-strain
May call some straggler of the train;
Or, fall the worst that may betide,
Ere now this falchion has been tried.*
Hf
XVII.
But scarce again his horn he woimd,
When lo ! forth starting at the sound.
From underneath an aged oak.
That slanted from the islet rock,
A damsel guider of its way,
A little skiff shot to the bay,
That round the promontory steep
Led its deep line in graceful sweep,
Eddying, in almost viewless wave,
The weeping willow twig to lave.
And kiss, with whispering sound and si.) a*,
The beach of pebbles bright as snow.
The boat had touched the silver strand,
Just as the Hunter left his stnnd,
And stood concealed amid the br.iko.
To view this Lady of the Lake.
: * f
'if
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Tuk LADY OF THE L.\:;::.
Tlie maiden paused, as if a-ain
S..0 tlnn,:rht to catch the distant strain.
\\ nil licad iip-raiscd, and look intent
And eye and ear attentive bent, •
A Ki locks llnng back, and lips apart
I-ikc monument of Grecian irt ^ *
in hstcnni^r mood, she seemed to .fanJ
Ilie guardian Naiad of tlic strand '
V XVIII.
^"^ ne'er did Grecian chisel trace
A Nymph, a Naiad, or a Grace
Of hner form, or lovelier face!
md sli-hjy tni,o;ed her check with hm.n -
The sportive toil, which, short and iL,. '
Ilad dyed her .^dowing h„e so brie ht ^"^ '
Served too in hastier swell to shew '
V\ hat though no rule of courtly grace
i o n.easured mood had trained her pace -
A foot morclight, a step more tr .e ^ '
Pcn'ftV^:' heath'-tlower dashed c.e de-v •
y^^^'f '''^'?' ^'"''y-^"^^ ^••'^ised its head, ^''
1 -lastic from her airy tread :
\\ hat though upon her speech there hur
Thos'e'^il'"' °^ ^'^? "^°""^^i" t"" -
I '?',w'^'"7^:^l"V^.S'-^osoft,sorIear;
I lie hstncr held his breath to hoar 1
XIX.
A Chieftain's daughter seemed the mal ' •
cisam snood, her silken plaid, '
Her go den brooch such birth bctraved
And seldom was a snood amid '
^iich wild luxuriant ringlets hid,
\\ hose glossy black to shame mi-ht br^-^
]he plumage of the raven's wuv'^- ''^
And seldom o'er a breast so fairr'
Mantled a plaid with modest c:ne.
And never bnoch the folds coml.,ne,l
Above a heart more good and km^
[:a.n.
CAN I
aew i ^
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'L.
> * ' c-
[-A.Ni.. X.
CANTO I.]
THE CHASE.
r
Ilcr kindness and her worth to spy,
You i.c-cd but ,L,^-ize on EHcn's eye;
Not Katrine, in iicr n irror blue,
Gives back tlic sha,<r,L;v banks more truo,
1 ban every free-born -lance confessed
I lie <,^uikless movements of her breast •
\\ liethcr joy danced in her dark cvo, *
Or \yoe or pity claimed a si-h,
Or fdial love was glowing there,
Or meek devotion poured a prayer,
Or talc of injury called forth
'J he indi-nant spirit of tlie North.
One only passmn iinrevcaled,
^\ ith maiden jiride the maitl conccnlcc'
^ ct not less purely felt the tiame;—
O nc'.d I tell that passion's name I
XX.
Impatient of the silent horn,
Now on the gale her voice was bo-no:—
' I'ather!' she cried; the rocks around
Loved to prolong the gentle sound.
A while she paused, no answer came,—
Malcolm, was thine the blast?' the njm(
I.css resolutely uttered fell,
The echoes could not catch the swell.
A stranger I,' the Huntsman said,
Advancing from the hazel shade.
The maid, alarmed, with hasty oar,
I'ushed her light shallop from, the shore,
And when a spare was gained between
Closer she drew her bosom's screen ; '
(So forth the startled swan would swin"-
So turn to prune his runied wing.) '^'
Then safe, though fluttered and'amazc;!,
Slie paused, and on the Stranger gazed.
Not liis the form, nor his the eye.
That youthful maidens wont to' ll/.
XXI.
On his bold visage middle a-o
Had slightly pressed its .^i-uel S'"''^.
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20
THE I.ADY OF Tin. LAKli. [cant.. .
Yet had not f|iicnchccl tlie open tniili
And licry vclicnicncc of youth-
]• orwanl and frolic gloe was there,
i nc will to do, tlie soul to dare
1 he sparklin- glance, soon blown to {nQ,
Ot hasty love, or hcadlon:' ire.
His hmbs were cast in manly mould.
t or liardy sports or contest bold ;
And though in peaceful garb arrayed.
And weaponless, except his blade,
His stately mien as well implied
A high-born heart, a martial pride.
As if a Baron's crest he wore;
And sheathed in armour trod'the shore
^'ighting the petty need he shewed,
lie told of his beni-hted road ;
His ready speech flowed fair and free.
In phrase of gentlest coiirtcsv ;
\ et seemed that tone, and gesture bland.
Less used to sue than to command.
CAM I
XXII.
A while the maid the Stranger eyed
And, reassured, at length replied, '
That Highland halls were open stiil
« M ^^■''"^'■'-'^ wanderers of the hill.
Nor think you unexpected come
io yon one isle, our desert home;
Before the heath had lost the dew,
i his morn, a couch was pulled for you •
Un yonder mountain's purple head
Have ptarmigan and heath-cock bled
And our broad nets have swept the mere.
« M '""l"^" forth your evening cheer '—
Now, by the rood, my lovely maid.
Your courtesy has erred,' he said :
No right have I to claim, misplaced,
Ihe welcome of expected guest
A wanderer, here by fortune tost,
My way, my friends, my courser lost.
I neer before, believe me, fair,
Have ever drawn your mounta'in air,
^
[cANTr I
CANTO I.]
Tiir ciiAsn.
•I
Till on this lake's romantic strand,
1 fiHintl a fay in fairy land !' —
XXIII.
' I well believe.' the maid replied,
As her li^dit skiff approached tiic side,—
' 1 well believe, that ne'er before
Your foot has trod Loch Katrine's shore;
]!ut yet, as far as yesternight,
Old Allan-banc foretold your i)li;,dit,,—
A i.^ray-haired sire, whose eye intent
Was on the visioned future l)ent.
lie saw your steed, a dappled gray,
Lie dead beneath tlie birclien way;
I'ainttd exact your form and mien,
^ our hunting suit of Lincoln green,
"I'hat tasselled horn so gaily gilt,
That falchion's crooked blade and hilt,
That cap with heron plumage trim,
And yon two hounds so dark and grim.
He bade that all should ready be,
To grace a guest of fair degree ;
Lut light I held his prophecy,
And deemed it was my fither's horn,
Whose echoes o'er the lake were borne.'—
XXIV.
The Stranger smiled : ' Since to your home
A destined errant-knight 1 come,
Announced by prophet sooth and old,
Doomed, doubtless, for achievement bold,
1 '11 lightly front each high emprise,
For one kind glance of those bright eyes.
Permit me, first, the task to guide
Your fairy frigate o'er the tide.'
The maid, with smile suppressed and sly,
The toil unwonted saw him try;
For seldom sure, if e'er before,
His noble hand had grasped an oar:
^'et with main strength his strokes he drew,
And o'er the lake the shallop flew;
V-.'ith heads erect, and whimpering cry,
'1 he hounds behind their passage ply.
m
in
II
TIIR LADY OF TIIL: F.
AKK
Nor
[ '.Mo 1.
J lie (lukcninjr ,„irror of Tlic lake
Unnltl>onK|;yislcthrv,v.Mi; '
And mour their bli.illup'oi.tiic beach.
xxv.
'Tu''.f-[M""'',"'"'''' t''e shorn nro,„K7.
^or track nor pathuav mi.^ht declare
E''^;, ';;■"''" f'^-tfrcciucn,c;i,|,cTe'^
A CM "^"""^■'"''-'"^li'lcn shewed
Atlainberin-iuisuspcrtcdroa,!
An?/'"''"','' '^'■""•^^'^ "''-' f'»'i'^'!«l screen
And opened on a nar^o^v ^^•cen, '
U .ere ucepmg birch and willow ro.md
\\ their Ion;; „bres swept the ^roi nd
He.e, for retreat ni dan;^cmns hoa.r
buine chid hud fnuneda rustic bower.
XXVI.
Jt was a lodpe of ample size,
Ik.tstran<,re of structure and device.
Of such HMteriais as around '
J he workm m's hand liad readi,>c:f <■ i
T,hcli;,-,tcr pine-trees, ovcrlK.a.1
i hcir slender cn<>ih for v,fi,.,.^
And withered ho:u?.^;;;J^2r>
Supphed a russet canopy ^
Due westward, frontn,.^r « tlie o-,ecn
A rural portico was seen " '
Aloft on native pillars borne.
Of nioum.unnr with bark .n shorn
1 he clcn.uis, the favoured fl.u.er
^'^^'^•'"^-^'^^^'^^'"a-ne of virgin-bower,
CA>
i;-:\l.
T
A
F
S
A
'1
lu I.
CANTO /.]
THE CHASE.
:i I r,
And c cry hnnly plant roulcl henr
i.och Katrine's keen and scar, liin.r
An Mistant in this porrh she u
AmlKa,ly,o,hcS,ra„.;usi.l '
<n heaven aiKl on th; ladv rail
And enter the enchanted hall ! '-_
,,, X.W'if.
My hope, mv heaven, niv trust n,,,., i
|%Kc.nile,uidc, in r,.:i,.4 Vice "''*'•
e crossed the tluc^hold^and a elm.
Oan,.ry steel that instant ran'r '"-^
'hi. bold brow his spirit ru.hed
Ua soon for vain alarm he blushed
A battle-axe, a hunting spear
Hf p-ins the wolf as when he d ?> "
1 iiat olackenini'- sfrf>iL-c r^f m i "-"»
in Hide and uncouth tapestry all
^o garnish lorth the silian hall,'
XXVI 11.
T.!
if
one,
:c saul
94 THE LADY OF THE LAKE. [canto i.
'Whose stalwart ami mi,2fht brook to wield
A blade like this in battle-field.'
She sighed, then smiled and took the word;
* You see the guardian champion's sword:
As light it trembles in his hand,
As in my grasp a hazel wand ;
rMy sire's tall form might grace the part
I Of Ferragus, or Ascabart ;
Mjiit in the absent giant's hold
Are women now, and menials old.*
! XXIX.
The mistress of the mansion came,
Mature of age, a graceful dame ;
Whose easy step and stately port '
Had well become a princely court,
To whom, though more than kindred kv.cvr^
Young Ellen gave a mother's due. '
Meet welcome to her guest she mn.lc,
And every courteous rite was p.iid,
That hospitality could claim,
.Though all unasked his birtli and nam34
Such then the reverence tu a guest.
That fellest foe might join the fea'it,
And from his deadliest focman's door
Unquestioned turn, the Ixmquet o'er.
At length his rank the Stranger names,
' The Knight of Snowdoun, James Fitz-Janic^;)
Lord of a barren heritage.
Which his brave sires, from age to age.
By their good swords had held with foil ;
His sire had fall'n in such turmoil,
And he, God wjjt, was forced to stand
Oft for his riglit with blade in hand.
This morning with Lord Moray's train
He chased a stalwart stag in vain,
Outstripped his comrades, missed the deer,
Lost his good steed, and wandered here.'
XXX.
Fain would the Kniglit in turn require
Tlic name and state of Lllen's sire.
ca:
'
fCANTO I.
Id
CANTO 1.]
THE CHASE.
"« ;
y ell shewed the elder lady's mien,
That courts and cities she had seen •
i-llen, though more licr looks displayed
1 he simple grace of sylvan maid,
In speecli and gesture, form and face,
bhevved she was come of gentle race •
1 were strange in ruder rank to find '
Such looks such manners, and such mind.
Each hmt the Knight of Snowdoun gave,
Dame Margaret heard with silence grave;
Ur Lllen, innocently gay,
Turned all inquiry light away •
'Weird women we! by dale and down
\V e dwell, afar from tower and town
We stem the flood, we ride the blast.
On wandering knights our spells we cast?
While viewless minstrels touch the strin-,
i IS thus our charmed rhymes we sin- ' "
She sung, and still a harp unseen ***
iilli^i up the symphony between.
25
v.cz;/
T.
XXXI.
SONG.
♦Soldier, rest ! thy warfare o'er,
Sleep the sleep that knows not brca'i-'"
Dream of battled fields no more, " ""
Days of danger, nights of wakin^.
In our isle's enchanted hall.
Hands unseen thy couch are strewin''.
Fairy strains of music fall,
Every sense in shunber dewin"-.
Soldier, rest! thy warfare o'er • °
Dream of fighting fields no more :
S eep the sleep that knows n it breakin-
Morn of toil, nor night of waking.
*No rude sound shall reach thine ear,
Armour's clang, or war-steed champir'^.
1 rump nor pibijich summon here
Mustering efeh, or squadron tramnin -.
i et the lark s shrill fife may come
At tlic day-break from the fallow,
a
^^4.'''"%,
26
THE LADY OF THE T Alv'v r
And the bittern sound his drum,
Booming from the scd-y si^^in'^
Ivuder sounds shall nr.ne be ncir
Guards nor warders challenge liere
Here's no war-steed's neigh^and chamV,.
Shouting dans or squadrons stampi^.' '°'
XXXII.
She paused-then, blushing, led the hv
S S;;ace the stranger of the day ^
Her mellow notes a wliilc prolon-
Tm^^^'^r^^^^^'^^^^^i^Ssongr
i 11 to herhps m measured frante
The minstrel verse spontaneous came.
SONG CONTINUED.
While our slumbrous spells assail v-
Di^am not, with the rising sun, ^^*
Bugles here shall sound revdlld
tJlccp ! the deer is in his deiT^^
hlecp! thy hounds are by thee lyin-
Sleep ! nor dream in yonder glen, ^ ^ '
How thy gallant steed lay dyincT.
rZkT?' ?V ^!^y ^hase is done,
i hink not of the rising sun,
i^ or at dawning to assail ye.
Here no bugles sound revcilld'
XXXIII.
The hall was cicared-the Stran-cr's bod
Was there of mountain heather snrcad
And dreamed their forest sports a-ain
I i.t vain y dkl the heath-ilower shed
ns moorland fragrance round his head:
Not Lllen's spell had lulled to rest *
The lever ot his troubled breast
In broken dreams the image rose
Of varied perils, pains, and woes;
His stcecl now lloundeis in the brak-
Now sinks his barge upon the lake;
-. [canto (.
"IP'ilg,
CANTO I.]
THE CHASE.
Now loader of t hv^i.„ ,
A?ain returned tho ' •."^"'" "j t^ic ni-iu i-_
27
4
XXXIV.
f h= li3!e„cV°whi'',''4 ,V^-k of love,
^'is sut was wirnV h?u " ^'-'''
^';daco!dgauJ.tletmcTisi?.sn"^^'
J "c phantom's c;nv „ i_ ^''^'^^P •
^'alf siewincr JnicV. , "'-*^''
tk„ '"m> "air contx'a iivr -.11
ij
the giddy whirl to
e i-osc, and
'^ou-hi U,e 11
cure.
•6)
'oonshiiic pi
m
imif
re.
as THE LADY OF THE LAKE. [canto l
XXXV.
The wild-rose, ej^lantine, and broom,
Wasted around tlicir ricli perfume :
Tlie birch-trees wept in fra,Lfrant Ijahn,
'J he aspens slept beneath the cahn ;
Tiie silver li.<;ht, with quivering glance,
Played on the water's still expanse, —
Wild were the heart whose passions' sway
Could rage beneath the sober ray !
He felt its calm, that warrior guest,
While tluis he communed with his breast;
* Why is it, at each turn I trace
Some memory of that exiled race?
Can I not mountain-maiden spy,
But she must bear the Douglas eye?
Can I not view a Highland brand.
But it must match the Douglas hand?
Can I not frame a fevered dream,
lUit stii! the Douglas is the theme? —
1 "11 dream no more — by manly mind
Not even in sleep is will resigned.
My midnight orisons said o'er,
I '11 turn to rest, and dream no more.'
His midnight orisons he told,
A prayer with every bead of gold,
Consigned to heaven his cares and woea^
And sunk in undisturbed repose;
. Until the heath-cock shrilly crew,
And morning dawned on Bcuvcuue;
^s
:rj
[CAMTO X,
ay
NOTES
3t:
CAi\TO r.
cl'-op off, till at last one kiiS.In "'/T °"' ''"^ ^^""'■^""-''i
game o,o„,. the l,.„Ls of I ch ict "^ IL f " . ^^f ^'f °^^'-^ ''"^
pnze IS his, he Cnuls himself foiled ot^' . ^"^ ''','>'^ ''''"'^« "'«
to his distress, h, ho si ™ '2 1 '.T'^'^^ '°-'^' ^o add
down to die, ^nd he Ts% "ItTf "^ "n ,^?"- '^''''^■'^^' ^'^^-^
;» the dark loneliness ori.'TroU"" ? . f "P/n-ns,
towards the li-ht, and reichrs th^ . , ^^^^ P"s'ies forward
overlooks Loclt l4(rme I T.n., °^ ''^' ^^''''^ ^^^^'-'^ it
inL' the prospect of ;nd J^ irnrfl" '^r'"''-''^"^' not relish-
neighbourhood of -11, dSnLlundJ^"''"^ '" "^^ P°-^-^i''le
in the hope that it mivTonTllc'^ ''''■'', ''^ ^°""''s his bu-de ,
instead of this a i^^uVlTi ?' h^^ S'F'" ^^ '^^' ^''''^^-- ^^' '-t
mons from the i.s!et op, o i e fo him 1 i'" ■'"'^^" '° ''^'-^ «^nu-
1ns feet. Its occupaS, a mider^'fni '°'"''' V° '''^"^ ^'"^^^ '''t
traced," startled a the %Anaf\ ''' '^''^•' ^'"'^'^i''^" chisel
space from the slio e ,„t £ short ri^'''^ ^^''^''' °'^ ^ !''"->
tl>e.r Highland I>ospitali ;. assuS K?.'?!!''-'^'"^ *° ^''•-^'•'-'
expected guest ; his bed is nrem4)"h ^ ^^ '" "°' '''" """
for the seer of the house, oK £ "tS ' T'^'lf^f^ P'^'^'^^'^'' '
1 lie stranger crosses with her to L i ' '-'^toltl Ins coming.
the trees, ts the maidJ^' rShol 'a''', ''^'''' '^'^'^'^" ^'"""^^
by the fall of a huge sword whTchr..^n'! ' u-""'' '^^ '^ ^^''^' tied
one he ever knew that co id\n d In 1 '', °,''™ °"^' '^e only
discovery calls back old st on "pi' v'' '■ ^T^'' ^'^'^
spell ; it cannot lull «' the fever of hifK ^nVr' ^'^<^ niaiden's
again the perils of the iy and Thnn H ■''^'^- ""^ ''^'^'''"'^ over
Ins trusting heart ha^E^lU „ I J'.he'f ? f '''V'""^''' ''-
and the dark policy of the world iL • ^''^'^'^''ood of fuends
the still night,^vhose qu et calm soothe r '"^•?"'^^ °"' '""^
sleeps on till dawn. ^ "''"'''" '"^ spirit, and then
^ote in this canto the picture of t!,e 5,ta-h
the des
eni tic:i
liM
Sfi THE LADY OF THE LAKE. [canto i.
of tlie Trosrichs (stanza xi.), the portrait of Ellen (xviii. xix.),
ami the account of the kniglu's dream (xxxiii. xxxiv.). ''
,.» h f/'f/'';^'^"'^ •'^'"^ very ai tislically introduce.!. 'J'lie hunt, as
we shall find in canto 2, is sup|,oscrl hy Roderick to he only a
cint, m order to cover a wholesale attack on ihc lli-hlan,!
tribes, and so leads to their rising; and the identity oC Snow-
douns knight IS the key to the main situations of the poem
llie seer seems to have some dim suspicion who he is, but tiie
secret IS well kept ; and it is not till the end of the acUon that
the other characters, or even tiie reader, see him in his true
place._ Ihe air of mystery that hangs about the little island at
wiM^t^iT-'w'V";"'"';'? ''•' '""^"^"-'^^ '-'"'^ ^''^'i'- connexion
with the knight, shadowed forth in his feverish dream, rrepares
US somewhat for the part wlddi he is to play in their rJsloration.
INTRODUCTIOfJ.
Each canto is introduced by one or more stanzas in the Snen-
serian metre bearing more or less on the subject of the canto.
Ihe lines which head the hrst canto serve as an intro.luction to
mi^nsllSs" ^'°^™' ' " '"'^''"^'^ ^^ ^''•' '^'''''' °^ ^'"^ °^^ ^'^'^"^^'^''
Crhe Spenserian stanza, which is an extension of the eiirht-
lined rhymc'd verse of the Italians-^VA^z^,, ^V./za-consistsof
eight lines of ten sy lables and five accents each, followed by a
n.e of twelve syiables and six accents. The first and third
lines rh) me together; the second, fourth, fifth, and seventh-
and the sixth, eighth, and ninth. It is the metre of Spenser's
/;urj> Qiteen whence its name, and in more recent t mes of
l^yi-onsChilJel/arolJ, and Scott's Imon of Don J^oJtrick.)
2 lyitch-dm. The broad-leaved elm. More commonly spelt
^wich, and so perhaps connected with German 'weich' and our
on'} •/?;'^"'^HV'''"''^' ''^"^.' wicker,' with the id^a of flexibility
and vitality ihe mountain-ash is called 'witchen,' 'witch^
wood, and 'wicken-tree.' (IlALLnvEix.) [Popular superb Hon
connects the name ^vith 'witch,' as if the tree 'were theses da
haunt of witches To this Scott apj^ears to allude in thi con
eluding stan/.a, where he calls it the wizard-elm ]
Samt Milan s sp-iir^ A saere.l pool about two miles from
ryndrum, on the road from Loch Lomond Head toGlencoe. It
x^as said to be efficacious f^r the cure of insanity. See A/armion
I* ^^f X 2"""™
" Thence to St. Fillan's blessed well.
Whose spring can frenzied dreams dispel,
And the crazed brain restore."
The pnticnt was dipped in the poo! after sundown on the fir^t
day oi the quarter, then bound uuh ropes tied in a pecul.ar
f
Bg' J."""" < M i • omummm ttm a imiM ^ Jtit^.
[canto 1.
(xviii, xix.),
riie hunt, as
to lie only :\
ic Ili^L^liland
ty oC Snow-
r the poem,
e is, but tlie
action that
in his true
lie island r.t
r connexion
m, ]iropares
rcstuiation.
n the Spen-
f the canto,
oduction to
old Scottish
' the eight-
-consists of
lowed by a
and third
d seventh ;
f Spenser's
It times of
hierick. )
nonly spelt
h ' and our
f flexibility
>,' 'witch-
uperstition
lie especial
n the con-
Tiiles from
lencoe. It
A/armion,
1 the first
1 pcLuh.ir
^^^-'OM KO-IES-TIIJ^ CIIA
1 ■ 3'
'^nnf, and laid mid ihc ruins of ^^f vu , ,
^^'1 cd St. Tillan's bed. n 1: n,o " ' f'T^' "' ^ <^^"'-
umicd, >^cM^ali.nt nuVhtex-pm 10 '"''^^ '•'■'' '^':"' ''''' ^""'"1
'■■^ •cpon.,1 ns .still viM?ec \n\TJ . T'^'l "' •"""-'' '^''^ l'"^''
79.) Saint iMlian. afier\4 on Z V. iV^'I'.!: ''■' '/''''^' '-^ ^"''' i-
u-as the favourite'saint of ^ i^r I! 2 ''t^"' ^'^''i"^ ''^ ''''^'^'^'
"> the seventh century. Th .1 i n w,/^'' "^'^^ '"^ ^>-'"^''' ''''''"'t
r-ame at the eastern end of Loch l-^n ^' '^""^ '^''^'^l '^^ ^'-s
I<nown ,0 ,l,e Konn, ^.'^ Thc'nVs 'sVlM'r 'T T'''^'^ ''^'^"^'^^"'^ -'''^
tl>e samo as the 'ihV in 6V;/I r / ' " r"'^ "'"''^ l^"-^^il'ly is
-the Gael of .hc dc/u ^• ' n-; vS /T' i.^"'' l'""' ^^'"^^' '"^--
Others mu^rpret 'coil-dooini/'^^.l^^'of J^^^^^^^. P- 44-)
'2, 13 ll,e connexion is not verv ch-n \t ? r ,
'e aroused, zw. inspirited, by the t^^., "J- , ^ '"'^ '^^^•^'■'^"' ^^oukl
':'l;'y tlie plaintive music vi h f'.Tfo ^ ,'">' T^" ' ^"'1 P"--'-
i-- H'at winch subdues thi r.nlud ' "'" °^ ^'°1^«^"^ ^"ve
1 1 i'f"'7 '^"■'^" ^'''"'.1,' '"'••-ni the sandy shore
tl.e Z«r, Introduclion- '" "' conuuouer .ense in
"Till every stri.,!;^'s arrorc/ur,r rrl^^
o, • ., /^•''s Wended into harmonv"
ronm,onwlKa^he\adS,4eltelv^ ? const.ucti.n, which is
^vl:.ch it is in aurilmt oi s ,S usua T '' ?'' '"""^^'^ ^^'^t ''^
^ote ■) is so far off, ' ^ "'"'^^ '''''-■" "'e noun (' wizard
J^envon-uh at its head on J,e 1;. ! » /^-^^^'^ ^-^m having
f;-paratu,gitnomthevalleyoftheTd.r o;T"^'''^"" '''^^''"'h,
t'-ere was formerly a ro\al fn, ' f ' • <^" t^enorthof the valley
''■e Macgregors. U-c^r.^]^:^^'^^ the chief haunts .ff
to Col. Robert.son, the name- ITm V'°,' "'"""• ^ According
/v«voirlich. ' ;e„ • J^he'?! r f ' '"'^'J' "^ '^^ '''''■'''•
^ head, and so a nKiuitaT,; /^Sinnn;" y^^ "r 'y^^'^'^ 'P--'
•pen IS used in the southeni mrts of ^'.f '''Z'^"'^- ^'^e form
|il>le by this p-efix to tracr3hlv^L 1 '"/'' '° ''''->' ^^'^ '-^'e
)vo branches of the Cel ie n t he r tl '^^^^'/Hunatcd the -
/>V« IS confined to the west ami north ""'^ ^^'^ ^>'"nc.
^"-th. So in the north and ettt find' -^^'^ '° 'Y '^^ '^"'l
<.uaice of vvaleis (/;uvrnc.s 7 , '^ /w^^''^ used f„r a crn-
• '-v;arjj; 10 the south an<J t;.,t
I:-
I
'^- w
1;|j
■'
I) <y
3> THE LADY OF THE LAML. [can,,, ,.
Isotc the elTect of the whisper-klters (/ami /^ in the hst
couplet, lluj are f.ccnacntly uLl to cxpai the .tli.tl if r'an
of 'rsn'^f hm-n ^n'"?' V"''"'""7.' P'^Perly the first branch
CI a stags hoin, or the brow-antler. Derivation unromin
i he form ' nntoiUier' whicl> is found has su.^gested ' ante ' b ■ o e
1;lr^7' TF'' ^'''. l^^«-'^"tler proj;eting forwa d. '
i.ike deer that, roiisniq; from their lair,
Just shake the dewdrops from tiieir hair,
And toss their armed crests aloft "
Beamed frontlet. .So Dryden (Virgil's dv- iji ) .peaks of
w ; T, ^ 0'',y'"f y a tree, an.l so is applied to a s ag's hor
with Its tree-:ike liranches (as in French 'hni«M c^ ,
we call the beam which supj.orts^he roof a '"rooL.-i' '"■"■"''^''
y/w;//.'A ])mimutive of 'front.' Cp. Mcaf/^/' ' hamAv ' Tho
• nnS? ' sU^iiSr- ^^' ^"' ^^ ^^'^" ^'^""^ - "^^"^^^^
.ir^^^Jh^^^'f^ t£^;i,r- -S^Sea in it. So we
trauThey?^."'''"''''' '"' ^' 9'-"i^ow cheerfully on the false
R!vH,T?i°f^'''^.fT''' °^'''^ '"''''■''°" •" tl^e fi'-'^t line, and hi ,he
rtaeh The ^l!^!'"' '" ^^'^'"^^ ^^'•°"^"-- '« ^^ --^^ -l.Kh
^V^o' «^r/ ,/«^ strong. This use of the adiective for ih^
adverb anses from the omission of the fmal . wh ch ^ee d slii
guished the two (prabably an old dativeending mThs //•;:
ior>cal Out/mes of English Accidence, p. 196 ; Though ikt'tr
looks upon It as an accusative). So in Chaucer we have-
Was eyen^joynyng to the gardeyn wal."— /';W. ] 202
1 hat loveth so hoot(?' Emely the brighle. "
TJ,.:., * 1 41 7 —Knight's Tale, 1. 870.
A pack of hounds in ul cry, cheered by the occasional I u.sts
^Limem orfeiS^i^ "^ ^'^°^^ '^^' -^ ^'- -"-- -com!
geSS^otJSl^X' ''^'^' '""' ^ ^''^ °^ ^'°"^^'
AW/. Any noisy or confused assembly. The derivation of
the word ,s contested. Diez refers it to the Latin ' . upla ' froS!
vluch come Italian ' rotta,' French ' route,' a broken (army)' bLTh
seems beiler to refer it to the verb. To rout (Norse ' rj2a') is to
I
[cam I) I.
3-
in the last
: lid e uf fell-.
first braiich
iincertniii.
ite,' before,
arcl,
'sh-s, V. 4—
' speaks of
1,' Gennaii
stag's horn
Conversely,
mlet: The
i words, as
t. So w
'e
1 the false
inu 'ti (be
nds wiiKii
e for the
ice distin-
irris, //,'s-
I Mat-;icr
vc —
. 202.
1. 879.
!', ch. V. !
lal jjiirsts
It accom-
f stones,
vation of
ta,' from
y) ; but it
ta') is to
CANioi.] NOTES-TIIE CII.^SE. 33
snore gnrnt, bellow (of oxe„). Cf. M„u,s(en; rY iii • "To
"Hut ni-litin-aies, a full i,Mvat rout,
1 liat llien over his head about "
isncon uses tlie veib in iJiis sense — "'l-h, .„„,
i fte hurricane had s-.ucpt the '■^ien This ;„ n rr„ 1 • . ,.
Hcaie '' t '^Ys'V ''''"'^' '' " '^"'^^y ^^^-^1^'^'"^ glc.riil e a l'.
iiilHlli
j.H. Ho y swcel ■;he moonlight deeps upon thi^: bank •"
the peifect^stilness .s hat of a skeper. "^So'.n ttissta'za:-
, •^""'> y'en, anii cavcJii/rt(V/i|icni back "
Note the alliterations in the last four lines.
^.— Silvan. Nothing shows better the richness of Fn-lfsh 0= <,
I.
14,
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3\
THE LADY OF THE LAKE. [canto i.
'')l)s-iii-o,' 'sliort' and
ami 'ciiriou
lb,
iricf,'
»»:iiily' and
by w.iy of eirample, Mark 'and
^slnv.sli' an.l 'servile,' 'careful
luiisciiliiic.'
A ^uwl made his dm of oU
fifi^i. r„.',:;r,„:ii;To .tc;;;™?';, -[ -7,' '-"p-'y
say. " He w, s gla^enmJS to tfT' ^^S h'^'^' ^'^ ^^'^
one cover; hence i? a 'set of l.nf "V",' ' ^""'"^' "'^^^^ "P ""^I^r
/yjrr, V. _3-- " />,,,/., and sees of ,r'' . L^.'lr"^*^^"^ ^ ^'"'i'
y'uAs and sects of great ones."
n r '' -I III/
J\Ie.ry IVrvcs, iv. 2—
So to 'm.-l- ' '.' "^ ^"''■' "" '^""■^P'racy against n ,"
two murderers— C^haucer uses tlie word of
"And thus accor<led ben this shrnves tu-oye
'V... these tw'olS. ;r ; :f ^Vel/;,'^- '^-^ - e;e ; "
uses it to translate the ^4^ , , "1^/^? '^;^^^ T^''^'^^
G:ossa,y, s.v.) But sim7lir itv nn ?"-' '^'■'^"^''' '^'•^'■'•'
to be ^'arks of the gooTf n^n ncf'f f "^ri '^° '■?""'l
wicked; so that the moral asnorf 'S ,? • ''I'-^'-'^'biess of the
onm.ed; 'shrewd ''^r';:!;SM.JS,S-'^^^""- ''^T
by^ii^Shtn, 'l^s::;:;t ^i:t:\ ^° ""•''^'■•'f ' ^^^--<^
/-'r^./n/ is a lake on tl e smuh o h^r o p' VT'' '''" ^'"'""^•
miles east of IJen Lomond a sou hr^fi '''''''■"' "^""^ ^''^
£cene of Helen MaePregor's ex ok n /' / ^Jf "'^""^; ^t ■'« the
n<..e on stanza i) i.Vt3Lir£ ^tnc;^^ /S/?"' ^'''
east end. ^'"■' ^ "all from its
f
CANTO I.] NOTES-TIIE CIIA.^E.
35
\ r.irh Achray ("the lal^e of the Ievc-1 ful.l "> A cn,.ii i i •
l-on.l of Loch A, iMMv. ^' ""^ '^^"^ "' ^'"''' ^^•'^^''"'-" ^"J
'sSo t[;; wf'>r'^;S'^ ^''^ '.ed (Kn^Hsh 'spur/ (]erman
" Use me but as your spaniel, s,^,/n? me, strike me."
•• He shall J////V, fate, scorn A^:^X\i." -Macbeth, iii. 5.
6.— /wrr; j>. tedious.
the VBCiKc, „f ,l,e w,, h p „, ,^0 ,ic 1 or"!?? " T "'
by some idcmificd wilh ll,cSvti,n/;,,/TTf ,■,,•„'','''' ■*
uieic .lie several traces in local nampq- t> >r vww n U • iil
n,ore,.,^ ,„ To, f„ Devon. (SSCii-Sj^j'jC'T
jr ^L auu itcuve tne neoil-lne from the i)r ests of }?m1
£3|o^„^&''^rrs?^-
>emiacna». ^;^.. cf. ucnnan •Uucke.' A.S. •brycy,' (Morris,
I,
ilPii
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THE I.ADY OF THE LAKE.
[canto u
I.mlwssui. LoveiwI with 'bosses.' A ' boss ' Fn-nrli
nny kind , so that c-mbosscd-woik is that uliii h is raised in rpllr>f
•• noUkis and biaines must all his tlcsh mboss "
traces./ /..., flying; ^so/MIauitoll'/S.b^^^^^^^^ == '^''
" liie liule li ids made green
T„ T ,• ., '^\'.'"''''''i'>*''"y of many //i/-///;. years."
« a pool >,l,c„ ,|,e „„„,. s,„,js „,;„,• „,„„",';,'"»"•'•'
(«> •B...Kh'a,v»„r'.-ia„ tef =°^,^; Va,';;]";,'"-'' ','5 ■""■■"'■
i",?f;' Si:?, £r "^ ""' ■-''-' -"v"rryr-t,;s
Quarry. French 'curee,' Italian 'coriti ' fir,m ^i t •
. cor.' the heart and its sun'oundings, -hS 'wa'e givei to S
dogs when the game was killed; hence applied to the aninf
hT 7 4r • " '^"liis i'/^zz-yj cries on havoc"
Mackth, IV. 3 —
-j-t-
I j^
CAHIu I.]
NOTES-THE CHASE.
37
"To re'afi' the maniipr,
\\crc. on tlie <jiuiny of these munlcrcl deer.
loa.-hl ilu> (Ic.itli of you."
Lon-fcileiw, Iluiu'.itha—
•* Seldom stoops llie soaring vulture
OVr his quan-v in the (iesc-rt."
per stork n,;i rock. The J!n,c;lc lieip.s the memory,
time .lu.l tulc; Muigucr mu-ger;' '.jui s'excuse s'accuse.'
y- Cp.
8. — 'I'lidt iiiountiiin hi::;h. Tien venue.
Turn to my, 'stand at hay,' arc terms used vhen the sfn-
C ju-Ms round and faecs his pursuers.^ thus cheekiny for a wlide
iMir attack. 1 lie word seems to represent, by suun.i, the in-
v.l.m ary openm- of the mouth, and starin^^ intetitiy at a thi.^^
U-l. iTeneh beer, bouehc beantc,' witli open mouth.) Co
opeuscr — ' 1 ■
" ri','. V'"'' .'"-' "■""'^'' '"-''■> ''""' ^'^ "<-■" lie wrouf'hl her.
\\ ith faire entreaty and swete blandishn.ent!
1 iiat at the ien-th unto a bay he hroii-dii her
.'^o as she to his speeches was cmt-'iit ' '
To lend an car, and softly to p ' ■ '
i.e. Wight her to stand intenify I, . ,„.,-'. ,-|,e French 'aux
abois (' aboycr ') is probably ..f a Uitlereat derivation.
ror (tic deatli-7Vound and deati. r'/\>o,
Atmlered /its breath, /lisw/iinyara drew.
Uhen the sta- turner' .o bay the ancient hunter hnd the perilous
tn.k ol go.nt' ni upon, and killing or disabling the desperate
.-innnal. At certam tunes u( the year this was held particularly
< ingerous, a wound received from a stag's horn being then
deemed poisonous.-- Scott. 'Inhere is a description of this
process in the B,u„ •/ /.ammennoor, ch. ix. A 'whinvard' is a
stout sword, or kmu The word is probably a corruption of
See'zrf ''v "" "''"■'''"" ^'^''' "^ whinging or a swii,ging blow.
"And ic-Z/in^ers, now in friendship bare
Ihe .social meal to jiart and share.
Had found a bloody sheath."
Trosachs ("the rough country"). The name given to the
district between Lochs Katrine and Vennachar, but mure i:ene-
rally limited to the wooded pass which unites Loch Katrine and
Loch Achray.
Close couched Anoxhtv instance of the ellipsis noticed in the
Introduction. * IIis ' == 'of him.'
Amain ^ on nmm. AS. 'maegen,' power, as in our might
and mam. 1 he word is connected with ' may,' A ii 'm-'iu-'
llie same root as the (Jrcek /x'lxap. /^VX°^'"1- "*"' '
Chidinj: iixplain the metaphor.
10
33
THE LADY CF THE LAKE.
[canto I.
sound to ilie idea ^ '"" inversion of the accent suits the
IVoe "akv-th tlie day. 'Worth ' .•« *l,o u-
When first tkv rein '"« "^X-
c- M^;;^^g^;;;T\.!;rii^^ --.,« with the r,.in.
'"Scotland that\ing Ja n? i? it!'''?, "''^^^'•^•'^' ^"•^''-■' v
nllinnce with France Mn -v 1. ^ ^t'-cngthen himself by nn
V'- chosen as the favoS &1^ I>^'l<e of Vend Jnj
-er to ne,o,ia,e the Z ale.\u rr"'"''"":'"'^ ^^'-^'■-^-"
of krn.t^lu-errantry which our sJorv ilfc/ '" """ '''^'"'-' «P"''
for France to see his intended S ' ' f ?"■'' ^^^ °ff Pnvately
by contrary winds, and he start p 1 • ' ■'°"''"^3' ^''is baulked
and reached France in Semen hefTc'r' '^'^'^^'^ '^' '--
Tohe oft the pro|,osaIs that had W,,^^;, ^'' ^'' '^••"^•'^1 h^
hand of Maadalc'i, ,he dau^E o the r '''' ^.^ ^"^^ f"-" the
I )■ Ohjections were riisf^rrn ,i^ V"S of France (Frances
but in the followh>V;-;°V^^™""^I of her delicate heath'
objections however 'we e too wed 7''"^' ^^ ^""^luded. S
the king buried the wif? that ifl^^^i' '"" ^' ^^'dsunJll
A year afterwards he marWed i?arv o? r '"^ '1' Whitsuntide,
doubt seen on this visit. The e( S Sf £'"''•7''°"^ ''^ ^^'-^^ no
al.'Ie to the Scottish nobles E,^,, J" "'■'*'' ^^''^'•'^ "ot favour-
witnessed at the French Cnu,t !, i f '^^'^"''^'nce which he ha<I
i-Patient of the fr^Z^X:SS,j;:;!^:'^^J"-^^ ^^i- rnole
^nd on his return he did what he J" Hn ^^'^'^^V^" "obility.
prcsston (or 'dint'), co^niected wUh ' S^'' '" "'^ '° '"^'^^ '^ --
"itm.dstof thn scenery \,],ich it
1
39
CAvjo ,.] NOTES-THE CHASE.
.-:. bird., the iSen 'J2::/ i,r-;S^S;vrtf;e:r ^r^^-'/'j^
the form is mostly iivle'lniio m„^l 1 ■ , r '^ ^'^'^'^'^ ' ^^''^''e
/...v/and.«/J:i;i tS"i;£ "^'^'"S '-^^ ^o tlie reader ia
- Z.-W/; te. horizontal, from the setting sun.
tf JM'--nstkeLnvcr,^c. Gen Jis xi. i^g. '\
-, A;W, or pa-o.]a (ilin.lu.stani 'boot-kudu ' an Jdnl »,„ ^
'»£s: -v,.Sr^! l;j^ ^ Srzus;: ir™-^ ^^ » "■■■
• S/iet7t. Germnn '^r>,^„.' -■ & "iics.
IV -'. ' J '" '"^ luiiowiii" iiies.
1 - S/tec'/i. German, 'schon-' hW |„i,ri,f '1; 7 •
} noun ? ' dewdrons' d,."^ - V_^ '. ',' '.-''^' ,^'l.'^t<-'n<'\? ; or is
noun? Mewdrops; sheen/ '(Jiii^stenC,^:^";^
Ileie trees to every crevice clunp, '^
And c er the dell their branches hunL' ■
And thercail sulinterd and uneven, '
The shiver d rocks ascend to lieaver •
Oft, too, the ivy svvnui ,1 their breast,'
And wreathed its garland rc-und tl,eir crest.
Or from the spires bode loo.ely flare
its tendrils in the middle air,
As pennons wont fo w;ive of old
O'er the high feast oi Daroc bol(l.'»
It a
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40
THE LADY OF THE LAKE.
[canto I.
l2~Av;^; .kind,' 'poocl.' French 'bon '
J-oxglove aud ni^h/s'hade, side h s'de
^^'■'nblcms of punishment and pride
Ked ami l,nnht (he streamers li^-ht ^' ""^
W ere ./c7«.v/y in llie glowing north."
course as tlie trivdler 1^1 ' ^""''^^^ ''"W^^'^^'i ^o change their
-nnnuously atte,nptc"i to cS^ i n tCc: '"' } ''"^''^ '"-
was no mode of issL.ing out o he den^''!'^' ?''"'■"'• ""^'^
^<>piino: Tlie termination //w^ is ii<;pd f« r / ,
"len and animals, sometime, w Vh J i • '^^'^ ^' "^"les of
•earthling'-a son of he soti l! f ^^^''^'--''''f^'-y meaning ; ,.,,
(3) climin?tives,^r;o!;ng^ ^, Sl^ t'S^ ' ' r?4^"^
or young trees, as' oaklin-r' 7>., f vvl •! ^"■''•"?. 'duckling,'
it is ofte^. attached to vvoid; w ht^not^S^'"^"^'^"'"^'
any of these, as 'yeanling,' 'nestlir. "" , t ' " "'"^" "^
Z^f>4 KatHne faccordinr/ tn r ..i li' . ^'^''""g-
I^attle,'Mnalh,siontoso fpreh?^^^^^^^^
W. Scott, the lake of thrc^t.t-^irn. H n = ^""--^'"g to Sir
to Fair Maid of Perth ch i?) n p' ^'l/ '«'i'''^"d robbers : n,„e
l>ighiands. east of Ben Lomond "^"^ ^'^^" '" ''^^ ^^^^-Ix.X.a^
J^loated amid the livelier li^ht. Ql Marnnon,\v ^O^
1 he gal ant Frith the eye might note ^
\\ hose islands on its bosom float '
r^ / . .^ emeralds chased in rold "
Pev-an (sa,d to be a diminutive of 'Sn ' UV. m,
tarn', north o( the Trosarh.; Z.J j ' '"^ little mnnn-
Gleatinlas. ^rosachs pass, and separating it i.oin
iS-The key to the sta„^a is in the last couplet : a m.r.
J
CANTO I.J
NOTES-TIIE CHASE.
ncllillfj;'
iickliiisT^
J
41
man,
tired and hun.giy. lon-s for si-I,t of some hahitation. At tlie
S" " ci^;'' ^'^"' ^^°'^''y "^^'^'"•^ "^ '-'--^^ J-""'^ fo"^..Ss
bof n-'' «^^''"' '^K'"l"f'' ^''°'" '^"^ic"'"-^.' .1 diminutive ftom
to U : •il'^ ' "•"■ '^''^' ^ ?'°""S ox, steer.) Tlie word is s ud
to he still m use m the soutii of Enyland. " ' IJu-^le Hotel 'i.
not an uncommon name, with an ox for sic,rn." " f hcse a e the
aSl;J'"' ^i^'l^y^ of : oxen,.shepe^nd goottsr;;^^" ^
™'''^^^.'^•u'I''^'V '«^l^^'''.'ap>--\ver), so called because the/
-ro r; ? Y^ '^'' "--ory in rccitinj, a nun.her of p.ay Sf
so tiiey say to •■ h,s beades,' sc. to say his praicrs "—
Llossary to Sh<-p. . Calmdar. ^ praicrs.—
eviU^^'''''''"''" ''^ *''''''^' ''• """• ^" *° 'beshrew' is to wish
C««^/;/. Greek /ca»;/6.r,ero.v, a bed with mosnuito-curtains
{k^v^^, a gnat, mns^^uto), Latin conoplum. Hor. //,"/ i" ,5'
Ihr^^cTorX;^^ °^^^^^^^'' ^^^'^^'^'^>' ^ decorated 4verh^,i;
r^ wt-rf nvZ/i IligJiland phimicrcrs here
u i, '^'""'■^'' ^^'""^ ^c^^ cf steed or deer.
boi rl oou of Loch Katrine were, even until a late period n.uch
-Scott ^ ""'^ '''""'°"^ "i'°" '^'^'' Lowland^Kigl^bouii''
that falchion's ^/wXw/ blade and hilt."
, l7--^fW. To wind a horn is to blow it, to put wind into
•wind Mn^'tT n^^ ^^''' r''"^'^' f^""^^ ^hi analog^; of
M'lnd to twist. Drayton has "rw;.v/,v/ horns" Note. I, J
exquisite bits of description in these two stanzas '"-
«,wr f !" ']''' ^'■"''' mythology all the phases of nature
whether of kindness or anger, sadness or joy; were associate?!
S ,' •lP;r'^"'-^deity underlying and prompting them "alSo
they had their Drj-ads, or nymphs of the woods ; their Ormh
or nymphs of the mountains ; and their A«.W., or 1 yni, £ of
rivers and fountains and inland lakes. ">«ip"s 01
di-e^'nTj^iV^-^^ ^Tu ^^"/"^") '''^'■^ the attendants of Aphro-
due and the givers of beauty and favour. ^
requhTr''"^ ''"'"^' '•'• '''"' '"'^ ^"'■'"'^'' ^"^'^ «^ '^^'^ e'i-iuetto
A V« //^^ j/4'/5/ ^areM/ raised its head,
'elastic from her airy tread.
see
Hi
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42
THE LADY OF THE LAKE.
[canto 1.
«'jOvidof Atalanta—
Ana Vir;,.il of Ca nilLl ' ''■'''''' J^ercunxre aristas."
.'«w^ or riband, whid. inm tri ,. %" 1°"^^'' <^°nf'"e wilh thV
vigorous. ^'^ '"''"'ic^ maid " (Ms.) seems more
l''inhabi^^n^-lS;S^:'Sj:KSreoru.o,dverbSvon,.
wuaian,' German 'wohnen/ 'g3u'r ''*'^^"^^°""=J (A S.
"Out4,f S'^^'''''^''', -^'""'M'ur^s Tale.
As/Vomh..i,t£^^tS^t:^,--,^,.
Cp. the ballad of^^/,^. ^....^'^n'Sot!!^'"''^^^''' b'^' V"'-
The word is u.Pr?' )? ''° ""?'"^ "l'°" ''^e hill."
/S42 sothatthisdeiiX i^no^fuir '"Z^','' '-^"^^ ^''^d in
trait drawii iiere is a fiirlv nU / ^ apphcable. The i)o>-
Alrasdiid of Scotlln'df'h ^i^rt 'S.^^t ''' '"''' ^'^ ^^--n
tare, than in the interests of ill 1 i ^'^ '" '^'^'"'^I^ o^ adven-
;ncog„ito among his people l' L fondne 7/ ''''' ^' ^^'^"^ ^''^ t
off state and mixing with his biects Vn r"''y''" '^°'" ^'''•«"'i"g
for popular display, quite as lm,S^t^ "''."^^ ^''th his love
or the nobles, won l?im!he ;"me ,f' i;!/"'''-'^ *he pretension!
name ol the Commons' King. The
[canto X.
.A.vTo I.] NOTES-TIIE CHASE. ^3
impulsiveness of his rafurp nnri n.u m.
dare," are'- en in all 1,^?,; f '^^^, ''''" *° ^'O' «^'e soul to
I'is proceedings again;; the t^;;?;:!:^"^"^ ^°^-^«to F,.ncc, .n
^3 ''-night,' .bcJ^Sh? fe.haiirsriS":r'""'''^-^^^'''-
verbs extended their action ovoV H 'T' conip^nided with
•bc-fuul,' 'bcsnu^ar/ 'Slde'^'^bestU "'^'^ '"' °'^J^'^'' ''--
22.-^ 7/l;:f ■^^sfu//.^^f,,^,„. See stanza xxxiii.-
i he hall was cleared-the stranger's hod
^^ ^^ there of mountain heather Lead"
spread upon the iloor, as ieltr ti.e " estT '"'"''' ™^''^^ '''
Ptarmigan. (Gaelic 'tarmochan '» Tt,„' i-
m most mountainous districts of FuroneL"' ^'■°"'? ^°™'^
a cro'^: m^ad;\;:t wTrd'ac'^^^^^^^ A lengthened form of 'rod ;•
tl>en a crucifix.^ cross wa;the^^n"''r'?' ''^^'' ^"g'^^^- '-i" 1
So the ' rood '-'screed, n I cl u ch is tS^°'^ "" ''^''^.^'r"- "!'"" ''•
the crucifix. "■" '' ^'^^ S'^'^'^" wl'ich supported
" If rnr^^'V" -f' ^'"'""'d future bent.
II lorce of evidence could authorkp nc f„ k v
sistent with the general law, nf 1 7 ^° ^^^''^^^ '^cts incon-
duced in favour o¥Sxi.renceoT ho'' '"T^ l"''g^' ^e pro-
in Gaelic ' Taishitaraugh ' Sm °T,i!h ''°"'^'"S''f- ^' « called
appearance; and thole' possessed of' the" f''T' ""■ ^''"'""-y
'Taishatrin,' which mav be nnL ! , ^""^'^^^ ^""e called
Scott. This gift is th^ basis of Mr V '"f'lf.^^ visionaries."-
LoJiiePs U'annnl Th^f'll °^^^'^- P'-^mpbell's beautiful poem
Iliiihiand feelfng\bout i?-i^°'""^ ''"'^ ^'""'^^^ -'^V well tU
Fnr ^ "i^^"^^'!'' ^ochiel, beware of the dav '
For dark and despairing, my sight I my se^f-
But man cannot cover what God would revJal
T,s the sunset of life gives me mysfi^-a o c *
f"^ commg events cast their shado-^s bSSc »
IM.U., seems to have fouJlJ .SdeS^-^l wl!:^,^;:^
lii
'■m^
44
THE LADY OF THE LAKE. [canto i.
m ; but he was always ready to bel
Bos-well, V. 122, 179.
Lincoln green. A cloth used fri
named from the place ol its manufacture
-Desti>
icve in the supernatural.—
hunting and foresters' d;
e.s3.
•forsooth,' «in fjood
A smile from his b'ly
shoulvl here exjied
2^.~uestine<i. Appointed,
Arraui-kni^ht. The knightJa-i^nt was-
lo ride about redressing hum;m wron-s.
To love one maiden only, cleave to h^-*
And worship her by years of noble dJe Is
Untd he won her." n^-tiis,
iiess of it in Don Quixote e.xtiavagauce and grotesque-
somh'.''^' "^^'"^ '^'^^ ^^ord survives in 'for.on„,. .:
Emprise Enterprise, knightly task.
Io%e was the knight's highest reward.
SvSml.^'^""^"'^" ^""^ ''^"'^ ^'''- We
nere, for retreat in dangerous lunu-
.< -vun^'^K had framed a rustic bower.
. strong a„a seclalilll^, „°r''a,,"7;i;' °',--' ""i-^ '" >
10 the unrorlunale Charles SLrdn ^, "'=»'='»« t"™ ,or„:je
after the Utile efCnllo.ie„."_ Scott '"" ' "'"■'l"i"S»
.«n,Serse?S'oTt™lSra°,,r.^^^^^^^
and surrounded with green ^ biauches of trees,
tbe'LS'J^nS'Tnd low -'^h'""'^'"" '«^' ^^'^ ^'^^ P'-e of
thequaiity?:r5i=;:;r:;;g::st^5wrt^;t'^^'v''''^'^
onginally = fond or silly where fr ^ a e conce n^;i ^\">'/'^/'-^
foot,' • dull of heart, ' 'slow ofspeecl , ' < mat e „ Se ' ^'stn'." "^^ "^
^ Greece (French 'crevasse.' Ltin 'crepo.'trdSi. A 'cJac?!'
is f SSn il'SS;-"" ^''^ ''"^'' "-^ '^' ^r,onl.,.ny. Ida
idea of a knight-errant. ' ^ "^' ""^ 1''"^ °" '^'e
27.-^/.;v (O.F. <estorer,' Latin 'instaurare'); U 'accuma.
[canto I.
lernatural.— .
asters' drc'.s3>
I grotesque.
'in fjooil
'11 Jiis la.ly
-re exj«ect
exposed to
tloiiiains,
as circuin-
tic hut, in
a\e refuse
anderings
m 'lauh,'
i of trees,
; place of
in ^vliich
'swift of
itanza 29.
.'crack,'
:rry. Ida
alha.'
y on the
acctttziu>
CANTO I.] NOTES-TIIE CHASE. 45
u ' nl' ' ' a,^}'"'^^»t-' The word was formerly used as an adject iv e.
the gold was accumulate and sfon treasure."— Bacon, t;/,.;i
.ioiyHat: See again in canto iii. stanza I.
derivr''?''^; ^f'"''-"''' "",' ""• "^"l '» stripes, streaked. Generally
acnvt, Iiom 'breniian,' to burn.
''Thrice the /';-/«,/,',/ cat hath m-v'cu"~I\rarf>^tk, iv. i
Ifison. Scott evidently inteiuls an animal fo.md in Sc-.tland
vtlnl^f ^''''m ''^ ?\^ ^'''""' i""°l^" '' a ^^''1^ --i"!'"^! of tli^
ox kmd found in North America.
X' . ' ^A-^- '^""- ^i'- ^'^'■'"'^'^ 'dunker) = L. fuscus a
rnixture of brown and black. '
28.— ^n7c7^ (A S. 'brucan,' German 'brauchcn,' Icel. 'bri'ika '
cp latm 'trug,.' 'fruor ' O.Il.C;. 'pruhhan." a ^ood exan,pl'e
o G nnm s law, to eat digest, -^njoy, us.), (i) To keep the ise
<-'! J (2) To endure, submit to. (i) Chaucer—
„ "Iwillsey
Ti 1- "^°'^ ^ broitkcn well mine eycn twcv."
Strike the key-note of the story.
/i-z-r^-^j, pr Ferrau, a Saracen; one of the opponents of
Oilandoin Anosto's poem, Orlando^ Furioso. He wL .lum bv
romances"^ ''^' ^^'' '^''"''"''°"^ ^''^ f^l^^n from English
^.r^«<^<7;-^is one of the heroes of the fristory of Bruis ofJ/nmf>.
/^«. Sir Bevis and he guarded in effigy one of the gates of
Southampton. Note again how the knight -errant nttion is
kept up by the reference to these heroes of chivalry, and m the
"guardian ciiampion." ■'
v^i' --^f A';earin- TheLadyMargaret was Ellen's aunt, (ii.ir)
J/iuugh all unaskd his birth and name The Hifrhlanders
whocarned hospitality to a punctilious excess, are saTd to have
considered it churlish to ask a stranger his name or lineage before
he had taken refreshment. Feuds were so frequent among them
that a contrary rule would in many cases have produced the dis-
covery of some circumstance which might have excluded the guest
from the benefit of the assistance he stood in need of.— Scott
T he same rigorous hospitality is shown by the Arabs. If a man
has once eaten in an Arab tent, though there be a feud of bh;od
between him and his host, he is safe as long as he stays, and is
allowed a good start before any pursuit when he departs
Lord of a barren heritage. By the misfortunes of the earlier
Jameses, and the mternal feuds of the Scottish chiefs, the kint-lv
power had become little more than a name. Each chief was a
Detty king in his own district, and gave just so much obedience
o the king s authority as suited his convenience. James IV
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THE LADY OF THE LAKE.
[canto ,.
iilk-c-d I,y the r,v' s , ,?^ f'^'^"""^ °^ '^"n^e -Scotch vcss ■!,
\vere waging with Henry VJlTL'?''''r'"/''^ ^^'•"'^7
wel known. The "flowers of, hi f '''"'' "^ ^'^^ '"^^'^io" is
f'Hi James, with all h Tnil lef^' T' ">^'''^^ '''^''"
the confusion that followed v„S . '''''''* °" ^'"-' '''^'^l- Of
estate changed maste s we sh' ih'^v""'' ""'"'y '^''' '-^'^ • «very
stanza 8.) ' ^^^ ''"•^" "^ve more to say. (Canto ii.
^/■(^/rf/,/?-/ (or •stp.lv\orthp'> Ac <. ,
or stealing; so 'stout,' 'robust/ 'strong' ''°'"''''' """'''^ '=^'^'''2
Zo.— iyeinf A.S 'wvrrl ' r, i •
^veorlhan,' (]cTman ' werden ' to H'?"^ ' connected with
J'an.c of ,he eldest of the AwJr nr' \^'- ^^'"^'' ''^ »1'-'
•N'eare calls his witches in i/. X'.A m* T" ^*^^^^') ^^ -Sliake
J'-ey foretell to Mache h Z^t^'""-^ ""^'^■^^^^^^^ 'because
(^-- 3.) is sindlarlySS nS^ S .S^'^tS:
;o j>t;;;nt^UrS.^rS^ CCIJ «^ in.erspe.ed, so as
'I's song is trochaic; that is, '^^1 7"°"'/ J''*-' ^^t'-e of
wo syllables that make the foo? insure r """ ' '^ ^"'™^'- °^ ^''^
the previous stanzas. 7'iie doub e H-- °" ^ '''""''• ''"'^ '"
variety. """^le rhymes are also a pleasing
-iS'jt m;;^ij;,t!n;id I'^^S'^z oi" ^^^^-^"'^^ p--«
«l'.phed to those airs that are hved n ., '^''"^^^'^ ' ^'^"erally
Highlanders when they go out" o tat^ r' r'^^^P''^" ^^'"^'""'-^ "'«
f"m 'piob,' a pipe.»-jAA,°Kso,' Sn," r'""'*" P'"l'aireachd.'
for the pipe itself, J^'^"^^^'-^- 'Sometni.es apparently used
'^//'^, another form of 'ninp' inc. . ,
-•shrill pipe or dute. The wo d is So™"l ■^'^"'^^'^ ^ .small
music just mentioned ''''°'^" ^° ""''ate the military
FrS\;;^Vf y P^;^. or pale yellow. (German 'laib.'
"ot sown, and so ge;a:ii;'t:randltwn.^° '"" ^'""^hed but
t«ie morning.
-S»7,^:,.S';".,;f IJ,';? ,r;t/ ""■ -Sa.ive give.
Tte busU-call ,0 rouse troops or hm„smo„ m
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•5.4MTO I.] NOTES-TIIE CHASE. ^j
Compare with this the opening of /^.Mj., i ,_
She chan-es as a gnjltv (hram;
\Vhen conscience, with remorse and fear.
And i. 2- '""^ ^''"''^y'" '^"^ '-•^'•^'^'■•"
"f';7 5^«ie at length, but with a train
Ut technics true and flmcies vnin.
Mingling, in wild disorder cast
•r^ . . "^ exi)ected future with ti-e oast »
Hie suspicion that the sword is tliat of n i v
a train of recollections thnt J, "', ^-"''"glas has awnl<cned
d^y, and disS his retf M ^'l*" '^'"' "'*-" ^•'^■^■""•'•cs of ,!„,
|.d^ .e a^cti^ntr-.^^^-^^^^
forming pa.j of a co^n^riete'Turof TntS'^"'^ ^' "°" ^^ ^'-'•
ful.-&stlv™'Anrr'''^''^-,^- '«''^'i^":' ''^"'•'•i'-'e.' 'drend-
SpensS^'^Lretr: rCS^'t' "'^'^ ''^ ^"-ce;";!,
root, meaning < to shudder ■ oA X' J^rT]']^ '^^^""^ »'"^ '*"""''
" The kin-cs herte o" Hf^ ^^ '» slniddcr,' « terrify '-
(/nrouk ' Couth ' ifthe i^s'J T r^' 7''t". '^ ^-""'^''^ 7^./..
our 'can' {A.S^ "cunnU't s "?'''''" "^ '}'" "^^'' '<^"""t-.'
It is explaiied by C ai"cer^; his on I ""T"''' ' '%;""'<"0"» '
and French wordl, 'un on hi".' isu : "e -' ^^^'""I'^'^l'S tngli.h
was the p.eferite, the / in 'co r " Couthe'or 'coud,.'
false analogy of 'would"sC T^ ^PP«'cntly due to the
word itself. • '''''^•'^'' ^^'^'■e lliei-e is aii / in the
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rilE LADY OF THE LAKE,
CANTO SECOND.
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AT morn tlie black-cock trims his jetty win-
AM M . ?'"':"''"'>' prompts the linnet's blithe" lav
All Nature's children feel the matin spring ^'
Of life revivin- ivith reviving day :
Aiid while yon little bark glides dowA the bay.
Waftmg the Stranger on his way again.
AForn s genial inflL.ence roused a minftrel gray
And sweet y o'er the lake was heard thy str.in.
Mixed with the sounding harp, U white-haired Allan-bano I
II.
SONG.
* Not faster yonder rowers' might
Flings from their oars the spray,
JSot taster yonder rippling bright,
i hat tracks the shallop's course in li -"I^t
IMelts in the lake away, ° ' '
Tlian men from memory nrase
The benefits of former days ;
Tlien Stranger, go ! good speed the while.
IN or tliink again of the lonely isle.
* High place to thee in roy&l court,
High place in battle line.
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THE LADY OF THE LAKK.
r.ood hawk and l.oimd for silvan snort
N\ I ere beamy sees the brave re".?'
Ihe honoured niccd bo ihinc'
I IW .icly constant, kind, and dear
•And lost ,n love and friJndsl ip', l^ju
lie memory of the lonely isle.
* in.
A pl.udcd stran-er roam, ^
Whose droopin- crest and stifled sl-h
And sunken check and heavy eve " '
rinc for h,s Highland home ;^'
J lit care that soothes a wanderer's woo.
Kcmember then thy hap erou hi'e '
A stranger in the lonely isle. '
'Or if on life's uncertain main
T/y'-;-"!^ shall mar thy sail;
If faithful, wise, and brave in vain
Woe, want, and exile thou sustain
IJeneath the fickle gale;
nn'fU "n ^' ''°'^ °" ^°«""e changed
On thankles^s courts, or friends esfnanWd
; .lit come where kindred worth sha IJ ^n '
To greet thee in the lonely isle.' '
IV.
As died the sounds upon the tide,
T he shallop reached .the mainland side
And ere Ins onward way he took '''
\V here e.isdy his eye might reach
1 lie Harper on the islet beach,
Reclined agamst a blighted tree.
As wasted, gray, and worn as he
1 o minstrel meditation given
I • is reverend brow uas raised to heaven
As from (he rising sun to claim '
A sparkle of uuspij ing Unni:.
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[CA.Mu ij.
CANTO It.j
TUE ISLAND.
His hand, reclined upon the wire.
J;-, btilIhcsate,astho.scwhow".' '
So still ^^t' "^^ ''^ "^« ^"""^ ^^' f^lci
i?" ^''''' ''s if no breeze mi-Mit ,■ aro
io lift one lock of hoary hi .
jSost.II as life itself were fled
In the last sound his harp had sp.;'-
V.
Upon a rock with lichens wild,
f L . r ''!^'° '^'^ ^^"^ st'itely drake
U Inle her vexed spaniel, from the beach
I5ayed at the prize bevond his reach' '
W tc^^l me, then, the maid who knows
JVhy deepened on her cheek the rosM
;or-ive, forgive, Fidelity!
1 erchance the maiden smiled to see
. Yon partmg ,n;.erer wave adieu,
And lovely l.uhes, ere your ire
Condemn the heroine of my Ivre
SlKu' me the fair would scorn to 'spy.
And prue such conquest of her cyi 1 "
While yet he loitered on the spot,
seemed as Ellen marked hi,, not;
li.t when he turned him to the -Wade
One courteous partinj,^ si-Mi she m , p •
Andajt^.r,oftthekniShtw^^^^^^
^Vas dealt him by the briohtcst fair,
VVhoeeruwe jewel in her hair, '
'So hi-hly did his bosom swell
As at that simple mute farewell
Now with a trusty mauntain-<a.ide
And Ins dark stag-hounds by Ws side
Heparts-themaid,uncons-cious3.
^VuLched him wind slow!
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But when his stately form was hid,
The guardian in her bosom chid—
^'Thy Malcohn! vain and selfish maid •'
Twas thus upbraiding conscience said—
Not so had Malcohii idly hung
On the smooth phrase of soutireni ton-uo •
Not so had Malcolm strained hif, eye
Another step than thine to spy. ' .
Wake, Allan-bane,' aloud she criel,
To the old Minstrel by her side—
'Arouse thee from thy moody dream !
I'll give thy harp heroic theme.
And warm thee with a noble name-
Pour fbrth the glory of the Gntme ''
Scarce from her lip the word had rushed,
When deep the conscious maiden blushed-
i^ or of his clan, in hall and bower.
Young Malcolm Gramme was held the flower.
VII.
The Minstrel waked his harp— three times
Arose the well-known martial chimes,
And thrice their high heroic oride
In melancholy murmurs died".
'Vainly thou bidd'st, O noble maid,'
Claspmg his withered hands, he said—
Vamly thou bidd'st me wake the strain.
Though all unwont lo bid in vain. '
Alas ! than mine a mightier hand
Has tuned my ha'p, my strings has spanned I
1 touch the chords of joy, but low
And mournful answer notes of woe;
And the proud march, which \'ictors tread,
Sn-''-s m the wailing for the dead.
O well for me, if mine alone
That dirge's deep prophetic tone !
If, as my tuneful fathers said,
Tlu3 harp, which erst Saint Modan swaycJ
Can thus its master's fate foretell.
Then welcome be the minstrel's knelll
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CANTO Ik
CANTO II.]
THE ISLAND.
VIII.
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'But ah! dear lady, thus it sighed
i he eve thy sainted mother died •
And such the sounds which, while I strove
i o wake a lay of war or love.
Came marring all the festal mirth,
Appalhng me who c^ave them birth
And disobedient to niy call,
Wailed loud through Bothwell's bannered hall.
Ere Douglases, to ruin driven, '
Were exiled from their native heaven.—
Uh ! If yet worse mishap and woe,
My master's house must underm
Or aught but weal to Ellen fair '
Brood in these accents of despair,
No future bard, sad Harp ! shall flin^
1 numph or rapture from thy strintr •
One short, one final strain shall flow'
i raught with unutterable woe
1 hen shivered shall thy fragments lie,
1 hy master cast him down and diel'
IX.
Soothing she answered him ; 'Assuaee
Mine honoured friend, the fears of a-c'-
All melodies to thee are known, '^ '
1 hat harp has rung, or pipe has blown.
In Lowland vale or Highland glen,
From Tweed to Spey-what marvel, th.ca
At times, unbidden notes should rise
Confusedly bound in memory's tics '
Entangling, as they rush along, '
The war-march with the funeral sor<^'-.
bmall ground is now for boding fear"- "
Obscure, but safe, v e rest us here '
My sire, in native virtue great
Resigning lordship, lands, and state
Not then to fortune more resigned
Than yonder oak might give die wind
1 he graceful foliage storms may re., \ c
1 he noble stem they cannot grieve '
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THE LADY OF THE LAKE. [canto :,.
V?n ["""/"m ^ Stooped, and, looking ro>md
I lucked a blue hare-bell from the grou.d-
I<or me, whose memory scarce con\-ev3
An miage of more splendid days, ^
a his little flower, that loves the lea.
JMay well my sunple emblem be •
An? I the Kmg's own garden grows:
And when I place it in my hair,
Allan, a bard is bound to swear
tie neer saw coronet so fair'
Then playfuliy the chaplet wild
bh. wreathed in her dark locks, and smiled.
X.
Her smile, her speech, with winnin- swnv
VV> ed the old harper's mood awav> ^'
\Vnh such a look as hermits throw,
VVhen angels stoop to soothe their woe
' iSf/ ''" '"""^ ^^Sret and pride ''
I hr led to a tear, then thus replied:
Loveliest and best! thou little know'st
O mX: r''''""""''^'^'^°" hast lost !
O might I live to see thee grar-e
In Scotland's court, thy birthright place
To see my favourite's step advance . '
The ..-ghtest in the courtly dance,
InH ^'''"f °^ """"^'y -''^"'-^"t's sigh
And leading star of everv eye,
And theme of every m in'strel's art.
,lhe Lady of the Bleeding Heart >'
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ntal^'T ^'^ ^'^^•'^^' th^ ^^^'^^en cried
(Light was her accent, yet she sighed).
*>et IS this mossy rock to me ^'
V orth splendid chair and canopy
Nor would my footsteps spring more gpv
111 courtly dance than blithe strathsncy ^
Nor half so pleased mine ear nSr
lo royal minstrels lay as thine
And then for suitors proud and'hfgh.
1 o bend before my conqucriii- eye
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CAXTO II.]
THE ISI.AXn.
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Thou, flattering hard! thyself wilt snv
1 hat gnm Sir Roderick owns its swav.
1 he Saxon scour-c, Clan-Alpino's pride,
I he error of Loch Lomond's side'-^s^
\\ ould, at my suit, thou know'ht, dehiy
A Lennox foray— for a day.'—
XIL
The ancient bard liis -Ice repressed :
111 hast tnou chosen theme for jest '
!• or who throu-h all this western wikl,
Jvamed Bkxck S.r Roderick e'er, and smii.d!
In Holy-Rood a kni-ht he slew •
I saw, v\^lcn^ack the dirk he drew,
Courtiers give place befmethe stride
Ui the undaunted homicide •
And since ihou-h outla\ved,'hath his hand
I-ull sternly kept his mountain land.
\Vho else dared give-ali ! woe the day,
That I such hated truth should say—
The Dou.Jas, like a stricken deer,
Disowned by every noble peer,
Even the rude refuge wc have here ?
Alas, this wild marauding Chief
Alone might hazard our relief,
/And now thy maiden charms cxi
U^ooks for his guerdon in thy han.
pull soon may dispensation sou^dit
U;o back his suit, from Rome bj brmnd.t.)
1 hen though an exile on the hill
Jhy f^ither, as the Douglas, still '
lie helQ io reverence and fear-
And though to Roderick thou 'it so dear
That thou might'st guide with silken tlnc.'J
Slave o thy will, this chieftain dread- '
\et, O loved maid, thy mirth ixf-iu f
Ihy hand is on a lion's mane.'—
XIII.
'Minstrel,' the maid replied, and hi-h
Her fathers soul glanced from her evn
Ay debts to Roderick's house I knou'j
All that a mother could bc-,tow,
expand, J
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To Lady-M.-'i-garct's care
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Till- LADY OF THE LAKE. [canto ,i.
Since first an orphan in the wild
She scrrowcd o'er licr sister's cJiild •
n? ^!i'''''^ cliicftain son, from ire
Of Scotland's king who shrouds my sire.
A deeper, holier debt is owed • '
And, could I pay it with my blood,
Allan! Sir Roderick shoukl command
.My blood my hfe-but not my Land
Ivather will Ellen Douglas duelll
A votaress in Maronnan's cell ; J
leather through realms beyond the sea
Seeking the world's cold charity '
U here , ne'er was spoke a Scottish word,
And ne'er the name of Douglas heard
An outcast pilgrim will she ?ove \ '
an wed the man she cannot lovej
XIV.
'Thou shak'st, good friend, thy tresses crrnv
i hat pleading look, what can it sav ^ ^~
HI what I own ?-I grant him brave
Bu wild as Bracklinn's thundering wkve •
And pcncrous-save vindictive mood '
Or jealous transport, chafe his blood •
J grant huii true to friendly band *
As his claymore is to his hand: '
BiitO! that very blade of steei
rvio mercy for a foe would feel •
1 grant him liberal, to tlincr '
Among his clan the wealth they brin-
men back by lake and glen they wind
And ,n the Lowland leave behind ' •
\\here once some pleasant hamle stood
A mass of ashes slaked with blood '
The hand that for my fluher fought
I honour as his daughter ought •
But can I clasp it recking red, '
f rom peasants slaughtered in their shed?
Thl '"^''/^ u'^"'^ ^'' ^'■'■'"es gleam,
J hey make his passions darker seem.
At d flash along his spirit high, ^
1-ike hglitmng o'er the midnight s!:y.
[canto II.
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THE ISLAM).
Instf ' V'"^,^-'-'"^' 'Children knov-.
il shadowy pla,cl,nnd sable plume-
A maulcn jjrcnvn, I ill could bca '
.ut,f thou jnui'st a suitor's claim
hp-;r">;"°°^'' '° ^'--'^lerick's name,
Ithnil,v,than-ui,h! or, if e'er '
A Douglas knew the vvoAl, with fear
UM,^^]"F, fell odiou. che>nc were best-
^Vhat th.nk'st thou of our stran^^e,- sue'^'.
XV.
;j;Vhat think I of him?-\Vo'^ the vlvl,.
Is 15o,-clcr spears with Hotspur's bo v^-
I? d self-unscabbardcd, foresh 'v '
i lie footstep of a secret foe.
if courtly spy hath harboured here
\V hat may we for the Dou<das fei. ?
S"^t-''^:%'^^^"^'^'ee;,^edof^l
U.nAIp.ne's last and surest hold.?
if neither spy nor foe, I pray
^^ hat yet may jealous Roderick say?
—Nay wave not thy disdainful head •
Mv , ufl'Z ''' "''^'"^^ sounds are these?
iV> dull ears catch no faltering breeze
Jjo vycepmg birch, nor aspens wake
Nor breath is dimpling in the la le '
Ml 1 ,s the canna's hoary beard, '
bc' • ^''T',"•,'""^"!^'P^"^^■■■•••'•
oc.lub the bold Pibroch from .afar.'
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XVI.
Far up the Icngthcnc ,] lake wc rr spied
J our darkcnin- specks upon the t.de
Niat, slow enkuj,niig on the view, '
i'our mannru and masted barges' <r re,.-
And, beariM-r downwards from G]^\vvl'
Siccrcd full upon tlielonHy isle- " " '
^he pn:,,_t of Briavichoii thev passed,
Aiul, to ;he windward as they cast
Aga.nst the r,un they gave to shi„e'
ii'e b( u Sir Roderick's bmnercd Pine.
XNeav.-.-r cind nearer as they bear,
•Vx-ar, 'pikes, and axes flash in air
^.ow might you see the tartans brave,
And plaids and plumage dance and wav-
Now see the bonnets sink and rise.
As his tough oar the rower plies •
fc^ee, flashing at each sturdy stroke,
Ihe wave ascending into smoke;
See the proud pipers on the bow,
And mark the gaudy streamers flow
/r rom tlieir loud chanters down, and sweep "^
(^ 1 he furrowed bosom of tlie deep, VV
As, rushing through the lake aniain,
They phed the ancient Highland strain.
XVII.
Ever, as on they bore, more loud
And louder rung the pibroch proud
At tirst the sound, by distance tame
Mellowed along the waters came '
Ami lingering long by cape and 'bay.
W ailed every harslier note away ;
Then bmsting bolder on the ear '
The clan's shrill Gathering they couM honr.
1 nose thrilling sounds, that call the niiglit *
< W old Clan-Alpme to the fight.
1 luck bea^ ''e rapid notes, as when
The muste ■ ^, hundreds shake the gipn
And hurry; .,; at the signal dread,
Ihe battered earth returns their tread
Hai
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[canto II.
CaN'TO 11.]
THE ISLAND.
?xp"er;;d'tt •'■^'^^' °^ ^'■-^''- tone,
K^^^t^^^^^ ^'--'-. and
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A^ K ^"" "^'^ stroke ;ind wml
^s broadsword i.jKnWarjct jar c'
^nd groan.ng pause, crc yet , n-n
J c lapid char-c, the rallyiiv- s!i,„ t
^•'treat borne bcadlon^ into rout '
^■o-vi,dia;i;L:;;^^K';5;j^-;ons^
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A^-Mi„ 1 /"-'■•'SI' ciiouib wake aea n
y h.le loud a hundred clansmen tS
Iher voices in their Cl)ieftain's ir ko
I ach boatman, bendin- to his o-fr
^\ 1th measuicd sweeo The h,„ti i
lnsuchw,idcadc"c?rs"th'c'be".e'""'
Theih^:;^r;St^::iS^;;?;:;vr'^^^^^-"-
I ri 1 -1 ■,,. ^'•'uia /viian know
Roderick A'::h Alpine, ho! ho-' '
And near and nearer as they "owed
L>i^tinct the martial ditty flowed '
XIX.
BOAT SONG.
Hail to the Chief who in trfuniph advance^-t
, Honoured and blessed ho fh, ,,/'"^^^"'^C\!
^-^may the tree. in^Sl';;an::^;;f::S:;^^-?
Hounsh the shelter and grace ou£^S
Heaven send it h.-.ppy dew, '
A-art;. lend it sap anew,
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Gaily to bour-^con, anrl liroadlv to grow,
\\ bile every liiglilaiul "Ion
SjikIs our shout back a-en,
Kodcriiili Vich Alpine dliu, ho ! ier
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^'Ufnll""" ''"'"^ n-? ^^^^^"ce-sown by the fountain,
/ Blooniin,.^ at Uyj^mc, in winter to fade j^^ '
Ihe mo e shaU Cian-Alpuie exult in her .hade.
-Moored in the rifted rock,
I'roof to the tempest's shock,
rirmcr he roots liim the ruder it blow-
•i Mcntjith and Breadalbane, then,
i-cho his praise aq-en,'
Rodcii-h Vich Alpine dhu, ho! ieroel'i
XX.
rroudly our pibroch has thrilled in Glen Fruin *
And Lannochar's groans to our slogan replied-
Cldn Luss and Ross-dhu, they are smoking in run
And the best of I och Lomond lie dead on lir side.
Widow and Saxon maid
Ti • 1 ^r°"'^ ^'^''^'^ lament our raid,
Ihink of Clan-Alpine with fear and with woe*
/^Lennox and Leven-glen X '
\ Shake when they hear agen*
./. Koderigh Vich Alpine dhu, ho ! ieroe!'
Rovy, vassals, row, for the pride of the Highlands'
Mretch to your oars, for the ever-green I>ine ' '
. Iiat the rose-bud that graces yon islands, '
Were wreathed in a garland around him to twine I
U that some seedling gem
Worthy such noble stem, '
Honoured and blessed in their .ha'ow might grow]
Loud should Clan-Alpine then
Rin- from the deepest glen,
Roderigh Vich Alpine dhu, ho! ieroe '•
XXL
With all her joyful female band,
Had Lady Margaret sought the str.-iu,!.
()
:ANro II.
CA.vro II. J
THE ISLAND.
ountaln,
side.
2l
3\vl
And she had landed in, Kay
Cl
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XXI r.
^"M;*^;Jf:^^:;!,;;;^%^r'-'v,n
It would not stain an an;4s chccl-
T.s that w]„ch pious r.ul CIS shea
SuchholvdrmJ M^^^^^^^
Sn!! h"'-] - ''\."-'T^r (affection's nron'^
' "^"^ ^ j;>-r.co/uI youth aloof; ^ '
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THE LADY OF THE L.MCE. [cantu n.
No! n„t till Doii-l.vg named his nnme,
■ Allhou-h the youth was Mil ,'. , .„c. ?
xxrri. "^
Allan, with wislfil look tlio while
Marked Roderick landin- on the 'isle •
His master pitcousl)- he cvcd,
Then gazed upon the Chieftain's pride,
Then dashed, witli liasty hand, away
Pra.n his dimmed eye tlie ^Mthe.in- spray;
And Uuiif,das, as his hand he laid "' ^ ^ '
On Malcolm's shoulder, kindly said •
Canst thou, young friend, no meaninji <^ny
In my popr fdiuwcr's criistenin- eye?
ri tell thee: he recalls the d v, ^
\\ hen m my praise he k 1 the lay
/() er the arched gate of iJothwell prou !,
I U nie many a minstrel answered In, id
Wlicn Percy's Norman pennon, won
, In bloody held, before me .' hone,
And twice ten knights, the least a naina
As mighty as yon Chief may claim
C, racing m\- pomp, behin<l me came,
^et trust me, Malcolm, not so proud
Was I of all that marsh.alkd c-owd
^hough the waned crescent o^ aed my mfglt?
Andmmy: untrc. ,eIlord id knight,
Though Blan ore hymned her holiest kivs,
And Bothwell's bards flung back my prAise.
As when this old n^an's silent tear
And this poor ..iaui's affection ('( I'r,
A welcome give more kind and n i.e,
Than aught my better fortunes knrw.
forgive, my friend, a father's bu : t.
O ! It out-beggars all I lot' ' '
/!
XXIV.
Delightful praise .'-like su,..mer ro-e.
1 hat brighter in the dew-drop glows,
1 he bashful maiden's cheek apoearcd
For Douglas spoke, and Malcolm hcM^l
I he flush of shame-faced joy to hi''e
The hounds, the hawk, her cares divi'de •
\Nlo II,
'i
i?ANTO IlJ THE
ISI.AN'D.
The loved carcss.s of tlic i„nid
iJie dogs with crouch a,.d ul,i,npcr na-' I •
And at her whistle, on her hand ^'
i 10 falcon took liis favourite Mand,
Cosed his dark winff,velaxcclj,is eve,
Nor, hough nn'.ooded. sou.^rht to llv
UU. fabled (.oddcss of tlie \\ „I '
U emeiglied her worth, and beauty nu d t
lo balance with a justei* scale;
I'or wnh each secret glance 1,J sto'c
ihe fond enthusiast stntliis soul • '
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XXV.
{?,^,';'^'"r^f-^".''^"clslend.rfran:e,
iHit irmly knit, was Malcolm Gr.xmc
;e be ted plaid and tartan hose
i;iisfla> hair, of sunny hue,
curlec! ly ,ound liis bonnet blue. '
i famed t. the ,:hase, his cm-1c eve t-
1 he ptarmigan in snow could '^py-
.ach pa^ by mountain, lake, and heath
Vain was'/^'?'^'^ ^''T'' ^"^ ^'^^-"^^'itl.'
VVh A, ''^'^"^'"fl ff dark-brown doc.
When Malcolm bent his sounding bou
And scarce that d„e, though winged i'th f..r
Outstripped in speed the mountatnecr '
R'Kjt up iJc-n Lomond could h. p ess
And not a sob his toil confess. ^ '
Ills form accorded with a mind
Lively ,nd ardent, frank and kind;
A blither heart, till Ellen came,
Jid never love nor sorrow tame;
It danced as li 'htsome in his breast
As played the feather on his crest
Ills srnln n/'^'" ''''?'' '^'"^^^ "^^ VOUth,
V f. I ;,''','? ''"' '"^ '^'-^turcs bold
^vhen kindled by the talcs of old '
C4
THE r ADY OF THE LAKE.
Said, were tli;
[tA.Nld 11
iat yniitli to inaiilKKHl trrown
Notion^ should Roderick |)lnrs,c>no a'
>e f(,runost vo,mli)y n.ountai.M-,
line.
Lut quuil to that of Malcohn Gnvmc
XXVI. (7*^
Now hack they wend tlicir watery ^var.
/>nd,'Omysire!'didKllcnsay, ''
Uy'~.
U hy urge thy chase so far astray ?
And why so late returned f And w ;
^i he rest was in her speaking eve.
iMy child, the chase I follow far.
li^ nunnery of noble war-
And with, that gallant pastime reft
,)Vcre all of Douglas] have left
/ 1 met young Malcohn as 1 strayed \
V J'ar eastward, in Glenlinlas' shad.., '
Hunters and horsemen scoured tliJj-rour I
Iv.kedhieandlandtobemyguard,
And through the passes of the wood
C.indcd my steps, nut unpursued ;
And Roderick shall his welcome make
4Jcs,me old spleen, for Douglas' sake '
1 hen must he seek Strath-r:ndnck
sNor peril aught for me'agen.'
XXVII.
Sir Roderick, who to meet them cnmo.
Reddened at sight of Malcolm Gra.-me.
Yet, not m action, word, or eye,
J'uiled aught in hospitality,
in talk and sport they whiled away
Ihe mornmg of that summer day •
i^ut at high noon a courier light '
Held secret parley with the knight
AVhose moody aspect soon declared
i hat evil were the news he heard '
J >cep thought seemed toiling in his hcac' •
^ ct was the evening banquet made '
ANIO It
CANTO II.]
THE ISLAND.
Kie he assembled round the flaino.
AiKlLllcn,too; then cast .u-oiind
I i .s eyes, then fixed then, on tlie fyroun J.
As .stiiuyino' plirasc tliat nn--lu avail
l^est to convey unpleasant tale
i:;;,:;;^^'.^'^'''//^'sfrc.'shi!thcpiavc(i,
1 lien raised his hau^'luy brow, and said:
("i
XXVI II.
'Short be my speech; nor time affords.
fsor my plain temper, glozin- words.
Kmsmnn and father-if such name
I)ou;;Ias vouchsafe to Roderick's claim-
inline honoured mother : Ellcn-uhv '
^.ly cousin, turn away thine eye'— ''
And Gnvmc; in whom I hope to know
!• ull soon a noble friend or fl,e
AnTl^f '^''^^ ^''''' "^5« thy command,
And leadin.^^ in thy native land—
I'n lul i"/''"" ^^'"^''' ^•'"'li'^tivc pride
I^oasts to have tamed the Hoida--side,
Uhere chiefs, with hound and haM-k who came
I o share their monarch's silvan game
Ihcmselvcs in bloody toils were snared •
And when the banquet they prc'par^l'
And wide their loyal portals flung, ''
U cr their own gateway strug-linTr hun-
:Oud cries their blood from tleg^a' me ul
!• rom Yarrow braes, , .^1 banks of Tue ^1 '
\\ here the one streams of Ettrick glicle '
And rom the silver Teviot's side; '
i he dales, where martial clans did ride
Are now one sheep-walk, wa^-tc and vviJc
I ins tyrant of the Scottish throne,
ho faithless, and so ruthless known,
Whither comes; his end the same
I lie same pretext of silvan -ame
\\hat grace for Highland Clucfs, judge yc
i;y fate of IJordcr chivali v ^ ^ '
^etmore; amid Clcnfinlas -rccn
Douglas, thy stately form was see'n.
m
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THE LADY OF THE LAKE.
This by espial sure Union'.
^ourcuun.dinthest.,i,hashe.v/
JCVMo II.
xx:x.
KJIcn and Manjarct fc;i,full.
fc .
XXX.
;Xo by mine honour,' Roderick siiH
lhehnea,pof theIMcahncr'^',,-tf
CA.\TO U.]
THE ISLAND.
To Dcn,.],,<5, ie;,gi,cd with Roderick Dhu,
Vv ill hiciKls and allies flock ciiow •
Like cause of doubt, disUust, and V.icf,
A\ 11 bind to us each Western Ciiief.
\v hen the loud pipes my bridal tell,
1 he Iniks of l.(,rth shall hear the knell,
Ihe suards shall start m Stirling's porch-
And, when 1 li^ht the nuptial toixh ' '
A thousand villa-es in flames,
ohall scare the slumbers of King Tame". •
-^Aay, Jillcn, blench not thus away
And, mother, cease these svsns. I nrav
I meant not all my heart mi'dit say -- '
Small need of inroad, or of tieht,
When the sa-e Douglas mav unite
hach mountain clan in friendly band.
To guard the passes of their land,
i 111 the foiled king, from pathless glen,
i)hall bootless turn him home agenV
XXXI.
There are who have, at midnight liour,
in slumber scaled a dizzy tower,
And, on the verge that beetled o'er
The ocean tides incessant roar
Dreamed calmly out their dangerous dreraa,
11 wakenetl by the morning beam •
Wlien, dazzled by the eastern glow
Such startler cast his glance below'
And saw unmeasured depth around.
And heard unintermitted sound
And thought the battled fence so frail
It waved like cobweb in the gale • *
Amid his senses' giddy wheel, '
Did he not desperate impulse feel,
Hca.dlong to plunge Imnself below,
Ana meet the worst his fears foiesiicw?^
Ihus, hllen, dizzy and astound,
As sudden ruin vawned around.
By crossing terrors wildly tossed,
Still for the Douglas fearing most.
Could scarce the desperate thought withstand,
T buy his satay with her hand '
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THE LADY OF THE LAKE.
[canto 11,
d
XXXII.
Vyal.ness that of maiden ,tS
i may not be-foreive hn, r • r
XXX in.
V- ■". '^>-uiun or t le n crj.f ;,
/^ r ' 1^ """ i^"">-"is snacic
{¥"'' ""[-quited Love" ,l,y d , r " -\
o J
ICANTU JU
CANTO II.]
THE ISLAND.
While eyes, tliat mocked at tears bc'-ore
Wuh bitter drops were running o'cn'
VcarcelnT:"''' °f ^^"^-'-•''eri'hecl hope
/tS c? ' r^' '''"'P'^ ^'■^'-'st had sc .pe
/Init, strngglmg with his spirit prou3Sk
Wnl? '^^■^O' sob-so mi,te were all ^
Was heard distinctly through the hall
^ he son's despair, the mother" loo
II might the gentle Ellen brook- '
;-he n)se, and to her side there came
io aid her parting steps, the Gricur-
a
If!
I I
1-, ?^
4
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XXXIV.
Then Roderick from the Douglas biok-^
As flashes Uame through sabl? sm.i<e
j^indling Its wreaths, Ion- dirk nruli
To one broad bla.e of ruddy gt"'' ^"^'
So deep the anguish of despair
IJurst, in fierce jealousy to air.
On m"! r" P''''P ^^'s hand he laid
Back, beardless boy!' he sternly said •
Back, mimon ! hold'st thou thus a ou ' t
i he lesson I so lately taugh t ? '^"'
' ThfnH ' "V^ ^°"''^^'''^^' ''^"^i 'J^at maid
Thank thou for punishment delayed "
Kager as greyhound on his game
Fierce^' with Roderick grappled 'Cra:mc
Its c'ltr^^ """?"' '^ aught Sford"'-
its Chieftain safety save his sword "
Thus as they stroye, their desperate han I
AXf ?, ' '' fT'^^'' °'- ^he brand ' "^
And death had been— huf n,.,. i
And thrust betwCth's^rSS^^r^^f'
IhnBT f'S'l"-- 'Chieftains, fo e'o -
\V hat lis the Doiiglas fallen si far,
1 1^ daughter's hand is doomed the ^null
Of such dishonourable broil]' "^
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TIIZ LADY OF THE I \k'^ r
^^" i-Aiv.:,. [canto k.
Sullen and slouly, they unclasp
\. ah foot advanced, and blade half bare.!.
XXXV.
r-re yet the brands aloft were flun-
I.laryarct on Roderick's nnntlr^ l,^^'
Nor lackey, with his frceboin a '
i lie pageant pomp of earthly man
More would he of Clan-Alpine know
i hou canst our stren^^th tiI Ir^ ',
Malise, what 1,0 I'-lll^'L^lP;-",^---,
Give ou.- sate-conduct to the Gr erne' '
}onncr Malcolm answered calm .nTi" i4
;, ear nothin,, ,or thy favou ft^ho d • ^^^^
1 he spot an an.^^el deigned to ^racc '
Is blessed, though robbers ham h^ place
Thy churlish courtesy for those ^
Reserve, who fear to be thy foes.
^s safe to me the mountain way
A nudn.ght as in blaze of day
?.'^"":-i^rV''.' '"'^boldest at his bac'-
Lven Roderick Dhu beset the tS"'
l>rave Douglas-lovely Ellen- ^a'
Nought hero of parting will say^'
E^u-^^idoesnotholdaTonesou'eiien
So secret, but we meet agen - ^ '
Chieftain J ue too siiail find an hour —
lU said, and left the silvan bouer.
XXXVI.
Old Allan ff)]Iowed to the strand
(Such was the Douglas's command),
C.I
[canto i:.
)rd,
CANTO II.]
THE ISLAND.
And anxious told, hou-, on the morn,
i l.e stern S,r Roderick deep l^.d sworn,
I he Fiery Cross should circle o'er
i nril'"' 1?"^ '■''^•'r>'' ^'°"'" '-^"d moor;
J. I ucli were the peril to the Gnxme,
I- rem those who to the si-nal came:
•ar up the lake 'twere safest land,
Ifimsclf would row him to the strand.
VI •^''''^''r'V' ?°""-'^^ to f'^e wind,
While Ma colm did, unhcedin- bind,
^ound dirk and pouch and broadswo
ills ample plaid in tightened fold.
And stripped his limbs to such array.
As best might suit the watery way—
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I.
XXXVII.
Then spoke abrupt: 'Farewell to thco,
Pattern of old fidelity!' '
;il.e Alinstrcl's hand he kindly pressed-
p ! could I point a place of rest '
My soverein-n holds in ward my land.
My uncle leads my vassal band: '
lo tame his foes, his friends to aid,
I oor Malcolm has but heart and blade.
Yet, If there be one faithful Graeme,
Vho loves the Chieftain of his name,
Jvot long shall honoured Douglas dwell
Like hunted stag, in mountain cell • '
r\or, ere yon pride-swollen robber dare—
I may not give the rest to ai.- !
7 ell Roderick Dhu, I owed him noudit,
Aot the poor service of a boat "
Jo waft me to yon mountain s>-le '
Tnen plunged he in the fia-^hin- tide-
iJold o'er the flood his .oadMe bore '
And stoutly steered h::;; from ihe shore-
And Allan strained his .anxious eye
Far 'nud the lake his for... to spy '
I)arkcn.ng acioss each punv wav4,
o which the moon her silver gave
I ast as the cormorant could skim,
I he swimmer phed cacii active ii-nb •
lu
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THE LADY OF THE LAKE
Tlicn Inncling in the moonliolu dell
Loud shouted of his weal to tell
i ho M.nstrel heard the far hallo'o,
And joyful from tiie shore withdrt vv
[cam
'-> u
[CAM'
'J n
XOTES
CANTO II.
The strnn-er, who has announced liimself a, "tl,e Whht nf
Snowdoun, James Fitz-Tnnies " Icavp.^ .1,^ i i i • , ^ " "^^
^I.lcoh„■s praise., b„rAihSShK,t,i^h:f;iLf^
whose hds!) ta iv now slielfev; th..^ '. p'-Lita . ine loiioh chief
in his couiin's ha Id f it ^^^ ^''^ ^'' ''''^"^
guest; his conning can b™. ^o So," ' ;;!:^f'!i'''l^'-"«-
can bring no good. Tlieir conversati
IS
intern,,.ed i,y the sound;oFin;;:i4^^;:;:d th ;;; J^^Sl^iol
lowed by a vigorous "Boat Song," introduces uifn'
cousin, Roderick the Black, on b, return from .T ' i™""'
His mother, witli ]ier maids, comi Su^T/.^T'''''''^'--'^'''-
Ellen, wlu, .vith her eyes o,^u.,X^£r^t:!^ZXu;:i
may seem to favour h s su t, is reluctTi.ilv f„ii ? '*'
hears her father's bugle-hon.-^j;':^'^:;: >',g ^ Hje^'kilT ^
convoy him from the mainland. Wuh him cm^nl \r /
Cnrine, who has been his truide and . L ;. , ^^falcolin
.» Knderid.. ,„»h he doS'S ?S' i:\°45i;7'TodSS
receives news of a suspicious gatherim? of th^l- n,\ f ^^'^"'-"'-'^
of the discovery of Douglas's retrca ^ «' ''>ekng s feres, and
withdraw, and L sav. his host from nerd ^h i';p'' F"-T'' '°
the opportunity of making h s iro-,o^^ f^r ^°'''^!-";'< f'-'-^'^s
With\l:e Doujlas by i.L"slie'L^mfyt?LTin-°"r %'''''"''•
Douglas watches its' effect upon hT^daudUer and . '^"T"-
"her affections do not that way tend ''Sn^n' . r"^ " '*
c.fier. Kllen, unable to bear the l^g^t T^^ll^^Y' "'"^
rises to leave the room, and Maleol,^ has the bad tte n'^"""'
forward, as of ri.ht. to be her escoit. Kodll^' L^S:
I
.fill
ti
I
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74 T:n; lady of TtiE lake. [„,,„ ,,
cl.arac.er of their pmt^cS aid" ' t'l^i'-S^^'' '"'^^^^y' ^I-
tcrest in llic fallen house is i,,c e ' e,l hv n,. i ;''"'• ^"'■''■"•
Mill) which (hey l.carthcir c n'e'nf f V "? ''^ contentment
f^rcatcr happiness in his dau-hter'. , •, K r- ^.''" '^'^'-''" ''"''^
f^H-mcr po,l,l, and is P^^la^^'^ ' ^ Ace tS:ul ""^ '" ^"^
cnst than to raise his hand a-ains he I'ln^ , "' ^^ *''" <'"'"
wrong, l,„t whom still he loves T, n I.) f,' '"''" ''^' ^'""^ '">"
skill. First he interests ,s h" ], H ""^^'"^ 1"'^^ ^''^ws much
l-.nv so much of tLci • f^ m , ^tv'l?-'' '"'' ''^'^'^ '^''^ "'^
r..™..A,.,.B..,n,.^S's;s'rr;is
-Secondly, the avowed savacrnrv nf ih. -i ,
^..at Son. gives us the Sve'Jf°^,^'^X wl "S'^"' S"^ "^'^
f'Hvcs, and prevents our foclin'r tr,\ X I " ^ ^''^ ^'"S^
Roderick, whose bravery ad &! to r' •^ '>'"^l^^^'''y ^^^"1
cannot but attract us. ^' '° '"' "I'^^^nune ia love,
.Sy„'//C7 2— 7;v/r.:j; ?.,.. marks the tn.-k of
N ote how the inversion of the "cc t i '^
Imesof this stanza ('llin-s ' a d ', n.hc ' '''''°" ' ^"'' '"-^
implied in the words. " ''^^'' ^ expresses the lapiduy
y/hin mm from viemoiy erase
The Iwnefits of fonih-r days
if is evident that ' ' "
i'n.nering notion 'I;5J^;jJ'stn;n''e!^l''''rr""^-f'5'^^ ^"^ ^
'^^^ siK-aks IjcIovv of
ledo-e of
^ImI (A. .S. ' nic'd, ' German ' miethe ' rVp.t-
'"eine, Greek /ucrWs); reward.
Z—IVaUd (Caelic 'plaide,' a I)hnl-<>(1 ti
properly the dress of a !li^/,!ah,i^ 1 ., , -l" ^''^ I^'-''' ^^-"S
the Lowlands. (So in Scott's h,'. r-^- '/ ^^''^■^ ^^■'"•» "Iso in
<hess, the //.,-/,/,,„,/^/,,,y,>.p \^^'l^''f''-. "Their simple
^ / ^'"-" plaid consists of twelve or
"N,u M,J KOrnS-TJIE ISLAXI).
73
:inl
tli .1
iole
from eacli other. A nni; '?•..' "i '"'.' ^^'"''^y'" ■ l>avc paru .1
-j™S'^ ''''"" '^ '"■'^'"^■' ■'■■'^'^ ''- J--1 of a ,n,e ,uu >
^Ac/; ^,. h,s brood, suiliMiTover tiie waters.
Tennyson of cLiiva- 'il'^'tnu-nts in a liou.e. bo
"Tl.en fled she to I>er inmost iozcer, and tI,ore
" i'"; S'"', '?* 'i''^'' '" I>i™l<snmc tower
And the Wye haj j,.„„e ,„ |,e,- ,=,ct W"
»..o;^;*^, ^,:;:™™ -i« - .^ = CI,*. i„ ,.^ t,,„,,
branch of the DoucWasses "as T., mi ' '"'l'^ ''^ *''^ '^"'•'•
(See next note) C^mX^^J^X- "'' ''" ^""'^''^'•
"JThe same who left the du.kyvrde
Of Ifermiinge m Liddesdale,
lis dungeons and its towers:
\\ Iiere Hoihwell's turrets brave the ii-
A.ui Bnthwell hank is Uoominc £; •
/-r- A„,o.',.. . ''^ '".'' P''»cely bowers." '
y.n /,cvrr.ass-\?, to ruin driven,
I'ure exiUdji-om thjir mjtive heaven.
Tl)e family of the Dowrlas hn,1 fn,- ^ i .• ,
ropular aiicl inllu.uial hi Sa!Jh,U Th"f ""V^^"-'''^ "^'"^^
ii.i-y owed this ui |-.ut i..
ill
ii
:'i
"> ',1
TIIC LADY OF THE LAKi:
7^*
f'lnily sen led i„ tlie country lefnritlv' "■■ "" '■"'>' '■■'^'-'
crowded in. The D.^w.^sw^ fl-r. .^ ''!'"'" "''ve"!"reH
tl>e national catise as f fol i i. of W. , ° """jr, '>i'"-'ir inlo
James was the po.,d Kr^i",.^.;- '''"'?• "^'-' K"od Sir
achievenu.nts of the lemur OtT ••^^'\'-'>"n'l man. The
a name illustrious, a, IhesmaL. "rr •"'""''' "l"'" ^'^''"^ "'•^'l^'
=1 Uouglas that w^s e Jto o f ;i ■'■ •' '" V'"^' '^ ^^^»^ ^^^^t
countless. ,u,t .i.re";.":^';;,;:;;^^''^:;^"':' '^""=^'"'' --
fomndalne to ihe house of St
'ce, the rif^luful heirs to the
cccssion, which followed on
(:^nK.usi;rhislc;.7a;X;neo;?J?J7/" 'T] ""'' "•i'i'^'' ^^e
feudal sovxTeii;„tyove.Sa,tIan;rr "^ /^' "■•'^'•'' '■ to claiu,
luT, rnm, „.,;,,!:.,. "^ , , , "•'.'''i^.'":'' 1''^ "".'il decision '
I'specia
th
'I-Popuhr cliefast^th^rP;^
^'■owu. lu the disputes as to the sua
he death of the Maid of Nonv^y
which made tluiu
tcwart. They wee, i,i
the descend..:';!^^;?::;;^ •^"-//^ "'-f ;-'^' clown as a rule that
younger could s.:::ceei. ll^^'^, ^ u 1 " n';"";^'' ^'^'^'-^ "-
P^i'' ^t as Ion. as there we e a ^ dr of tl e H ^'1'"' T^" ""■
ihe Red Con,yn, whom Koben 1 ^et,:',^' •''""' ''"''"
Dumfries, was on this iM-inci,,l,. ,L f i -^ " ^'"^ church at
the lialiols. . IJis r JiH £, bv h'' .'''"' '" "'^ ^'^^""'^ ^f^^^'"
linlinl i;„„K„;., . ••^'. .'""^'^ ^'y this 'ime was complete, the
lialiol line beii
extinct-was believed to have
"inrriage to the house f Do Hr- a d ?;' '°,''-''^'^ ''^^--''' ''V
.nheritecin-omthellinicelo jS;? 1,,';;^^^^
check then- power whenever they cSidT'^i r ""''-'''""''''' '■'
Douglas with the I'--^ ■ "'.'^y.':""'^- >■ 'le dealing
(see
th£
sei
nn
the
led
into prominence a younrrer'ancTrivnM""" V"''VT" ''X
tl>e house of Angus. I^^ h r i | tl u'f T' "^' f'''' '"^'-^
were revived. f„ ,he reL c T i'''A^f ^f! "f, |''^' '^-nn'lv
(surnamed /?,•////,,■ r,,/) is the ,.• ^^i-chibaki Dougi.rs
t^vourites (see .^/..S V^ t iV f Tl^'^'^ "'^ ""^ f^-^''^
-ne earl is conspieuotts Vy ,;i.^.J3t^ ;;;tl;SS 7j;-ij:2
<.:i
iir
CAN
'" '!.] NOTES-TIJE .SLAND.
i'"n tl:e expclition which ended so f.u.illv at I
fi
His two Sons were si
77
m ill. I
lien (151
he «,,s suceceded l.y h.s -landson, the sixth earl uf A.wus, wh
vs .b son,, nderwards marrie.l to the .iueen.,h.wai.er Ai.^ s ru c
into colhs.on w.th the recent Albany, vhen the la.) .;■;.: 't
Fnnei He n^ '" T'"'^'" '"^ V""--. "■ul was earried of,
dern^im-. . " '""'' *" i^ni,dan !, aiul then, ,„. Ali.anv',
dtp, tine, reappeaied as one of the council of Ke^-eucv '^1
hur . e , '^""" ' r""'' ''^'"l""^'". prolonged by h^ wio!"
>c, 1 uas chosen by the km- with the Lords Ar.nde an.l Trrol
t . l,e us ^^n,nrd,an Kaeh was to have the eu^tody of he ki,!',
f.i h.ee nmnths; but at the end of that tin.e AnJ.s refuse o
ra.' "■'."» "u,, and for two years kept bin, practie^^liy a , s ,er
n;!i"|J ... the meantime in his name. Hut n M.^is^HZl
.^ absence, the km^ mana,c;ed, with the help c,f ' vo'.;ju 1, o
esc.pe from l-alkland, and found re luge in StirliL cistle
An^^us .s w that Ins day was over, and fled to Ta tuonUc
M.unuon canto y.\ which was twice besieged beP e i w s
taken. Angus and all his adherents were" prohibited from
wt c forfeited. I y this means u lar,.e force ^^•as, as it ^^ere
subs.d.sed agamsi hm-,. Animus then fled to Mn^dand.-Bum n
n<^o,y of^ccfLnJ, vols. ii. anu iii. The Do^^d s of the poem
J..ain fictaie, from O.II. (Jerman 'frCdit,' convevanc- ) It
was former y used as a verb ati-! as a noun hi the same-'^nse • bu
" These marchaunts han don fmught hir shippcs newe "
UTi, • 1- , , , —-^'^^^^^^^^ Manof Lawe's Tale
••Their ships^had their fully;-^..^A''-Hou.AND's /it'
INlemory have i :, ^aW fraught."
«;,i m^.'-.c. . J-^l'i-TON, Apology for SmedvmvuHs.
So ShaKCspeare has //„,v;M,,v._c-^,,/,vr'i'V /Trnv^ iv 2
Conversely, ym,/.W was onee u.ed mcaphorically. '" Manius
9-Spey h river which rises in the west of Scotland in
rri!:5'?i^ ^^^Jh- - - n..th.e^,e,ly dire, ion aeSthe
country into the North Sea. "1
101 n
weei
fore put for ''Throuj^h ihe len-th of' Scotland
reafian,' Cerina-i 'raiiben,' L.at
1 to Sp
ev
is th<
/v'v?7v(A.S. '
'strip
, 'tear away,' 'rob
in
so to 'bereave' is 'to
rapi(
strip fi
m
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THE LADY OF THE LAKE, [cant
H
'> u.
all round,' «to strip utterly.' ' Reiver ' 'rc'W\n,r ' ..
in Scoliaml f„r 'roblKr,^ 'robbery/ ' ^' ""- "^""'^"''
" Liii slew ami ra// ilie skinne of tlie lioun."
„v„ . — CliAucr.R, J/ou/Ss laU.
, -^ C'it we r.v/rv thy swor.I,
And give thee armless to thy enemies "
••Lot wife nnii 1 unl
Lic/'/jMiil J rLlum."
-Beaumont a„J Fletcher, z,wV rUp-mase. iii. 3
Maclues, the iMackinnans, the MaeX^Pb- "i' e M ,n ' ■
the Macnulays. Their comm:,n ' • ' '""''"• '""'
.'ab-, ihc
emblem was
»«• coMfmeS to thc"Maci';:"";'; ""' """ ""■■ *'""■ »'™1' is
i»»t„„K,i below (iii. s) »s cin;,.Ai,m;c'"';±i:f":i'jr •'' '• "
nuns of r. •1111,11- r,ycf , .m i " ^-""'"i.' - 1 he
lijiiuiv.b call
CANTO
12.--
an Mi'.c
J III I tun
the tw(
."iiueuoii
f'ourt, i
j,Hiar(l ]
family i
rcj^ular
J)trk
of / anc
The.
Discn
"The (
this anc
raee of
were, ai
similar ^
of Scot
and clo:-
of Angi
lurked,
under tl
Gn't-.'L' (,
old Uig
* reLi 'in;
o! li:^alii
liition fr
cousins,
of relati
wiiliiii p
salion.
by Ileni
A rthur's
were coi
salion.
7^ 13 -^
I..
The inv
.ifler tlie
tiie mcar
sirrtclicd
Jn the wi
/
[(-■ANT.) ir.
are cciiinnni
n."
\ifi,i-'s laic.
^ .1^>h/a, V.
iq^^e, iii. 3.
ding lieart is
nice, oil liis
cl, the good
cens. "He
at war wi'Ji
keen contest
'lUainiiig the
\vont, tliou
a.s slain, but
;, anrl in tlie
^rt of llnice
u.\, Hi, lory
name from
iinple com-
"-', includes
L'AlpiiR., an
■I'liiiH, the
■^■n-ies. nud
ic, whicli is
:s in length
le couni"ies
e valley of
ern end is
^ailliaJt, is
:e.
ic Lennox
:)i>';. The
ow island,
■rl ' I
J11UH..S l;iu
CANIij 1 1. J
Nf>T::.s-TnE islaxd.
12.—/;/ Lo.yho -da kni^hfJi, sl.-.^,. "This was liy no means
an ni!c;jin:r.wr. occiinenee at the court of Scotland."— Scoir
Junion remarks: "On one importi-nt point a difference hi twccn
th.-' two courts (of Fmi.ce and Scotlan.l) was disa-reeably con-
f-picuous-the unj)rutected conditioa of the soverei-n and her
court, from the want of any armed f .rce whose duty it wa< to
paid her royal person. .... While every head of a con>l,lcral,!e
laim y m bcoiland, down to the humhlest landowner, had s. ,-,■>
rc-ular armed followin^r, the Crown alone liad none."— ///.A'/i-
vj Scotland, IV. 2\
J)irk (.SeiUeh 'durk,' German Molch'), a darcrcr. The cv,.-;n -e
c.r / .and r is not uncommon. Cp. ' pourpre ' and ' purole.' "
Ihe Doui^las, like a Urickcn d,vf,
J^isov/i'd by evoy nolde fccr.
"The exiled state of this powerful race is not ex.ig-erated in
tins and subK-quent pass.a-es. 'Jhe hatred of James against the
laceol Dou-Ias w.is so inveterate that, numerous as their all'e;
were, and disregarded as the re,i,'al authority had usually been in
smiilar cases, their nearest friends, even in the most remote par's
of Scotland, durst not entertain them, unless under the s'rict.^^t
and closest dis-uise. J.ames Douj^las, son of the bani^lied 1>. I
ol Ang:us, afterwards well known bv the title of Karl of Moifn,,
lurked, durmg-the exile of his family, in the north of .Scoli.and'
■uiKierthe assumed name of James Junes, otherwise Jam:s the
Gnex'c {i.e. Reeve or Jliiliff)."— Scott.
/ *?^w'-''("";. iMench 'guerdon,' Italian 'gtiiderdonc,' from tlie
,• old fligh German 'widarlon* (Moilern German ' wiederlolin')
re(.. an;v ::.-.' ('J^ohn '=' reward,' 'pay.')
7\<:,-aLu:/.'n. The absolving a particular person fom tie
<>. li-atinn ft a general law, chieOy ajipiied to the l'o.><''s nb-o-
lution from the Canon law. That law forbids marria-'^'TeTwei n
cousins, and between persons who stand in certain other de-rees
of relationship. When the Tope grants permission to ix'rsons
within prolnbited degrees to many, he is said to grant a dispen-
sation. A well-known instance is the dispensation obtained
by Henry VII. to allow Prince Henry to manv his brot: er
Arthurs widow, Katherine of Aragon. Rodcri.'k and VMx
wi;re cousins, and so could uut wed lo^elher without a dis" ii-
i>al;ou. ^
7^ 13.— AV/^^/rji" an orphan in the 7vihl
S/w Si>r>v7c''d o\'r /t,r sister's c/i//<t.
The inverted style, by which words are put before iii'^'e-d r f
.-dter the words which govern them, is alh>wcd in pocirv v h. 1 •
the meaning is clear ; lait Sir Walter Scott has in m.-aiy insi.am cs
stretched the license too far. In the present instance "rn on I ,■ ■!
m the wdd" ou-ht ^laiumatieally to bo in apposition to "&;..,".
\.? .
8a
F ft
-.J
THE LADY OF Tin:
I^AKC.
[canto m.
^
and not, as it is in f-^rt frv "i
confains another ^^l^of ^[^'J' ''''^'■" "^'^ ""^ couplot
very ccmn.on in this Joan a d , y:'T/""' '° ^'' '"'itatcl, ln„
tlK- relative sentence is puVTLV^^'^^^r^^ '''•' "''-^f '^ V^^^i .-^
^- ^tncr rule, showld X '"t .^nr '''''' "l;'^''' "'"^'-'-■''in.
tlus case bcin,. al.so put b.fnrc^ s ; , i,''- , '^'''''''*'- "'^ ^'^''^ '"
"father will Liic,;5:l.;^i,[;::;i7
;ir, ) "^ 'aiess in iMaroiiiinnV"f.ii "
al.out two '^.^^o^'ZZt'J^f'''^ i"P"mhartonshi:e.
;^-^>li a chapel (and a plrm ' '""' "^ '"O^'' Lon.ond
^ohne../. (.,,,,,.^, ,. I , 33) irSt.^Sn;!bS'^""- ^^
con.i.st of a series o: shelvinManids -,?!;?'' r"'"- " '^''"-' ''^>'''^
']>e keltic Burn, which leant fJomn '•','''' '""'' ^*^''"^-'l '-y
•-m. stone, anl rna.ble Sy in [ '? ^^T"'"'^'^ '^'-"''^ '^^ -'
of stone l)eneath." ■^ ""^ ^'>'^ ^'"^ng great nia.s.scs
/f ^ 1. mo), sho JiJ^ :f ^ ,„f'/^;^j'"V^'' ^ ^^>er" (A^;/,.^,.,
o be used as a preposUion n he sense of"' ,"'• ^ '"^" '- ^^"■'-'
•reservnin.,' 'excepting;' and so L , '""'""^ f^'"'^J"''''^^' t'V
subsftut ng a senteneeto'r the noun-oi:;^,. '' -rT P'-^T«^itions, b'y
-on as here (^'unless'). «]" xent' ^t ' • T'T "" "^'^J'"'^"-
Claymore, a large sword. Gaelic S.!!-^ ' t '"'I'^^""-''-'
a Mvord, and 'more,' <^reat o%.^ ''"''''' '"''.Latin 'gladius,'
llie Ulac/c, -^ -^ ' ^"d sable punne. He was Roderick /./.,,
r).n.g,aXauS^ ;^S'^^> S::;|-'i''f c,, the thin, Ear, of
^^ Inch he foi.<,rht. He wi v^L ; ' I^^^^'C'-s in eveiy battle
was made prisoner by IIo ./.ur n' . """f'?'^' '^"^'^J'^'. ■''n^
^ iic v.s no loss unfjnunaie
'.Tfocnsc, liKell e
pel ' " Sanf je
•ic/was retained.
[cast
'J II.
I'e iiiiitatfil. I.iu
I tiiat a part ••'"
'lif'i, according
II as in verso, a
;iiii'liasis, from
I'i;, tlie verb in
i-ilinrtonshiie,
■ocii I.oiiioi),!,
I'c.-itcil to St.
•^■"iljL-red. So
utiful cnscnde
• "Tlie falls
IS, fontifd hy
'•aiilv of rod,
gicat masses'
' "Snnfie
ras iciaiucd.
'ic" i- came
"cjudico to,'
'iiilions, })y
■ ^ conjiiiK'-
Istory; it i>-
i'Uspcclcd.'
ii'gladiu.s,'
-lie!; /./■./,
inl Earl of
■■eiy battle
' lialtle of
1 eye, and
i'-)riuna!e
C..NTO II.] NOTES-TIIE iSL.'vXD. Sl
^^llcn allied will, Pcrey, l.ei:,- wuunde<l and taken at tlie battle
ot Mreu-..,i.i,y lie was .o unsuece.sluj in an mieinpt to besie-e
Koxbm-h Ca.tle th.at it was eallc.l the ' i<oul Raul, 'or cli. naJc
lul expedition Ills ill fortune left hiiu indeed at ihelntila
emphasis a the subsequent ac'ion of Vemoil, the last and inr.st
iinui ky of his encounters, in whidi he fell, with the llovvr of the
heottish chivalry, then serving a. auxiliaries in r.-aace, and about
two tiiousand common soldiirs, a.d. 14^4 "—Scuit
c,.n / ''^'^^'<:'>■'•)b>nl< buxumncsse (/.,'. obedience) his bliJe
gan he /j7/f. —P/ers l\oii:^li,nan (a.d, 1377), i, 112 "'Ilm
queen youMiiisne^s shall spend miekle silver, and tyne ourliearis
intheend. -Lr^uii^c to KaiiAolph, \y,o, apndVxw'vw.. "Detlcr
/iw life, since tmt is ^ood ^MW^r—ilcart of MU-I otuLm
eh. vii. -' .'.'/<,
34, the hiiLrhsh shafts"an.l the .SeutiJsh "stubborn speannea"
are ajntrasted at Floddcn. F„r the story of Douglas's alliance
with 1 ercy, see hhakcspeare s IL'iin' IV, j)art i
_ BclUuu: ' I'.eal-tein,' ' W: d s lire,' ' IJeal ' being one of the
.ache names for the sun. '-Amon- ti,e barbarous Celtic popu-
aiions of un-ope there was a heathen festival on the same day
-May I), but It does not seem to have been connected with
Imvers. It was called P.eltrln, and found expression in the
k.ndhni^ of ires on the luU-lops by niyht. Amon^^i the pea-
santry of Ire and, of the Isle of Man, and of the Scottish Ili.d,.
ands, such do,n<:s^ were kept up till within the recolleetioirof
livin- peoide. -CllAMni: lis's Book of Dav, i. S7r. I'Voii
the accounts given of it, it appears to havG been a f.stivd ii.
honour of the sun and the returning sprin.sr, and to have b.vii
accompanied at one time by human sacriiices. Anion- other
ceremonies, a cake was baked, and .livided into as many^'siniilrr
portions as there were persons in the company. One of th-se
was blacked over with charcoal, ami all the pieces were thrown
into a bonnet. Whoever d vw the blac': bit was devoted to
l.aal, whose favour they wished to implore for the producliven.'^s
of the sod. The person lln.s devoted compounded for his life in
ater limes by lea]iinjr three times through the lire that l.rd b-ci
kindied As at all such festivals, the quasi.rei;:.ious ceremopv
would be w.,und up by dances and merry-makin-. Scott 1 I's
lre(|uent alluMons to thi-- festival, See stan/a 19. "
The shejdierd li'dits his belt
Dut
o'er his hills, in festal day,
ane-firc."— Zm/ of the Ish\
How blazed Lord Ronald's ijehnnc-tree "—.rt-i-f-
CiJiiiia. Gaelic 'ca
if
do. ,11.
■ jA.MltibO.N.
nnac:., coUon uass.
iviice
lie e.i
€2
If ii:
.^
l/i THE LADV OF THE LAKE, [canto ir.
I''i"!T?'/f"'-^y;^l'!^'' ^I'-nins ilsclf i„',o
b.>ni< of Loci, Kn..i;,c,fe;;:;i^ ;ri;;z;r"' "' '■'' ""'■
on occasion of some v ,',o^ ?. . I:*:^ T' " '/ '""^'^ '"■"'"I'-cd
/• ■/IT •';,"'" 'i'i~i lire me I
/•(';■ KvAr lament o'er ihns,' ihnf f! «• c ^ ' r""i ' "" '^■■■:,"-^^>'-
II
le onset, run
itntciliecon-
■', ,. ■^i'.v.-.v.i.i. rl DiUllC, DOtJUl With 1 I
rcsomblnijr a ,n.rch, then JTrn.lually q„i,^ Jn''; .''t
funeral in-occsiion."— Dr. IJiCATriic. \\ailiiigi, of a
Chaucer, />'./..,./.,.. 667- ^' ^ "' '''*-' ^"^'"e'' ^^^"^^ ^^'-^
" i;ull ioude he snn.iT, Come hider, love, to me
1 )H sompiiouro bar to lam a stif /7/;v/v/;, "
baxoii woid. ' "-"'"t. ••" 111'- conuiioiier
19, 20. — The metre of tliit; son"- iq dirtvT.V Tt, , . ,.
(tl- 2nd. 4tl.. 7lh. and ,cih) eon ts s of ten 'VhS' -l'"""
ac.UK, the unaccented ..iAlIcs of l^ZP^^^^'::^,
c
[canto u.
ins itself into
' ridge of hills
y oil the norih
;s-l)an-c(l Willi
>\vn in {;aelic.
Avool, Jinscy-
irohahly part'i-
'i of ilinoicnt
inch clollis ns
' of Scotland
pi-ovement lo
fAMIKSdX.
Jong ribands
nlies, is
l">rn-
> p^' g(it,'i riii^
'ic composed
cumslance in
riling for the
3I-
1. The word
•" But in a
'C excuscfi.
•se pihrochs,
jave motion
e onset, run
tatcthecon-
triunipliant
filings of a
^e bn-pipe,
a musical
"t sense at
SI' iieiibc see
me,
he patrons
commoner
staple line
i with f, iir
heing si:p.
CANTO I,.] NOTES-TIIE ISLAND.
Jirpssed.
'a.
veil syrhd/c.., and d
triumph a.l- | vancrs !
oil
I
.e
tp. " fMii („ ,i,c I rM,r „],„ i,;
^■■g. " "^■avcn send it | hdppy ( .Jcw.
T .1 , Aloord m t he I rifled I r'.,-!- "
In the pecond slan/a the s„M,ri ' ' .
vacant spaces, or re ts a th v m ' .""" n"',' ^'■^'"'■""^' ''"'^ "'^
-e till Jl ^up hy imlt^^ntcK H, : ?;"S h' "" ^""^ ';""^'
^j
■S'Kl:=f3:s»!'!:L've-i-.^;n,™,;:'S';;;!"^
c
npiied every i LAf
When the | \\liiiJwiiKT has
minmtr.in
The I more shall Clan- | 'Alpine ex
a
certain.
on tlie
ultin I her shade. "
I9■■
hud
is u:i-
m,„. , i;„,;ii,i,'f,„,„ G.„i,ic .,,;■.,„'.'';: V"'"""'
tlie mack. Alpine i-o^;? tl c ''^''V t'''^'}^' "f Alpine
said to have sulUied the S.uU :. ' n' ,:^^-^':""^'^ ^^ ^^■''" i^
"'"til century: H^;';;;; k1^ !;;?;, V;^'' fi "^ ''^•j;in..ing of the
Mihjugated, orevei;e";p^t.,ewh'f '''■;'"; '" r^'' ''--'
l.ave lieen the first hin^.'o t' thi Th r '/ '^''^' '''"^' "'
IMac^^regors claiming de:x-cii fn,i h n k ■"' '^'^^"•^cc of ,l,e
The ruder it hLn.T . 'p,Ve - i' ''a 'c^' I", ^. S^-^^falo-.y of i s62.
nK.ntal ease of the demoi tra ve a^d co "-''' >' '^' '"•^""-
• eo,' ' tanto.' ' Se, ' ' seo ' 'h5./\.'"''r' :""'''* ^^ '^^e Latin
nionstrative, though the- i'lulec iinihir"',,''' "'"'^ ""' ''''^'' ^^ '^^■
place; hence we h;xve 'ihe-i e - , , , ' r ''''""'^'■'^^ '""'^
^i-.-oo ; as in "/^. J„4 ,ri,;!;- li- ^-"" 'co-cpio.
lo:::m':;zJ!;:;s.^^ '^ ''^ ^^'^^-^ -'^h of l,
Us
or
jch
•«■"" vilk.>s, wliid, d,.-uu i,.,„ L„i;
U
84
\
Tin: I.AUY
I-r^mnn.l frcni tl,c wost. A\.ss.,//„, ]
<JI' THE LAKE. [,
<-'ANI'0 n.
es on the banks of liic l.;].e
'■■'.7./ to-day?" Tills f,,rm ii.;i /V"""^'- 'invo yo i„a 1.. ,i
T, , "On I stalk
From the port, my navy l.ft i„ , he ;w/y "
nc£-.i;'i,;;S,enrs.^""-'^^"^^^^^!^^^i"^'Sth
of thJi;:;;Srt:t:^;j .. t ^"°'' '-'-nceof the two A,nns
"- i^Simits^"""'"" '"^'""^'^ "f "- "-»- which Scott
\
'wis,'
' wi..
SaS:^S;^,:^!2V^".^-ti.e obsolete
'^' "'e year 1 5SS. It ^^ taka^i n '"' n" f"'^'-"'"">'>e'l."M,
-should not can-v it 1 J m Ihe'hor W n"''7^'"""'■^' "'«' ''^'
•?-Hl ta!<e it, it ihoulcl be pi nt JbSore r^^' '' ^'''>^ ''''" '''"''
■"•'•enchcd tliemseivcs at Ot c burn 'll, ' ''" ' 7'"^ '^'^"'^'''
clear with their booty; but Yt\ , T "r"^''-* '^^'^'^ y"' "«"
I'eroy a fair chance of^V.ove n ) h s p 1 '.i: /^^ J "r''>' j^' S^-
fifler them without waiting f.rr n.;,|- "o'^pur luuricd
con.infr up, and attacL ife ^'J .f ""'^'■^■'-^'"cnts, which were
19th of A'joust). T ; icoK heM ,h'>! ' ■"""'\''^^'>' "is'>t (the
Mas mortally wounded amrirnt "'^"^ ^V "^""::'i l^'^'il^s
others weri^,ai<er^Lj;i"''i;^'--;J-^-f-
perfeclly useless: it was rciH;, n , ' ""^ ^'"-''"'y "ere
'•'ere r,i,inj,>s ^ke 'V e ^.^ ;.'o?^;,,r''"T "^^^" '"""^'"^ f-
the different ballads of Che vi S '' /. " "' ■ " ^'"''"''''' ' '"
chce/a 'ridin.M-ai.l) ^ ^'''"'^ (.1 corruption of 'chevau-
^?v':^!yio\;:::':^^s::%::;^ An ai,„.on
"An.tvs,drtofmdlI^:i;:^'~-'-'-
J>y Arch.l.ahf won in bloody work
Ti- T» , A.^"i"'^t 'lie Saracen and 'rinL- " '
'll<S of liic l.;].e
vUSS.
ylc.
Strictly an in-
or purp.j-,, s .if
ivc \e ma ],■ a
(I for tlio /v,i./
•AS, r/rr//.
Jodiiii^s wit!)
he two forms
which Scott
wis,' Svi.^t,'
niglas in the
!iiiiiii)erlan.|,
ii'h, and the
ints, tiiat lie
le him come
Tiie Scotch
have got oflf
iliy to give
'Piir luiiried
vliicli were
t iiiRht (tlie
:h Douglas
with many
ictory \\-cre
fought for
reserve 1 in
f 'chevaii-
n alhi-ln!!
V, vi. lu—
'ould lio a
iii^bitc to
c^vro„.J NOTi;S-TIIE ISI.AXD. \,
queues oj t/u .,ood. Diana, or one of her liynnhs.
|Uva'(Dansh 'quaclJ,' German 'qualen '1
}^\ -h.ch .eem all to belong to t'he s^e rooi: See Wed.;.
VuOvl, s.v.
C|). 'fail," fail,'
V 2!').— 67,///r„/(,j (<<
'■'~XO'
\y
Vhich runs into Loch Lomond ror iV. 1 . ^ E"'''"-''< water,
for his guardian. ° ' '"'*' "'^ "^'"S' "V chief enemy,
:t so that it is^.0;>,rd';,or;:!eSsc^S''"^'^^ ^""'^' '^ '^ 1--
and Oa,„iucl be pre/- "'' ^'''"^ ''"'"" ' ''"'
^ciict Glossary, S. V.
le whole meal,
^ - meant ra hei
and bawjuct be p;;p:;;Vhere''""^'''Tr^r°'" ' ^"' ^'' ^''<^ '^"-;'--
Trench's
'o shine,' 'givincra fa r o i 7 . \ ' ''' " '''■•^^ of 'makiP-r
to 'blaeV ^shine V^:'^'' '"• ^" '° ' ^^o< n, Scotch, i^
Boasts to have tamed the Border-side
f.i
iv
S8
THE r.ADY OF TllK l.\KK.
['ANT.) II.
1-at ti.e country was ,n„,o';;,^;V"i;';,'!;'"! '■•"p'^-'l ! l-ut. [;,;
•'1 '"'-^ -^tinJ-le will, An n . ' ', "^ "^"'^T'laH : s„ f|,,t lu^.^^y
'■"'KTON, 11, 142 f,,l| A,,,'? ';M""-V-' and irs,.|(e,s __,,,,
v-i this .x,i.,S u: n^' ;;i:;!;,r, ;'r""'^"-'• ""'''----
'"U''' "III. Ilioni, that the Kin n , r '''l'^' "'^'''- ''^'"'^s n„,|
I'^lWCCM tinus. "^ '"'i.''' '■^•''^•--1' hiMKScif with sju'a
'! a cnlluent -f ll,e "; S. u hi,"'"' ■'"'? "■'-" ^■^- ^'^"•, wlu. I,
r'T'' ^'^^^''''"^'^''■''-S.s/'S^^r.?; 'y'- a ,ho., or
mm„hs..lcle, was used in ihenol. ■" . ' "-' ^'""'" 'k''os(Iv '
<• 'l-e sp hit ra.l,cr than to '^ odl"^"^;^ ^U-luul,' }^U,,^^;.^
a>lv.re." ,„ ,he Connnunion Se, vire ^^"^ ^'^'"''^■'' counsd^ud'
7L^ 7 apphed to any .Whute of ';:^;.,1 ;--;; -.U.
compcmcnt: ' they elect; L,.,' '*<i^'^'' ' ^' •^"'^'-- "f the
I5al there are many which es e f' • ''*-\'"'^'''^ ]'<t his wife ^
J.'ui>h the conipienuMn I v , ' "'''"'>' '" "'<'er i:ni,dish dist n
Iiad her /o wife "-A. '7 -^ P'^'l'<«ii.()n ' |„ ,.' ^ „ '7. -,' ' '
»f> Lrur^f;^,J,?f■:;;™ :/™,^-.' .0 ..c:,„, T„e .«,',
f'-wro It.
"h7 Imd licip
''is as luilir ;,>(
"'' ; l>ut, now
'lis aiuli(,riiy
" "lie way or
'-' with thi'iii.'
'kI swept (lie
St OtllCIS t|,L.
"t'is.-.-i5^,_
(' llnliirs Will)
!• Iiawlis ami
■"" with sjM)i[
'fO"-, «-Iii(I,
'"(■lit of (lie
(•'i Mills iiuo
's;' 'close.'
a R-Iinst or
1 'j^llostly,'
l)el()Il;^ri||.,
counsel aiui
rtlicfoiidnl
eiiio Nc^icr
a suj)c'rior.
' in Latin,
"-'•" of tlio
' 'lis wife.'
^'i, distill-
i'lie se\e 1
witness. ''
1 tlie time
.' *to lay
~('ii!<i.'>!.;-S
'1-' appro-
junction
lit forms
'dazzle,'
CANTO It.] NOTLS- THE LLAND.
I'c white or pale. ' « 13, '2, I r T"^'' ""^' ''^ ' '" "'^^^ '"•
lit- cast his even upon linu-lva, ' *
T'll f»„, 1- "^'""'"erve his looks;
■>'... i.aim -loMum/and coiresn,
was often put behind precious stonnsi^'T^ '^""'«-'^7-. . •^"'" ''-''f
so in Shakes,,eare, /1/W // I's 26»^J1^ """ ''''■"■ '^''"'^^'"^y J
*• 1 1'e sullen passage of 'thy weary steps
I steem as/^;/, wherein thou art to sS
Hence the word ; P'"'?"' •"="■"' "^ "'y ''"'"^ ^tturn."
„ , Stick fiery oir ildi^l."!'" " "''■■'"•
liootless. Saxon and Icelandic 'K-'t '^
less.' A thing given to 'boo '^c' ^°'"P<^"«''><ion 5 so 'profit-
lo.s involved in an ^change! ^"''" ''^ ^^^'^P'-'n^ate for the
Ttl.—BeetUd. "The A*? «u:,„i,
•beetle,' literally the 'l.fe'r ' the O f"'T' * '' 'T'^* <='''"^^' '"^
•biting.' 'shaqV hence lerhins ^l^' "'''•'''" ?"^''.' "'^'"s
•projecting. "'I'.SkkaJ' So 3 t" ;?rS;'/'"^"^'''-'''
Hamlet, , 4: "The rlltr »J,of / ./ , .' ^''^Ui;hnuin. Cp.
Battled; i.e. whli batdememf ' ° "" '"■' ^^'' '"'" "•<^ ^^n.^'
missiles fron.. battlements, or openings to discharge
Astotmci. Stunned, for astounded.
i'
ofl^S;tn^t:f^^jS^;S'>-^i^"tlona^
ing spot on the cheek that is ol^ f ^ " ^^"^ '^"^'>' '>'• bun,,
consumption; so tl e ' he t?J «' tHfc ilTh "J y '^t " ^'"'''^ ^' '»
flush and the paleness that follows '"■''^' ''''^''^'^» ^"^'^ »
>3 I "• .ji ij.
,t-.
.11
Id'
« TlII!I.Al)YOFTni:i.AKn. r«KTO„.
nccniint «r. .1.^ 1/ I ' l.**7'"h "Mil. 1 ||I rccput tuncs an
I-.' when he can Se hTicoounT " '"'"" '"'^^-'-n'ake;"
" I shope me in s/irottt/^s as I a shcpe were "
^^ I put me in clothes as if n^a'S^SlcJ' ^'"'^'' "^
■ e "(.rvc my nakftlncss
Bome shmuU to slicltor ii,"
—Chapman, mmtr', OJyssy, vi.
orderly »„,„W;o'-a master (Sr^ "^v^'^lan" rr''' " =°" "'
.oS;rkm';'S^4%;Sr°<' ^' -■' ■^-"■' ^-^.
luiy Cross, See next canto, '
1
Ai
H,
W
To
Yd
\
Bot
;^
Anc
\1
\Vh;
\\
And
Ii*'
I- J?
fCANTO tr.
T'iot; e.f!. the
cccnt limes an
*ilh tlie words
quietus maVt;"
uered ' is in a
h 'ecliiciiiier);
Vom the Saxon
at tlie word is
masts or yanls
ere."
OJyssf)>, vi.
rom the OIJ
)oots of love),
avour by |)ase
, as impiyiiinr
?. Stanza 15.
!S judgment).
? to us from
iliy a sort of
ter's haunch.
itive endinjT
ts 'heaii«/,'
Tim LADY OF Tim LAKE.
CANTO THIRD.
T^IME rolls his ceaseless mnrcA »ri
course. '^ ' ^ ""^ ^"^^s his ccuslIcss
Yet live there still who can remember well
iioth field and forest, dinele cliff anri ,) ii *
, A"d solitaiy heati.: the^siin1fkne"v.^'"'
maf time tho''"' ''^ artundVim drew,
NVhile clamorous war-piprs veiled ^\!^l\i^. •
And while the Ftcry Cro'ssyarcS J^fe f tTeo^^ L^ J
The summer dawn's rcnccted hue
Jo purple changed I.och Katrine bluf-
»lild y and soft the western breeze ' '
fc h"''? *'^"J"'^^' J"^^ stirred the trms
Tiembled but dimpled not fur joy ^'
,1
i
90 THE LADY OF THE LAKE, [canto la
The mountain shadows on her breast
Were neither broken nor at rest •
In briorht uncertainty they lie '
Like future joys to Fancy's eye.
The water-lily to the li'^^ht
Her chalice reared of silver bn^ht •
1 he doe awoke, and to the lawn, '
Begemmed with dewdrops, led her fawn ;
The gray mist left the mountain side
Ihe torrent shelved its glistening pride;
Invisible in flecked sky, ^ h "i-,
The lark sent down her revelry •
The blackbird and the speckled thrush
t^ood-morrow gave from brake and bush •
In answer cooed the cushat dove ' '
Her notes of peace, and rest, and love.
III.
No thought of peace, no thought of roFt,
Assuaged the storm in Roderick's breast.
V. ith sheathed broadsword in his hand
Abrupt he paced the islet strand '
And eyed the rising sun, and laid
His hand on his impatient blade.
Beneath a rock, his vassals' care
Was prompt the ritual to prepare,
With deep and deathful meaning frau-hts
For such Antiquity had taught °
Was preface meet, ere yet abroad
The Cross of Fire should take its road.
Ihe shrinking band stood oft aghast
At the impatient glance he cast ;—
Such glance the mountain eagle threw
As, from the cliffs of Ben venue, *
She spread her dark sails on the wind.
And, high in middle heaven reclined,
With her broad shadow on the lake
Silenced the warblers of the brake. '
IV.
A heap of withered boughs was piled
Of juniper and rowan wild, '" *
[canto III.
ivni
c:
is:i
'i.
■St,
:i.t.
it;
CANTO ,„.] THE GATIIERIXG.
Mingled with shivers from the oil-
Rent by the lightning's recent s^^oke.
I^rian, the Hermit, by it stood,
H s gnsled beard and matted l,a r
Obscured a visage of despair;
Tie scar's J?^ "r^ ^'^'' ^^^'"^^ «'^r,
/le scars of frantic penance bore
rat monk of savage '^ m and f'cc
l^l^^lJ^P^ndn^g danger his race '
Had drawn from deepest solitude.
Far in IJenharrow's bosom rude '
Not his the m.cn of Christian priest
But Druid's, from the grave released
Whose hardened heart and eye mi .ht I.; l
On human sacrifice to look -^ " '°^^*
And much 'twas said, of heathen lore
T S n ^he charms he muttered o'er
And deadlier emphasis of curse •
jNo peasant sought that Hermit's pravcr
His cave the pilgrim shunned with civ'
InH ^^S^':i^"»ts"^an knew his bound '
And m mid chase called off his hoCnd:
Or If ,n lonely glen or strath,
1 he (iesert-dweller met his path,
He prayed, and signed the cross between.
WJuie terror took devotion's mien ^
S»
J
V.
Of Brian's birth strange tales were told.
His mother watched a^midnight fold ^
Built deep within a dreary glen '
Where scattered lay the bones of men
In some forgotten battle slain.
And b eached by drifting wind and rain
It might have tamed a warrior's 1,^,^
To view such mockery of his art!
J he knot-grass fcuered there the hand
Which once could burst an iron band •
That bucklered heart to fear unknown,
92
l!i Ij
THE LADY OF THE LAKE. [c..xo ni.
A feeble and a timorous guest,
1 he fie d-fare framed lier lowly nest •
There the slow blind-worm lefi his slime
On the fleet limbs that mocked a th e
And there too, lay the leader's sku '
Still wreathed with chaplet, flushed .nd f..]T
For heath-bell, with her i^uiple bloom "'
Supphed the bonnet and'the plume '
bate shrouded m her mantle's shade-
--bhe said, no shepherd sought her side
No hunter's hand her snood^untied "
Yet ne er agam to braid her hair
The virgin snood did Alice wear-
Gone was her maiden glee and sport.
Her maiden girdle all too short, '
Isor sought she, from that fatal night.
Or holy church or l^lessed rite, ^ '
But locked her secret in her breast,
And died m travail, unconfesscd.
Iff
VI.
Alone among his young compeers.
Was Enan from his infant years-
A moody and heart-broken boy. '
Estranged from sympathy and joy,
Bearing each taunt which careless ton'nie
On his mysterious lineage flung. ^®
Whole nights he spent by moonlight pale
1 o wood and stream his hap to wail, ^ *
1 jl, frantic, he as truth received
What of his birth the crowd believed.
And sought, in mist and meteor fire
T o meet and know his Phantom Siicl
J .1 vain, to soothe lis wayward fate
1 he cloister oped her pitying gate;
In vain, the learnin- of the age
Unclasped the sable-lettered pa<^o •
Even in its treasures he could find'
P ood for the fever of his mind
Eager he read whate\'er tells
Ol magic, cabala, and spells,
[canto III.
c;
d full.
•'•^''■" •"•] TIIK GATIIKRIXG.
And every daflc pursuit allied
A 1 ""^.'l '^'•^"" '-I'Hl nerves o'ers run-^
And heart with mystic horrors wrnnJ ^'
AnTrff -''"^^''Sht lienharrow's £
And h:d h,m from the haunts of meni
VII.
The desert p^ave him visions wild
Such as might suit the Spectre's child.
\ here mth b ack cliffs the torrents toil
He watched the wheeling eddies boil '
/,'''[^"'?t'^e.r foam, his dazzled eyes
I.eheld the river Demon rise •
I he mountain mist took form' and limb
?, "°°.";'de liag, or goblin grim ; '
S V n '■''"•^i'*^'"^ ^''^'"^ ^il'l and dread
Swelled with the voices of the dead '
{^ar on the future battle-heath '
H>s eye beheld the ranks of death •
i hus the lone Seer, from mankind "luulcd
Shaped forth a disembodied world '
^HnK""''!;'u^'>'"'P''^^hyofmind '
S 111 bound him to the mortal kind:
i he only parent he could claim
Of ancient Alpine's lineage came
T? f ""I ^? ^'''^'^' •" prophet's dream
The ^ual Hen-Shie's bodiig scream '
Sounds, too, had come in midnight bla^t
Of charging steeds, careerin- fast '
Along Benharrow's shingly side '
Uhei-e mortal horsemen ne'er mVht rid-
The thunderbolt had split the ^ne- '
All augured 111 to Alpine's line
lie girt his loins, and came to shew
The signals of impending woe.
And now stood prompt to bless or bin
As bade the chieftain of his clan '
VIII.
Twas all prepared; and from the roc\- '
A goat, the patriarch of the flock, '
93
• I
ilili
' ' r
I
H
»
THE LADY OF THE LAKE.
Kcforc the kindlin- pile was kid
And p.crced by Roderick's reaiy blade
Th TV ^'^ «''^I^'<^"ing victim eyed
Jhcl,fe-bloodcbbincri.„soa^tide,
Down Im clogged beard and sliagU limb
i II darkness glazed his eyeballs dim '
The grjsly priest, with murnnuiv. p aver
A slender crossiet formed with care ^ '
A cub.t's length in measure due '
I he shaft and limbs were rods of yew
ThX ,f'T"^' '." Inch-Cailliach mJo
The.r shadows o'er Clan-Alpine's g ave
And answcrmg Lomond's breezes deep'
Soothe many a chieftain's endless sS'
The Cross, thus formed, he held on iSi,
Wuh wasted hand, and'hagga d eye ""
wll'?"^' ^r^ "^'"^'^^ feelings^woke
While his anathema he spoke.
[CA.NTO III.
IX.
TMf =*° *,^^, *^'^"sman, who si all view
This symbol of sepulchral yew,
lorgetful that its branches grew
Where weep the heavens their holiest dew
On Alpine's dwelling low '
Deserter of his Chieftain's trust.
He neer shall mingle with their dust,
But ftom h.s sires and kindred thrust
Each clansman's execration just *
bhall doom him wrath and woe '
He paused ; the .vord the vassals took
))•' ^/"'■"^'I'-d step and fiery look, '
On high their naked brands they shook
A '^^'^"''S targets wildly strook ; '
_,, And first m murmur low,
Then like the billow in his course.
That far to seaward finds his source
And flings to shore his mustered foSe
Burst with loud roar, their answer hoarse
Woe to the traitor, woe '' *
Ren-an's gray scalp the accents knew.
T he joyous wolf from covert drew
[canto hi.
Je.
imb.
ycr,
p.
evf
CANTO HI.
THE GATHERING.
'ihe exulting eagle screamed afar^
iiicy knew thc> voice of Alpine's war.
The shout was hushed on lake anrl f,.ii
;:;.":^;f" he shook abo^e ti'; c^S
Its kindled points, he spoke aloud
At ,M. V^"/'"^''"' ^^'h" f^iils to rear
At tliis dread sign the ready sneai- f
/!'•, as the (lames this synboS
I US home the refuge of "liis fear' '
,.-,, ;;)'''.';^''-^'d fate shall know;
C-hn aT ' ^""''^ ^^"^ ^°l"'"ed flame
Uan-Alpme's vengeance shall procl-.im
S Vl ' "ir"' ' '-^"^ '"^^trons on In na "'
i^hall cai down wretclicchiess and s aL
And infumy and woe.' ""'
Then rose the cry „f fe.nak-s, shrill
As gos -hawk's whistle on th^ J i
W'n;jled with childhood's babbling tri'l
Of curses stammered slow
Answering, with imprecation dread
^;-< be his home In embers red f'
Ad cm-sed be the meanest shed
That e'er shall hide the houseless head
V\ e doom to wani and woe "
A sharp and snrieking echo gave
C -Unskm, thy (iobiin-cav?^! '
in'S P"'' n'^^'-^ birches wave,
xr.
95
i{
h
breath he dr.
^ • ' lie with set teeth and cicnr
ew.
''cjc,.i,a,gi„„ciiik=ii,;5;'£;.^;;-<'.
iiaiiilJ
S5
THE LADY OF TllV I wr r^.
p mc litatcd curse more dread,
And deadlier, on the clansman's head
^\ >o, sumnioned to his Chieftain's aid
1 le si„rnal saw and disobeyed
i he crosslet's points of sparklin- wood
I e qncnched amoi,g the bubbling S
An I, as aj,^am the sign he reared, '
i o low and hoarse his voice was hcird-
;When flas this Cross from man to ^ 'n,
\ ich-Alpine's summons to his clan
;urst be the ear that fails to heed"'
Jalsicd he foot that shuns to speed I
^lay ravens tear the careless eves,
U olvcs make the coward heart' their prize!
As SMiks that blood-stream in the c\S
^" m.-.y us heart's-blood drench hi c ut^ '
As dies m h,ss,ng gore the spark ''^•
And be he grace to him denied,
nought by this sign to all beside!'
lie ceased; no echo gave agen
Ihe murmur of the deep Amen.
i II
XII.
Then Roderick, uith impatient look,
Speed, Mahse, speed!' he said, and -av^
The crosslet to his henchman bmve ^
1 he muster-place be Lanrick mead-
Instant the time-speed, Malise, speed"
Like heath-bird when the hawk pSe
A barge across Loch Katrine flew- '
IJigh stood the henchman on the irow-
n-l 'TSX ^^^ bargemen row, ^ '
1 he bubbles, where they launched the bort
J/ere all unbroken and afloat '
J-)ancmg m foam and ripple still,
^V hen It had neared the mainland hill;
A nd from the silver beach's side *
Mill was the prow three fathom wide, .
AVhen lightly bounded to the land
i he messenger of blood and brand.
[canto hi.
CANTO III.]
THE GATHERING.
XI I r.
97
Spcofl. Malise, speed ! the dun deer's hide
yn ficcler toot was never tied
Speed, Malise, speed! such cause of haste
i lime active sinews never braced
j5end 'gainst the stcepy hill thy breast,
I urst down like torrent from its crest-
With short and springing footstep pas's
The trembling bog and false morass •
Across the brook like roebuck bound.
And thread the brake like questing hound;
Jhe crag ,s high, the scaur is deep,
^ et shrink not from the desperate leap •
I arched are thy burning lips and brow,*
Yet by the fountain pause not now: '
Herald of battle, fate, and fear,
Mretch onward in thy fleet career '
1 he wounded hind thou track'st not now
1 ursuest not maid through greenwood bo'u-h
Nor pl.cst thou now thy flying pace. " '
With rivals m the mountain race;
But danger, death, and warrior deed
Are in thy course-speed, Malise, speed I
XIV.
Fast as the fatal symbol flies,
In arms the huts and hamlets rise*
From winding glen, from upland brown,
They poured each hardy tenant down.
IS or slacked the messenger his pace ;
He shewed the sign, he named the place.
And. pressing forward like the wind.
JLeJt t amour and surprise behind.
1 he t'.ierman forsook the strand.
The swarthy smith took dirk and brand;
With chang<*a cheer, the mower blithe
JLeft m the half-cut swathe the scythe;
The herds without a keeper strayed,
I he plough was in mid-furrow staid.
The falc'ner tossed his hawk away,
i he hunter left the stag at bay;
A rompt at the signal of alarms
Each son of Alpine lushed to arms •
i "
¥
u
9S
\ U
-5
::)
THE LADY OF THE LAKE, [canto ,u.
So swept the tumult and affray
A ong the margin of Achray.
Alas thou lovely hike! that e'er
A ly banks should echo sounds of fcarl
The rocks, tlie bosky thickets, sleep
So st.Ily on thy bosom deep, ' ^
i;.m'? '.i"'"^" "^'■°^' f'-"'*' t'^^ cloud, '
i^ccms for the scene too gaily loud.
XV.
Speed,, Malise, speed! the lake is past
l^uncraggan s huts appear at last, '
Ha if 'ifiift ''" 'r ''■^^'■°^" •■°'^ks half seen.
Half hidden m the copse so green •
There anayst thou rest, thy labour done
The.r lord shall speed the signal ou^-'
As stoops the hawk upon his prey,
I-VV vu '";"] ''^°' '"'" down the way.
-VVhat woefu accents load the gale ?
The funeral yell, the female wail! ,
A ga lant hunter's sport is o'er, It
A va. ant wanio, ilghts no more. '
VVho,/,n the battle or the chase,
At Roderick's side shall fill his place '-^ ,
Withm the hall, where torches' rav '
^upp hes the excluded beams of diy '
Lies Duncan on his lowly bier.
And oer him streams his widow's tear.
His stripling son stands mournful by.
His youngest weeps, but knows not why
Vu^ ''!"''-^ '"^'ds and matrons round
i ne dismal coronach resound.
XVL
• ^ J. CORONACH.
He is gone on the mountain.
He is lost to the forest.
Like a summer-dried fountain,
When our need was the sorest.
1 ne tont, reappearing,
From the rain-drops shall borrow,
liut to us comes no cheering,
To Duncan no morrow • "
"i.
>^
V)
[canto m.
CA.VCO III.]
THE GATHERING.
rj
sccn,
The hand of the reaper
Takes the ears t!iat are hoarj',
Kiit tlie voice of the weeper
Wails inanliood in glory.
The autumn winds rushing
Waft the leaves that are scaresC,
I3ut our flower was in flushin-,',
When blighting was nearest.
Fleet foot on the correi,
Sage counsel in cumber,
Red hand in the foray,
How sound is thy slumber!
Like the dew on the mountain,
Like the foam on the river,
Like the bubble on the fountain,
Thou art gone, and for ever ! »
XVIL
/
99
( See r.umah, who, the bier beside'
His master's corpse with wonder eyed.
Poor Stumah ! whom his least halloo
Could send like lightning o'er the dew,
Bristles his crest, and points his ears.
As if some stranger step he hears.
Tis not a mourner's muffled tread,
Who comes to sorrow o'er the dead.
But headlong haste, or deadly fear.
Urge the precipitate career.
All stand aghast: unheeding all,
The henchman bursts into the hall ;
Before the dead man's bier he stood ;
Held forth the Cross besmeared with blood;
1 he muster-place is Lanrlck mead ;
Speed forth the signal! clansmen, speed!'
XVIIL
Angus, the heir of Duncan's line.
Sprung forth and seized the fatal sio-n. *
In haste the stripling to his side °
His father's dirk and broadsword tied:
But when he saw his mother's eye
Watch him in speechless agony,
\m
I- f
too
THE LADY OF TflF taTv'p- r
■^^ "iL LAIvE. [canto I)rj,
And .osscd aSft his bon"" m- "crcT"'' ""■"='•
|2r„tord- -.r--
Is all Duncraggan's shelter now ^
Vet trust I will, his duty done.
The orphan's God will guTrd mv son
And you, i„ „any a danger trJTe^ °"-~
At Duncan's hcst your bladVc ,£. j
grhi-a^££ Sfii
A TfThV'^"' ihe mournerf sunken eye
As If the sounds to warrior dear ^ '
Sf^'^r^ her Duncan ?rom his bier
But faded soon that borrowed force •
Gnef claimed his right, and tears7heir course.
XIX
Behledi saw the Cross of Fire
04la?elS^^^
Nor rest nnr r^o '^ summons flew,
Th .pZSe^^d-in^ls""-''"-'
Helcftthe„,ou„tain.breezetol^|%,
[canto in.
CANTO III.]
THE CATIIEUIXG.
loi
on!'
•roast,
2od,
eye,
land;
urse.
Until, where Teith's younjj waters roll,
iJetwixt him and a wooded knoll,
'i'liat graced the sable strath with green,
1 he chapel of Saint Bride was seen.
Swoln was the stream, remote the bridge,
l«ut Angus paused not on tiie edgo;
Though the dark waves danced dizzily.
Though reeled his sympathetic eye,
He dashed amid the torrent's roar:
His right hand high the crosslet bore,
His left the pole-axe grasped, to guide
And stay his footing in the tide.
He stumbled twice— the foam splashed hi \
With hoarsei swell the stream raced by
And had he fallen — for ever there
Farewell Duncraggan's orphan heir!
15ut still, as if in parting life.
Firmer he grasped the Cross of strife,
Until the opposing bank he gained,
And up the chapel pathway strained.
XX.
A blithesome rout, that morning tide, '
Had sought the chapel of Saint lirida.
Her troth Tombea's Mary gave
To Norman, heir of Armandave,
And, issuing from the Gothic afch,
The bridal now resumed their march.
In rude, but glad procession, came
Bonneted sire and coif-clad dame ;
And plaided youth, with jest and jeer,
Which snooded maiden would not hear;
And children, that, unwitting why.
Lent the gay shout their shrilly cry ;
And minstrels, that in measures vied
liefore the young and bonny bride,
Whose downcast eye and cheek disclose
The tear and blush of morning rose.
With virgin step, and bashful hand,
She held the 'kerchiefs snowy band ;
The gallant bridegroom, by her side,
Beheld his prize with victor's pride,
And the glad mother in her ear
Was closely whispering word of cheer.
h.
Ill
pi
«,.; LADV OF THE LAKE. ,..„„„,
XXI
^ t' acl> to the race-away ! away J ^ '
^c( sow he laid his plaid aside
A.Kll.ngcTiny, eycci his love ybric'e
tnt. he saw the starting tear "'•^'
Speak woe he might not sto^ to cheer-
?n h ' "'.f""^' "°f ^ second ook '
In haste he sped him up the &-
fe'^^^.'^^'^rd glanced, till on the he. f,
ThP i?l -^"^ '■•''"'■« bosom sti.icd ?
The si, kenmg pang of hope deferred
«#3^
-• fCANTO ill.
:atc?
.'01(1 ;
1 I'
CANTO III.]
ki'ti-Liuu. ^(/^
THK nATiiruir^G.
h
}Nuhwnrs red honours on his crcsf
To clasp h,s Mary to his brcnsf!'
1' koll ;?'/"''M''""i''"^' «'" '^-'"k and
JV "I e h.«h rrsolvc, and fccliny stiu ,-.
l^uist into voluntary son- »"'J"«»
XXIII.
SONG.
The heath this ni^du must be my bed
i\ly lullaby ihe warder's tread
r
loj
/
'A
:-.:c,
(far, Jar, from love and thceAMtuiy.
laid, '
To-morrow eve, more Stilly, aid,/
J y couch may be my bloody plaid
My vesper son,^ thy wail, s^J^cLt:id I
It will not waken me, Mary I
I may not, dare not, fancy now;
i I e Krief that clouds thy lovely brow
I dure not think upon thy von7 °'''
And all ,t promised me, Mary.
No fond rc^^^ret must Norman vJm-
\V hen bursts Clan-Alpine on the foe'
*^'^7;:"'""f.tl^el,kebendedbow,'
"'s foot hke arrow free, Mary
A tmie will come with feeling fraucihf
, or, If I fall ,n battle fought, *" '
ihy hapless lover's dying thmight
AnH if ^"^ '\'l'o^'ght on thee? Marv.
And ,f returned from conquered foes
ow blithely will the evening close '
How sweet the linnet sing repose, '
To my young bride and me, Marj'J
XXIV.
^'ot faster o'er thy heathery braes.
/I alcjuidder, speeds the midnigiit LI,
Uv"^l'mK% m conflagration strong,
J hy deep ravines and dells along,
^^nlpplIY thy cliffs in purple glow
And reddening the dark lakes below-
N or faster speeds it, nor .o far, '
^^^ ocr twy heaths fh.e voice of war
ii
fi
fn
' I
'C4 THE LADY OF THE LAKE, [canto uz.
The signal roused to martial coil,
The sullen margin of Loch Veil,
.^r,ll rose ,n arms each man might cla n^J
A portion m Clan-Aipine's namV ^
rn M u ?,'''^ '"■^' ^^'^'ose trembling han J
Could hardly buckle on his brand "
1 o the raw boy, whose shaft and bow
Were yet scarce terror to the crow
Jyicli val.cy, each sequestered glen
Mustered its little horde of men '
1 hat met as torrents from the height
In Highland dales their streams ^,ite
Still gathering, as they pour alon- '
Ti'l^at'th'^^'' ;?"^' " ''^^ "^°'-- "trong,
ill at the rendezvous they stood
i^acJi ti ained to arms since life befran
Owning no tie but to his . Ian, ^ '
fho oa;h but by his chieftain^ hand, \
^No law, but Roderick Dhu's command J
XXV.
That sumnier morn had Roderick Dhu
Surveyed the skirts of Benvenue
And sent his scouts o'er hill and heath
To view the frontiers of Menteith. '
Al backward came with news of truce-
tli7 '"^^ "'-'''■''^^ GrjEme and Bruce.
In Rednock courts no horsemen wait '
No banner waved on Cardross gate '
On Duchray's towers no beacon shone
Nor scared the herons from Loch Con •
r\jr?-J ■' P-^f^f-Now, wot ye w"iy
rhe Chieftain, with such anxious eye
Lie to the muster he repair, ^ '
Ih.s western frontier scanned with care?-^ •
In hcnvenue's most darksome cleft
A fair though cruel, pledge was left:
For Douglas, to his promise t ue. '
I hat morning from the isle witlidrew.
'. [canto III.
ource,
ad--'
lanj
CA.NIO III.]
THE GATHERING.
oj;
)
And in a deep sequestered dell
Had sought a low and lonely eel!
Ly many a bard, in Celtic tonLnic'
Has Coir-nan-Uriskin been suno-;
A softer name the Saxons gave,
And called the grot the Goblin-cavc.
XXVI
los
r"
It was a wild and strange retreat
^l "^'^^ ^'^^ ^'■°^ *^>' outlaw's feet
I he deli, upon the mountain's crest
\ awned like a gash on warrior's breasj;
ts trench had staid full many a rock,
Hurled by primeval earthquake shock
l-roin Benyenufe's gray summit wild.
And here, m random ruin piled,
They frowned incumbent o'er the spot.
And formed the rugged silvan grot
Ihe oak and birch, with mingled shade,
At noontide there a twilight made,
Unless when short and sudden shone
borne straggling beam on clifif or stone.
With such a glimpse as prophet's eye
Gains on thy depth, Futurity.
No murmur waked the solemn still
Jave tinkling of a fountain rill • '
But when the wind chafed with' the lake.
A sullen sound would upward break,
With dashing hollow voice, that spoke
The incessant war of wave and rock.
Suspended cliffs, with hideous sway.
Seemed nodding o'er the cavern gray
Irom such a den the wolf had sprun-
In such the wild-cat leaves her youn^;
Yet Douglas and his daughter fair
Sougnt for a space their safety there.
Gray Superstition's whisper dread
Debarred the spot to vulgar tread ;
For there, she said, did fays resort,
And satyrs hold their silvan court.
By moonlight tread their mystic maze.
And blast the rash beholdei^s "-"»
2
lo6
THE LADY OF TIIF TAi-- r
iiiL LAlv... [canto m.
II 'il
M XXVI r.
\H en Roderick wi.K,"' T'°"'-
Repassed the heigh U of n^n™ '""■
AWe ,,,e Gobn.f.c?ve° hX'""'-
Unwonted sight, his men bShTnd '
Sr„''rJLrar.f;!j'f-we.,,
it was a fair and gailant sigh, '
J^Tel*rS^S^,-fe„ghei,.,
Aseve„aJ,ii|L''4t^e"s™"'
Ihe.r eargets gleam/as by the bo,, ''
'"^ such mountain strand.
T» • ^.. XXVIII.
wL7,p;l-'''-K:!^n..stm
TVatYoSS'',:;;^';!™"'"^";"™.
To drown hsIoVe in war's wiM>' ''""■"*
N„r .hi„k of EileVD^it'mor?"'-
, ^!|mUBrder task to prov^l"'"' -/
^Xfi™. reloivs to fonquer iovel_J
^- [canto m.
30 1
cak,
CANTO in.] THE GATHERING.
f rm 5"''' '^^ ^'"^'■' ''^^ ^^stless ghost.
Still hovering near his treasure lost : '
i-or though his haughty heart deny
A parting meeting to his eye, *
;_^till fondly strains his anxious ear.
The accents of her voice to hear,
And inly did he curse the breeze
That waked to sound the rustling trees,
f/f hark! what mingles in the sTrain? ■
It IS the harp of Allan-bane,
1 hat wakes its measure slow and high
Attuned to sacred minstrelsy.
'rl^u^^^""^ ''°'^^ ^"^"ds the strings.?
lisEllen, or an angel, sings.
XXIX.
HYMN TO THE VIRGIN.
ylve Maria ! maiden mild !
Listen to a maiden's prayer '
Thou canst hear though fr6m the wild
I hou canst save amid despair. '
Safe may we sleep beneath thv care
M. J°"7 , ^^"'shed, outcast, and revilcd-
Maiden! hear a maiden's prayer •
Mother, hear a suppliant child !
Ave Maria > undefiled ! ^''^ ^^''''''' '
Ihe flinty couch we now must share
Shall seem with down of eider piled
If thy protection hover there. '
The imirky cavern's heavy air
Shall breathe of balm if thou hast smiled.
Then Maiden! hear a maiden's p?ayer ^''^'
Mother, hst a suppliant child ! '
Ai'e Maria / Stainless styled ! ^^ "^^ ' "^ ^
t oul demons of the earth and air
Tnll^ '^u'. ''°"'*^^ '^^""t exiled,
Shall flee before thy presence fair.
We bow us to our lot of care
Beneath thy guidance reconciled •
He.nr for a maid a maiden's prayer '
And for a flither hear a child I
Atc a fan, I /
107
\\\
loS
THE LADY OF THE TAri7 r
"^ LAIvE. [CANTO ai.
Twice pomted to the sun's deS
Clun-Alpme's men in mankl /how.'
, XXXI.
from the deep heather where thev'i:«
wi,rth!ss?^?;,vrr^'-
Unless where, here and ,tof all^*?'™'
SUX ' P°'"'' " S'immerSade '^='
And Silence claimed her evening reign.
KE. [CAMTO HI.
cast,
e'er
ri'
e;
rayed J
en!
ihade.
NOTES
CANTO in
Is aTmosf enfircly taken up with the snt',cn- hy mrnns of
the h: cry Lrnss It opens with the riiuai, half I'araii, half
Chn.tian, with whid, it is conseciatai, a cross made of .o,!^ of
yew hav.njr „s end eharred in the fire, and quenched iu tl>e
blood of a goat. At each stage of the consecration, dire curses
U'^""!. ""'^ ''"■^ called down on the head of the clansn.an
who shall not answer h.s chieftain's call, 'io make the whole
ceremony more wend and strange, the monk that iKTforms it is
represented as of mysterious and scarce human hirth The cross
is con.secrated, and is at once entrusted to Afali.se, Ro lericK's
henchman He bears it eastward, and it is passed ..n fr<,n.
one hand to another mtenupiing wedding and funeral alike, lid
the clan is gathered m Lanrick mead. The funeral and weddin.^
gue opportunity for the mtroduction of two songs, but lliev aro
iiut ni Scott's best style. '
JcotYlt ."'•^""V:^"^ ^^' J^^^" reconnoitring, but finds no
liace of the foes whom he had expected. The Dou"las and his
daughter have left the island, in order not to in.pe.ll thdr l.os
and have taken refuge m a cavern on the side of Benvenue
^vhlch the superstition of the age "debarred to vul-.r tread "
and thither Roderick comes, and, hovering over the treasure
he has lost, hears Ellen's voice for the last time, and then
hastens to join his men. '
Note the description of Loch Katrine in the morning sun, and
the breaking up of the wedding, Stanzas xxii. and xxiTi.
J his canto contributes very h'ttle to the developing of the
P ot. It is an ,ntere.sting picture of an old Highland custom ;
bu , suspending as it does the mam action of the poem, one can-
not but feel it to be somewhat tedious. The emphasis of the
curses is weakened by their repetition, and though, as Tord
Jern-ey says, "the eager fidelity with which the fatal signal is
hurried on and obeyed is represented with great spirif," the
whole occvpies a space out of all proportion to its iinj.'>rtnn,v
I he end of the u.nto wms back our sympathy fur the iiiore
HI
no
TIIK LADV OF THE LAKE.
,1
f"*man side in P. i • , , * "" "t'''"'" ^^^''^'' '"•
'>l>ioli wns ,l,oSl i„T/ >■■ '"'""d™. lime, • A S •„ .
f, "ui store, Cf. canto i 9t «„
i. trc I t'le extremities of fire aruUvn. 1 '? '^'''-'d to appear
-- .n ,6S9. be/ore Kiliiecrankie'S. S:^;^'-^- ,
^^^^^'^"^J:^. ^?'""^^'-; "Pon this passa-C Urof. ' '
^r:. fcANTo rir.
-"'s trustful hyum
ssecl Ijy adversity.
■f A.S. 'geara.'
M SO IS icleniical
^ by the nautical
' and note.
•■■'"S-- 'Ciather-
n.'
•w/;/,/. "When
•Tiy sudden or
Ta cross of ar.y
<' "tinrjuisli,,!
^"ed the /./,.,,/
''. I'ecause (]].■..
Cimy. It „.,^
ran full speed
) the priiici|.;d
'f rendezvous,
forward, wit',
issed with in-
allegianre to
"the danger
Cross, every
earing; arms,
nd accoutre-
^ to appear
- emblemati-
y and burnt
ir of 1745 6
'"'5 occasion
-. a tract of
>y mentions
355-)
re (/l/o,/^rn
^serve thaf
althymind
aching, ,is
ilourist as
could not
power or
say nu-.ch
is colour,
CANTO ,„.] NOTES-TIIE GATHERING.
-is'S ^: SSi^'S^°J^-f' CH. one in .he text)
except in one word (.^S ■. Stb I '" ■^"''" '" '' "' '"'
either of colour, or of tia dc c te In f^h'r"''Tf r"^ """^y^-'y
l-ave seen to be so inM,ortan7an elemenMn '''-'^, I'fe which" we
Two more considerations are hm..? " '"°''^''" '•■^"'Iscape.
snge. The first, that the love of nn n ', l"^'^'""^ '^^ ^'^'^ p'^s-
continual attention now eiven f^ n '''m ','''^'^' excited b/. he
reciprocally the interes of that land l'"'^ ^-'\dscnpe, heightens
Portant clement in Scou s d s Ji ';7','/",^' ^T""'"' «" i'"-
flmvn to the minutest speckling offi^ 'eadmg hmi to finish
of attributed emotion/ the fortrakur/'ofl'"? '"^''^'^^^ «'^^''«-"
Compare carefully the second nnd V , , •""'' ''^"^' •''"™als.
fWv/^V. The second po hu I Ja ' o ^'^^.^''^''.o'" canto vi. of
drawing a slight ;W f^om ev'rv l '' '', ^'^""''^ ''''^'^it "'
"-••al is almost always meTald'olv^ H '"' k'"',' '^■'^ ""'^ ^"'l''t
^vlthout entirely expressing it- ^" ^''"' ^^ ^'^^ ^'"PP'-'J ^i'ort
'•'The mountain-shadows * *
* •
Be^-emmed. Covered with p'ems Q •
'bejewelled,' 'bedizened ' ^ ^'^ '• ^'' «"^ ""'e. Cp.
O/j/irt/v/wr; the ring-dove A «; <^ . , ,.
£s:J3£s^t£--^-'4-u^^^^^
n.i^S^ *j!.-j::^^„S'^^--f the poet or hi. hero
^;rm::;^^-;r'li^--^^^^
and 'gastnes,' W.^Wtf ^^7,^' ''^^ '^r*' ''--'-''
be connected. (Compare with GotM^ '""'''' ''•"^' '^'''-^^''y' '".-^y
Cerman 'aus'and 'geist.') "S'iiai.sjun,' to horrdy;
tret7e&?,'ir-tf;;-h. Jamleson thinks that this
"se made of it in magicd arts I? w^^"''''"""' ^'^^■•'^"^'-' °f 'he
.Gotland, inonlertopleven? he fa a eff^'°T"" '"^'«"' ''■>
cut a piece of this tree, pee tie a .-^.T ? ' "^i^" ^^'^ '-^y*^' •«
a tach .t to the limel of "tlfe cow-house ?i '57'^ .''^""^ "' "'hI
.1 have tied a red thread round Xb.-P' •f'^f'""'''^)'. ch. viii. ;
•1'^ ane of them a riding-wa d ^ ro 1 'T"^: '^■?'^'-^' ''^"<' gi^en
in
Ifl
I ct, loiny Si. Win
U!) a
» o
THE LADY OF THE LAKE. Tcanto m
of Ki.o,sts am! fairies!- ' ^""' ''"'"•'^" ^•■^" ^^^ i" ^''^ matter
^'m/c'r/; marked with grey. (French 'rrri. '\
LoSfr^'' ^ ~- on the\t of l^^i head of I.ch
the^flt?"''"'''''' '•'- '^' ^''"^"■- -« dis.ngui.hed from "hca-
which';^L.^(S, j '^n '^^r?' r'!?^' ^^'-'"'"'^
(Oaelic •srath'} is a valley ofcon^^:.,/; ^}-''^ ' ^ '^"'■^''
*-ivcr flows. ^ *^ <-onsui(ral,le size, tluough which a
be compared with that of '^end born ^f r •.^" ^foT"i^y
«"K'n; so in the Greek mvtnlo^v-F^^^ "mysterious
a"<l Death/' the ofi-s,S7Sfl, ""^ T\ ^'^"""^ ^^'^^i^y
Cp. leiinyson, Klaiiu-—
"A horror lived about the tarn, and clave
i-orV ?'" ?'-''l.'° "^'^ 'he mountain s^de.
Andt^d?ttoS£^u;i,re''^
And eack h.^dS^n^^his^bl-oS aT^S^'-^ ^°^'-
A";l&t;^,^\sns/lsr^^^'^?r"
A.,^ 1- 1 > 1 ' ■'^ ^'* tneir bones were 1> cniii,.,!
And hchen'd mto colour with the rocks '' ^"'''-''''^'
was the mark of innidcn ,,nrhv a^.S 1 "■?'""' "»""="■ »
vhen she has to lay aside her fnrM„ . ' ^'^J*" J^^n'e Deans,
after crossing the border "the Sf h''\'"^ ^^" * ^^o""^^
woman's bon^.ace. and ^.e a fnglfmaSL^'El'^r/Jr^^
///w«, chap, xxviii. t, = "'^men. —Heart of Midio-
«i.Ki. and „ray b» go„-d-or-Lad7 Kr^ilSfd^'i'C'l&a^vlJ:
'E. [canto II r.
whh to know if
do in tlic maticr
I
■ head of I^jch
ihed from "hca-
vcillcy, throiirrh
:lyii'); a.s(r<,//i,
lirough which a
TTiis story may
' ol mysterious
I)lack Destiny
cr.
lost.
rrcc! ;
leached,
French 'hoii-
in tiie ccntiv,
1 on the left
by maidens
women. It
t of matronly
eanie Deans,
ar a bonnet,
n a married
-trto/Midio.
Vom 'mod,'
r-will,' 'sul-
ition of the
Mies always
CANTO irr.] NOT ES-TIIE GATHERING. ,,3
tlie air, a shooih'g i"ar ^ "^^ ''^'' '^ '"" ^'^"^^'"i^' ">r^"k'l>
n<^t.^^Sm ]; •d.^ilJ J^""'f ^-^^ -re printed
and do'!;n strokesln le'Sl ic o.^O f' "■'^""^''"" ""^ "1'
meant that know edr^whS wS t^H" l"'r ,'-^^-^"-^'^« ''^^^
J.^klen nysteries coftaTn d in thfle r^of the T' ^'""^ \''^
number oftimes they occurred 3 ;„.)?'• , *^^ ^""^^ '" "'c
hUer into a my:^ical sv^aem nf ^ I'^'i '^- ^ '"'^ "'^s extended
account of it is g^ven b? he snml 1^".^°^'^^ .. ^n interesting
He Koes on to saT"' The rTf T'^""' ''°'- "'• PP- 43'. foil
mag^c and w^nclS-worl^ „?''Se Shifl T. ^ ^>''^-"^ "^
Cabala had wrought mi.3s wi.fh^ ,"'''' /^''''^''^ ''^ "'^•
later there was n'o ii^d of.'u^ con\: rt.^k'^jy'^""^ '''"•
performed by the adfutc .jii '^ ,. "J"'^'"S inck that was not
suspicion. iVecabi tic\ri? ''"''''^'"'^ '^^"'^'"P' a"^!
chaVms, justifieVttfe' mS tw"^
discouragement of thesp in tK • ' .^ proscription, the
vulgar and d^ra ling stXs nf.ffr^ \^'^' '" ''"=''• P--'^^''^--
was not confined o^he Je Jish m nd' ""^ ''"" r°V'^' ^^"''''^'^
powerful intellectsofthe-^Sile '"; f ^^ ^^ ^'V' '''^"-'-■•
science and wonder-wor\-,-^c! , ^ ' ^^^" *^^' ^^^'crs of
tempted at onHj L abstr iness'tl!'"'''^ .co"'-»"'Kled, were
and the mysticism of thfSf.h V "''■'^""'^^ pretensions,
and approp'riate hs powers and ;ir.^s^»"'yf '"'" ^ ^cr^i
that which has a hidden secrem'fn'- 1'^"'^ 'cabalistic' is
initiated. "'^aen, secret meaning, known only to the
Curious. Cp. "They that used curious arts " ^ / •
Trying into secrets (Latin 'curiosiK ' «fT r ' ~^'*' ""'• '9-
Compare with this descri"ptioiX44'!ii!'/,:^,i'^ '° ^-"' ■^•
evil and malicious spt deli 'h tinl^n 7 1 1^' Lowlands, an
calamity. He frequen s mnsf H ?i ^"^^"^^ ^"^ <o ^^it"ess
one of (lis most Somirin of i'"'' ^^^^\^^^ rivers; ami
banks of Loch Vafnacha, in^h ^^? Performed upon the
scene of our action? It con Itc^rirtLf'"' ''^'''^ ^°^"^^ '^-
^uppo.d in parti^rli SSulS IS"of^SiS:^' j^
114
I i
Ik
;, 1:
THE LADY OF THE LAKE. fcANTo ,„.
^■!;I';!;:'T'"'!>,'!"'iT"armo„
with l)Ioo(i, cnlled from II
liand
r, nnrl havlnq; one hand ,
lie
>at d „,,, ,X,-:^— cover.,
'CMS Of Glcnmoreaiul Kothiemurcu.s."
liinil, is a tenant o,
--Scott.
^|uuere.al>„,u^--;|;-^^^^^
I'^at which is ^cp:Zjt'ti^J:^'l^r'1^^' "■■ '-^""^"S'
' sh.ngle, ' or ' shindle ' is n !n .h ' l' '""' ^''"^' '"« '"ock. A
used for roof,,,,, ho .s^s W l "'T "''.^ '^'^ «<" ^left wood
former sense fr!;„;No^; '^.^^'^'T^ "" ^°'-^' '" ''
P-esage of rhe kind allude To i S. T;'''.' to ingle.) "a
announce death to the andent j „ , fr "•.'"" ^'^^''^^^d to
^'«;;I'l>"y. TI>e spirio"ranc .?:,": '^''"'^ ?^ ^''^ean of
gallop along a stony bank, an ther i.'l' ","""" '' ^'^''^ '«
amdy residence, ringing his falrv [' ■ u ' '^ V"'!'-'^ ^'"°"'"' 'l'^'
the approaching calamity. "IsS^' "'^' ""'^ '^^us intimatin.
the SlaMo "pSitS^l^'iiir V"^T ^'^ J°- ^^^ ^ost when
I'y superior nuthori"y, to make an^ nul h'"""''"/''^" ^° ^"'»"'0'
especial to denounceVubriy by ^S i'tf;:!'''^ "'"' '""
communicate or curse."^ 'BaLs' areZ ? •''"'''°'"''y' '« '■••^-
of an intended marringe • 'banish ', "If ' "H'? ''^""ou'icement
used for the compouncf'forbrnir. < r "\ ^ '"'"^'^ '^annir,'
P'thlicly out of the realm son ^ ."'^l l«nnire'). to onlcV
;-'^be,' the itaiLr^Ld o' (2^ ::;:;' ^h'" ^^''^''^
meaning. l*^""^ uamJit } has the same
bt-Tin-.ground of the Mac're^rs an I " r' '^1 "'"^")' ^"'^ "^^
claimed descent from Kin). Alpme ' °'''^'" ''=^"« ^^'J''"^''
A^S;^;^' i^S'k t&s'SSm ^"^^^ ■" ^^'"-•
he IS caught, so tiiat he can nerei ho n i^^ "''''" ""^^ before
something of his wild look Trom TT'l '""f^' .^"' "-^^^"'^
'haw.' « hawihorn '), a hawk of Z „ o*. , ^'T,' ^ '^^''e^ (""^
ca!le<! in l-Yench 'muier de haie ' if, ' u ""'''! ^'''"■^- hV^ is
f^'llou^ng passages iCme S ^inS He '""'"^^•' "^'^
•adjective— toinieAiuii between noun aiid
^E. f CANTO iir.
one hand covcrcil
■'"-"'''";?■, or Ked-
1 J^oiliicmurcus."
lie,' a fairy), the
■opie is siijiposcd
111, or the faiiif'.s
er-il i- to pass."
Ijlors ofi thj sea-
.' or 'scancJula,'
m ine rock. A
h of cleft wood
I lie wortl ill its
o,Ji"«Je.) "A
till believed to
' of M'Lean of
file is heard to
ice arotirul iIr.
hus intimatiii I
the host wliou
len to sumiii(;ii
I'Tion, and in
lliority, to ex-
mnouncemeiit
nch 'bannir,'
'e '), to order
m Enylisii a
iias the same
ipationof the
d women ").
Jsite the pass
me), and the
clans which
in feature.'
once before
, but retains
I hedge (our
wk. Ife is
icher.' The
1 noun and
CANTO „,.] NOTE.S-TIIE GATHERING
"I^ive like a Arrp,r</^m therefore
IJomw her .s|>m„s arc as coy and S
As/.,7..wrf'j„,-,,,erock." ^""''^^''''
—iVucA Ado about S'othhig, iii.
'I?
I.
" "i'w»i i\oini:i
. " Such music
)<-'', icei. ijjii a niounta n ranirp Moir n' ' ■^"•
old use— ' r-mye. llalliwell quotes an
"Moyseswenteuponthat///,.
S^Uh / . T ^'^"'■'y ^'f.y-:'^ "-ere gon dweli:-."
is^h^n^nd^;^ crSi:jr'- ;r'^'- ' ^^'■"-
•scathing,' 'scathless,' •unJcathed-^tn^t .V' 1"" "^'^ """' '»
are constantly use<!. Cp -l ' ^"^o^'^n^l noun anj verb
A.^,.., chap. X. s>^;e;:L;":Xtr^^:!S''-;^T^'^
-^iH'd. Cp German 'schadcn' and 'scheden -T' ''""''-''
i?<'^^^, pheasants, partridges. "~lh.NNAiT ''"'"■''
SoSlocwS^.^^ "236- ^'^''' ^" '^°-P-e the curse in
-the fire shall consume his rW^ 1; ■. '"/^'"^''ed m the (ire
heart's blood is to be shed '^'''"'"- ' " '^ ^'P^ in blood-his
Cojr-Uriskin, or Coir-nan-IIrkl-m in^x.
ild men")._ a hollow cleftln th 'no,^lL 't ^V^ ^«^". -^ '^e
posed to be haunted by fairies and evil
lernsuieof Honvenu
le, sun.
and o^i^b^^^l^^^'C^bb-rt, P""" '''^-^'-ledby
. •• The 6V/./Irthe^ e ±^^^^^
^v.ng a hun>an form with P '£',' -fhe'? w'^^^" "n^"
rocks
shelte
'!'!
I
'•>i " says Dr.
li ^t
Pi I li
fr i
"« THE LADY OF Tirn r,AUK. (canto,,,
III Ills own wild recess- l.nf .>.«.» . "'K"''i»'Is, enrh
oMcr were re^i I. Wy Id. n ("s Cave' of n"' "'"'".^^ "^ '^'«
on the Southern n>Lnes]>}/'rl ^if l^'-'" venue. '-.SW;,..,-
been at one time the^'nf of Su ^'"^ ^'"^^^ '^''^^ P--^*^"'''/
;n.n« wi.h l>i.ch..;ee;?\,v tlS %,e"c mf.'S^^^^ T^:
forays were driven within , he protection of the Tu.ichi'""''"^
•lie point whicfhas c'o ^f t ' ^h'^'^.f S.^l'T '"!"' ''^'^^
WOO.I. Hence to c/unh is to fasten down Slv '" '"'" ""^
to clinch an armiment a hir^n n t V™ 7' '" '^♦^cure ; ^.^.
bend over the riS , il'h" S thIVf ofl/'V' ''!"'''* '^ '"
forn. a ball. ^A'tU' in AIoL G l"n s a b d^'a Lr? " '"
bal)ly connected with tiiis. "' '*"'' '** 1""*
Cross/ft, diminutive. Cp. 'rindet ' 't^nrt^f » « • i » »
derivea from Greek and L-»tin '7^,f /'''^'-e. '" '-"K'''^'' words
•fancy' for 'phantasy ' ^* '^°'" '^^'"^"^■'i'-V
German ■ ,ri„ifc. ' ."d .Ske^ 'P' "'"P' '">=.' '"■i"-' Cp.
"Arms every hand against thy life,
J^ans all who aid thee in the strife
Nay each whose succour, cold and scant.
With meanest alms relieves thy want •
Haunts thee while living, and when .lead
r)we Is on thy yet devoted head,
.Stills o er thy hier the holy verse
And spurns thy corpse from hallow'd ground
Flung like vile carrion to the hound «> °""'''
tti
:. [canto iir.
"lio. M<e (lie
^o pcifniin the
t ni.i'iy (if ilie
ntt.iclicd to it.
iK'il.iiKls, I'nch
ic'ftinjjs of I he
me." — Sceiifiv
haJ probahly
otlifr side f)f
It },'l,iile over-
1 in I.owlaiiJ
Jsaclis."
H.G. 'chlcn.
to bend I)aLk
own into tiie
) secure; e.i^.
hands is to
land, so as to
1, and is j)io«
i relet.'
lyof a flnid.
id no lon_^'(T
an instance
ij^lisli words
'phrenetic,'
ish have the
'y the modi-
'raise.' Cp.
?ain' (.\.S.
_■ '/V-ninrse
ihe Abbot's
t-ANTo irr.] NOTE.S-TIIE GATirnraN-G.
The
"7
C^rZCr' ''"'""^'^ ''^'--> «'- Abbot .nd .he fiend-
coupie. each keeping ha ; ifa .?>od in ;'" '" 'V'" ''^ '' ^'^"'^">^-<
H u,eU J^yJere,!;yVayi::rnCe:e'7:'^ '•''?'''''.''''«• ^'
t 'getlier to a common stock ' tontubution, put
^•etS.'""''• '^'''^' «^' ^'-"'^ -t f'e north-west end of Loch
JhiUh-hini ( French • con de bru v^re '» r ,
^'i$^^:^:t^:-^-^^^^ fcllivc. the idea
^"" '".URi... Tht hair ^:Xn k p;tsilr'"' "^ ''^'^-^ '"
were perfectly liexible and u. -r ,^ «f de for warmth ; t|„.y
tl>e purpose oLllowi-Vl^wIerrSirn"^ ""'" '^"'"' ^-
nu.rasses to escape." 'Phe comn mnJr n 'V^'^'J'S '"''^'^'•s a'"'
.a.r outside procilred for tfelZCiP?h'" "^ ^l^''^^'''^ "'-'
Cf. Marmion, v. 5— "'k"iancicrs the name AV</j-/4<;;v,:j..
"The hunted red-deer's undresserl hide
V'*-''' ''''»''"y •'n.^kins well suni)li.",l ''
^«^J//«^; ^.. in search of ,-amo i''l ''''
Lr-'W«;-, or scar. OriKinalJy V^"tf, .V'^.' ^l"'-^*^.™.'
fcf that in which there has een a ckf 1" "''l'''"^' ^° "^^ '^'^^e
•sheer') precipice, broken, oS 'in "rm?',''' ' '''^- " ^"^' '"^
clary sense, the n,ark of a clelt cut 1 "''"\^; "''. 'n a secon-
Herald 0/ hattle, {ate, and {ear,
^-itretch onward in thy Ued career
Note the effect of the whisner-l.-ffprc «
awe of the message. The^ /s exp^' 'T""'"'?^ '''« '^'^^^ •''ncl
another form in .'knger, ./eat^aid ™i^Sj5^^''"« ""^^-r
rec^ti^^^eStiJ Vr'^i!;^;:^^^ ''^^ -ssage. and its
"/ast as the/atal symbol /lies
//«;«V . o r ^™''^'^ ^'"'^ ^"'' ^'imlets Vise "
i/amiet, a dimmutive ol the AS «i- > ^
Gothic 'haims,' our 'home.' fn G.vek .''' 1.- ""■"?'''" '''^•"i.'
;^.^/ remains as an affix m l! ' 'n'meT^' ^w ''' '. '^■^'"^■^"•- '
Iti
<-™.any; cp. Z^.^vW,. /;,,,,, (the h., '" ;\,'^; j/^'f ''
- -1 i.ie Ijucuu
'o^i. /-t'.»i.
i:3 THE LADY OF THE LAKE. Icanto iii.
h/im. The prevalence of the termination -hem in Picurdy and
Artois is proof of a Saxon coloay there.— Taylor, Words ami
Places, 82 foil. : "The ultimate root seems to be the Sanbtiiit
'91,' to repose. Cp. Greek Kfl/xai, koijjlclw."
Swarthy. A.S. 'sweart,' German 'schwarz,' black.
J>irk and brand. "Thair weapones ar bowes and dartcs,
with ane very broad sword, and ane dajjger sharp onlie at the
anc syde."— LiNixsAY, of Pitscottie, 1573. They used the two
tof^ether. Chev. Johnstone says, "They bring down two men at
a time, one with the dirk in their left hand, and another with the
sword."
V Swathe. A.S. 'swathe,' 'swasthe,' a 'track,' 'path;' so that
^ the swathe is the path which the mower cuts for himself, and on
which the hay or corn fails. Others suppose that the lirst idea
(as in A.S. 'beswethan') is that of binding into sheaves, to
swathe, bandjige. Possibly the long bandage used in swathinjj
takes its name from the former meaning, as a ' list' is primarily
a border, and then the long narrow strip cut off the border,
and then the row of names written on such a strip.
Alas, thou lovely lake! &c. "Observe Scott's habit of look-
ing at nature, neither as dead, or merely material, nor as altercil
by his own feelings; but as having an animation and pathos of
its own, wholly irrespective of human passion," — Ruski.n'.
!,,— Bosky, 'bushy,' 'woody;' Ital, 'bosco.'Fr. 'bois.' Cp."bosky
bowin," in Milton's Comus.
\/ iS.—Duncraggan. A homestead close to the Brigg of Tuik,
*^and between Loch Achray and Loch Vennachar.
Stoop. The technical term for a bird of prey pouncing on its
y; so—
"Seldom stoops the soaring vulture."— Note on i. 7."
Stnpling. "Seems to signify stripe-shaped, a tall, thin younr*
person." — Wedgwood. "^
Coronach. The coronach was generally an extempore effusion, \
^setting forth the good deeds of the deceased, and the glories of X/
his ancestry. At the end of each stanza a chorus of women I
and girls swell the notes into a loud plaintive cry or wail, whicli V
is sometimes used without the song. - r '
■ At* ^
16.— The metre of this dirge seems to be amphihrachic* ^ >
Some of the lines ajipear to be anapipstic ; but it will be found 011 /
examination that the rhythm of these is aviphibrachic ; that is, /
that the rhythmic pause is afier the syllable that follows the accent.
• From PpO'X^^) s'lort, and A/J.rpl, on e.ich side, the long syllable being
in the middle. In English verse a thrce-syllaMed foot is called n dact\l
when the accent is on the fust syllable, an annjhil<iach when on the second,
«n anaoxst when on the third.
[canto III.
Picardy anfl
:, IVords and
the Sanbciit
ick.
1 and darfes,
onlie at tlie
used the two
1 two men at
ther with the
ith;' so that
nself, and on
the first idea
sheaves, to
in swathing
' is primarily
the border,
il)it of look-
or as altered
nd pathos of
Cp. "bosky
iggofTuik,
n 1. 7.
,, thin youn^
ision, \
ies of f\J
i;
ioree(iriiK_. ,
he f^lories of X/
s of M'omcn I
wail, which
phihrachic. • ^
be found on
hie; tliat is,
stiie accent.
syllable beinjj
)n the hccunil.
\
1) I
CANTO xa.J NOTES-THE GATIIERIXG. „,
''(ne)isg6neon|them.^untain,
Ten lines out of tvcitv f ""'"''• .'''"''^'' fountain."
tucnij^fnur are distinctly «;,,^/,/3,.^,;,^.^
So that it seems I,e ,° o^^S^ "° "°^'"^^-
anacrusis, or superfluous unaccempr if', V"^''''^^'-'''''^c with an
• '-* '"e. The implnl, ach?s use u ,0^ ^^ ''' '^ ''''"' K^'""i'^/uf
C^Jii? nu-ndship is fciiji^'i;"- 77 / 'i
-^/^eexnuisiti^aSffel:^;^^ Ml'^^
"At e'en, in | thegl6an>i 4 ..ne v L^^'T'^^^''''''''^''"-^ ^
TTie song is very carefully <Ii,Sf / \tf''i'' f """". P- 213.
■1 lip wilh a hot iron. ^ '° ""P "' Wfcdinf by AwW.
riushi>i<r r-., /■/■..... . ^ •' .i
I
I ^1
bIown^:i..^^i^'^j;|; 3^:;^ all his crimes broad-
FJowers are at 'llushing ' as the /^;). l"^f'' German 'fluss.')
they are at full. A 'flush'' of good luck is . 'ff '^"°^'' ^'>^''
J\ed hand. Poss=blv <r»-, i " T ,~"*^'''^'^^VooD.
'7- — '^'utnak, 'F.iifhr.il » ti,„
-;^frii^^°;^§»Sf^^°--"--".
.■"61b o ,l,eir <lirks-,l,e Wn?l,,;" '?', .^ ''"' "">■ '»" ■' »
'"" '^"8'-'- »• ir, aiid ,l.e largc,"! .V'SX^'nU-'Sl:
;f|
/
i ii
1 20
THE LADY OF TITK LAKE. [r-AXTO iii.
Iliclainl ]>loa for yc" Tlicse were tlie arms of tlie ancient
r.rilons, " JiiL,'i'iitilHis gl.wliis (clayinurcs) ct brevibus ccui.i
(lar-ts)."— 7;^//. Jj^r. 36.
VTo..
Tif). — '^trath-Tiw A valley riinniiiG: north and south on the
cast of Hen Ledi, amni'Cting J.och Voil witli Loch Lubnaii,'.
>CTlio ('// :pc! of Si. JiriJc- is about Iir.ir a mile from the sovlh en<l
of the latter lake, on the river Lcny, one of the streams wliich
join to form thcTeilli; hence "'J'eilli's j-cw/z^v' waters^)^ Noie
ihc picture of trees mingled with dark rocks, convejedljy
touches of colour —
"That ' raced tlie .wAV strath w\\.\\ ffiwit."
Sympathetic. Really quahlics ' reelci.1,' = ' in sympathy.
jy two
>.
•»
20. — Rout. See canto i. 3, note.
'J'omhea ami Annandave were two farms or homesteads in
Strathire.
.^ Bridal. Epithet used for the thing qualified.
I. Coif-clad. Uiez ami Littrc trace the wortl 'coif through Low
*Latin 'cofca,' or 'cuphia,' to O.ILG. 'kujipa,' our 'cap,' with
the same root as 'cup.' Latin 'cuppa,' [Wedgwood I'erives
it through the Italian ' culTia,' from the Arabic ' kutiyah,' a luad-
covcring.l The coif or cnnh (a white piece of linen pinned over
the forehead, round the back of the head, and falling over the
neck) is in Scodand the distinguishing mark of a married
woman; so the kercluel below (=lMench 'cuiivre-chef,' head-
covering).
■\/ 22. — Luhnaii^s lake. "The !ake of small bends." A fine
sheet of water four miles long and one f)roa;l, which lies at the
east foot of Ben Ledi. Tlie I.aiy issues from its southern end.
'jyie sicken iu,s[ fail i:^, &c. ^o Lord of the Isles, vi. i — "The
lieart-sick faintness of the hope delayed." PrcTcrh xiii. 12.
Jirae, The side or 'brow' of a liill. Icelandic 'braa,' a
\^irow; Gaelic 'bre,' 'brigh,' a mountain.
23. — The effect of this song is produced solely by the varia-
tion in the rhyming.
Bracken, or braikiii. The ' Pteris aquilina.' The word is \i
i/ppparently a diminutive of 'brake,' which is also used for a fern, /j , J
as v.-ell as for the tangled undergrowth in places where trees>.y |
•H^
have been cut down. ^'VV
Warder. Sentinel, explained by the beginning of the ncxt^
canto.
Joying, Transferred epithet.
And if returned from cont/uered foes. This sentence is ungram
laaticai. With thf; elliptic use of 'if,' the verb being ouiiticd
I'L-nh
(1 irv ;
vnll'v
f '1111 (
bciiiL'
fo,
[r-AN'TO III.
r tlie anciont
L'sibus cciiU
5oulh on tlie
)cli LiiliiKiii;.
lie SOT\tll I'llcl
licaiiis wIulK
CA'.TO
Noie
e)ea by two
i-evedlA
mpalliy.'
omestcads in
throucjli T-ow
ir 'cap,' wilh
wood ('eiivcs
iyali,' a Iicad-
1 pinned over
linjT over tlie
)f a married
>clief,' head-
ids." A fine
cli lies at llie
oulhern end.
vi. I— "The
/v xiii. 12.
lie 'braa,' a
l)y the varia-
Tlie word is V^
sed for a fern, /T*'
s where trees I^/
g of the next'
ice IS unpjram-
'cinif oniiUed,
"■■I NOir-S-TII- OATH.-::; INT,.
TTT
tl'e north side of the vallev tT'v }■ /''''"' ^■•^^^■'"' '->'"".'
' ^' P-pcrty of the AS^,^;„/,'';,f '-f ';"-»? - li"!e la.er
P'^.ceof Rob Roy and hi^^^i^e He£ ''''.V/''^«'= "f "^'^ '''"'"^'I-
*» f" I" Onn tlie southern n-ader nt ii,. i ',;"'-^ ^? necessary
'"'""'■^'Hls is oAen set lire to that , J i '' °" "'*^ ^'^'^""'■^'^
a^lvanta-eorthevoiinfrloL.; "''^^, "i'^, '^'"-^ep may have the
"I'! I'caiher phimf if.is ' ZT'''"'"''' '" ™«'n of .he ton Vh
<l.--es oecasiinally the mo t he'a Hi7'f''''''^' ^'^ q'or.smen) p,7>-
•snniiar almost to the di eha J "f^^^^ nocturnal appearan'es.
tin. .cnieh of co'on,- wlllS folii.jf " ^^'-no. "-.Scott. I,-o,e
'■'>'/ M l:o,ne."-JA,,/, ./'//'. "3"' '^.l"-^ e^'eare : " Vender's „1 I
'Iii^ inorlal ,w7. "— y/,,;,//,,^ ' ,•,•• , " '^^^ "'^ iiave shuflled off
2 ).-
fo, -h
-.W//, for 'still sil
lie (sky).
dice.' -So Ten
nyson, "thebr,
CQzy L'lie'
Dck
i<iv .Supentitioii's ^c/iisff,- di-.-mt
inai the Sjoi to vulvar tnad.
i
il-
122 THE LADY OF THE LAKE, [canto ur.
Cp. /!o/.Y,\v, ii. lo —
" The latcil peasant shunned the dell ;
Tor Supcistition wont to tell
Of many n grisly sound and sif^lit,
Si'aiiiiL^ his path at dead of ni};ht."
/>/<t.ft. A.S. 'hlnesan,' to blow. The meaning and oiI;;iii is
well shown in the following :
*'.\ nivijhty tre, * « •
Whose l>eauteM?.r/<v/was with boysterous wimle." — Skki.ton.
With the text comiiarc dray's lines on Milton's blindness —
" lie saw ; but, blasted with excess of lijiht,
Closed his eyes in endless night."
'attendant.* Greek irai^iov, 'a
French 'page.' Chaucer has,
27. — /'<?c<', '.a serving boy,'
cliilil,* whence Italian 'j^aggio,
"In cradle it ^y, .and w.as a proper /(y<?."
2S. — />>// he who ^h-nu a ?Xream with sand. The letters st arc
fri'(|uenily used to express fear .and amazement. Lips open, and
voice lails us. If the smprisc be sudden, a whispered ejaculilion
escapes, suppressed almost as soon as uttered : the whisper uf
tlie ,f is stopped suddenly by the /, neither letter being forni' d
by the lips. The same kind of broken breathing generally
follows any kind of sharp effort. Comi)are — •
" lie answer'd not at all, but, .adding new
Fear to his fust amazement, .f/aring wide
With .f/ony ej'es, and heartless hollow hue,
A.f/onish'd .f/ood." — Sri'.NSKR, Faerie Qui'en^ i. 9, 1, 24.
'*I?ut th' heedful boatman .f/yongly foith did j/retch
His brawny arms, and all his body j/min."
For the next line cp. stanza 13.
20- — The metrical peculijirity of this hymn is, that the rhvmos
of the even lines of the first quatrain (or set of four lines) are
taken up as those of the odd lines in the second, .and that they
me the same in all three stanzas.
Eider, a species of sea-duck, producing down of the finest
and softest kind.
30. — An instance of poetic irony. It is the 'last time' in
another sense than Roderick means. So in tl)e curse quoted on
Stan/a lo, (Edipus was unconsciously cursing himself.
Foul deDiOHS. The U risks.
31. — Scarce to be kircnun by curious: n'f, .
Fro//t the dee/' heather ivhcre they lie.
A hint to prepare for the scene in v. 9.
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rfJ£ LADY OF THE LAKE.
CANTO FOURlli.
CrSf IPropSttf.
TI.0 rose is Iwncte "ii J';--'''," ''■^""s fro, , km ■
And love is loveliL '"'"' mwnin? do,, '
„,Ti,„s sp„i<e :^0MrN ™ ' r;'*-''' '■';■"'■= y'---^' ■"-
^V'-.in,e.,,/s„„a.^e'r'^e^X;5;K;i.«^^^_
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•Stand, or ehou I c r^WI,^';"',","-,-
Art thou returned?™,;, I ™"''o? n '" ' -"""
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Thou bring'st us tidi v"s of ?hi ,- )"'
Oi. u..tant .coiu had .Malisc g nc.)'
124 THE LADY OF THE LAKE. [cAyro iv.
* Where sleeps the Chief?' the henchman suid.
'Apart, in yonder misty glade ;
To liis lone couch I '11 be yonr guide.' —
Then called a slumbcrcr by his side,
And stirred him with his slackened bow— •
* Up, up, ("ilentarkin I rouse thee, ho !
W'c seek the Chieftain ; on the track,
Keep eagle watch till I come back.'
III.
Together up the pass they sped :
*\Vliat of the toemcn?' Norman said.—
* Varying reports from near and far ;
This certain — that a band of war
Has for two days been ready bonne,
At prompt command, to march from Dounc ;
King James, the while, wiih princely powcio,
Holds revelry in Stirling towers.
Soon will this dark and giitlicring cloud
Speak on our glens in thunder loud.
Inured to bide such bitter bout,
The warrior's plaid may bear it out ;
But, Norman, how wilt thou provide
A shelter for thy bonny bride?' —
'What ! know ye not that Roderick's caro
To the lone isle hath caused repair
I'Lacli maid and matron of the clan,
And every child and aged man
Unfit for arms ; and given his charge.
Nor skiff nor shallop, boat nor barge.
Upon these lakes shall lloat nt large,
lUit all beside the islet moor,
That such dear pledge may rest secure?'—
IV.
is well advised—the Chieftain's plan
Bespeaks the father of his clan.
But wherefore sl'-eps Sir Roderick Dim
Apart from all h.s followers true?' —
* It is, because last evening-tide
B.rian an augury hath tried,
Of that dread kind which must not bo
Unless in dread extremity,
[canto IV.
n said.
CANTO rv.J
I'CJ J,
THli: PROrilECV.
1 fie Ta.ccli;, inn called
'■3
hy whi-h. nf;
'"• s'l-esforcsau' the even r.
, ., , „ WALISE.
^'I'^nt scatheless stroke his brow.'—
V.
^Ji that hll(rr> /.l.Vf I '^.'^y LlOSs
Seems he not, ^raIiseJike^c.host
Tar hovers o'er a slau^d)te'ed host? •
O raven on the blasted oak '
J lat, watchm.iT while the rl,4r is hrn'-.
li'^ morsel dauns with sullenCoa'"''
126
THE LADY OF THE LAKE, [canto i\.
MALISE.
— ' Peace ! peace ! to other than to mc.
Thy wonls were evil aii,<,niry;
But still I hold Sir Roderick's blade
Clan-Alpine's omen and her aid,
Not aught that, gleaned from heaven or Iicll,
Yon fiend-begotten monk can tell.
The Chieftain joins him, see — and now,
Toi^cihcr they descend the brow.'
1
VI.
And, as they came, with Alpine's Lord
The Hermit Monk held solemn word :
'Roderick! it is a fearful strife,
For man endowed with mortal life,
Whose shroud of sentient clay can still
Feel feverish pang and fainting chill,
Whose eye can stare in stony trance,
Whose hair can rouse like warrior's lance—
*Tis hard for such to view, unfurled,
The curtain of the future world.
Yet, witness every quaking limb.
My sunken pulse, mine eyeballs dim,
My Soul with harrowing anguish torn.
This for my Chieftain have I borne ! —
The shapes that sought my fearful couch,
A human tongue may ne'er avouch ;
No mortal man — save he, who, bred
Between the living and the dead.
Is gifted beyond nature's law —
Had e'er survived to say he saw.
At length the fateful answer came,
In characters of living flame !
Not spoke in word, nor blazed in scroll,
r>ut borne and branded on my soul ; —
Which spills the foremost foeman's life,
That party conquers in the strife.*
VIL
'Thanks, Brian, for thy zeal and care 1
CouJ is tliiue augury, and fair.
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[canto IV.
c:i,
• k
LIFE,
CANTO IV.] THE rROniECY.
Clan-Alpine ne'er in battle stood,
i5ut first our broadswords tasted blocl
A surer victim still I know,
Self-om^red to the auspicious blow :
A spy has sought my land this monw
No eve shall witness his return !
My followers guard each pass's mouth.
Kcd Murdoch, bribed to be his guide.
IJas charge to lead his steps aside
rm m deep path or dingle brown
He hght on those shall bring him down.
M .r'»!'''°-'r"''' his news to shew!
IMalibc ! what tidings of the foe?'—
VIII.
i saw the Moray's silver star,
And marked the sable pale of Mar.'
1 y Alpine's soul, high tidings those I
I love to hear of worthy foes.
\ V IfSJ^^'' ^^]'^ on?'-' To-morrow's noo-i
\\ II see them here for battle boune.'
1 hen shall it see a meeting stern !—
JJiit, for the place-say, couldst thou learn
Strengthened by them, we well might bid-
Jhe battle on Benledi's side. ^
Thou couldst not.?-well ! Clan-Alpine's men
Sha 1 man the Trosachs' shaggy glL .
Within Loch Katrine's gorge%v^ 'fl figiu,
All in our maids' and matrons' sight,
tach for his hearth and househofd fire.
Father for child, and son for sire- '
Lover for maid beloved .'—But why-
is It the breeze affects mine eye?
Ur dost thou come, ill-omened tear 1
A messenger of doubt or fear ?
rso ! sooner may the Saxon lance
Unfix Benledi from his stance,
T^ han doubt or terror can pierce throu-^
The unyielding heart of Roderick Diuf
127
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f
THE LADy OF THE LAKE, [camo iv.
'Tis stiil:)born as his tnisty tar"-e
l-licli to liis pest '-all know ihdr rliarcre.'
J. he pibrocli .,unv.!s, the hands advaiicv.
1 hf broadswords -loam, the banners dance.
ObediLT.t to the Chieftain's -lance '
—1 turn me from tijc martial roar
And seek Coir-Uriskin once more!
IX.
Y^'?\^;i' *''^ Doii-las ?-Iic is -one
And Ellen sits oi: the gray stone
J- ast by the cave, and makes her moan ;
While vam'y Allan's words of cheer
Are poured on iicr unhecdin- .\ir-
lle will return- Dear lady.'trus' '-
\\ ith joy return ;~he will-he mu.t.
Uell was It time to seek, afar,
Some rcfu-e from impondin- war,
W hen e'en Clan-Alpine's ru-ged swar:n
Are cowed by the approachi..- storm
J saw their boats with many a li dit
Floating the live-long ycsl night, '
^Mifting hke fhishcs darted forth
iW the red streamers of the north ;
I marked at morn liow close they rid-
T hick moored by the lone islet's side '
Like wild-ducks couching in the fen, '
\Vhcn stoops the hawk upon the glen
Since this rude race dare not abide
1 iie peril on the mainland side
Shall not thy noble father's care
Some safe retreat for thee prepare ?'—
X.
ELLEN.
* No, Allan, no ! Pre cxt so kind
My wakeful terrors could not blind.
Avhen in such tender tone, yet -rave
pouglas a parting blessing gave, '
'J'he tear that glistened in l/is eye
Drowned not his puipose fixed on high.
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[CAMO IV.
CANTO IV.]
THE rRorriECY.
0/
IICC,
My soul, though feminine and wca!:,
Can inia-e his ; c'cn as tlic lake,
Itself disturl)ccl hy sii^ditcst stroke,
Ri fleets the invulnerable rock.
He hears report of battle rife,
He deems himself the cause of strife.
I saw him redden, when the theme
Turned, Allan, on thine idle dream
Of Malcolm (irieme in fetters bound,
Which I, thou saidst, about him wound.
Think'st thou he trowed thine omen au-ht ?
Oh r .,! 'twas apprehensive thought
For the kind youth— lor Roderick too—
fi.et me be just) that friend so true;
In danger both, and in our cause!
Mi'istrel, the Douglas dare not pause.
W hy else that solemn warning given,
*' If not on earth, we meet in "heaven !"
Why else, to Cambus-kenncth's fane,
If eve return him not again.
Am I to hie, and make me known?
Alas! he goes to Scotland's throne,
13uys his friend's safety with his own ;—
He goes to do— what I had done,
Had Douglas' d.uighter been his son!'—
XL
* Nay, lovely Ellen .'—dearest, nay 1
If aught should his return delay,
I le only named yon holy fane
As fitting place to meet again.
lie sure he 's safe ; and for the Grrcmc —
Heaven's blessing on his gallant name !—
My visioned siglit may yet prove true,
Nor bode of ill to him or you.
When did my gifted dream beguile.?
Think of the stranger at the isle,
And think upon the harpings slow,
'ihat presaged this approaching woe I
Sooth was my prophecy of fear ;
relieve it when it augurs cheer.
Would we had left this dismal spot I
LJ luck still haunts a fairy grot.
129
fi
r.i
THE LADV OF THE LAKE.
uJru/ ^^"'''•""^ tale r know^
I^car lady, chan^'c that look of woe
J^Iy harp was wont thy grief to cLccV.'-
Mxr II u . ELLEN.
Well, be It as thou wilt ; I hear
i^utcinnot stop the burs inn- tA;*
'heM.n.strcItnccnmsnnple r,^'
l^utdisiam far was Ellen's hcau
[canto IV.
XII.
ALICE BRAND.
^^Ul^en H '" '^'-^'''^ greenwood,
And the huntJ:^Xfein,;!;.^.'^°""^^ ''' '" «=^/.
'O Alice Brand, my native land
Is lost for Ipve of you •
And we must hold by wood and wold
As outlaws wont to do. '
*Now must I teach to hew the beech
The hand that held the glaivr '
For leav< . to spread our lowly i.ed
And stake o fence our cave. '
' O Richard ! if my brother died.
ruas but a fatal chance : *
Fc r da,-I<lmg was the battle tried.
And fortune sped the lance.
^
ICA.NTO IV.
re in cry,
CA -"TO IV.]
THE rROl'IlECY.
*if pall and vair no more I uciir
Nor thou tlm crimson shren, '
As warm, we'll say, is the russet L'ra -,
As gay the forcst-grccn. '
'And, Richard, if our lot be hard
And lost thy native land,
S:ill Alice has her own Richard,
And he his Alice Brand.'
XIII.
BALLAD CONTINUED.
•Tis merry, 'tis merry, in good greenwood,
.So blithe Lady Alice is singing •
On the beech's pride, and the oak's brown side,
Lord Richard's axe is ringing.
Up spoke the moody Elfin King,
Who woned within the hill-
Like wind in the porch of a ruined churcli.
His voice was ghostly shrill. '
' Why sounds yon e on beech and oa!:.
Our moonhght , .c's screen ?
Or who comes here to chase the deer.
Beloved of our EUin Queen ?
Or wi- i may dare on wold to wear
The fairies' fatal green ?
* Up, Urgan, up ! to yon mortal hi?,
i'or thou wert christened man •
For cross or sign thou wi.'t not fly.
For muttered word or bail.
•Lay on him the curse of the withered heart.
i he curse of uie sleepless eye •
Till he wish and pray that his life would part.
^or yet find leave to die.'
XIV.
BALLAD CONTINUED.
'Tis merry, 'tis merry, in good greenwood,
Though the birds have stilled their singin- j
The evening blaze doth Alice raise "
And Richard is fagots bringintr. '
131
'3^ THE LADY OF THE LAKE.
Up Urgan starts, that hideous dwarf,
Before Lord Richard stands, '
And, as he crossed and blessed himsc'f
I fear not sign,' quoth the grisly Sf '
' That ,s made with bloody ffls.'
Ei|t out then spoke she, Alice Brand,
' 75^^;/\o'^a» void of fear- '
And ,f there's blood upon his hand
'Tis but the blood of deer.'-l '
* Now loud thou liest, thou bold of mooc^ -
It cleaves unto his hand, '
The stam of thine own kindly blood
The blood of Ethert Brand.' '
'^'An/°''"''y'^f'^f'P'^^ '^''' Alice Brand
And made the holy siirn— '
A ^^V'^'l'' '''"^^ «» Richard's hand
A spotless hand is mine. '
*And I conjure thee. Demon elf,
By Him whom Demons fear,
lo shew us whence thou art thyself
And what thine errand here ?'-! '
XV.
BALLAD CONTINUED
'And gaily shines the Fairy-land^
But aU IS glistening show.
C^ rh'f ' ^-'""^ '^'''' December's bea-n
Ldn dart on ice and snow.
t)
[C.'..\Tu IV.
i
And fadmg, like that varied gleam
s our mconstant shape, '
AVho now like knight and lady seem
And now hkc dwarf and ape
[C.V.\Ju XV.
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's side,
C.VXTO IV.]
THE PROPHECY.
J3i
'It was between the night and day,
Wlicn the Fairy King has power,
That I sunk down in a sinful fray,
And, 'twixt Hfe and death, was snatched av.ay
To the joyless Elfin bower.
* But wist I of a woman bold.
Who thrice my brow durst sign,
I might regain my mortal mold,
As fair a form as thine.'
She crossed him once— she crossed him tv. ice-
That lady was so brave;
The fouler grew his goblin hue,
The darker grew the cave.
She crossed him thrice, that lady bold ;
He rose beneath her hand
The fairest knight on Scottish mold,
Her brother, Ethert Brand !
Merry it is in good greenwood.
When the mavis and merle are singin-
Eut merrier were they in Dunfermline -■
When all the bells were ringmg.
ray
H
y
XVI.
Just as the rr.instrel sounds were staid,
A stranger climbed the steepy glade;
His martial step, his stately mien.
His hunting suit of Lincoln green.
His eagle glance, remembrance claims—
'Tis Snowdoun's Knight, 'tis James Fitz James.
Ellen beheld as in a dream,
Then, starting, scarce suppressed a scream :
' O stranger! in such hour of fear,
What evil hap has brought thee here?' —
I An evil hap how can it be,
That bids me look again on thee?
I'y promise bound, my former guide
Met mo betimes this morning tide,
/ nd marshalled, over bank and bourne,
1 he happy path of my return.' —
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[CAMO IV,
El
'34 THE LADY OF THE LAKE
rel°"?,^'" '^;V-^'tans I discern ;'
II ..t he will guide the stranger sure f
^rf prompted tliee, unhappy n^nj'
Tl.e meanest serf in RoderiE "hn
Had not been bribed by love or fe ?
Uiiknown to him to guide thee hc;;;^..
XVII.
* S\veet Ellen, dear my life must be
' 6 t ; Q- i • ^ ^^"^*='* flower '4-
T^4tdo^;;ot^3'ti;St^^''^^^^
1 00 much, before, my selfish ear
mat tatal bait hath hired thee b-irt
/^na now O how, can I atone *
I he wreck my vanity brought on •-
Yes'.'S''r'"?-''"^'-""hhnali-
\ es ! struggling bosom, forth it sh iM t
Thou whose light folly'bears he b „"..
I.uy thine own pardon with thy sham" j'
n, hrst--myfatherisaman^ ^'
Outlawed and exiled, under ban |
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[CAXTO IV,
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a^
CAN TO IV.]
/THE rROniECY.
IfKthe,sl-exposedfor.ne
And ,mne to dread extremiiy-
1 hou hast the secret of n,y heart •
lorg.ve, be generous, and depart 1'
XVIII.
A lad) . fickle heart to gain,
T '';'?"? ""^/^'^ fJ^em vain.
i"c -01 no glance from Ellen's evo
To n-cuer steadfast speech thTh-f^'
In .- ^,,:n confidence she stood '
A vr?o,H"r"''f ^ '" ^'' ^f^^^k the blood
O 1 ^'^'■J''''^ "^'^^ such a sigh '
Ot deep and hopeless agony, ^
/ nd Ih \'?t ^""'^'? he 'Malcolm's doon,
/.no sue sat sorrowing on his tomh *
Hope vanished from Fitz-James's eve
J^ut not with hope fled sympathy ^ '
He proffered to attend her side
As broiler would a sister ^uS.-
U I little know'st thou Roderick's hcar^ f
Safer for both we go apart. "^'^ '
O haste thee, and from Allan learn
If hou mayst trust yon wily kern."'
^vUIl hand upon his forehead laid
XIX.
* Hear, lady, yet, a parting word !-
1 reserved thtf life of Scotland's lord
I li's ring the grateful monarch gave
And bade, when I had boon to crave
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136
THE LADY OF THE LAKE, [camu iv
was -o;
To bi-injT it back, and b^kllv claim
I he rcconpensc tliat I w«uW name.
rAicn, I am no couitlv lord,
IJut one wlio lives by 'lance and sword,
^^ hose castle is his hdm and shield,
J^lis lordship the emb.ittled field.
What from a prince can I demand,
U ho neither reck of state nor land?
I^llni, thy hand-the rin- js thine ;
J;.ach ,!^uard and usiier knou-s the si-n
Jock thou the kin- without delay ; " '
1 lus si-net shall secure thy wav
A'ul claim thy suit, whate'er it be
As ransom of his plod-c to me ' '
I.c placed the golden circlet on,
1 aused-k.ssed her hand-and then
Ihe aged AFinstrel stood aghast,
.So hastily Fitz-James shot past.
1 le loined his .-uide, and wending down
lie ndges of the mountain brown
Across the stream they took their way,
llut jouis Loch Katrine to Achray.
XX.
All in the Trosachs' glen was still,
.Noontide was sleeping on the hill •
Sudden his guide whooped loud and hi
•Murdoch ! was that a signal cry?'—
lie stammered forth-' Ishout to "scare
^on raven from his dainty fare.'
lie looked—he knew the raven's prey
His own brave steed :~«Ah, gallant gray I
!• or thec-lor me, pcrchance-'twere ucil
U e ne cr had seen the Trosachs' dell —
IMuuhi h, move first— but silently ;
\\ iiisrie or whoop, and thou shalt die !'
J^vtl )iis and sullen on they fared,
L.ich silent, each upon his guard.
XXL
Now wound the path its dizzy Icd-e
Around a precipice's edge,
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[CANlu IV
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);v2.
I
CANIO IV.]
THE rROPIIECY.
\\hcnlo a wasted female form,
i>liKlite(l by wrath of sun and storm.
In tattered weeds and wild army
Stood on a clilf beside tlie way
And Klancin- round licr restless eye.
Upon the wood, the rock, the skv
Sccnicd nou-ht to mark, vet all t'o spv
Ifcr brow was wreathed with t;audy broom ;
J\ III. ocsturo w,l<l she waved a plume
Ol feathers, which the cackles flin<r
To eras and cliff from dusky win-^-
Such spoils her desperate step had'sou-ht
U here scarce was footin- for the goat." '
ihc tartan plaid she first descried
And shrieked till all the rocks replied ;
As loud she lau^died when near they drew,
I or then the Lowland gavb she knew :
And then her hands she wildly wrun<r
And then she wept, and then she sun^I^
She sung !-the voice, in better time,
1 erchance to harp or lute might chime ;
And now, though strained and roughened, slill
Kung wildly sweet to dale and hill.
XXII.
SONG.
They bid me sleep, they bid me pray,
Ihey say my brain is warped and wrun-—
I cannot sleep on Highland brae
I cannot pray in Highland toneue.
But were I now where Allan ^Tiideg
Or heaid my native Devan's ddes '
So sweetly would I rest, and pray
That Heaven would close my wintry day.
'Tvvas thus my hair they bade me braid,
I hey made me to the church repair •
It was my bridal morn, they said
And my true love would meet I'lie thcr-.
iHit woe betide the cruel guile.
That drowned in blood the momin- smile '
And woe betide the fairy dream i
I only waked to sob and scream*
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THE LADY OF THE LAKE, [can.o iv.
^ XXIII.
sl?i?J' this maid? what means her lay?
She hovers o'er the hollow way, '
And flutters wide her mantle |my,
As he lone heron spreads his wini,
/|y .t^'l'ght, o'er a haunted spring/-l
'A crain" 'h°^ ^""-^V ^^"^d«^h said,
A crazed aud captive Lowland maid.
Taen on the morn she was a bride,
When Roderick forayed Devan-side.
The gay bridegroom resistance made.
And felt oiir Chief's unconquered blade.
I marvel she is now at large,
But oft she/scapes from Maudlin's char-o-
Hence brain-sick foolI'-He raised his bow -
rnXi ^" r'^'V' b"^ °"« blow, •
I Jl pitch thee from the cliff as far
As ever peasant pitcher . bar''
Thanks, champion, tha.ks ." the Maniac cried
And pressed her to Fitz-Jan.cs's side '
hee the gray pennons I prepare,
To seek my true-love through the air!
I will not lend that savage |room.
To break his fall, one downy plume '
No I-deep amid disjointed stones, *
The wolves shall batten on his boAcs,
And then shall his detested plaid,
I y bush and brier in mid air staid.
Wave forth a banner fair and free.
Meet signal for their revelry.'—
XXIV.
4 A^r'»u *^?' P?o'","i'i'den, and be still ."^
O ! thou look'st kindly, and I will . -
M ine eye has dried and wasted been
But still It loves the Lincoln green •
And, though mine ear is all unstrung,
Still, still It loves the Lowland tongiTe.
'For O my sweet William was forester true.
He stole poor Blanche's heart away' '
His coat It was all of the greenwood hue
And so blithely he trilled the Lowland 'lay I
[CANIO IV.
CANTO ,v.] THE PROniECV.
'It was not that I meant to tell
13ut thou art wise, and guessest we'!]'.'
1 1 en in a low and broken tone,
And burned note, the song wen! on.
ShI'r 'm ^''-^"^"i^n^ fearfully,
She fixed her apprehensive eye
i hen turned it on the Knight, and the-.
Her look glanced wilc'Iy o'er thl^lcn
XXV.
'It was a stag, a stag of ten,
Bearing his branch-s sturdily .
lie came sf.^ely down the glen
i-ver sing hardily, hardily. '
'It was there he met with a wounded do-
^hJ "'^^^J'^eding deathfuUy ; ''°^'
She warned h.m of the toils beW
0,80 faithfully, faithfully I '
* Me had an eye, and he could heed
.jV^^smg warily, warily; '
He had a foot, and he coild speed-
Hunters watch so narrowly.'
XXVI.
w!''•^'''n^''^"''"^ ^^s passion-tossed
No Krss's'^Lt"^--
But lion of the hunt aware, ^'
He waved at once his blade on hi^h
•Disclose thy treachery, or d^r '^ '
Forth at full speed the^Clansman flev.
Lut in his race his bow he drew. '
139
i(;o
THE LADY OF THE LAKE, [camo iv.
The sliaft just grazed Fitz-Jamcs's crest,
z^nd tlinlled in JJlanche's faded breast —
Miiiiloch of Alpine ! prove tliy speed,
I'or ne'er had Alpine's son such need!
}V itli Iicart of lire, and foot of wind,
I lie lierce avenger is behind !
Kate jud-cs of tlie rapid strife—
^1 lie forfeit death— the prize is life I
Thy kindred ambush .ics before,
yioic couched upon the heatliery moor •
'J'p.em couldst thou reach !— it may nt t bc^
Til me ambushed kin thou ne'er shalt sec
llie fiery Saxon gains on thee ! '
— Resistless speeds the deadly thrust.
As li-htning strikes the pine to dust ;
Witli foot and hand Fitz-James must' strain.
1 re he can' wm his blade again,
r.cnt o'er the tall'n, \ ih fldcon eye,
1 ic grimly smiled to see him die •
'I'lien slower wended back his way,
Where the poor maiden bleeding lay.
XXVII.
She sate beneath the birchen tree,
1 ler elbow resting on her knee ;
She had withdrawn the fatal shaft,
And gazed on it, and feeblv laughed ;
Her wreath of broom and feathers gray
I )aggled with blood, beside her lay. '
The KniglT to stanch the life-stream tried—
' Stranger, i= is in vain !' she cried.
' This hour of death has given me more
Of reason's power than years before j
For, as these ebbing veins decay,
My frenzied visions fade away.
A helpless injured wretch I die.
And something tells me in thine eye,
That thou wert mine avenger born. —
Scest thou this tress .?~0 ! still I've worn
This little tress of yellow hair.
Through danger, frenzy, and despair !
It once was bright and clear as thine,
But blood and tears have dimmed its shine.
[canto IV.
CANTO IV.]
THE rROPIIECY.
141
I will not tell thee when 'twas shred,
Nor from what Kuilllcss viclini'.s hc.nl —
My brain would turn !— but it shr !1 w.i.o
I. ike pluniaj^e on thy helmet brave,
'i ill sun unci wind shall bleach the sta:;',
And thou wilt brin;^^ it me again.—
I waver still.— O (iod ! more bri>,dit
Let reason beam her partinj^ li-ilt ! —
(J ! by thy kni.<;hthood's honoured sign,
And for thy life preserved by mine,
When thou shalt see a darksome man,
\yho boasts him Chief of Alpine's clan,
With tartans broad and shadowy plume,
And hand of blood, and brow of gloom,
Ije ihy heart bold, thy weapon strong,
And wreak poor Ulanche of Dcvan's wron^:—
They watch for thee by pass and fell . . .^
Avoid the path . . . O God ! . . . farcwei:/
XXVI 1 1.
A kindly heart had brave Fitz-James ;
Fast poured his eyes at pity's claims,
'And now, with mingled grief and ire,
He sa\y the murdered maid expire.^
' God, in my need, be my relief,
As I wreak this on yonder Chief!* ^
A lock from Blanche's tresses fair
He blended with her bridegroom's hair;
The mingled braid in blood he dyed.
And placed it on his bonnet-side;
' Hy Him, whose word is truth! I swear.
No other favour will I wear,
Till this sad token I imbrue /
In the best blood of Roderick Dhu,2 ^ ' \txAjAA.
— But hark ! what means yon faint halloo ? rC
The chase is up— but they shall know,
'J he stag at bayfs a dangerous foe.'
15arred from the known but guarded way,
Through copse and cliffs Fitz-James must strn/
And oft must change his desperate track,
]>y stream and precii)ice turned back.
Ilcartless, fatigu xl, and faint, at length,
From lack of food and loss of strength.
Ml
ill!
Hi
I
'4« THE LADY OF THE LAKE, [canto iv.
i^.^^/'^'^^,^ fji!^ in a thi. kct hoar,
^Of ."""'" ''," '""' ^"^' P^*-'!^ o'er:-
Of all my rasli adventures past,
Tins frant.c feat must prove 'the ast !
T.W u'u- T"^ ''"' ""'Sht have guessed
1 hat all this HijMiiand hornet-J ne^ '
A ';■ ' T''? '^' '" ^^^^^--"^s ^o soon
ijaik to the whistle am. the shout!—
f farther through the wilds I go.
J only fall upon the foe: '
I 11 couch me here till evening grav.
ilicn darkhng try my dangerou! ^!iy/
Sk XXIX.
^ The shades of eve come slowly down.
1 nc woods are wrapt in deeper brow. ,
The owl awakens from her dell '
1 he fox IS heard upon the fell ;'
J^^nou ;h remains of glimmering litrht
To guide the wanderer^s steps ari-ht
J et not enough from far to Thew '
His figure to the watchful foe.
\\ nil cautious step, and ear awake,
He chmbs the crag and threads the brake -li
And not the summer solstice, there, '9
Tempered the midnight mountain air, '^
I ut every breeze, that swept the wold
Jenumbed his drenched limbs with cold.
In dread m danger, and alone,
Jam.shcd and chilled, through ways unknown
Tangled and steep, he journeyed „{, ""'^"°^^n.
Till, fa rock s huge point he turned,
A watch-fire close before him burned.
Iff?
XXX.
Tleside its embers red and clear,
Tasked, in his plaid, a mountaineer:
And up he sprung with sword in hand-
lliy name and purpose ! Saxon, stand !'—
[canto IV.
CANTO IV.]
THE rROniECY.
■43
A stranjfer.'— ' What dust thou require ?'—
Kcst and a guide, and food and fire.
My life's beset, my path is lost,
The gale has chilled my limbs with frost.'—
'Art tlinu a friend to Roderick?'—* No.'—
' Thou darcst not call thyself a foe ?'—
' I dare ! to him and all the band
He brings to aid his murderous hand.'—
'Hold words I— but, though the beast of game
1 he privilege of chase may cl im,
Though space and law the stay we lend,
Lre hound we slip, or bow we bend,
Who ever recked, where, how, or when,
. 1 he prowhiiL; fox was trapped or slain?
I hus treacherous scouts— yet sure they lie
Who say thou camest a secret spy ?' '
'They do, by Heaven .'-Come Roderick Dhu.
And of his clan the boldest two,
And let me but till morning rest,
1 write the falsehood on their crest.'—
' If by the blaze I mark aright,
Thou bear'st the belt and spur of Knight.'—
1 hen by these tokens mayst thou know
hach proud oppressor's mortal foe.'—
'Enough, enough ; sit down and share •
A soldier's couch, a soldier'? fare.'
XXXI.
ITe gave him of his Highland cheer,
The hardened flesh of mountain deer •
Dry fuel on the fire he laid, *
And bade the Sa.xon share his plaid.
He tended him like welcome guest.
Then thus his further speech addressed ;-
Stranger, I am to Roderick Dhu,
A clansman born, a kinsman true ;
Each word against his honour spoke.
Demands of me avenging stroke ;
Yet more— upon my fate, 'tis said,'
A mighty augury is laid.
It rests with me to wind my horn—
Thou art with numbers overborne -
^1
I
in
'44
THE LADY or THE LakK. fcANTo ,v.
IJ, rests \ „ ,ne, hero, brniul to Iiraiv'
Mm. m, for clan, nor kinclivd's cause,
U.ll I depart from honour's laws-
io assail a wearied man we; c shame
^ndstranjrcrisaholyname; '
'iiidance and rest, and food and firo
,! va.n he never nn.st reciuire. '
ll.on rest thoe here till (lawn of day.
Myself wdl guide thee on the wav7'
>^ cr stock and stone, throii<rh wi't, I, i
i .11 IMst Clan-Alpine's oSos;^^^^
^s far as Coilanfo;,de's ford ; '' ">
> rom thence thy warrant is thy sword '-^
I take thy courtesy, by Heaven.
As freely as>3 nobly given!'-'
Well, rest thee ; for the bittern's cry
S.n,:|S us the lake's wild lullaby.' ^
Uith that he shook thegatheied henth
And ZT' '"".f^'"''* "I^"" thi wrea I?.'
And the brave foemen, side by side
Lay peaceful down like brothc-rs tried
And slept until the dawning beam ^'
* ujplcd the mountain and the strcaia.
NOTES
S ur
CAN! ) TV.
• Opens with more incnntations.' '.he dr. ; nrc patlicrcfl, tlie
I-owlaixluis are at Doiine waiiini.^ ih oii.i.iaiid to advance, and
Jinan tries by a weird aii|^iiiy to (lis(j,/er wliat shall lie the issue
of the light. lie lakes care to niai^'iiify his own courn-e and
merit m so doin;^, and declares as the result of his speiTs that
the victory will rest witlytlu. c that draw the first Mood. Mim,,.
time the I)()us,das has left his dait,q:hter in Allan's charge, and
lumself is gone on some secret cnand, wliich he docs not conllde
to them. J'.llcn's fears are aroused. She feels as by in^tind
that her father Has gone to purchase, by surrender of himself,
the release of Malcolm Grame, whom they imagine to be captive.
In vain the minstrel seeks to cheer her grief.' She gives little
heed to his song. It is hardly eiide 1 when Fitz-Jamcs a"ain
ai)pears, bent now on carrying her ofT with him to Siirlhi"
away from noise of battle. She has recognised his noble nature,'
and feels that the safest way is to trust him with her secret, lie
oilers to stay for her protection ; but Ellen knows Ijetterthan he
the danger that this would involve to them both, and declines
the oiler. So he leaves with her a ring, a pledge, as he savs
which he received from the king, and which will assure her' of
the king's protection. lie returns to his guide, who is really a
clansman of Roderick, set to draw him on, in the belief that he
is a spy. They set off eastward, when suddenly the guitle gives
a loud wlioop. Fit/JauKs, to whon Allan liane has alivady
suggested doubts of the man's trulh, fancies that this is a signal
cry; but Murdoch manages for the time to iull his suspicions.
I'rescntly they come upon a wd-Mooking woman, taken captive'
as Murdoch relates, in one ci Clan-Alpine's raids in the [.owl
lands. It had been her wedding morn, and her husband h.td
fallen by Roderick's sword. Her reason liad given way: lait
one jiassion, that of revenge, is awake still. She recognises liu;
kni;hi's Lowland dre-s, and warns him in a wihl son" ol Irs
danger. He turns upon his guide, and bids him disrfose his
treachery. 13ut the man takes to his heels, first disrhnrginc a
I'arlhian shot, which grazes the knght's helmet, and 'l;Tta'ny
wounds Door Blanche. Mmdoch's ' ' ' • • •
SjU'cd IS vain; he
!s nvei-
'4« THE LADY OF THE LAKE, [can™ ,v
wrong on Roderick. Lef w itho ,^ L ^ ' ' "!'''"'" ^° ""^^"^'^ ''^•"
l^eems it prudent not to aSv^ ce 7i SV.^^^ '"'^^ ''^
n;s way as be,t he nn • K,.f "yntlall. Then he pursues
enemy'swatctles h; blirr '""'t'- *■"" "P°" «"« of the
The descrptbn of ihp Tnrri,^- • ^ "^ J^'^ess warnintr.
same fondnesf for a„tiiarlS™h!ck'h?'" '"^^^"^^ °f '^«
idetails of the Fietv Cross t/c? * • ""^ S^'^^" "^ the Ion<r
this in a poem whose main ,uoT',^- ^''^ '° '^^^« ^« '""ch o'f
ballad isprobably only mTarasIsn!-'' "°Vf ^iquarian. The
though it'may no't be'fall^ o S n^it "he t:'''' "''"'"'^>^'
Lllen's position, that puritv and fnn^ . °" ^° ^^''^'d to
of courage, and will conquer 3rffio^r"'\^''t "'" ^^^' ^'^'•"""d*
powerless to overcome!^S ame ' Jifr'';'^^^'''^ '^^"''^ '-^^^
somewhat stale device, prepares for the^fitlV' '■'"^' "^°"g^ *
Of the ei>isode of Blanche of DeVan S tr'"'"'''-,
severely " No machinery," he Vays <' cnn If'^^ '^■'''^' ^"^
clumsy for effecting the del ve ince of . H ? conceived more
introduction of a mad womin whn .? """^''^^ ^^'° '-h^'" the
about the vvandereT Sr I m /; ''''"' '^"°7"'S °^ ^'-^^i"??
ambush that was set fo;^kim "In^to m'S rn:'"^' "'" "' ^''^
sense, and sensible people be guided l^v it Lfi"'''',"T<S 6°°'*
extens.on of the priviWes of X m. • ' H """''' ''^ ''-i^Ji
criticism seems unj^.st ¥l e cue tv o? P^l of poetry." Th.s
Lowlands has alreacly been Led S/n J h"-V' 'V'^' '" ''i«
land dress might well stir ^ss S.: ' " 1^ ""^'^ ^'^'^^ ^ow-
which would kad her o ook t<f hT'- T.'^ P""""' ^i'l's mind
tion and also to Jar" Ijli'^' ^^ d^',' er'°'"ir'-'^ 'f- ''T^'
Murdoch's surpris. that her beinVr o ,f nf V " '''''""' ^^^^"^
looked on as dingerous/fron wj ?h we mn '^^^^^If '■^;«-ght is
entirely crazed. Her sonjr is no, ^L ' "'-ly '"fer that she is not
follow.^ His suspicion's abeUv'tS b '"' '^''- ^'^ ^'"^'^
the episode seems natural enough irJ^W.l'^.^'^,^"^^'. ^« ''^^t
gro Md for the combat in canto v ;f ^ ^ '\ "^"""^^ personal
still further. Without i we sho Id ""'"'^ • ''" P°^''^ P"'-|'ose
the robberchicf. wl"o hink tl i 'slun 1?'''"?' '? '""^'' ^^'"^
fnl.' --s nau:,du but retrib ,tiofrue''?T ^•"''^"'' '■^''^ ■-»"'•
iVuu of hi. Taids wins «. S tl^t; calS i^ 1^^^?^;^-'
'. [canto IV.
nd Fitz-James,
i to avenge her
lidst of foes he
lien he pursues
)on one of the
Roderick's foe ;
efuses to take
for the night,
;r of the king's
^ell the weird-
the episode of
1" judgment bet
''s warning,
stance of the
» us the long
e so much of
Liarian. The
:r minstrelsy,
1 so suited to
best grounds
ty hands are
ig. though a
nent.
speaks very
ceived more
ero than the
Iff or caring
care of the
ic sing goo(»
l<s "a rash
try." This
■aids in the
>f the Low-
gill's mind
md protcc-
ilain, from
■■s' sight is
t she is not
I'itz-fames
e<I, so that
:t personal
's purpose
nucii with
d field and
»f this sad
ord^r.
:a.vto IV.] NOTES-TIIE PROPHECY. ,^7
^.fcvr "™s usfoT'^f^r.^'^s ^p- '"^^ c-^ -^x^^
the^ id.^ of 'starting's^. '::2 1^^^ ^i;;:;;; ^ ■'Sn;::;;;.r
w2l:z TT^'^^^s '''^°"" "y confidant/^-coS;;',, :
nnri hn 1 • • : ^- . ^ ''^ gi-eatest part had been born iK-asi.- • s
and had nseny^m private soldiers by military merit.''-G "1?;, . n.'
Z.—5;fray, a small shoot or branch of a tree /O H r
•spraioh,' twgs.') Akin to 'spread,' A.S. • prxdni ' 'if:
SoTh T'^ 1 ""''^ '", '^'^ ^^^'^■•" ^°""ti^^ fo '"o Srinlle '
'scolta; Causcultare'), 'one'Vho hsfensl 'it is dif^c%' tn'°"'
count for the .«. though Littre ad<iuS • Sen i, us '"name'of
French w' /aZ '""^j": Wedgwood d;;i;es'?rom OM
the sentinel TV ■'^""^''''- ^'"""^ ^'^^ ^f^"" ""ack or beat o{
the sentinel. This derivation is corroborated by the fact thnt ,^
some country districts of France 'sentier'=' i^n Je '-il ''.
watch. [The suggestion of 'sentina,' 'the w.^ter in he ho I !'
^ronh of ?C MV f kTs! "^^^e S.ven to the undulating count y
"ay'lo^StiHing."'' '''^^'" ^^"^"^^^ ^^ ^--. - village half
f?!!L/'''"'J' 'n'""/T-' See last note but one.
n,. '/!,"• ^" I'/'-tl'^h'i-e, on the north of Lochearn The
man takes his name from his residence. ■^"^"'^rn. 1 ne
^ir^o^ZL'f '''''' ""''' '" ^""''^'^ f- th^ adjective-, a
» Z>^«//^ (Gaelic 'dun,' 'a castle,' 'fort ' 'monnrl '\ r.,. „
Vua formed by the conHuence <;f the AnToTai d^he Sh"
The castle -s the property of the earls of Moray
;. T/' T '^^°"-'^'-' ,A-'^- ''^"Ji^n,' to bow or bend "The
Jc /^'/JA- of a rope are the separate folds when coiled in a circle
nud as the cods come round and round in similar circles ^fX}
sufficient shelter fbr him ; but how ;Ll?:shei;;^;;i;£;;L ?
4'—^^"' Tao/tairm called; by which, afar
Our sin-s fonsa-v the events of ivar. '
♦• The Highlanders, like all rude people, had various superstitious
i
!l.-
\ :,
■43 THE LADY OF THE LAKE, [canto ,v.
6„//„,,,,,,,/. Arpnrcml, pari of li,c Lennox ,li,|,ici „„„
"rZ'^.'Lf"'^'" '':'=""l'"'"""='''' lislit-'mcd fi"hli„., men)
of.p,«s.r'£,,iJis^;srorf r,!i™-^
Lomond, opposite Inch-Calliach °' ^"'^'^
"Marian. lie that undoes him
Doth cleave the I.,i.sl<et bone, upon the sp.oa
Of wh,ch a httle gristle grows: you call t-l
RoiiiN Hood. The ;vrv//'Wv;., > ^ caa u _
i\lARiAN. Now o'er head sat a raven
On a sere bough a grown, great "bird, and hoarse
V\lio. all the while the deer was ^vvJ/«,. up,
[CA.N'TO IV.
St noted \\ms
ioncd in the
1 ncwiy-.slain
' bottom of a
Lial siiiiation,
mt objects of
the question
y bis exalted
odied spirits
istiict, near
ly happened
iliriij men),
arrows were
Country one
lid plunder.
!•' Hence
'■rii>t\'/i, i. 2.
St of Loch
n I.oniond,
I a ha.
t point or
r.
, by whicli
' slantinj;;
.' ' shoal.'
Aoai A. S.
ehnse was
was more
lly called,
-s allotted
make the
!)^ir share
se.
CAl. ro IV.] NOTES-TIIE rROPIIi:CY. ,^5
So croak',1 and cried for't, as all the huntsmen,
l-spccially old bcalhl.K-k, thou-ht it omiiiou.."
Compa e the description in the Brid,- of La,„»Jncor ^, \ •
Lueklaw was soon sln,>t to his douhlcr; viih tucked-up s ie ■ ':"
J. . . slashm^r, cuttmg, hacking, nnd hewin?. . . . and vnn, !
bng and d,s,H.tmg with all around him co iccra ng ron £
briskets, flankards, and ravm-boncs:'' '^-omu.es,
^■—^'f./lT"'''^ A"'.?". ^^' ^^^ note on canto iii. 2S.
Wc/<7«r/MiM-ench 'avouer,' Latin 'advocare'). An \'i<ivocatus'
at Rome was a fr.end sunnnoned to supf.ort an accuseri 'e, smi hv
the accused, or am nd.cation that it was dangero*^ to touch
h m. 80 in feudal t.mes a tenant whose rights tereim,,u"e
ca led upon h,s lord to defend them. By to doing he aikn w
ledged all the duties involved in feudal tenancy, an^d ^^TL
person whom he summoned to be his lord. Ileuce to 'avow^
or « avouch ' is • to admit or coufess openly '
IV/uck spais the foremost foemm's life,
That party coiKjueis in the strife. "
TalH; or'o'n T ^;?';/-^,^--j''e^ -^ a response of the
iagliaum, or O.ade of the Hide, it was of itse f an au-niv
frequently attended to. The fate of the battle was often ruii^
. fv fi" ^V"]'f ;"'';°" ?^ '^"^ -combatants bv observin" lich
party first shed blood. It is said that the Ilighlan.lers n U
Montrose were so deeply imbued with this nothjn, tha on le
mormng of the battle of Tippermoor they murdered a defence!
less henlsman, whom they found in the f.eids, mercW to 'ecu e
an axlvantage of so much coi.sequence to their parly. 'CicoT,-!
?>.~Ghvve. French 'glaive,' Latin 'gladius,' 'a sword.'
Siher star, sak'e pale. Heraldic emblems
oiitwaid l'ou>id It is the past participle ' biiinn ' of Icelandic
bua, to make rea<ly, or (intransitiNely) to dwell ; c.,nipn v Se k
•bauen.' our 'big'^to build. «Busk' is the reflex vcbm the
same word == to get ready So in J'iers PLn.man, \\ Zl
And bad hem a le be l>o7ou, beggeres and otliere,
To wenden wyih hem to Westmvnstre "
Earn, a river in Perthshire, which flows ea'st from Loch,v,;7,
on the north of Glenartney, and falls into ihe Tny bel. w Le '
•si^?"'' M?'""' '^T'", ''^"-'=^tion.' Latiii 'so' L i
IJJ
f i
%—Kcd streamers 0/ llu north ; i.e of the Aurora Lorcal
cali.i or
^^^'^ dancing i„ il,e glowing nortli>
♦nTr,'
liberal
^n fetters houtuL The minctr^i i .
love which Ellen had wouTid rouid "h '^^V," "^ ''^^ ^^"ers of
actual fetters. ^ ^'^""^ J^""- Uouglas takes it of
Trcmed. 'Trusted,' 'believed ' A q .f ■ ,
(7«/«^«j./.^„„,/^, '^ famous 'hh ""^^^^'a". 'treo^v/true
Forth about a mileVa stTsii' 7 7 °"' .^^V'^^ ^''^I^s of
here after ihe battle of Sauchie , f • ^'''T? "I- ^'«s buried
and slain a.d. 1488. ''^"^^'^■'^"'n. m which he was defeated
to pant. ^•^- •''^'^-.' to hasten, to endeavour; Danish 'hige.'
comn^Tn'^ltlKetre'tli^e'o/V'-^ ^"" ^^^'^^- ^'^ ^^-'s is the
tl.ee, with a,ternateS!;.e'sXn^fn'° o'Tot '""T^ '^^^ ^^ «
i he second verse is an in<;M ■!,„*"/?,• ° '°™''»f^L' -line vers,.
Or in'i^tTe^S^d'S-"^^ •^^'' ^^ ^'^ hounds'^rl'V;;;'!./-^''
(2.) In the^;if^^;,'^rf^^'^/-,y.'>"e eyes so bh'.e." \
l)y the double rlWes 'sSe' S-'"' ^'^^ ^^^^ v^rse oftall
£?°\°V^>''"^^ '" thTfJ^Sccen '^^^^^^^^^ % the muh !
uuo two halves; ^.^^.-_ '^'^^'" ""«^s, the verse being split
"And we i^ust //^A/ by wood inrl -.,,/^
e..l,er I,„e. T„e s,„,-y is tnke C, t Ifl,''''; ,'7 ,''»"« »'
dm IS it fc,ii',,,il„ia •,;"f,'° "'"'"''*•. ''i-Jiiinvii. ■ ,.,
ifili
'• [canto rv.
)f bands of red
'n'fr,' liberal;
tlie fetters of
as takes it of
'treow/true.
. tlie links of
• was buried
was defeated
anish 'hige/
■ This is the
' basis is (he
<J by one of
-line verse.
IS varied in
reel for the
eline; e.^r,
in cry'."
5rse oftall,
tbe niiiiii-
being split
lad metre
■ has Used
halves of
liad.
;0 je ■)
a cloak
i
"'■™ "■' NOTES-T.IE I-ROP„,,cv.
o'' "lanilc, esneciTllv , , ' '"^"^
ecciesiastics (.he ' .^i,u„n'?"''' "'^ ^''-"^ -'"•" ''X nobles or
/-^ 'M,^/mo, .j„ t,t"y''^;''';Slaee(iin/,,//.''
t'"-oat and belly, ami g ey o,f L I L ' 't'^'^' ^^hi'e on ,l,e
eenera ly arrangec, in l^zeL";^' ^,\ .^^^^ ^^ '''-' ^^''ite part „• '
the following from Froissa f -L ' '• ^^'- ^^'"' ''"'passage
jv,;;-. et de gris, et nous (leVpav ans?« '^'""''^'^^ '""' '""^''re.s de
fl'-aps.-II. ii. i6o. TheS S^ °r"A"''' ''^■^'"■^ ^e povre«
fyom the substitution of ' te e ' oT'v°^ ^r'^""^"^ '^-^ ^^S
not know the latter word. The rLl ?',''>' ''^''^""^ ^^ho did
edged or lined with « vair ' '^''^ Cinderella's slipper wis
y\?m.-^iw^,. 'Russet 'is reddish t.,
coarse, honie-spun cloth w .-n K ^^^ "''^"le is given to th<.
njs indicated ilj a ptli^,;'rte^irr'^;'"^'^'^- '^^e c:;.i^in''S
LfT^'i " A^«"t^ this tyme h Tf "^'^'>'««" f'om /v,/r,,,..;'^'
to take their own habit rZi\. T/V""' "ere compelled
countrified Z^. './.,/.,;.;- /i^^ 2- ' '"'''' of homely,
•. ^A-^W.' Dwelt' AS .f'""' ^'^^"•y. sprite.
s!oi^^no^5bsSs;n;til:s^;r^^^-^
rei-unng race of beings who nni' •'' ^"l'^'""^ <» l^e a peev,sh
Po;t.on of happiness^ e, V ^Sr/",^ ' 'cn.selves but TscI tv
M. .tantial enjclyn^enls. ' -he^'^e u !"'' '^''^ «^°>"Ple.e a d
Bul,tenaneous recesses a sort nf !. ' °''''' '"^ ^"Joy in the.r
R-andeur. which, hovvesx^r L^J vv !?1 .""'^n'^^i'''''''^^^. « t sd
lJ>e more solid joys of moi'talit; V.^ -'.' "•^'iy exchange fol
X. '■•' '^•'^ I'tliCVCtI toiidubu
' i.
ill.
II
i'tl
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i -!|::
152
TME LADY OF TUL: LAKK. fcANTo iv.
certain rounrl grassy emineiires, where they celei)i:ite tlicir noc-
t\irnal festivities l>y the liL,'lit of the moon. About .1 r.ile l)eyon(l
the source of the Forth above '/-ichcon, there is a placecalled
Coirshi'an, or the 1' nve of the .'fen of Peace, which is still
sui-iposecl to be 2. Irourite p',;a' of their residence, In the
neiiihbourhood are to be seen ninny round conical cniiiiencfcs,
ji'uTicularly one near the head ■<: thi iako, 'ly the skirts of
which ni;ny are still alraid to pass aft- r siuiset.' -Cra/iiwie."
Scott.
IV/ic may dare on wold to tvec.r
The fairies fatal p en ?
*' A? ■'he'Daoinc, Shi', or Men of Peace, wore green habits, they
were sutJi^oseil to take offence when any murtals ventured to
i^s.■^ • r,.e tiu-ir favourite colour." — Scott.
4 0- 071 .'itn tht' curse of the withered heart.
The curse of the sleepless eye.
Cp. Macbah, \. 3—
" Sleep shall neither nic;ht nor I ly
Hang upon his pent-house lid ,
Weary sev'n-nights, nine time;, nine,
Shall he dwindle, peak, and pii;e."
X^.—Bold of mood. See i. 26, note.
Kindly. Of thine own 'kin,' or 'kind,' So "The kindly
fruits of' the earth."
1 5. —Idle ,s;leam. Why idle ?
Mold. Shape. , ^., . ,
Punf.rtttline };r.n: A town in the west of Fife, with an
a1)bey founded by Malcolm III. about 1075. Here Roliert
15ruce was buried. 'Grey' fixes the allusion to the Abliey
Church. Why?
t6. — Bon me.
l.aiin 'bodina.'
From French 'borne,' which is from the T.ow
It is found in Old French in the form ' bonne'
['Borne' is for 'boMie' = *bodne.' The same word is found in
our 'bound.'] The root 'bod' means 'to swell' (cp. En-lisli
'bud'), so that r. 'bourne' is originally 'a raised bank,' and so
•a boundary,' 'limit.' , , ^ „,
Scathe; 'hurt,' 'harm.' German 'schade.' So Tennyson, up
Cniixevere —
"This life of mine
I guard as God's high gift from scathe "'' v/rong.
l7.._-Not a few of James III.'s travels in c %'ise are mix A
rp W'l:: .Hlventuns of gallantry. T m"-'' e commemorate
in 7;'-. GikilnirJe Man and We'll gr ■ w a roz'ing, two
", fCANT') IV.
biate tiielr noc-
X a riile beyoivl
s a ]ilace called
, which is still
ideiicc, In the
licp.l eminences,
ly the skirts of
;t.' -Cra/iivm."
•een habits, they
tals ventured to
nine,
;e."
3o "The iluii/y
if Fife, with nn
Here Robert
1 to the Abbey
is from the T.ow
lie form 'bonne.'
word is found in
eir (cp. Eni^lish
ed bank,' and so
So Tennyson, inr
%!,ise are mix- A
a commemorate
vt' a roi'iitg, two
1 CANTO IV.] NOTrt; Tur-
»53
and the state of JawAUvvarC.S':^/;:.f """'^'•^^ "- '
i8. -
;li^
u
If
^'^.<^^//., iv. 3-_ ''"'■'^ t'-^il"n.' from Latin 'traW
1 1 -r^ ... -
me
iso in Macbeth, iv. 3-
Ky manv of fli«"'^.^''.'''' ^^-icbeth
6M^. r,-.n.,,.u...... . . ^°^"ed. surrounded
^M^. French 'huissier 'the TnM- . •
. ^"-^ 'lie Latm 'ostiariiK ' a ^ ,
is obsolete. ' ^"^ closed duirs;
c_ „ -.ciicn -miissier '
(Greek ,.«,.;..,5'?'' J'P".i;^'^fi;.ic •fa,;.„;o?™,„ .r„„.^„.
/(T^'/^f —
li
154
THE LADY OF THE LAKE, [canto iv.
•' The sely tnnn;e mriy well ring and chimbe
Of wreccliednessc."
This spelling has led to tlie conjecture that the word mny come
from 'cymbal,' A. S. 'cinibal ;' but tlic doriv.itiun is unceitain.
22. — IVar/ird ; ' !i\\yy,^ 'distDrtcd.' A.S. 'wcnrpan,' Gothic
'vairpa,' Cin.'el; i^ljttw, stem ' vrip ' (? Latin ' verlicr'). Oriijiiially
bend.' (Wedu'wood
'to
com pares ' a
•to cast,' then *to turn,'
cas^ in tlic eye.')
•'In7y(?r/>^(/'kc'.'ls"— 'curviscarinis.' — Siirri:y's F/Vj;'-//, yEn. ii.
[Of the min i\ " Let him slraiyhl betimes.
Lest he for ever rvrr >■/>.''
— Dryden, Lov* Tr'iuviphnnt, v. l.
To warp, as a na'-Iical term, means to tow a vessel l)y means of
n hawser attached to an anclior, and so not in a straiylu course.
iience Milton's
"A cloud of locusts warpinfi on the eastern wind." — P. L. i. 341.
Allan (" the white stream ") and nr,"m (" the two streams ")
are two tributaries of the Fortli, which flow, one on tl;e north,
the other on tlie south, of tiie Ochill Hills. The latter is the
"clear— winding; Devon" of Bunis's song.
23. — Briil-grooni. A.S. 'hryd-£Tuma,' the bride's man. Tlie
first part (Gothic 'briiths,' daughter-in-law; German 'br.iut')
is possibly connected with Welsh ' priod,' appropriated. The
second is the Gotliic 'guma' (German ' braiiti-.i,--;//;/ '), the same
as the Latin * hom-o,' from the root of ' lium-us,' Greek xa.'-ti'
As ever peasant pitched a bar. • Tutting the bar,' or ' putting
the stone' ('clach-naert,' stone of strength), is a favo'-uito and
ancient amusement in Scotland.
Champion. The holding of the games in the CVzw/M^Martius
at Rome has given riiC to a number of words. ' Campi-doctnr'
in the Imperial times is the name for a drill-sergeant. A.S.
•camp,' Dutch 'kamp,' German 'kampf,' all come to denote
the game of war. A champion is one who challenges the field,
or who represents another in the field. (Others suppose that
'campus* is borrowed from the Teutonic dialects.)
Pennon. Italian * pennone,' a large ' penna ' or feather.
Batten; 'grow fat,' 'feed to sati'Hy.' Gothic 'gabaltan,' to
thrive ; tlie same root as in 'i!'^/-ter.' Cp. Hamlet, iii. 4, '■batten
o\ this moor.'
24.— /lir O mv rd'eet William, &c. The sight of Lowland
dress and Lincoln green reminds her of her husband, and so she
is led to warn the stranger of the jieril he is in.
men
25. — The meaning is obvious. The hunters are Clan-Alpine's
zn ; the stag of ten is Fitz-James ; the vvoirdii doe is herscJ.
L.
I
CANTO IV.J
NOTES^TIIK VROVnECY.
>ccc,,L, f„l|„„.„| 4V„ "of ,r""' °' » "ocliaio Ten. of f„
the finn cuiioi I / . °' three accenfe nu , , ''' 'f'r
sylla "e affi^ ' •''"? '" ^^-^^ cases !!; ni^ °^'' ^'"« ^''"^M
K?^'~~:^f''^kes the iii'nf T1,o ^' .
So
, >'S°^„.^^''f«Xi';''r'f'''^''''-^"('> -reed-,
E^^'^"'"- Tile'eScivo for the adjective Co T
"r.vnii r^- J "-"ve. Cp. Tennyson,
^^-^V 'Iv'en^"? lt"'f '^^"".^^ °f <^eepest n,outh "
«an 'rache,' 'ralen.'^"^' '''^''' '^'^vengV •vvrecan;' Ger.
ilstsii5ss?=
k
Cto._,„eh„„,ers. See c.™.„ i. :^
T'* -tnisaiiscs
!■
i
m
. lol
'fl!
136
THE LADY OF THE LAKE, [canto iv.
i 'I*
U-
from the fact that the axis round which the earth rotates is not
at riylit angles to tlic plane (the ecliptic) in wiiirh tiie eaitii's
ccmrc moves around llic su". f- . ^ midsummer heat in liic
llij;iilan'ls does not Icssoi wc mountain cold i;. nii^ht.
^'J'aiii^L'd. 'Twisted,' 'confused,' or I'lobalily here covered
with a 'tangle ' of bru>l,',vood. The word is aiiparentiy a nasa-
libcd form of Gothic 'tn^;!,' hair.
V
ro.— Basked. 'I'.ask ' is a reflexive form of 'hake,' to lie in
the lieat. It is generally used of lying in the heat of the sun,
here of the glowing ashes, or emliers. (In Icelandic, the re-
flexive is formed by adding sk = sili [G. sichj to the verl), or
m]< — mik for the first jierson ; so 'at baka,' to bake, 'at
bakask' to bake one's self, to bask. Siniiliry 'busk' is the
rellexive of the vert) In'ia, to make ready. Sec note on stanza b.)
ll'ho r^'cr riclicJ, ivhere, htKV, or 7v/ien,
The prcnoUii'; fox was (rapped or slain ?
"St. John actually used this ilhistration when engaged in ron-
futhig the plea of law proposed for the unfortunate l-.u! of
Siiafford : ' It was true, we gave laws to hares and deer, bec^u.^e
they are beasts of chase; but it was never aciounied either
cruelty or foul ]day to knock foxes or wolves on the head as they
can be found, because they are beasts of prey. In a word, the
law and humanity were alike, the one being more fallacious, and
the other more barbarous, than in any age had been vented in
such an a iihority.'— Cl arendon's JJistory vj luc Kebellion, Ox-
ford, 1702, fol. vol. p. 1S3." — Scott.
u.—
His II hiaud cheer,
'le hard-'' d flesh <■ noiintain deer.
"The See. ,h liig. danders ..l lormer times had a concise mode
of cooking their venison, or rather of dispensing with cooking
it, which appears greatly to have surprised the French whom
chance mad- : uainted with it. The Vilame of Chartrts,
when a hostage in England, du ing the reign of Edward VI.,
was permitted to travel into Scutlandj and penetrated as far as
to the remote Highlands [au fin <nddes Sc.iivages). Afttr a
great hunting party, at which i most wonderful quart ty of
game was destroyed, h aw ih' se Scottish Savages devour a
part of their venison n- itl . any furllier pre 'ration than
comiiressing it bet\^•een . b. is of wood, so a.: to force out
the blood asid render it lem ,' hard. This they reckon 1 a
great delicacy; and when the Vidame partook of it 'liscomiii-
ance with their taste rendered him extremely populai. — Scoi r.
^ Au^iry ; i.e. of the Taghairm.
ICoilantOi:;les ford. Just ijcIow the mouth of Loch Vennachar,
on the lower coullueiit of the Tcilh. There the knii^hi would
[canto IV.
rotates is not
h tlie eai til's
cr heat in llio
Jill.
here covered
reiitly a nasa-
ke,' to lie in
,t of the sun,
ndic, the re-
tiic verb, or
lo bake, 'at
busk ' is tlie
on blaiua i>.)
CANTO IV.] NOTPQ Trrr. ^
'>e in the distnVf u.Mo * '^^
pioiection of the IIi,.hlnn 1 rUir, 1:''"'" "'> "'e iio.pi'il,-
A fine picture of lonoline.s nn,l ' i .•
»«^nc, to lull ilie Jake to sleep!"'' "''"°"- "^'"^ '"^ 'be .nly
:afjc,l in ^on-
Kite l'\,il of
deer, becnu.se
nulled eithi.T
liead as tlicy
1 a word, Uie
illacious, and
en vented in
uvdlion, 0.\-
ilil
:oncise mode
.vilh cooking
'rench whom
of Charlies,
idward VI.,
lied as fai as
es). After a
. quart'ty of
ges devour a
'ration than
to force (jut
y reckont. 1 a
t his com|)li-
.r. — Scoi T.
li
1 Vennachar,
knij^hi wouli
1,'iil
I
I fi.
Hi
Mi
THE
LADY OF THE LAKE.
I
CANTO FIFTH,
CTfte Combat.
I.
Wan "^ "°''"' ^^^^^ cloud the brow of
11.
Tliat early beam, so fair and sheen
Was twinkhng tb ough the haze" cVeen
When, rousing at us ghmmer red '
Jhe warriors left their lowly bed,'
(\?f^^^Ti "•?«" the d;u2£led skk"^
^ An ^i:^"^ 'heir soldier nSus by,N
And then awaked their tire, to steal
That ?e/rht'r'^ ^^^'"'^ ^"'' ^'^^ "'Sj.
i nat oer, the Gael around him threv/
His graceful plaid of varied hue
And true to promise, led the way,
Ly thicket green and mountain g^'ay.
M 2/ '
I
iCo THE LADY OF THE LAKE, [ca.nto v.
A wildering path .'—they winded now
Along the precipice's brow,
Commanding the rich scenes benrat!;,
The windings of the Forth and Tcilli,
And all the vales between that lie,
Till Stirling's turrets melt in sky;
Then, sunk in copse, their farthest .r^hnrc
Gained not the length of horseman's lauco-,
'Twas oft so steeps the foot was fain
Assistance from the hand to gain ;
So tangled oft, that, bursting throu^^li,
Each hawthorn shed her showers of clew —
That diamond dew, so pure and clear,
It rivals all but Beauty's tear !
Hi
^
III.
At length they came where, item and slct-i,
The hill sinks down upon the deep.
Here Vennachar in silver flows.
There, ridge on ridge, Benledi rose ;
P^'er the hollow path twined on.
Beneath steep bank and threatening stone ;
An hundred men might hold the post
With hardihood against a host.3..^^
The rugged mountaiii's scanty cloak
Was dwarfish shrubs of birch and oak,
With shingles bare, and cliffs between,
And patches bright of bracken green;
And heather black, that waved so higl),
It held the copse in rivalry.
But where the lake slept deep and still.
Dank osiers fringed the swamp and hiil ;
And oft both path and hill were; torn,
Where wintry torrents down had borne,
And heaped upon the cumbered land
Its wreck of gra\ el, rocks, and sand.v^
So toilsome was the road to trace, "^
The guide, abating of his pace,
Led slowly through the pass's jaws,
And asked Fitz-James, by wiiat sirange c.usC
He sought these wilds, traversed by few,
Without a pass from Roderick Dhu.
J 1 1
til-
[canto v.
CANTO v.]
THE COMBAT.
I6i
* •
/'I -A'/ IV.
Thy dangerous Chief was then ah/
m^s'r-V'Pf ^"^^ back fromVaT:'
Tho c h h' ^' ''"''' "^y >"ountain-;fe
^ ^et wliy a second venture try ?'—
A warrior thou, and ask me wiiy »_
ohsht cause will then suffice to -uide
A hlSnl^''' ^°°'^^^P^ '"-r and wfde-
A talcon flown, a greyhound strayed
tL . P i^ ^^ d'i''r:erous known
The danger's self is lure alone?'-
i^,
■ ii ■
I"
'i".|
use
Thy secret keep, I urge thee not •-
S?v h'.' 'T"' '"" ^°"^^'^' this spot,'
Aiainst r1 ^^iT^^'' °f Lowland war,
-5mo h ""^'P'""' r^'ised by Mar?'
To euard^K^T''^ 'T'^^ "^-"ds prepared
Nor dont r ^ ^i^'T^ =P°"s J heard ;
A or doubt I aught, but, when they hear
1 his muster of the mouutaineer ^
Their pennons will abroad be flun^
' Free b r. '" ?°^'"^ ^'^'^ Peacefufl'mn^'-
^ lee be they flung ! for we were lot r''
|!
jC2
FH! 3
THE I^DY OF THE LAKE, [canto v.
But, Stranger, peaceful since vou came,
Bewildered in the mountain game,
U hence the boid boast by which you shew
V ich-AIpme's vowed and mortal foe?'
}\arrior, but yester-morn, I knew
>» ought of thy Chieftain, Roderick Dhu,
have as an outlawed desperate man,
I he chief of a rebellious clan,
}}'r^?' '"i'^^ Kegent's court and sight,
With ruffian dagger stabbed a knight ;
Yet this alone might from his part
bever each true and loyal heart.'
VI.
Wrotliful at such arraignment foul,
Dark lowered the clansman's sable scowl
A space he paused, then sternly said,
And heard'st thou why he dreW his blade?
Heard^st thou that shameful word and blow
Brought Roderick's vengeance on his foe?
What recked the Chieftain if he stood
On Highland heath or Holy-Rood ?
He rights such wrong where it is given.
If It were in the court of heaven.'
'Still was it outrage ;~yet, 'tis true,
Wot then claimed sovereignty his due:
vV hile Albany, with feeble hand,
Hold borrowed truncheon of command
The young King, mewed in Stirling tower.
Was stranger to respect and power.
But then, thy Chieftain's robber life !
Winning mean prey bv causeless strife
U renching from ruined Lowland swain
His herds and harvest reared in vain.
Methinks a soul like thine should scorn
The spoils from such foul foray borne.'
vn.
The Gael beheld him grim the while,
And answered with dibdaintul smile—
' Saxon, from yonder mountain lii-'h,
I marked thee send delighted eye*
CANTO v.]
THE COM HAT.
Far 10 the south and east, where lay.
l-xtcndcd in succession mv
Deep waving fields and paslures -reen,
i Kse feitile plains, that softened vale.
>\ ere once the birthright of the Gael;'
J lie stranger came with iron hand
And from our fathers reft the land.
U.ig over crag, and fell o'er fell. '
Ask we this savage hill we tread,
'ul '"^"^1 '^f^'" °'- liou^ehold bread:
Ask we or flocks these shingles dry,
And well the mountain might renly-L
/^ lo you as to your sires of yore./
U'clong the target and claymore >!/
I k'lvc you shelter in my breast
U.ur own good blades must win tlie res'"
i'ont m this fortress of the North, •
I hinkst thou we will not sally fonh,
I o spoil the spoiler as we may,
• uid froin the robber rend the prev?
Ay, by my soul l-Wh.le on yon plain
I he Saxon rears one shock of grain •
^Vh.le, of ten thousand herds, there ^Ir.n-s
Init one along yon river's maze- ^
i he Gael of plain and river heir,
Shall, with strong hand, redeem his sliare.
A\ here hve the mountain Chiefs who ho d
i hat plundering Lowland field and fold
Is aught but retribution true ?
Seek other cause 'gainst Roderick Dhu/
162
.
VIII.
Answered Fitz-Jamos-' And. if I sought.
I hink St thou no other could be brou-ht?
J\ hat deem ye of my path waylaid.?
Aly Ufa given o'er to ambuscade ?'—
As of a meed to rashness due •
Hadst thou sent warning fair and true—
1 seek my hound, or falcon strayed
1 seek, good faith, a Highland maid—
II
I64 THE LADY OF THE LAKE, [canto v.
Free hadst thou been to come and go ;
But secret path marks secret foe.
Nor yet, for this, even as a spy,
Hadst thou, unheard, been doomed to die
Save to fulfil an augury.' '
* Well, let it pass ; nor will I now
Fresh cause of enmity avow.
To chafe thy mood and cloud thy brow.
Enough, I am by promise tied
To match me with this man of pride:
Twice have I sought Clan-Alpine's glen
In peace; but when I come agcn,
I come with banner, brand, and bow,
As leader seeks his mortal foe.
For love-lorn swain, in lady's bower,
Ne'er panted for the appointed hour.
As I, until before me stand
'I'his rebel Chieftain and his band I'
nn
i
IX.
'Have, then, thy wish ! '—he whistled shrill.
And he was answered from the hill;
Wild as the scream of the curlew.
From crag to crag the signal flew.
Instant, through copse and heath, arose
Bonnets, and spears, and bended bows :
On right, on left, above, below,
Sprung up at once the lurking foe;
From shingles gray their lances start,
The bracken bush sends forth the dart,
The rushes and the willow-wand
Are bristling into axe and brand.
And every tuft of broom gives life
To plaided warrior armed for strife.
That whistle garrisoned the glen
At once with full five hundred men,
As if the yawning hill to heaven
A subterranean host bad given. y
atching their leader's beck and willJ
' silent there they stood, and still.-^
e the loose cra.qs whose thicatenino- mas3
Lay tottering o'er the hollow pass, °
/v su
I All s
^Like
CANTO v.]
THE COM RAT.
As if an infant's touch could ur"-e
Their headlong passage down the vcr-",
\\ ith step and weapon forward tlun- ''
Upon the mountain-side they hun.--"
I he Mountaineer cast glance of pndo
Along Benlecli's living side,
Then fixed his eye and sable brow
full on Fitz-James-'How say'st thou nu\ ?
Ihcsearc Clan-Alpine's warriors true-
And, Saxon — I am Roderick Dhu !' '
Its
I
X.
'n^'7rTf ''''?' brave :-Though to hi.; he .rt
J he hfe-blood thrilled with sudden st.jt
He manned himself with dauntless air '
Returned the Chief his haughty stare '
His back against a rock he bore, '
And firmly placed his foot before :—
'Come one, come all ! this rock siiall fly
t rom its firm base as soon as I.'
Sir Roderick marked— and in his eyes
Respect was mingled with surprise,
And the stern joy which warriors feel
In foemen worthy of their steel. />*
Short space he stood— then waved his hanJ:
Down sunk the disappearing band ;
Each warrior vanished where he stood
In broom or bracken, heath or wood ; '
Sunk brand, and spear, and bended bow,
In osiers pale and copses low; '
It seemed as if their mother Earth
Had svvallowed up her warlike birt,h.
The wind's last breath had tossed in' air
Pennon, and plaid, anu plumage f lir— '
The next but sv epc r !.,ne hill-side.
Where hr;ath r.acl f..in were waving wifk> • /_
The sun's last i^ance was glinted back, ^n
From spear ar,' g^rav^, from targe and j ;. I- ^
The next, all ui. ..iected, shone
On bracken green, and cold gray stone.
ii
I
I66
THE LADY 01- THE LAKE. [ca-
:o V,
XI.
Fitz-James looked round-yet scarce believe 1
The witness that his sight received :
buch apparuion well might seem
Delusion of a dreadful dream,
bir Roderick in suspense he eyed.
And to his ook the Chief replied
jbtit-doubt not aught from mine arrav
Thou art my guest ;-I pledged my word
As far as Coilantogle ford •
Nor \youId I call a clansman's brand
^ or aid against one valiant hand,
^hough on, our strife lay every vale
Rent by the Saxon from the Gael
^o move we on ;-I only meant
lo shew the reed on which you leant
Deeming this path you might pursue'
NV ithout a pass from Roderick Dhu '
Ihey moved ;-I said Fitz-James was brave.
As ever knight that belted glaive ; ^
Yet dare not say, that now his blood
Kept on Its wont and tempered flood,
As, following Roderick's stride, he drew
1 hat seeming lonesome pathway throu -ii
U hich yet, by fearful proof, was\ife ^
\\ ith lances, that, to take his life.
Waited but signal from a guide,
^o late dishonoured and defied
Kver, by stealth, his eye sought round
Inrl In,"'"'' g^^'-dians of the ground,
And still, from copse and heather deep
^ancy saw spear and broadsword p-'e /
And in the plover's shrilly strain,
i he signal whistle heard again
Nor breathed he free till far behind
The pass ^yas left ; for then they wind
Along a wide and level green
Where neither tree nor tuft was seen,
Nor rush nor bush of broom was nc.r.
1 o hide a bonnet or a spear.
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CANTO V.J
icvcJ
t'C,
THE COMBAT.
IC7
XII
AnS ^^"\^ '? '"'^"^e Strode before
An/ wiT ' '■'•^'^ ^'"^^« ""furled : '
^nd here his course the Chieftain s^T\I
* I?nlH V^ ^?''''''^"d ^^''^'■'•'O'- said ^~
See ]^ ^™ t ^''"S^^Me thou shalffccl
^ee, here, all vantaire ess I snnH
And thou must keep thee with thy sword.'
Can no,,.ht but blood ourS afone^
Are there no means ?'—' iVn Cf. '
And hear—to fire tl/v fl • ' '^^""f^'^r, nor.e f
The. Saxon caut%^j^i;^o^f;^^^^^^^^^^^^
BeTwee"n tTe r' •''''^^^' J>- P-P^-t bled
'• Whn c n^ ^'/'"/ ^"d ''^e dead ;
VVho spills the foremost foeman's lifp
nlJnl^ ^^"^"C'-s in the strife'"!'"^''
'T V '-^J/^y ''?''^>' the Saxon said
1 hy riddle is already read. '
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THE LADY OF THE LAKE.
Seek yonder brake beneath the cliff—
7 here lies Red Murdoch, stark and sti.T.
1 hus I' ate has solved her prophccv
Then yield to Fate, and not to me!
To James, at Stirling, let us go,
When, if thou wilt be still his foe,
Or if the King shall not agree
Fo grant thee grace and favour free
I plight mine honour, oath, and word,
1 hat, to thy native strenLjths restored,
With each advantage shalt thou stan I,
Ihat aids thee now to guard thy land.'
[CANIO V.
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III
XIV.
Dark lightning flashed from Roderick's cye^
Soars thy presumption, then, so hi'di,
/Jjccause a wretched kern ye slew, '^
VHomage to name to Roderick Dhu ?)
He yields not, he, to man nor Fate '
T hou add'st but fuel to my hate :—
My clansman's blood demands reven'^e —
Not yet prepared ?-By heaven, I change
My thought, and hold thy valour light
/As that of some vain carpet knightA
VWho ill deserved my courteous care.)
And whose best boast is but to wear
A braid of his fair ladv's hair.'—
— ' 1 thank thee, Roderick, for the word I
It nerves my heart, it steels my sword;
For I have sworn this braid to stain
In the best blood that warms thy vein
Now, truce, farewell ! and, ruth, begone I
Yet think not that by thee alone,
I'roud Chief! can courtesy be shewn ;
Though not from copse, or heath, or cairn.
Start at my whistle clansmen stern,
Of this small horn one feeble blast'
Would fearful odds against tliee cast.
lUit fear not— doubt not— which thou wi!t—
We try this quarrel hilt to hilt.'
rriien each at once his falchion Jrevv,"^
^Kach on the ground his scabbard threw)
Li
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r.
eye—
CANTO v.]
THE COMBAT.
^? uaiTufct t' ""' ""? ''''^•^'^' '-^"d plain,
ns unat they ne'er might sec a^in •
i i^cn foot, and point, and eye opposed.
In dubious strife they darkl^ closed. '
XV.
M fared it then with Roderick Bhu \
IJ hat on the field his tar^e he throw J
AVhose brazen studs and tough bilthkle
Had death so often dashed aside
For, trained abroad his arms to wield
Fitz-James's blade was s^vord and sSdd
He practised every pass and wa d
lo thrust, to strike, to feint, toguard.
\V lule less expert, though st'ronger far'
The Gael maintained unequal war '
Three times in closing strife they stood
No St n?.'d H^' ^f °" ^'^^'^ '^'■''^"'^ Wood;
^o stmted draught, no scanty tide
7 he gushing flood the tartans dyed
Fierce Roderick felt the fatal dia n,
And showered his blows like wintr; rain •
And, as firm rock, or castle-roof, ^ '
Against the winter shower is proof.
The foe, invulnerable sti'' '
T^l^i^^A """"^ '^^^ ^y ^'^'-^dy skill ;
Forced Roderick's weapon from his hand
And backward borne upon the lea '
Brought the proud Chiiftain to h's knee.
, XVI.
Now, yield thee, or by Him who made
The world, thy heart's'blood dyes my blade »'-
•Thy threats, thy mercy, I defy '
Let recreant yield, who fears to die'
—Like adder darting from his coil
Like wolf that dashers through tl"e toil
FdfaTFiS'/^'^V^''- Sua?ds herSng,
i uJl at Fitz-James's throat he sprun- • ^'
Andin'?' J"^'-^^'^^^ not of a wounc^ '
And locked his arms his foeman rounds
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THE LADY OF TlIF LAKE. [CANro v.
Now, gallant Saxon, hold thine own J
Th .ni' n" ' ^'"^ '' '"""^1 ''^^« thrown f
I i.it desperate grasp thy frame mi^ht (ccl
Jhrough bars of brass and triple sleel 'l '
ThfV"".' ^t^y '^'■•^'" •' ^i*^^^". flo^vn they -o
T^^ rf^V^^'^r^' f''t^-J-'""es below. ^ "'
i he Chieftain's ^ripe his throat comDresscd
>s knee was planted in his breast?^ '
Across°h,?h'"^',^'^^-'^^^''''-^ ''-^^^. ■
Across his brow his hand he dreu-,
jj rom blood and mist to clear his si^d^t
Then gleamed aloft his dagger bri 'h 'L
-But hate and fury ill siipl)1ied "
Ii'5'',!:^f'"«f life's exhausted tide,
And all too late the advantage can e.
To turn the odds of deadly game '
For while the dagger gleamed on hi-h.
Keeled soul and sense, reeled brain and eve
Down came the blow ! but in the he u! ^
Ihe erring blade found bloodless sl^ah
The struggling foe may now unclasp
Tne tainting Chiefs relaxing grasp -^
Unwounded from the dreadful close
But breathless all, Fitz- James arose.'
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XVII.
He faltered thanks to Heaven for life
Redeemed, unhoped, from desperate strif.-
Next on his foe his look he cas^t^ '
Whose every gasp appeared his last ;
In Roderick's gore he dipped the braid^
Poor Blanche ! thy wrongs are dea?v paid-
\ct with thy foe must die, or live, • ^ '
The praise that Faith and Valour give.'
\V It h that he blew a bugle note, ^
Undid the collar from his throat,
Unbonneted, and by the wave
Sat down his brow and hands to lava
1 hen faint afar are heard the feet
Of rushing steeds in gallop fleet ;
1 he sounds increase, and now are seen
Four mounted squires in Lincoln green •
.AKF.. [canto v.
LAN TO v.]
TIE COMIJAT.
Two wlm hen lance, and two who lead
y O.^sened ten, a saddled stce.l '
An by 1 1 z-Jamcs reined up l,is horsed
\V .11 wonder viewed the bloody sp 1
Kxclann not, gallants ! question not^
\ou Herbert and Luffness, aliX '
And b.nd the v.onnds of yonder kni.rhf
\vl ^'^ ^'''y P-'^^'^y l^ear Ins wei^l t'' '
^\ c destined for a fairer frci >ht
And bnng him on to Stirling strai-^hf
I will before at better speed, " '
ro seek fresh horse and fitt ng weed
Ihe sun rules high;-I n>ust be boune
But h^htly I ayard clears the lea -
Dq Vaux and Herries, loUow me.
XVIII.
Stand, Bayard, stand ."-the steed obeyed
^V . h arching neck and bended head ^ '
And glancing eye and quivering ear
As jf he loved his lord to hear?^'
Jjo foot Fitz-Janies in stirrup staid
No grasp upon the saddle laid '
I'ut wreathed his left hand in the mane
And hghtly bounded from the plain '
lnd"sttro"d'r" ""'''' '''^ arn.ed'^hec";
And sir cd his courage with the steel
Bounded the fiery steed in air,
The rider sate ere md fair,
VnZl^ ""M^ ^'^'"^ ^f'^^' crossbow
They dashed that rapid torrent throu-h
And up Carhonie's hill they flew "'
^.1 at the gallop pricked tlio KnVht
Hi, merry-men followed as thev mi 1^
Along thy banks, swilt Teith Th^y'f de
And in the race they mock thy tide- '
^,^:[y,^"d Lendrick now are pas t, '
And Deanstown lies behind them cas •
T ey rise, the bannered towJrsTf D^^o
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17a THE LADY OF THE LAKC. [cvmo v.
Jlair-Dnimmond sees the lioofs strike fire
They sweep like breeze throu^'h Ochtcrtyrc*
They mark just glance and disappear '
The lofty brow of ancient Kier ;
They bathe their coursers' swelterln"- sides
Dark Forth ! amid thy sluggish tides, *
And on the opposing shore take ground
With plash, with scramble, and with bound
Kight-hand they leave thy cliffs, Craig-Forih !
And soon the bulwark of the North,
Gray Stirling, with her towers and town,
Upon their fleet career looked down.
XIX.
As up the flinty path they strained,
Sudden his steed the leader reined;
A signal to his squire he flung.
Who instant to his stirrup sprung :—
• Seest thou, De Vaux, yon woodsman gray
Who town-ward holds the rocky vva\',
Of stature tall and poor array ?
Mark'st thou the firm, yet active stride,
\Vith which he scales the mountain-side?
Know St thou from whence he comes, or who'n ? '—
rso, by my word ;-a burly groom
He seems, who in the field or chase
A baron's train would nobly grace.'
'Out, out, De Vaux ! can fear supply,
And jealousy, no sharper eve ?
Afar, ere to the hill he drew,
That stately form and step I knew •
Like form in Scotland is not seen, '
Treads not such step on Scottish green.
Tis James of Douglas, by Saint Scric !
The uncle of the banished Earl.
Away, away, to court, to shew
The near approach of dreaded foe :
Tlie King must stand upon his guard ;
Douglas and he must meet prepared.'
Then right-hand wheeled their steeds, a;,J s^ra'-ht
1 hey won the castle's postern gace. '^'
CA
LAKE. [c\Mo V.
strike fire,
Ochtcrtyrc
)pear
CANTO v.]
^*
iring sides,
tides,
ground,
villi bound.
Craig-Forth 1
-til,
d town,
wn.
man gray
vay,
tridc,
n-sidc?
les, or whom? -
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ply,
Tccn.
:rle 1
ird ;
■d.'
•ds, ar.J stra-ght
THE COMBAT.
XX.
I7J
The Douglas, who had bent hi. ^^■^y
i; rom Cambus-Kenncth's abbey Ln.iv
^ow as he climbed the rocky shelf,' '
iield sad communion with himsell:—
Yes ! all ,s true my fears could frame:
A prisoner lies the noble Gnrnie,
Aivl fiery Roderick soon will led
i lie vengeance of the royal steel
j, only J, can waig t^cir fate-
C.od grant the ransom come not late f
The Abbess hath her promise given,
My chdd shall be the bride of Heaven;-,
—He pardoned one repining tear '
• or He, who gave her, knows how derfr.
How excellent ! but that is by, '
Anu now my business is— to die
-Ye towers I within whose circuit dread
A Douglas by his sovereign bled •
Ana tnou O sad and fatal mound !
That oft hast heard the death-axe sound
As on the noblest of the land '
Jbell the stern headsman's bloody hand-
The dungeon, block, and nameless tomb
^'T'M'^' Douglas seeks his doon •
-I ut hark ! what bliclie and jolly peal'
Makes the Franciscan steeple reel ?
And see j upon the crowded street"
In motley groups what masquers meet 1
Lanner and pageant, pipe and drum.
And merry morrice-dancers come
I guess, by all this quaint array, '
T he burghers hold their sports to-dav
James will be there; he loves such sl^mv
Where the good yeoman bends his bow '
^\nd the tough wrestler foils hi. foe '
As well as where, in proud career, '
I he high-born filter shivers spear
I 11 follow to the Castle-park,
And play my prize ;-King James shall ir-ik
If j.ge has tamed these sinews staik '
Whose foj-ce so oft, in happier days!
1-lis boyish wonder loved to praise.'
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THE LADY OF THE LAKE. [,
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XXI,
The Castle gates were open flun<T,
The quiverinc. dravvbridge rocKed and rjn-,
Apu echoed loud the flinty street
15eneath the courser's clattering feet
As slowly down the steep descent '
wu-.^'^n-'^"'^'^ King and nobles went.
U hile all along the crowded way
Was jubilee and loud huzza.
And ever James was bending low
To his white jennet's saddlebow, '
Doffing his cap to city dame,
Who smiled and blushed for pride and shairc
And well the sunperer might be vain-
He chose the fairest of the train.
Gravely he greets each city sire,
Commends each pageant's quaint atwre,
Gives to the dancers thanks aloud
And smiles and nods upon the cro'wd,
Who rend the iieavens with their acclaims,
rr?"^^ 'f ^IV: '^0'""ions' King, King Jamco "
Behind the King thronged peer and knir'-- *
And noble dame and damsel bright
Whose fiery steeds ill brooked the stay
Ut the steep street and crowded way
—But in the train you might d scein'
Dark lowering brow and visage Sccrn •
There nobles mourned their pride restraincci.
And the mean burgher's joys disdained :
And chiefs, who, hostage for their clan,
Were each from home a bai.ished man
Ihere thought upon their o^n gray tower
Their waving woods, their feudal power
And deemed themselves a shameful pai't
Of pageant which they cursed in heart.
XXII.
Now, in the Castlc-park, drew out
Their chequered bands the joyous rout.
There morricers, with bell ai liccl,
And blade in hand, their mazes wheel •
E LAKE. [pANio V. J cAf 'o v.]
I
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f
<ed and rjnj,
::et
g feet,
2S went,
ay
ide and shatr.c
: vain —
nt atiire,
ud,
:rowd,
if acclaims,
Kinjr Jainco ]'
and knii--'*
ght,
le stay
way.
cein
si.crn ;
ie restrained,
dained ;
ir clan,
d man,
ay tower,
power,
:fiil pail
liearu
t
i rout,
'heel :
THE COMTIAT.
gSStSSfe
His second split the first in tSn
Indifferent as to archer wifrhV
1 he monarch gave the arrSw bright.
XXIII.
Two o'er ^.erSfs^p t/rosr'""'-
-For life is Hu. h'i r . i ^^ i" """^
Scarce be„erj"hl;°^£^V^™«;
Wi.ri '^i jf ^^^^ ^ golden rino- "*
From ts deen hpri ,, ^'"[" '3=' stone
And sen. .hrrSilinh-^S^ile^'t;;
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t76 THE LADY OF THE LAKE, [canto v.
A rood beyond the farthest mnrk ;
And still in Stirlinj^'s royal park,
The gray-haired sires, who know the past.
To strangers point the Doiiglas-cast,
And moralise on the dcca>
Of Scottish strength in modern day.
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XXIV.
The vale with loud applauses ran^,
The Ladies' Rock sent back the clang.
The King, with look unmoved, bestowed
A purse well filled with pieces broad.
Indignant smiled the Douglas proud,
And threw the gold among the crowd,
Who now, with anxious wonder, scan,
And sharper glance, the dark gray man ;
Till whispers rose among the throng,
That heart so free, and hand so strong,
Must to the Douglas blood belong ;
The old men marked and shook the head,
To see his hair fith silver spread.
And winked aside, and told each son
Of feats upon the English done,
Ere Douglas of the stalwart hand
Was exiled from his native land.
The women praised his stately form,
Though wrecked by many a winter's storm ;
The youth with awe and wonder saw
His strength surpassing Nature's law.
Thus judged, as is their wont, the crowd,
Till murmurs rose to clamours loud.
But not a glance from that proud ring
Of peers who circled round the King,
With Douglas held communion kind,
Or called the banished man to mind ;
No, not from those who, at the chase.
Once held his side the honoured place,
Begirt his board, and, in the field,
Found safety underneath his shield :
For he, whom royal eyes disown,
^' .hen was his form to courtiers known !
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V tlie past,
cast.
CANTO v.]
THE CO-MCAT.
»77
day.
clan<T.
estowcJ
oad.
"Olid,
rowd,
scan,
ly man ;
on-,
strong,
<T •
i-i >
the head,
son
i
rm,
cr's storm ;
saw
law.
: crowd.
Lid.
ring
ind,
ind ;
lase,
Dlace,
Id:
nown !
XXV.
The Monarch saw the gambols fla^,
And bade lot loose a gallant sta- "'
^Vhosepndc, the holiday to croun
i wo favourite greyhounds should pull do-i
Ihat venison free, and Bordeaux wine '
fl.ght serve the archery to dine '
But Lufra-whom '"rom Douglas' side
^or bribe nor threat could e'er divi c
The fleetest hound in all the Nortli -
She left he royal hounds mid-way.
And dashing on the antlered prey^
Sunk her sharp muzzle in his ilank,
And deep the flowing life-blood dranl-
J he King's stout huntsman saw the s p. t
By strange intruder broken short '
Came up, and, with his leash unbound
In anger struck the noble hound '
-- 1 he Douglas had endured, that morn
The King's cold look, the nobles' s^oni/
And last, and worst to spirit proud, '
Had borne the pity of the crowd :
But Lufra had been fondly bred
To share his board, to watch his bed.
fnl°-H^°^^^^^'^"'Lufra'sneck. '
In maiden glee, with garlands deck •
^i i-ulra Ellen's image came.
Ills stilled wrath is brimming high.
In darkened brow and flashing eye ;
As waves before the bark divide.
I .le crowd gave way before his stride •
, Kccds but a bullet and no more^ /
( The groom lies senseless in his S
Such blow no other hand could deal,
I hough gauntlcted in glove of steel.
xxvr.
Then clamoured loud the royal train
And brandished swords and staves ama!..
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THE I.ADY OF THE LAKE, [canto v. i
4 y*
r Bu* stern the Baron's warninp— ' Back ! 1
I Back, on your lives, yc menial pack • V
V Beware the Doi:^'!,is. Yes ! behold,
King James ! '1 ho Uou>;Ias, doomed of o!,',
And vainly sought for near and far,
A victim to atone tlic war,
A willing victim now attends.
Nor craves thy grace but for his friends.*
'Thus is my clemency repaid.''
Trcsumptuous Lord !' the Monarch said ;
* Of thy mis-proud ambitious clan,
'1 liou, James of Bothwell, wert the man.
The only man, in whom a foe
My woman-mercy would not know : •
But shall a Monarch's presence brook
Injurious blow, and haughty look i* —
What ho ! the Captain of our Guard !
Give the offender fitting ward, —
Break off the sports !' — for tumult rose,
And yeomen 'gan to bend their bows —
* lireak off the spoits !' he said, and frown'^vl,
'And bid our liorsemcn clear the ground.'
XXVII.
Then uproar wild and misarray
Marred the fair form of festal day.
The horsemen pricked among the crowd,
Repelled by threats and insult loud ;
To earth are borne the old and weak,
The timorous fly, the women shriek ;
With flint, with shaft, with staff, with bar,
The hardier urge tumultuous war.
At once round Douglas darkly sweep
The royal spears in circle deep.
And slowly scale the pathway steep,
While on the rear in thunder pour
The ralible with disordered roar.
With grief the nobie Douglas saw
The Commons lise against the law,
And to the leading soldier said —
/Sir John of Ilyndford ! 'twas my bliideN
I That knijjiKhood on thy shoulder laid ;y
LAKE, [canto v.
\-
' Back ! )
ack! y
okl,
)med of o',',
'dr.
friends/
•ch said ;
lie man,
w :
jrook
:?
lardl
It rose,
ovvs —
nd frowri'-'d,
ground.'
! crowd,
id;
eak,
ek;
vith bar,
•eep
r
blnde'
kiiJt
CANTO v.]
THE CO^fnAT.
,TT XXVIII.
llcrc, pontic friends ! ere vet for m.
Ye brck the bands of fcw//' ^""^ '"^'
My 1- e, my bon.nir, and my cai.so
I tender free to Sco'tland'slaus'
Ti7ea;"of'°^^"'^^'^^'"-^''^"n
Jr.if I suHer causeless wronir
I wdl not soothtMuy captive honr
J,or me, that widow's mate exmVcs-
(And keep your ri^jht to love me sti]l>)
XXIV
d men upon the verge of Jife
Blessed him who staved the cJilstrf..
And mothers held their i.,bes on ,;•
il-e self-devoted Chief to spv " '
1 numphant over xvrongs andiro
1o whom the prattlers owed a .ic-
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Even the rou^'h soldier's heart was inovi d ;
As if behind some bior bciovcxl,
With trailing; arms and (hooping hi.ad,
The Doii-las up tlic iiili lie Icd,^
And at tiie Castle's battled ver-o,
With sighs resigned his honuuix'd char c.
XXX.
The offended Monarch rode apart,
With bitter thought and swelling heart,
And would not now vouchsafe again
Through Stirling streets to lead his train.
' O Lennox, who would wish to rule
This changeling crowd, this common fool.>
Hcar'st thou,' he said, 'the loud acclaim
With which they shout the Douglas name.?
With like acclaim the vulgar throat
Strained for King James their morning noto ;
With hke acclaim they hailed the day,
When first I broke the Douglas' sway';
And like acclaim would Douglas greet,
If he could hurl me from my seat.
Who o'er the herd would wish to reign,
Fantastic, fickle, fierce, and vain !
Vain .IS the leaf upon the stream,
And fickle as a changeful dream ;
P\antastic as a woman's mood,
And fierce as Frenzy's fevered blood.
Thou many-headed monster-thing,
O who would wish to be thy King !
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XXXT.
* But soft ! what messenger of speed
Spurs hitherward his panting steed.?
I guess his cognizance afar — >^
What from our cousin, John of Mar.?)
'He prays, my liege, your sports keep hound
Within the safe and guarded ground:
For some foul purpose yet unknown-
Most sure for evil to the throne —
The outlawed Chieftain, Roderick Dhu,
lias summoned his rebellious crew :
LAKE. fAM"-' \.
vas muvtel ;
;cl charjc.
irt,
,' heart,
j;ain
his train,
rule
unon fool?
acclaim
;las name?
oat
lorning not J ;
e clay,
sway ;
greet,
t.
> reign,
00 d.
y!-
ecd
id?
rJ?>-
ivccp hound
Lind :
\\n —
^ Dhii,
CANTO v.]
TrrE coArnAT,
)/n.r grace will i,t..,r of h , r ", '"'•'
,:^;t earnestly the jclrrbe,,^,^,^,^^^^^^
^ ; fn.m such danger he ^l- n d^
^V nil scaiuy train you will not ride/
i lost It m this bustling day '
S,n"'Z?r^' '^?''^ ^''y f°'-n^er way
T '^K ' r"*" •■'P'"'*";? Of thy steed '
J e best of mine shall be thy nSl
Say to our fa thful Lord of Ma?
\\e do forb.d the intended war
Kodenck, this morn, in sin-Ic fi<Vht
l^^.^^^-^de °ur prisoner bvrknr.t.
And Douglas hath himself inr ^ *
For th Chiefs crimes, avJngin'; steel
r:„t''^:\°".'- message, Hraco; fc m_
|le turned his steed—' My Jie.rV r i,
Th?tVrnhrr'"^'°^'^'^''^ ^
An^lu-*'y'"ff 'courser spurned
And to his towers the King returned.
Ti, .. XXXIII.
II with King James's mood that div
Soon were dismissed the co.irflv /i
And soon cut short the festa ' lU'""-
Nor less upon the saddened tmn^"
The evenmg sunk in sorrow down
The burghers spoke of civil jar,
Of rumoured feuds and mountain war
iSi
¥
lea
>
THE LADY OF Tril- LAKE, [canto v.
Of Moray, Mar, and Roderick Dim,
All up in arms :— the D(iii;,'l,is loo,
'I'hcy nunirncd him pent within the I
• Where stout Karl William was of <
And there his word the sp-akcr staid,
And linj;er on his lip he laid,
Or pointed to his dai(};er blade.
Hut jaded horsemen, from the wc?,t,
At eveninj,' to the Castle pressed ;
And busy talkers said they bore
Tidings of fight on Katrine's shore j
At noon the deadly fray be;4un,
And lasted till the set of siin.
Thus giddy rumour shook the town.
Till closed the Niijht her pennons biov.iu
i
^'OTES
CAXTO V.
"HaviVh "',^."'^f'./'tl.e rebel SI""' "I''<^^-'s .he
tlie jrood Iihf?« I .1 '^^'^' 'Tid t Ills thp cv.;, '■"';",i,''it more
loses his sword hn \^ f ^' ^ ''^ '-''"er, thrice s.>v«.. r ""-" •'•'*
'^"". and the issue of I ^ 'i'V"'""^ amis the k„H t r ' : "'''r*
"ot Roderick UuL?} • . . ^'''^ ^""'^ have he ,, ' ""''^"''
Cillers back tn <kV i ■ ""^ "•"undtd ninn I,» i ' ^-'-f'Vi.i?
«iJ't of '£ 1^,$; s"Sh</^ ""^ con"":-,,'!! „'^-'-.-l,h tbf
., ," "- cn.,e n,:; , -
ii
lS4
THE LADY OF THE LAKE, [canto v.
":ii
is t|
" i i-
•Ji.
in the hope of lilieiating the Gr.xmc, and of saving Roderick
from a calamitous war. On his ariival he finds the town in a
liustle of preparation for the burj^hers' sports, and determines to
take part in them, and so introduce himself to the king. He
proves victor in all that he undertakes, so that the muhitude
begin to suspect who he is; but the king gives him the prize as
to an utter stranger. All tids he bears patiently; but when his
.lound, Ellen's playfellow, is maltreated by the king's huntsman,
he can bear it no longer, and with a sound cufT stretches tlie
offender on the ground, and proclaims himself, and his jiurpose
in coming. He is carried off captive to the castle. The pe iple
attempt a rescue, but are appeased by Douglas himself, and
retire, though with gloomy forebodings of his fate.
While the king is brooding over the fickleness of the crowd,
a messenger comes from the Earl of Mar to warn him that Clan-
Alpine is rising, and that he must confine his sport to guarded
ground. The earl himself is gone to quell the rising, and hopes
soon to encounter the foe. James sends in all speed to stayllie
army's march, as Roderick is already a captive, and the people
must not suffer for his crimes. But the message, as will be seen,
comes too late.
This canto is h" far the most powerful in the whole poem.
It begins with one of tho?,e exquisite bits of description in which
Scott excelled. The scene is not perhaps so lovely as Loch
Katrine, but it is more /aried. The conversation between the
knight arid his guide is skilfully directed, so as to show us that
Roderick, in his suspicions, has mistaken the king's purpose ;
that no raid was intended, but only a peaceful hunt. The ground
of hostility between the Saxon and the Ga'el is carefully put
forward, and the way well prepared for Roderick's declaring
himself; and at the declaration we can hardly decide which most
deserves our sympathy, the mountain chief, so often called bar-
barous and treacherous, who forbears to use his advantage, and
respects the rights of hospitality; or the brave knight, who
fronts this unex])ected dangep without flinching. The combat
that shortly follows is related with much vigour, and we are kept
in suspense as to the result to the last moment.
It is to be regretted that the rule of time, a canto to a day's
action, should have given to the games that follow a place in
the same canto. There, is no real want of vigour in the descrip-
tion, but still It falls tamely after this. The only purjiose that it
serves is to make Douglas known, and to hint at the real cause
of the unrest of the time ; viz., ihc efforts of the Commons' King
lu curtail the power of the nobles.
aiaina I. — This introductory stanza is wel' worked in with
n
LAKE, [canto v.
nd of saving Roderick
he finds tlie town in a
Drts, and determines to
self to the Icing. He
so that the muUitU'le
gives him the prize as
latiently ; hut when iiis
ly the king's huntsmnn,
lund cufT stretches the
nseif, and his purpose
he castle. The pe )ple
Douglas him:.elf, and
f his fate.
ckleness of the crowd,
to warn him that Clan-
e his sport to guarded
1 the rising, and hojies
n all speed to stay ihe
iptive, and the people
;ssage, as will be seen,
d in the whole poem.
)f description in which
ips so lovely as Loch
iversation between the
so as to show us that
n the king's purpose ;
2ful hunt. The ground
Gael is carefully put
Roderick's declaring
dly decide which most
:f, so often called bar-
se his advantage, and
le brave knight, who
nching. The combat
gour, and we are kept
nent.
Tie, a canto to a day's
that follow a place in
vigour in the descrip-
le only purpose that it
hint at the real cause
jf the Connnons' Kiiu
wel' worked in with
CANTO V.l ■Kn-rr^c- r^
•J ^OTES-TIIE COMBAT,
the sforv. Thf. rr,„ • . ' '*J
p
^■sls enlists our. svm-
of defeat.
^'iitUred t,,-i^ ^r.\.v. .. . 1 "^i',
'cnnSe''!;'°r^^ ''\' -]-e word as Man^p ' r r ,
'"-■view of „p^ '"S;'F'r ''r™* '"">»"rc ■•»,,,„ ,
■""'"•'■■•""- ■ ■ ,: w™5, r'lw-' (rile
niore clearly. ) I j e„ce V , , "' , sample, ' shows
^^o' to gather 'sin'pf; '° ''"'^'^'■' « 'to gather
l"e derivation more
c~n s;;\w fA^/ ™™?''v Sc ° :'re^« '« ^^^
if
I ''
n
^
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ii
i86 THE LADY OF THE LAKE, [canto v.
6. —I/is due. Probably because sovtva'gitly implies a sovereign.
While Albany, ivith feeble hand,
Held borrcnaed tnmcheon of command,
Albany was the son of a youni,'er broihe? of James IIL, wlio
had been driven into exile by his brctlier's attempts on his li(e.
He was well received at the court of France, and his son was
made Lord Hi^jh Admiral, To him the Scottish nobles turned
on the death of James IV,, and invited him over to assume the
regency. He came in 1515, bringing with him a French retinue,
and French habits of rule, which soon made him unpopular in
Scotland, In the following year he returned to France on short
leave, and remained away till 1521, After a short stay in Scot-
land, he again went over to France for > dp against England,
and returned in September, 1523, with a considerable force; but,
owing to the distrust of the Scotch, he was obliged to abandon
his expedition; In 1524 he finally withdrew.
Mewed. French 'muer,' Latin 'mutare,' our 'moult,' Origin-
ally 'to cast the feathers,' 'to change them.' So the 'mew' or
'mews' was the place where hawks were confined while moult-
ing. The Royal Mruis was the buildi, g where the king's hawks
were kept, which would be part of the stable offices, whence its
present meaning. To 'mew' is to 'pen' or 'shut up.' There
seems to be some inaccuracy in the history here, James V. was
only twelve years of age when Albany left, and Stirling was tiie
place he fled to for safety, when he threw off the yoke of Angus,
four years later,
S^i'ain. Icelandic
man, journeyman.
c 'sveinn,' a boy, Danish 'svend,' a younr'
A.S. 'swan,' a herdsman.
T.—Sleei: A.S. 'styric,' German 'stier,' a young bull, ox, or
heifer.
Belong (he target and claymore. These were the weapons of
the ancient Britons. Cp, Tacitus, Agricola, 1. 36 —
vj "Ingentibus gladiis et bievilsus cetris."
Pent. A-S. 'pyndan,' to confine; whence our 'pound,' ' pin-
fn' 1.' ' Fond ' and ' pindar ' are from the same root. The hilly
fastnesses are their natural fort-ess, in which they have been
cooped up by the aggressions of the Lowlanders,
V ^Jiock. A pileof sheaves, Dutch 's, hokke,' German 'schock,'
possibly from the idea of a 'tuft,' 'branch.' Cp. 'shock' (jf
bair, Italian 'ciocco.' Akin to 'shake,' that which is shaken
to^^ether.
N(^8. — IlFeed. German 'miethe,' Greek /xlcrOos, reward.
Match me. Scott is rather fond of these reflexive forms. Cp.
"Wilficd had roused him to reply." — Kokcby, ii, 13.
vAKE. [canto v.
ty implies a sovereign.
'J.
of James IIT., who
attempts on his h(e.
ice, and his son was
cottish nobles turned
n over to assume the
im a French retinue,
Je him unpopular in
d to France on short
a short stay in vScot-
Ip against England,
isiderable force; hut,
obliged to abandon
V.
our 'moult.' Origin-
.' So the 'mew' or
infined while moult:
ere the king's hawks
le offices, whence its
)r 'shut up.' There
lere. James V, was
and Stirling was the
F the yoke of Angus,
sh 'svend,' a young
a young bull, ox, or
vere the weapons of
, 1. 36-
cetris."
s our 'pound,' '/>/;/-
imeroot. The liiily
ich they have been
iders.
;,' German 'schock,'
I.' Cp. 'shock' <;f
lat which is shaken
^oi, reward,
efiexive forms,
/\oM>j', ii. 13.
Cp.
t-'A.NTO v.]
^'OTES-TIIE COMBAT.
"Enter and^.fr%,'j'"[', ■" ^•'^vensheuch."-.z.. vi
i( », ' '''"? t/icre a sin,-« " , ■'-"Ji vi,
-'/'^"^///...on the ^ii"u^~^'!:^o/^^e
1S7
i< ,, ■"■• '"■"=' uicre a sin,-« >•'", ^-^'O't vi. S'J.
^^-^^.on the u^Sst^^^f ^^.^i. V. ...
of
iicctcd
XX.—
''■"'•^i.- a.s a J
n-ott/. See i. 20 T),„
a l-articiple. " '''^ "'"^•'I '^ used here in its orf^h,,!
I
i
m
\ 'v
1
<.
s*
It
\
1,_
CN
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V
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l33 THE LADY OF THE LAKE, [canhj v.
r.ocliasne, and inclecd on the plain itself, are some intrenclinieni ,
AvliKh have been tliought Ruman. There is, adjacent to tlalicn-
iler, a sweet villa, the residence of Captain Fairfuul, entilie.I the
Koman Cam jx"— Scott. Tiiis district is hy many ani:(iuaiiLS
hekl to be the scene of Agiicola's final contest with the Scots
in the Mons Graiipius. At Aidoch, near Dunblane, not far
to the east of Menteilh, is a very perfect Roman encamp-
ment, which, is believed to have held his army. (The name
Grampians, which has been given to the whole of this range of
mountains, on the faith of Tacitus, ajjpears from the ^LSS. to
have arisen from a false reading.)
And his plaid. So at Killiecrankie the Highlanders threw off'
their plaids and their brogues before beginning the fight. —
LlACAULAY, y//j/t7;7 of England, iii. 360.
13- — ^n'(/ heho^cn the living and Ihc dead. See canto iii. 5.
_ Kcad. 'Interpreted,' A.S. 'ra;dan,' to advise, command,
interpret; so tlie Scotch 'ml,' 'rede.' The connexion with
'r.ed,' ready, jilain, would suggest that it means to malce phvit,
wliirh will suit both meanings of the word. For 'rcde'.=
•counsel' cp. JIanilet, i. 3—^
"And recks not his own nvi'e'." ^■'' ^
'14. — Some vain carpd knight; i.e. one who won his spurs,
v.- A on the battle-field by deeds of valour, but at court jjy dan-
ci.ig attendance on royalty. A lord mayor knighted at a royal
vi.it to the city is a carpet-knight. Cp. 7\odjth Xight, iii. 4:
"Jle is knight, dubbed with unhatched rapier, and'on carpet
consideration."
J^iith. rity..
Which thou wilt. See stanza ir.
Scabbard, The sheath or covering of a sword. According to
Wedgwood, a corruption of 'scaleboard,' thin board, of which
it was made. The word is used to denote this material. "Some
splints are made of scabbard and tin, sewed up in hacn
cloths."
15. — III fared it then nnth Roderick Dhii,
'J'hat on the field his targe he thr,iu,
For, trained abroad his arms to -.vield,
Fitz-James's blade "was rword and shield.
"A round target of light wood, covered with strong leather,
and studded with brass or iron, -was a necessary part of a lii"!i-
Linder's equipment. Li charging regular troops they received
the thrust of the bayonet in 'this buckler, twisted it aside, and
used the broad-sword against the encumbered soldier. In the
civil war of 1745, most of the front rank of the clans were thus
armed; and Captain Grose infonns us that in 1747, the piiva.t*
LAKE, [canto v.
^'OTi:S-TirK COAfllAT.
CANTO v.]
liovvever wlin i , ^ piaciised much cdIIh.- i> 7 , '^"'^ 'o
f t''"-t. so as to cTis ,;ct 1 ^n, '^■'"^''■f ^' ^o pretend to n.I-.
J-ve some part unguarS. '^^^^'"^"'^ <^>-<-^ and mat Ju'n
"> a judicial comb, t To '''^■°'"-' "'^^ y'^lds i" h J, '''
. ?■-*/.•«■,./. cp. i]„2° i/?']' ™'''"'"i »■".",.( »
i
>■ i!fi
o
the
eiici
ny.
I:
I
190 THE LADV OF THE LAKE, [canto v.
IT.—Ga!!aitfs. The A.S. 'gal,' Gennan 'geil,'= Might '
pleasant,' 'merry.' Imoiii it was formed the Italian and
Spanish noun 'gala,' and from this a verb 'galare,' tokeei) w/^r,
to pursue j^Lcasure. Of this verb the Italian 'galante' is the par-
tioiple (French 'galant,' our 'gallant '). Originally therefore it
means one who knows how to make the most of pleasure-days;
then one wiio knows how to please the fair sex (our 'gallant').'
Hence its meaning diverges. In Ilnglish it means brave, iii
Italian honest, in I'leiich a man of pleasure.
Palfny. An easy-going liorse for riding, a lady's liorse.
French 'palefroi,' German 'jiferd,' Mcdiieval Latin ' paravere-
dus, parafredus,' a hybrid word from Greek irapb., and 'veredus,'
a post-horse; so an extra post-horse.
Boune. Ready. See iv. 8.
I'&.—Sted— 'spur.' Cf. i. 7, note.
^ross-lhnv. ' A bow placed athwart a stock, "It would send
the '^^uarell' — as the arrows were termed — a distance of forty
rods. ' The cross-bowman had a vionlirid and pulley for windin"
up his bow. "This operation is performed by fixing one fool
in the sort of stirrup at the bottom [of the bow], and applying
the wheels and lever to the string of the bow, and so windin^r
it upward by the handle ])laced at its top."— Faiiuioi.t. *"
Carhonie. About a mile from the mouth of Locii Vennachar.
Pricked; 'spurred,' 'rode quickly.' The word came to meaii
simply 'ride.' So Spenser, Facru- Queen, i. i —
"A gentle knight \\?i.'i pricking on the plaine."
And in JMarniion, v. 17 —
"Northumbrian prickers, wild and rude."
Tony, Lendrick, Deanslenon, Donne, Blair-Drumtnond, Och-
tertyre, and Kier, all lie on the l>anks of the Teith, between
Callcnder and Stirling. Most of them are associated with per-
sonal friends of Sir W. Scott. Craig-Forth is between the two
In-anches of the Forth, before and after the Teith joins it.
During his visit to Camhusmore in 1809 Scott ascertained, by
personal trial, that a good horseman might gallop from I.och
Vennachar to Stirling in the time he has allotted to Fitz-James.
19. — Saint Serle. Lord Jeffrey remarks : "The king himself
is in such distress for a rhyme as to be obliged to ajiply to one
of the obscurest saints in the calendar." We lu-ft'e already
noticed instances of this haste in the present canto.
The king must stand nf-on //is guard. This seems a needless
device to keep the secret : the courtiers of course know who
Fitz-James is.
J'osteru. French 'posterne,' 'poterne,' fiom Low Latin
•postcrula,' 'a back way.' The word is sometimes u.icd for the
C:ite iisolf.
^AKE, [canto v.
an 'gciI,' = Mif,'ht,'
ed the Italian and
i^alare,' to keep ^•(?/(r,
'galante' is the par-
)riginal!y therefore it
1st of pleasure-days;
sex (our 'gallant').
it means brave, in
ig, a lady's horse,
lal Latin ' fjaravcre-
■n-apa, and 'vercdus,*
k. "It would send
-a distance of forty
d pulley for winding
1 by fixing one, foot
bow], and applying
o\v, and so winding
-Fairiioi.t.
of Loch Vennachar.
\vord came to mean
I —
he plaine."
d rude. "
r-Dtummond, Och-
the Teith, between
issociated with per-
is between the two
the Teiih joins it.
:ott ascertained, by
gallop from Locli
)tted to Fitz-James.
"The king himself
\C'\ to apply to one
Ue hc(\'e already
canto.
is seems a needless
course know who
from Low Latin
iclimes u.->ed for the
CANTO V.J
20. — j;./,;7,
^^OTES-Tlli, CO.MIUT.
: Will, „, i^V^" -"H" i'luL
191
t-i
-• ■• '■■K-ias ti\i /nt e „, '■"'fiia
^■' '451 \vijj,:;,„ ,)' ,{^""''/'''.v"/'/c</.
t'^Wlc/^n/S,/""^^-^ ^^- "'^''^''l J.in o^i ; ,^^" ')'<-■ I5<hcf
';"-■"!< H.cse ban "'?" 1'"'^''^ mat c s .",'• "'r'" '•■''^""-
1'"'^ ^^^^W,' and MK,, m'^'"' '•^^^"^^■^'- 'i iL ki ; "".•'^ ''•^''^' '"'"
i'l'- --^'Hi run\.lcd ,1 1 ';' V" '"■'^''^- Sir Va H :V''' ^^''' "^■''^"
^" October, ,707/,"''^ ''■^'^ a pole-axe .^p, ^^ ''"^» came
excavations n,]5' ^ ''""''i" skeleton wT'T ":'^'> "'• 425.
"-e room w e i /r .'''' "'^°"' >-^'«i" yard n^''^*'"'"'"-'.' son'j
victiuMvas >tL,l ''%''''''i^'^"'--'^- AsV .^^r,"'^-ri"^lowof
^'<^-ieton of , ' T ' .°'\ ''''-^ ^Pot, it is sunn"'-, '; ''^^^■<;''l 'J'at li.e
lie
victim was ba;„i'"" '^ppcned. As i ; V ■'"'" "''"^'"«-
" Af I ,-'''"> ''oni will, I. it .,..., "-""'^'cis for slidiurr (.]„^,,,^
an cnri„.n, . , •^'"•J'"g in jAor 'i-k* """ ^^'^'xander Sluarf
^-'-•yinaJly the sSf ?"'" ^-'^•'" 'companhnt, ' T,, ,
l''^^>'« were acled Tt''''^'?,'""'"val,Ie p!al? ?,'' „'^'^,^^'/«gc(her.'
^•ach dran,,n ,•; .:!.'."'l'"'^"c PerformanrP t. T,A ^r,r ther it ^-ere a
'"mh show or a I •. "'"'^''^ "^.s ex
ccli. .^■. ,...'! '""-"duced la the fonn. - 1 " ' ^''^'••^.^'''' ^/j'^/.W,.;
I
t
jf
1
M
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M
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192 THE LADY OF THE LAKE, [camo v.
distinctive feature of the monis-flanccT, and indicative of liis
oiis;in, was the wcaiin}; bells upon the lietl. (See stanza 22, and
mile.) Tlie dance was kept up till the earlier part of the jjiesent
century, llune saw it in London in 1826. In Oxfordshire it is
said to he stdl jiractised, thou;;h a few ribbons are the oidy re-
mains of the old costume. (Cll \MI!EUS, /)>,;/(• of Days, i. 6^0-
633.) There is a description of tiie pl.ay in the Ahh'ol, ch. xiv.,
and .Scott's note. Its pojiularity was a ^neat stumbling-block to
the Uelormers on each side of the I5orilcr. It was forbidden in
Scotland by statute in 1555, but "it would seem, from the com-
plaints of the General Assembly of the Kirk, that these profane
festivities were continued down to 1592. Hold Robin was, to
.say the least, equally successful in maintaining his ground against
the reformed clergy of Kn dand ; for the simple and ev.-^ngelical
Latimer complhins of coming to a countrv church, wheTe the
people refused to hear him because it was Hobin Hood's day ;
and his mitre and rochet were fain to give \,','\y to the village
l)astime." — Scott.
Play my priz.: Cp. Odyssey, xxiv. 89: ^ihvvvvrai re vioi koI
iirfVTvvovTM dcOXa-. "get ready for the prizes," meaning the
contest.
2\. — The Casth s^ntrs zvcre open fun g. .«=;tirling Caslle was
already one of the [Mincipal fortresses of Scotland in the twelfih
century, and about the beginning of the fifteenth became a royal
residence. A jialace was erected within its walls by James V.,
with whose history, as we have seen, it is intimately associale.i!
It stands upon a lofty rock, which commands the Forth. 'J'he
slojie which connects it with the plain is occupied by the town
of Stirling.
Jennet. A small Spanish horse; from Spanish 'ginete,' a
lii;ht horse soldier; said to come fioin the Arabic 'diund,' a
soldier. (Connected by others with the Greek -) iV'''?rf s. ) Frum
the soldier it was translerred, in French and English, to the
horse which he rode.
J^oni:; llv? the Commons' Kin;;, Kin^ James! The lines that
follow explain the policy which in great part led to this name.
James had done what was tlonc by Henry VII. in England,
and by Louis XL in France ; that is, had striven to check the
lawless power of the nobles, and had sought the alliance of the
commons, or peojile of the towns. Shortly after the fall of
Angus, the Earl of Argyle was deprived of the lieutenancy of
the Isles, a step which led some of the Lowland lords to transfer
their allegi.ince to England. Later (1540), when the king ma.lc
a jirog-os in the north, he took posso.Moii of some of the High-
land cliiefs, and brought them sou'hwaid in captivity, as surcl.ci
for the good behaviour of their cLms. (1jUkto.\, iii! 175.)
!■
f\KE. [CAMO V.
1(1 iiulicr.tivc of liis
(See stanza 22, and
1- part of the ])rt'>ciit
III Oxfonlsliiic it is
ons are llie only le-
'.'/(' 0/ Days, i. 630-
the Ahhot, ch. xiv.,
\ stiiinblin{,'-l)l()Lk to
It was forbiildcn in
.ecm, from the coni-
, that these piof.iiic
Holil Robin was, to
l; Ills jjround against
i|ile and evniigulical
cliuich, where the
Kobin Hood's day ;
v.ny to the village
ilivvvvTol re vioi kuI
izes," lucaaing iJie
Stirling Caslle was
lland in the twtlfih
:nth became a roval
walls by James V.,
timately associated.
Is the Forth. Tlie
:upied by the town
Spanish 'ginete,' a
Arabic 'diund,' a
< ■)v/j.i'riTei.) From
lid Fnglish, to the
's! The lines that
t led to this name.
VII. in England,
;riven to check the
the alliance of the
ly after the fall of
the lieutenancy of
lid lords to transfer
hen the hing made
"some of the Ili.li-
ajjtivity, as siirtiiCi
o.NJ, iii; 175,)
/•^-ro v.] NOTES-TIIE COMIUT.
— 77/ J r<7V/,..
Xt^;,:,'^ :!!'■''• "^'I'eC,,,,,
»93
^1 laiK,
frcni
ide.
r"slW„S|,M^lc,|. ' '^ ''"■" " llo,t,i|,t,| „j of „|',|,^
l-'ffe [JS*^^^ J'-MU, he,., ,v„i,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
dancer's dress, given in a ,V. / » , ,'^ 'l^'^criptiun of a morri
f ;-' 'r " i^- '5/.^! 1 d i ; j;:; 1^;: J ■^^■'^'^'/^^s:
'"teryals ; so that, like the <.l 1 vonn n P ', '' ''"•'''" '••^'" '""■''■^^'l
^"^v' " ^^'>ereyer he weiit. l^anbury, music uoukl
s"lWtl^'t^get.''7SllS^!j^^^^^ which
"on facit minachum." "'^' ''^'"'^'^ ''>'-' P'overb, "Cucullus
nanhurst, in Iranhoe. The ^kmes Ui,t f n ' ' "'"''^ °^ ^''^P'
f.niera g.ames for Patroclus'.M // / fT'^' 'T'"^' "^ of He
^/i/^a</', though they are treate uS i- "'' '^°'" ^^"^'li^'es in the
stag- hunt is Scott's Ln! "^" '^"''"^' originality. The
intake; i.e. prize.
;vhK h:^"alri^:i -7-'-| -Cher A.S. 'wiht.' fVom
or-nothing fellow. It was on^e u "l" r ^'^'^^'^^ ' ^ ^oocb
Chaucer, yJ////,^'j Ta/e~ ^"^ "="^' °f ^^'ries, spirits; so
Part of thi7s«ne'i: iarenT ''"^ '"^"'^ '"^^^ ""V/^^^-"
ffodscroft, which Is been ri^/r'-y'/^P"'-^-' ''X Hume of
I'm ay (S,oU/sA //isioncaP nl/r "•" .'"'° ''' '«"ad by Mr
^^0% It is introduSus fX'vs-"'"'" ^''^'^^^^^^ Gli^ol;
"Our nobles they haeswoni an ai.h?
Thtt"asTjnr:^ z izi ''"^' -^"f ^^ ''^^ --.
HewadsW.tre7;KX^^^^^
An wasna this a wearifou aith ;
ro> his foster-brither was Jamie o' l^Jkhead '
A..„i- . ,V., ""-^ j'*mie o I'a
' Aiclue o' Kilspindie was his G>
^y SA-i//.
!■!
194 Tin.: I.ADV OF THE LAKE, [canto v.
" But Jamie was banisht, an' Anl,y haitli
All ^ they lived Ian-, l.in- ay„nt tlio sea,
ill a hud r.ii,'<)ttcii tlicm Init the king,
All he \\hiles said \vi' a walery e'e
Gill ihey think on me as I think on them,
1 wot their life is but diearie."
" Wlien Murray rried loud—Wha 's vnn I s( e '
l.ikc a Dou.Ljlas he looks, haith dark and erim,
And (or a' his sad and weary pace
Like them he 's richt stark o' arm and limb.
The kin-'s heart lap. an<l he shouted wi' dec:
\ on stalwarlh makedom I ken richt weel
, , V "i''"' '" ''•■^"''^ "'^ ^'^'^'^ O" '"y '''in'.
it s Archie Kiispindie, my ain Gray Stcill:
VVc maun gie him ^race o' a' iiis race; '
For Kiispindie was trusty, ay and leal."
I3ut his noliles, some sadly, some slcndv, rcmin.1 him nf h\.
oath and with heart "yearnin and like o ™ '- L^ 1'
hau^^htiiy to his old frieiul, who would not i,e thrmvifort
kept up with the cavalcade to the castle rite Tho L ;, , i ' i i
back ri.ht ^yistfully. but left him the e. ^Tlu. poor nn^^eS
A,r a draught of cold water; but no one dursf^ive . h nf 2
" ^'!^^\^^'^ at "'e table he sat him down,
An lie s])ak !)ut ae word at the dine:
1 wish my warst fae were but a kintr*
v\ 1 as cruel counsellours as mine ! "
f o ^f ~^"' '''^r " ^As"-^ f/ ^-^'-derf lame. Lord Jemey obiccts
to tins expression as intolerable. It seems to me to have tlL'
great merit of setting the whole struggle before u in a li e
without wasting any words of descriptfen upon it. Ch^-t ' ..l
Stirlingshire about ten miles south of Stirling. In i s c hire
l^ruce, the Abyssinian tvavcller, is buried
All'ja On the other side of the Forth, in Clackmannan •
A golden rivg. The ordinary prize fo; wrestling was a' ram
and a ring. Cp. Chaucer, Ccke^s Tale of Camely,^x^^
Litheth, and lestneth, and holdeth your tonre
And ye schul heere talkyng of Gamelyn the yongc.
1 her was ther bysiden cryed a wrastling
And therfor ther was sette up a ram and x ryiig "
KK. [canto V,
h,
sea,
r
rtl
:m,
ind is returning to
I see ?
and yiim,
d liml).
i' glcc :
weel,
lian*.
Stcill; .
1."
.'mind Mm of Ms
blast," he spoke
e thrown. ofiF, hut
The king looked
poor man begged
t Rive it him, so
of it, was "led-
•d Jeffrey objects
me to have the
'le us in a line,
it. lAirlh-rt is in
• In its ehurch
lack man nan. •
tiing was a ram
'Jy>h 169 —
)nge,
le yonge.
ryng."
CANTO v.] notl:s-tiie combat.
»9S
^"i moralise on thfdceav
0/ \-ot;sh s(n>!"h in ,„oJ„.,t ,fav
^fo™";'';"cn";!,:,;■■a';„'':■,s ;,;':'°" '" «™'""^ "«■" -<
■'•"■Iml, ,lH,. c,„ nov -^'V o,i"'/f """' '''■■"I''"'-
scene
ra.?^-^;?£tnS;S-fr:STjj;;;f;; .F-ch ^g.., ,,' ,i.e.
al^-g; and that from Cehic roo'^'r, ,V' " *"' f''™ "^ ' •^'"b.^'
^'^v^''-S.rAKESPKARK, cwL"' "' ^'■""^•'' ('"^''"-^ is clean
Creek .a^r,), a bending '-'"'''""*'^- Cp. 'camera.' an arch;
(> wif Si^ln'ih" ;:r':^'^? --'?"- of the sound.
blow. ' * ''''P '" l''e face, from •souffler.' to
26.~racl. Rabble. See i. 4, and note.
-sou?h.7a?offfkrk^ "^'''^^ °" ''" -'^■^'^' ''^'•- or four miles
not a widow till he e.xp'Ves ^'""'^ °^ i^'""^*-'P-^'S- Slie is
S.>akesgear.^:3!5-;Pt5-^---."
But hke a storniy day, now wind, now nin
V.r^^lt^^f^lT r'^ >- -ragain."
the officer of a court7^^-itih'the7'^'' V'V^ "''^"'' ^«'"<^ V
the Imrits of his authorit^^'S ^::'^:^Jt^^r^;;^^
''"''^"^^'^■'^^:'K:;!in^^p- ------ -
ypon your favour swims with fins cf lead
And hews down oaks with rushes '
^ With every minute do you change yotu- mind,
m
I
^
THE LADY o. THE LAKE.' [canto v.
And call Iiim nol.Ie iJiat wns now your liate
Him vile that was your gaihuul." *
2 A7w^ Ihnty IV. i. 3 —
"An liahilation giddy and unsure
Hath he that buildctli on the vulgar licait."
y.
, V '—Cof^yttzatice. French •connaissancc,' ' knowledge » A
Kiiii;ht ni luil armour, wiih his vizor down, so that his Tico was
hi' . was recogaucd by his crest or hcialJic coat: here the saUa
pale. »••''»»
^1
KE. [canto V.
heart."
'knowlfflfrp,* \
"> that his f.ice was
lat; hei'c llie sable
T//£: LADY OF THE LAKT,.
CANTO SIXTH.
CJ)c t£^uauatc.ni.
I.
Of the dark cuy casts a sullen glance
Rousing each caitiff to his task of care. '
Of sinful man the sad inheritance •
Summoning revellers from the la-ging dance
Scaring the prowling robber to his den '
Gilding on battled tower the warder's lance
And vyarning student pale to leave his nr n
And y,eld hi. drowsy eye's to the kind nlf^^'.f ,„e,.
What various scenes, and, O I what scenes of wnr
Are witnessed by tliat red and strugghng beim '
The fevered patient, from his oallet lowr'
Through crowded hospital beholds its stream •
Tnms h«..ck in,a,u-s couci,, Li sJZi&M. w.il
198
THE LADV OF TJIE LAKE, [ca.n.o vi.
II.
At dawn the towers of Stirlin- rnn-
\\ ith sold.cr-stcp and weapon-clan's
Kc.icf to wearv sentinel.
1 m)i,:.h narrow loop and casement bar;- 1
ilK bunbcams sou-ht (he Court of Gua- I
And stru_;sling with the smoky a^r '
Deadened tlie torches' vellow sjlare'
In comfortless aHiance 'shone "
Tho h;^lus throi.^rh a,ch of blackened ston-^
And shewed w,ld shapes in garb of war '
I . ce. deformed with beard and scar '
All haggarf from the midnight watch
And evered with the stern debauch '
I'or the oak table's massive board,
Hooded with wine, with fragment stored,
And bc:,kers drained, and cups o'erthrow
^hewed m what sport the night had do '
Son,e, weary, snored on floor and bene '
Some lab,nued still their thirst to quenci; •
II)
III.
These drew not for their fields the sword.
Like tenants of a feudal lord, '
r^?'nT'"\'''^. '^^ patriarchal claim
Of Chieftain in their leader's name •
Adventurers they, from far who roved,
To live by battle, which they loved.
Jhere the Italians clouded foce,
The swarthy Spaniard's there you trace •
7 he mountain-loving Switzer there
More t^reely breathed in mountain-air;
1 he Fleming there despised the soil.
i hat paid so ill the labourer's toil •
iheir rolls Shewed French and German name
And merry Lngiand's exiles came,
Our vi
Laid a
■^E. [can 10 VI.
11
mv 1
uaid,
CANTO V,.] rUE GUARD-ROOM
From rule, „f diLipIine released.
) u icici
lif k! :
IP9
stnne,
If.
i\vn.
cli ;
c'n- hdv.ds
rr
3>
:I,
They
IV.
y held debate of bloodv fnv
Their hands'oftVSdru;"'^^ '^'^'"^ "^-^^^
Nor sunk their tSne?o sparV S^.r '"'^ '
'-'I WOlindofl rnm,.,^ ^"'v, IJJL tai
A stranger to respee'oAL'r^^--^''
Jn peace a chaser of the deer
In liost a Ijardy mutineer '
But stdl the boldest of the crew
^StSt&^r^?--^.t short,
And shouted louc? ' S'^'" m^'"! ^P^""^'
Lefea^lrlrb"^^'^'-^^^^^
1,1k /'''' """^""^ ^^horus bear
Like brethren of the brand anS ^pear.'
m
III
lame :
V.
. SOLDIER'S SONG.
ni-rv,car Still preaches that Peter and P
Laid a swinging loner rursp nn Vif u ^""'^
6 b "n^ curse on the bonny brown bowl
I*.
,
2CO THE LADY OF T[IF. LAKE, [cant, vi,
Tliiit tlicro's wr.Uli .md dosp.iir in tlicjolIyblnrk-j.uk,
Aiul tiic seven iU-,ulIy sins in a ll,i;^(in i)f sack ;
Yet whooi), Harnaby ! off with tliy licjuor,
Diink upsces out, and a lig for the \ icar !
Onr vicar he calls it damnation to sip j
Tiie ripe niddy dew of a woman's dear lip, j
Says, lliat r.eel/dinb lurks in her kerchief so sly.
And Apollyon shoots darts from her merry black eye ;
Yet wlioop, jack ! kiss C.illian the cpiicker.
Till she bloom like a rose, and a li;,^ for the vicar !
Onr vicar thus preaches -and why should he not ?
For the dues of his cure are the placket and |)ot ;
And 'tis rii;ht of his office p or laymen to hucli,
Who infrin;j;e tiie doniains of our i;ood Mother L'iiurch.
'S'et whoop, bully-boys ! off with your li(|uor,
ijwcet Marjorie's the word, and a lig for the vicar !
li ?
VL
The warder's challen;::;e, heard without,
Staid in mid-roar the merry shout.
A soldier to the portal went —
' Here is old Hcrtram, sirs, of Cdient;
And— beat for jubilee the drum !
A maid ami minstrel with him come.'
I?ertr;im, a Fl mini;, f,nay ami scarred,
Was enterinj,' now the Court of (iuard.
A harper with him, and in plaid
All muflled close, a mountain maid.
Who backward shrunk to 'scape the view
Of tiie loose scene and boisterous crew,
'What news.?' they roared :— ' I onlv knov.',
I-'rom noon till eve we fought with foe.
As wild and as untameable
As the rude mountains where they dwell;
On both sides store of blood is lost,
Nor much success can either boast,' —
' l!ut whence thy capii\es, friend.? Such sp il
As theirs must needs reward thy toil.
(Hd dost thou wax, and wars grow sharp;
Thou now hast glec-maid'^n and harp I
CANTO vr.] THE CUARO-RDOM.
(^•vt til CO ;in n
,,., , , ipc, nnd (n,<l';e tl
lliclLMcI(jrufuju!]-lcibaiicl.'
ic
in (I,
201
VI r.
'No.cnmr.Klo; no such f,.rt„„c mine.
AtcTtlicl,t^litll,o.,c.s,M,!;l,t,n,rlinc,
iliHt jiKcd haipcT ;.ik1 ihc j,;,!,
/\iul Ikiviii}; audience of the Jlail,
^arbadcl should inirvey them stmJ,
A.u bring tliein hitheruard with speed.
I'orbear your inirlh and rude alarm
I' or none shall do them shame or harm.'
Hear ye Im boast ? ' cried John of JJrent.
W to strife and jan.^dinj; bent; ^
Shall he strike doe beside our LkIrc,
And yet the jealous mV<ra,-d grudge
T o pay the forester his fee ?
I '11 have my share, howe'er it be
Despite of Moray, Mar, or thee.'
J5crtram his forward step withstood;
And, burning m his vengeful mood.
Old Allan, though unfU for strife,
Laid hand upon his dagger-knife;
I3ut I lien boldly stepped betuecn,
And dropped at once the tartan screen:
^o, from his morning cloud, appears
1 he sun of May, through sumlner tears.
I he savage sokhery, amazed,
As on descended angel gazed •
btood half admiring, half ashamed.
vrir.
jRoldly she spoke-' Soldiers, attend;
My father was the solder's friend •
Cheered him in camps, in marches led.
And with him in the battle bled
Not from the valiant, or the strong,
Should exile's daughter suffer wroncr'
Answered De Brent, most forward still
In every feat or good or ill—
202
THE LADY OF THE LAKE, [cantc v'i.
' I shame me of the part I played :
And thou an outlaw's child, poor maid !
An outlaw I by forest laws,
And merry Ncedwood knows the cause.
Poor Rose— if Rose be livin,^^ now,'
lie wiped his iron eye and brow,
' Must Ijear such a;^e, I think, as thou.
Hear ye, my mates; — I go to call
The Captain of our natch to hall :
There lies my halbert on tlie lloor;
And he that steps my halbert o'er,
To do the maid injurious part,
My shaft shall qui\er in his heart ! —
Beware loose speech, or jesting rough :
Ye all know John de Brent. Enougii.'
IX.
Their Captain came, a gallant young—
(Of Tullibardine's house he sprung),
Nor wore he yet the spurs of knight ;
Gay was his mien, his humour light.
And, though by courtesy controlled,
Forward liis sjjeech, his bearing bold.
The high-born maiden ill could broolc
The scanning of his curious look
And dauntless eye ;— and yet, in sooth,
Young Lewis was a generous youth ;
But Ellen's lovely face and mien,
111 suited to the garb and scene.
Might lightly bear construction strange,
And give loose fancy scope to range.
' Welcome to Stirling towers, fair maid I
Come ye to seek a champion's aid,
On palfrey white, with harper hoar,
Like errant damoscl of yore ?
Does thy high quest a knight require,
Or may the venture suit a squire ? ' —
Her dark eye flashed ;— she paused and sighed-
' O what have 1 to do with pride ! —
— Through scenes of sorrow, shame, and strife,
A suppliant for a father's life,
CE. [CANTO VI.
d!
sc.
CANTO VI.] THE GUARD-ROOM.
J5enoid, to back my suit a rin.r
2C3
i.
n.'
J.
ith,
aid!
e,
and sij^hcd-
, and strife,
Th
X.
WifhT'*""""'^ >'"""^ ^'^"'is took
And said—' Tii
And
■red
's rnijr our duti
--..^ pardon, if to worth unknown '
n semblance mean obscm-ely verk^d
Lady, in aught my folly faiS ^^"'^'
cpose you till his waking t^:"^""^
I- emale attendance shalUbey'
^^our best, for service or array
enmt I marshal you the way*'
1 ;ie vacant purse shall be my share
\V Inch in my barret-cap I 'H bear *
Perchance in jeopardy of war
VV irf.S^^r" ''^''^ "^ay keep afar'
JJ.'th thanks-'twas all she cou M , i
His rugged courtesy repaid "^"''^'"^ "'^^^^
xr.
when Ellen forth wifh T o, •
Allan ^^ ) .'■'' "itn Lewis wenf
C:.vemetosee„,y„,L,e,f£!
I !l
204
':h
THE LADY OF THE LAKE, [canto VI.
His minstrel I— to share his doom
Bound from the cradle to tlie tomb.
Tenth in descent, since first my sires
Waked for his noble house their lyres,
Nor one of all the race was known
But prized its weal above their own.
With the Chief's birth begins our care ;
Our harp must soothe the infant heir.
Teach the youth tales of fight, and giaco
His earliest feat of field or chase ;
In peace, in war, our rank we keep,
We cheer his board, we soothe his sleep,
Nor leave him till we pour our verse—
A doleful tri;bute !— o'er his 'learse.
Then let me share his cap.ive lot ;
It is my right— deny it not !'—
• Little we reck,' said John of Brent,
« We southern men, of long descent ;
Nor wot we how a name— a word-
Makes clansmen vassals to a lord :
Yet kind my noble landlord's part. —
God bless the house of Beaudesert !
And, but I loved to drive the deer,
Mere than to guide the labouring steer,
I had not dwelt an outcast here.
Come, good old Minstrel, folloxy me ;
Thy Lord and Chieftain shalt thou sec.
Xll.
Then, f.om a rusted iron hook,
A bunch of ponderous keys he toolr,
Lighted a torch, and Allan led
Through grated arch and passage dread.
Portab they passed, where deep within,
Snoke prisoner's moan, and fetters din ,
Throuih rugged vaults where, loosely stored,
lay wheel, Ind axe, and headsman's sword,
And many an hideous engine grim.
For wrenching joint and crushing limb.
By artist formed, who deemed it shame
And sin to give their work a name.
:E. [canto VI.
-e;
rac3
cep,
ecr,
see.'
dread,
'ithin,
' din ;
sely stored,
I's sword,
limb,
hame
CHNTO VI.] THE GUARD-ROO:.r.
They halted at a low-browed porrli
And Bj-ent to Alian gave the torch,
^VhlIe bolt and chain he backward roll ■.',
And made the bar unhasp its hold '
i hey entered :~ 'twas a prison-room
Of stern security and gloom,
Vet not a dungeon; for the day
Through lofty gratings found its way,
And nide and antique garniture
Docked the sad walls and oaken floor ;
J^uch as the rugged days of old
IJccmed fit for cajitive noble's hold.
Here, said De Brent, ' thou mayst rcm-:in
T ill the L.eech visit him again
btnct is his charge, the warders tell.
i o tend the noble prisoner well '
Kctirmg then the bolt he drew '
And the lock's murmurs growled anew.
Roused at die sound, from lowly bed
A captive feebly raised his head;
1 lie wondering Minstrel looked, and knew^
jNot h,s dear Lord, but Roderick Dhu "
i'or, come from where Clan-Alpine-fou'dit,
ihey, erring, deemed the Chief he sought.
XIII.
As the tall ship, whose lofty prore
j>hall never stem the billows iiTSTe,
Deserted by her gallant band, '
Amid the breakers lies astrand—
.So, on his couch, lay Roderick Dhu t
And oft his fevered limbs he threw
in toss abrupt, as when her sides
Lie rocking in the advancing tides
Jhat shake her frame with ceaseless beat
Yet cannot heave he. from her sea ■- '
O ! how unlike her course at sea '
Or his free step on hill and lea '-'-
Soon as the Minstrel he could :„:an,
-- Whatof thylady?_.of,nycl,.n?
J y niother?-.-Doug!as?-tell me all I
205
- - --■ -'--,,"i.-5i — leu me
Have they been ruined in my fa:i
\
236 THE LADY OF THE LAKE, [ca.mc vi.
Ah, yes ! or wherefore art tliou here !
Yet sjje.ik— speak boldly— do not fear.' —
(For Allan, wiio hi-, mood well knew,
Was choked with grief and terror too.) — i
• Who foii-ht~who tlcil .?— Old man, be ••. il ,^ '■'• ^'\
Some might— for they had lost their Chitf. |
Who basely live.?— who bravely died ?'—
*0, calm thee. Chief!' the Minstrel cried,
* Fllen is safe ;'— ' For that thank Heaven !'
'And hopes are for the Douglas given ; —
The Lady Margaret too is well,
And, for thy clan— on licld or fell,
Has never harp of minstrel told.
Of combat fpught so true and bold.
Thy stately Pine is yet unbent,
Though many a goodly bough is rent.'
XIV.
The Chieftain reared his form on high,
And fever's fire was in liis eye ;
liut ghastly, pale, and livid streaks
Checjucred his swarthy brow and cheeks.
— ' Hark, Minstrel ! 1 have heard thee p!a>v
With measure bold, on festal day.
In y n lone isle, . . . again where ne'er
Sliall harper play, or warrior hear I . , ,
'J'hat stirring air that peals on high,
O'er Dermid's race our victory. —
Strike it ! — and then (for well thou canst),
Free from thy minstrel-spirit glanced,
Fling n.e the picture of the fight.
When met my clan the Sa.von might.
I '11 listen, till my fancy hears
The clang of swords, tlie crash of spcnrs !
These grates, these walls, shall vanish tatn,
For the fair ficid of fighting men,
And my free spirit burst away.
As if it soared from battle-fray.'
The trembling bard with awe obeyed—
Slow on the harp his hand he laid ;
But soon remembrance of the sight
Fie witnessed from the mountain's heiglit,
With what old Bertram told at night,
c\\
'^ vi.J THE GUARD.ROOM.
Avyakened the full power of song,
And bore h.m in career alon^.ji'
As shallop launched on river"s tide
1 hat slow and fearful leaves the kle
'"t. when It feds the middle stream
i^r.vcs downward swift as li^dunt^' beam.
^o^
(^BATTLE OF 13EAL' AN DUINE. ^
'Tlie minstrel came once more to view
llie eastern rid-c of Ben venue
•or, ere he parted, he would say
V^r V^/?''"''" ^^°^h Achray--
\V here shal he find, in foreign land
i>o lone a lake so sweet a strand !
1 here is no breeze upon the fern,
No ripple on the Jake, '
Upon her eyry nods the erne,
Ihe deer has sought the brake-
The small birds will not sing aloud
'T L. ^u^'°°"'' y°" thunder-cloud
IV^I^ thunder's solemn sound
Or echoes from the groaning ground
The warrior's measured tread ?^
Is It the lightning's quivering glance
Th°. l^^ ^""^^ -^^ 'P'^^'- ^"d lance
The sun's retiring beams?
—1 see the dagger-crest of Mar
I see the Moray's silver star, '
I hat up the lake comes winding far |
e^T ^°""^ ^^'^ battle-strife.
Ur bard of martial lay,
1 u-ere worth ten years "of peaceful lifa.
One glance at their array ! ^
l«
#1
I
.' 1 r
■ ) i
aoS THE LADY OF THE LAKE, [canto vt.
XV L
'Their light-armed archers far and near
Surveved the tangled ground,
Their centre ranl<s, with pilcc and spear,
A twilight f 'rest frowned,
Their barbed horsemen, in the rear,
The stern battalia crowned.
No cymbal clashed, no clarion rang,
Still were the pipe and drum;
Save heavy tread, and armour's clang,
The sullen march was dumb.
There breathed no wind their crests to slial.e,
Or wave their Hags abroad ;
Scarce the frail aspen seemed to quake,
That shadowed o'er their road. _
Their vanward scouts no tidings brmg,
Can rouse no lurking foe,
Nor spy a trace of living thing,
Save when they stirred the roe;
The host moves, like a deep-sea wave.
Where rise no rocks its pride to brave.
High-swelling, dark, and slow.
The lake is passed, and now they gain
A narrow and a broken plain,
Before the Trosachs' rugged jaws ;
And here the horse and spearmen pause,
While, to explore the dangerous glen.
Dive through the pass the archer-men.
XVII.
* At once there rose so wild a yell
Within that dark and narrow dell.
As all the fiends, from heaven that fell,
Had pealed the banner-cry of hell !
Forth from the pass in tumult driven,
Like chaff before the wind of heaven,
The archery appear :
For life ! for life ! then- plight they ply—
And shriek, and shout, and l.atlle-cry,
And plaids and bonnets waving high,
And broadswords flashing to the sky,
Are maddening, in the rear.
CANTO VI,]
THE GUAPD-ROOM,
Onward they drive, in dreadful race,
I'lirsiicrs and pursued-
l5cforc that tide of lli;4ht'and chase,
How shall it keep its rooted place,
The si)(>arnicu's twiii^jht wood? —
"Down, down," cried Mar, "your lances down 1
I5car back both friend and foe ! "
Like rccils before the tempest's frown,
I'hat serried grove of lances brown
At once lay levelled low;
And closply shouldering side to side,
'J'he bristling ranks the onset bide.
•' We '11 quell the savage mountaineer
As their Tinchel cows the game !
Th y come as fleet as forest deer.
\Vc '11 drive them back as tame."
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' pearing before them, in their course,
The relics of the archer force,
Like wave with crest of sparkling foam.
Right onward did Clan-Alpine come.
Above the tide, each broadsword bri-!ifc
Was brandishing like beam of light, "
Each targe was dark below ;
And with the ocean's mighty swing,
When heaving to the tempest's winj,
They hurled them on the foe.
I heard the lance's shivering crash,
As when tlie whirlwind rends the aih ;
I heard the broadsword's deadly c'ang,
As if an hundred anvils rang !
But Moray wheeled his rearward rank
Of horsemen on Clan-Alpine's flank,
— " My banner-man, advance !
I see," he cried, "their column shake.—
Now, gallants ! for your ladies' sake,
Upon them with the lance I" —
The horsemen dashed among the rout,
As deer break through the broom ;
Their steeds are stout, their swords are out.
They soon make lighlsoine ruo..i.
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Cl.in-Alpinc's best arc b.ickward borne—
Wlicro, where was Roderick then 1
One blast upon his bir^lc-horn
Were worth a thousand men.
And refluent throui^li the pass of fear
The battle's tide was poured ;
Vanished the Saxon's strui;;-;iin<f spear,
V'.mished the mountain sword.
As Bracklii n's chasm, so black and steep,
Receives her roaring linn,
As the dark caverns of the deep
Suck the wild whirlpool in.
So did the deep and darksome pass
Devour the battle's mingled mass :
None linger now upon the plain,
Save those who ne'er shall fij^ht again.
XIX.
TTow westward rolls the battle's din,
That deep and doubling pass within.
— Minstrel, away ! the work of fate
Is bearing on : its issue wait,
^Vhere the rude Trosachs' dread defile
Opens on Katrine's lake and isle.—
(}ray Benvenue I soon repassed.
Loch Katrine lay beneath me cast.
'Ihe sun is set ;— the clouds are met,
The lowering scowl of heaven
An inky hue of livid blue
To the deep lake has given ;
Strange gusts of wind from mountain glen
Swept o'er the lake, then sunk agcn.
1 heeded not the eddying surge,
Mine eye but saw the Trosachs' gorge,
Mine car but heard the sullen sound.
Which like an earthquake shook the irround,
And sptkc the stern and desperate su.fe ^
That parts not but with parting li.e,
Seeming, to minstrel-ear, to toll
The diige of many a passing soul.
Nearer it comes— the dim-wood ;^!cn
The uia.lial flood disgorged ;ioCii,
ilcn
CANTO VI.] THE GUARD.ROO.^^
lUit not in mingled tide ;
Tlie pl.iidcd warriors of the North
ilij^lh on the mountain thunder forth
And ovcrhantj its side ;
> Wlnle by the lake below appears
I he dark'ning cloud of Saxon si)cars.
At weary my each shattered band,
i-.yeinf,' tlieir foemen, sternly stand !
1 heir banners stream like tattered sail,
I hat flmi,'s Its fra-ments to the <Mle.
And broken arms and disarray
Marked the fell havock of the day.
XX.
'Viewing the mountain's ridge askance.
I he Saxon stood in sullen trance,
ill! Moray pointed with his lance.
And cried—" Behold yon isle !—
See ! none are left to guard its strand,
luit women weak, that wring the hai.d :
1 is there of yore the robber band
1 heir booty wont to pile ;
My purse, with bonnet-pieces'store,
To him will swim a bow-shot o'er,
And loose a shallop from the shore.
Lightly we'll tame the war-wolf then.
Lords of his mate, and brood, and den."
I'orth from the ranks a spearman sprun '.
On earth his cascjue and corslet run-,
He plunged him in the wave ;—
AH saw the deed-ihe purpose knew.
And to their clamours Benvcnue
A mingled echo gave ;
The Saxons shout, their mate to cheer,
iiie helpless females scream for fear,
And ye Is for ra-c the mountaineer.
1 was then, as by the outcry riven,
I'ouiyl down at once the lowering heaven •
A whir lu ,nd swept Loch Katrine's breast. '
Jier billows reared their snowy crest
Well for the swimmer swelled they hi-h
To mar the Hi-liland marksman's eye • '
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For round him showered, 'mid rain and hail,
The vcn;4oful arrows of the Gael. —
In vain.— He nears the isle — and lo !
His hand is on a shallop's bow.
— Just then a flash of lightning came,
It tinged the waves and strand with (lame ;—
I marked Duncraggan's widowed dame,
Behind an oak I saw her stand,
A naked dirk gleamed in her hand ; —
'It darkened— but amid the moan
Of waves I heard a dying groan ; —
Another flash ! — the spearman floats
A weltering corse beside the boats,
And the stern Matron o'er him stood,
Her handiand dagger streaming bloo J.
XXI.
'"Revenge ! revenge !" the Saxons cried,
The Gaels' exulting shout replied.
Despite the elemental rage,
Again they hurried to engage ;
But, ere they closed in desperate fight,
Bloody with spurring came a knight.
Sprung from his horse, and, from a crn::^,
Waved 'twixt the hosts a milk-white flag,
Clarion and trumpet by his side
Rung forth a truce-note high and wide,
While, in the Monarch's name, afar
A herald's voice forbade the war.
For Bothwell's lord, and Roderick bold,
Were both, he said, in captive hold.'
— But here the lay made sudden stand,
The harp escaped the Minstrel's hand !—
Oft had he stolen a glance, to spy
How Roderick brooked his minstrel y:
At first, the Chieftain, to the chime,
With lifted hand, kept feeble time ;
That motion ceased— yet feeling strong
Varied his look as changed the st)ng;
At length, no more his deafened « >••
The minstrel melody can hear ;
CANTO VI.] THE GUARD-ROOM.
His face grows sharp-his hands are chnrh
As If some pang his heart-strings wrenched •
Set are his teeth, his fading eye
Is sternly fixed on vacancy;
Thus, motionless, and moanless, drew
His partmg breath, stout Roderick Dhu !-
Od Allan-bane looked on aghast,
While gnm and still his spirit passed;
i5ut when he saw that life was fled,
ile poured his wailing o'er the dead.
XXI r.
LAMENT.
'And art thou cold and lowly laia,
J hy foemen's dread, thy people's aid,
I^readalbanc's boast, Clan-Alpine's shad.- 1
l-or thee shall none a requiem say?
—For thee— who loved the minstrel's lav,
For thee, of Bothwell's house the stay '
The shelter of her exiled line.
E'en in this prison-house of thine,
1 11 wail for Alpine's honoured Fine !
'What groans shall yonder valleys fill '
What shrieks of grief shall rend yon hill !
What tears of burning rage shall thrill,
When mourns thy tribe thy battles done,
1 hy tall before the race was won,
T hy sword ungirt ere set of sun !
There breathes not clansman of thy lino
But would have given his life for thine.-l.
O woe for Alpine's honoured Pine !
* Sad was thy lot on mortal stage !
The captive thrush mav brook die ca'^o.
The prisoned eagle die's for rage. °
Brave spirit, do not scorn my strain I
And, when its notes awake again.
Even she, so long beloved in vain.
Shall with my harp her voice combine,
And mix her woe and tears with mine,
1 o wail Clan-Alpine's honoured Pine.'
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XXIII.
Ellen, the while, with bursting heart,
Remained in lordly bower apart,
Where played, with many-coloured gleams.
Through storied pane the rising beams.
In vain on gilded roof they fall,
And lightened up a tapestried wall,
And for her use a menial train
A rich collation spread in vain.
The banquet proud, the chamber gay.
Scarce drew the curious glance astray ;
Or, if she looked, 'twas but to say,
With better omen dawned the day
In that lone isle, where waved on high
The dun-deer's hide for canopy ;
Where oft her noble father shared
The simple meal her care prepared,
While Lufra, crouching by her side.
Her station claimed with jealous pride,
And Douglas, bent on woodland game,
Spoke of the chase to Malcolm Granne,
Whose answer, oft at random made,
The wandering of his thoughts betrayed.—
Those who such simple joys have known,
Are taught to prize them when they 're gone.
Ihit sudden, see, she lifts her head !
The window seeks with cautious tread.
What distant music has the power
To win her in this woeful hour !
'Twas from a turret that o'erhung
Her latticed bower, the strain was sung.
XXIV.
LAY OF THE IMPRISONED HUNTSMAN.
' IVTy hawk is tired of perch and hood,
My idle greyhound loathes his food,
My horse is weary of his stall,
And I am sick of captive thrall.
1 vv ish I were as I have been,
li anting the hart in forest green.
CANTO VI.] THE GUARD-ROOM.
With bended bow and bloodhoiinj Irce
J- or that's the life is meet forme
I hate to learn the ebb of time
I-rom yon dull steeple's dr:.wsy chime,
Or mark it as the sunbeams craw!
Inch alter inch, alon- the wall.
1 he lark was wont mv matins rin-^
J he sable rook my vespers sin>r- ''"
Jhese towers, althou-h a kin-'s tlicv be
Have not a hail of joy for me, ' '
No more at dawnin- morn I rise,
And Sim myself in Ellen's eyes,
Drive the fleet deer the forest throu d,,
And homeward wend with evcnini; d.-.v •
A blithesome welcome blithely me> t '
And lay my trophies at her feet,
\VhiIe tied the eve on wint^ of glee-^
That hie is lost to love and me ''
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The henrt-sick lay was hardlv said,
i he list ncr had not turned her head
it trickled still, the starting tear
\\ hen light a footstep struck her car
And Snowdoun's graceful Knight was near.
She turned the hastier, lest again
1 he prisoner should renew his strain
^ O welcome, brave Fitz-James,' she said :
Mow may an almost orphan maid
ray the deep debt' ' Q say not so 1
io me no gratitude you owe.
Not mine, alas ! the boon to-ive
And bid thy noble father livc'^ '
I can be but thy guide, sweet maid,
\\ ith .Scotland s King thy*i,it to aid.
No tyrant he, though ire and pride
May lay his better mood aside
Hl"/^i'"f"' '^^'"■"^•-'ti^ niore than tone,
rie holds his court at morning prinie '
AVith beating heart, and bosom wrur.;.
As to a brotiicr's arm she clun"- *"
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THE LADY OF THE LAKE, [canto vi.
Ccntly he dried the falling tear,
And ^rently whispered hope and cheer;
Her faltering steps half led, half staid,
Through gallery fair and high arcade,
Till, at his touch, its wings of pride
A portal arch unfolded wide.
XXVL
Within 'twas brilliant all and light,
A thronging scene of figures bright;
It glowed on Pollen's dazzled sight,
As when fhe setting sun has given
Ten thousand hues to summer even, .
And from their tissue, fancy frames
Aerial knights and fairy dames.
Still by Fitz-James her footing s'aid;
A few faint steps she forward made,
'I hen slow her drooping head she raised,
And fearful round the presence gazed,
For him she sought, who owned this s^iti-V,
'!'hc dreaded prince whose will was fate!— •
She gazed on many a princely port,
Might well have ruled a royal court ;
On many a splendid garb she gazed—
Then turned bewildered and amazed,
For all stood bare; and, in the room,
Fitz-James alone wore cap and plume.
To him each lady's look was lent ;
On h'.m each courtier's eye was bent;
IMidst furs and silks and jewels sheen,
He stood, in simple Lincoln green,
Ti e centre of the glittering ring—
And Suowdouu's Knight is Scotland's Kin?
xxvn.
As wreath of snow, on mountain-brcnst,
Slides from the rock that gave it icbi,
Foor Ellen glided from her stay.
And at the Monarch's feet she lay;
IvE. [canto VI.
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3 £^;;tl>;
fate!—
tic.
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d's Kin?
-onst,
CANT 1 VI.]
T[IE GUARD-ROOM.
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Xo word her choking voice cominanfls —
She shewed the ring— she clasped her liaiuls.
y ! not a moment could he l)rook,
Tiie generous prince, that suppliant look!
(.ently he raised her— and, tlie while.
Checked with a glance the circles snule:
Graceful, but grave, her brow he kissed,
And bade her terrors be dismissed :—
'Yes, Fair; the Avandcring poor Fitz-Jamcs
I he fealty of Scotkind claims.
To him thy woes, thy wishes, bring;
He will redeem his signet ring.
Ask nought for Douglas ;—ycstcr even,
ills prmce and he have much forgiven •
\\ rong hath he had from slanderous ton-uc
I, tiom his rebel kinsmen, wrong. *" '
\yo would not to the vulgar crowd
Yield what tliey craved with clamour loud:
Calmly we hear 1 and judged his cause,
Our council aided, and our laws.
I stanched thy father's death-feud stern,
W'lth stout De Vaux and gray Glencairn,
And Bothwell's Lord henceforth we own
The friend and bulwark of our Throne-
Hut, lovely infidel, how now.?
What clouds thy misbelieving brow.?
Lord James of Douglas, lend thine "aid ;
Thou must confirm this doubting maid.'
XXV in.
Then forth the noble Douglas sprung.
And on his neck his daughter hung.'
The Monarch drank, that happy hour.
The sweetest, holiest draught of Power-
When it can say, with godlike voice,
Arise, sad Virtue, and rejoice !
Yet would not James the general eye
On Nature's raptures long should pry
He stepped between—' Nay, Doug!as,'nay,
vSteal not my proselyte away!
The riddle 'tis my right to read,
"i'liat brought this happy chuiicc to spccd.^.
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Yes, EUen, when disguised I stray
!n life's more low but happier way,
' i'is under name which veils my power,
^■or falsely veils— for Sti.lin.y's tower
( )t yore the name of Snowdoun claiiiK.,
." 'id Normans call me James Fitz-Jamc;.
'J'luis watch I o'er insulted laws,
'lluis learn to right the injured cause.'--
'1 iicn, in a tone apart and low,
— 'Ah, little traii'ress ! none must know
What idle dream, what lighter thought.
What vanity full dearly bought.
Joined to thine eye's dark witchcraft, drew
IMy spell-bound steps to 15envcnue,
In dangerous hour, and all but gave
Thy Monarch's life to mountain glaive !'
Aloud he spoke — ' Thou still dost hold
That little talisman of gold,
Pledge of my faith, Fitz-James's ring —
What seeks lair Ellen of the King?'
XXIX.
Full well the conscious maiden guessed,
He probed the weakness of her breast ;
But, with that consciousness, there came
A lightening of her fears for Gramme,
And more she deemed the Monarch's ire
Kindled 'gainst him, who, for her sire,
Rebellious broadsword boldly drew;
And, to her generous feelmg true.
She craved tlie grace of Roderick Dhu. —
'Forbear thy suit: — The King of kings
Alone can stay life's parting wings,
I know his heart, I know his hand,
Have shared his cheer, and proved his brand :-
My fairest earldom would I give
To bid Clari-Alpine's Chieftain live! —
Hast thou no other boon to crave?
No other captive friend to save?'
lUushing, she turned her from the Kinj,
A.-d to the Doujlas rave the rin?'.
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As if she wiVed her sire to speak
The suit that stained her glovvin- chcc?-
' ISay then, my pledge ].,s lost itst ■ e'
^^ ho, nurtured underneatli our srv'- '
iiast paid our care by treacherous "ivi'le
And sought, an.id thy faithful clan, "
A.efugeforanoutlaucdman,
Dishonouring thus tliy loyal name.-
J- cttc s and Mardcr for the Gra^nc ' ' -
llis Cham of gold the King unstr m".
1 ^.e Imks o'er Malcolm's neck he flmV^
And laid the c!;Ksp on Ellen's hand.
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Harp of the North farru-rii f ti i -i,
lliy numbers sweet with mtim.'c . J W > ,.
yi,h <li,,an, echo frlTh "fo ,\: ric,'''"'''"-
Yet once again farewell, tl,ou Minstrel Ilimi
May diy cavil at an idle hiy. ^
il'at I o'cdivc such uocs Ficl .?;'; ^' ""^•. •
»'0cs, L.Kl..intici,s : IS thine own.
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.! firk ! as my lin.^crin;^ footsteps slow retire,
:■.' inc S|.irit of the Air lias waked thy string !
'; ; ^ now a seraph bo!d, with touch of lire,
'lis now the brusii of Fairy's fiolic witig.
Ri, ' 'imj now, the dying ninnl)ers ring
Fainter and fainter down the rugged dell,
^nd now the mountain breezes scarcely bring
A wandering witch-note of the distant spell —
fViid now, "lis siisiit all I — Enchantress, fare thee well 1
vE. [CAN'TO VI.
ire,
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CANTO VI.
previous <lay. While the ivv soI.IiST' '^'^ ^''''''' «f '^^
H.ishing their carouse, and tSyjilr;^ ''""'^^^ ^"'-^'^^ »re
»>nttlc, tliey are joined bv o e of H,^- ? '""',""'■' of yesterday's
field, and bring vith him ",S'n ""'"'' ^^'^.^'^ ^as been in the
Allan Bane). Thcy^-eVnl^? '""^^ "^'"•'^"''-^' ('-"'-■» ^"'l
roughly; but the sig^uTf K-r i L' 'f^K^^ '° "■*^''^' '''^ "^'-^i^'^"
n.isfortune, touch the heart if Zotho""'^' ^^ ^''' '''"^y °f
pany, who becomes her chZZl p "" ™\'«''^-'' '" ^''^ 'Horn-
by the ol-llcer of the gua.V o n. ^''"^'V'y ."'<=y "e joined
comnihs the lady to prone cae^^lwLT'' "r .^''^"J'-^^es's ring,
rnan who had interfiredrgiams Al W^"''"°^^^'''-'"^' the guard':
J^-U. fancying that the miS e S o.^' ^P n *"• T? '"f ™^-^'^'--
be shows him into the wronn- ce I .1^ [^odcnek's clansmen,
chief. After anxious enq° fies 1 ' 't^T ''r ^'"^V^^ ^°""<Ic'
Roderick asks news of the i4?\nd r^^^-^ °^^'-^ '''"^''■^^.
verse, sings the battle of Bea? Si n i, ^ 7'''''?^' '" ^P^-i'e'l
doubtful by the arrival of an "i"^' ^^''°'^e issue was left
to.stay the'fight b; before hTj^^^T t, '.^'"^^ ^^'^'^ ^"^ '-^
fP>nt had fled, and the minstrd-; ? ^""^^^^^^ ^^^ ^ong the stern
battle-song to death-dirge ' '''^' '^^^"^'^^ "« ^"ne f'om
aiKli'er^wilh t^e'king?"Arhs;'"FLT^ ^patiently for her
ber to the audience chamber FnL.' ■^''"f"''! '"''''^"^ '^ escort
>be king, and sees toCr s'^p^e th '!^i ''" '"^'^^ """""^ '° ^^^
mains covered, and '' Snowd^ ml i^'-'f " F°'"P^"'o» «lone re-
He tells her how ,he fl,d°S "DV-H'^L'^.^Scotland's king."
ner father is now to '
I5ut she has still the
S IS
Uud
the friend and bulwark of h
lis throne.
'5 lias still the rin- sjtiU s-mn v" " / , "'^ throne."
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C.WTO VI.
from f,irtl,or r.v,nrsf, the kinp cnlls fortl, Mnk-olm, nn.l ihnnvs
over him a t;oldc,. chain, whicli he yives to I^Ilci. to l.co,,.
Lord JcfTrey has ol.jectofl to the Kunr.l-room s-me aiul i.s
na-„m,.any,nj,r so„g as the ,i,nvn!:-st hle.nish in the whole ,.„■;„
t e're^t'" n?;''"'"''' lurcihiy with the grace which characleri^e.:
siu h a cnl.csm seems overstrained. It gives ui a vi.mroi.s
p.cture of a dnss of n.en who pl.y.d a verv in.nortant pa 4
tlie history of tiie t.mr, ••■rj.^.c.uiy acro'o- the'hnrder: me, who
nany of them outlaws f.n.l f,.I„inq, no, for country or f„r kin.r'
u for him who paid them best, were liumoured with cvrvl
Jictnse when they were not on strict militarv duty. Tlie recniire-
etails It IS true ; hut the use which Sir Walter lias made of
t.em-to show the power of l)eauly an 1 innoeen v^, anc the
diords of enderness and goodness wh: d, lie ready 1,/vihratc a
the wildest natures-may surely reconcile us to such a piece of
The scene of Roderick's death harmonizes well with hi.
character. The minstrers account of the ha.n,. ,he poet himself
felt to he somewliat long, and yet it is difficult to see how it
could be curiaile. without spoiling it. It is full of life and
vigour and our only cause of surprise is that ,he lay should only
come to a suMjfi stand when it is really completed.
S/anza \.— Caitiff; 'miserable wretch.' Latin 'captivns ' 'a
Wichf has, ''lie ledde caitifte cailifr Chaucer, "The riche
Cixesus, cayhfm .servage." Popular language has seized upou
the degraded, despicable condition of the captive, and the mean-
ncsses which a servile position engenders, as in 'villain,' on the
blunted morals of the serf; and in 'knave,' on the tricks and
deceits of the serving-boy.
Kind nurse of men. Shakespeare, 2 //e'//;-;' /F. iii. i
"O gentle sleeji,
Natures soft nurse, how have I frighted thee?"
^ Fallct. According to \Ve<lgwood, from the Gaelic 'i^eallaid.'
a sliecp-skin. M,,re probably the same as French ' paillasse '
•a bed of straw. Krendi 'paille,' Latin 'palea.' '
^v^r. ^c'^^V,'; "'"'i4'»^i"ya log of wood attached to the ankle.
J\eh:h'gefyn, Breton 'kef,' 'trunk of a tree;' French 'cep,'
Latin 'cippus. ' '
/.,;y^.^;7/. 'Lorn' is an old participle of 'Icosen,' 'lesen/
our lose.' Cp. ' for-Zc;;/,' Uerman ' ver-^;rw.'
-Beaker. A drinking-vessd. Iinlian 'bicchiere,' German
MCi:. [canto VI.
fnlcolm, nnd iliiows
•(inni scene and iis
n the wiuile )uicin.
wliicli cliaracieiiscs
|rcMt upon inciilfMt
ivcs lu a vi^'oroiis
' inmortaiit part ii>
lioider ; men wlio,
:nuniry or fur kuf^,
noured with every
duty. The leqniie-
'lled witliout lliese
alter lias made of
mncen ", and the
ready to vibrate in
to such a piece of
^cs well with his
''> the poet himself
:ult to see how it
s full of life and
he I.iysliould only
leted.
Uin 'captivus,' 'a
rrcncli 'chelif.'
uccr, "The riche
e has seized upon
ve, and the mean-
n 'villain,' on the
on the tricks and
' 7F. in. I—
;d thee?"
Gaelic 'peallaid,*
rench 'paillasse,'
ea.'
L-hed to the ankle.
;;' rVcneh 'cep,'
Mcosen,' 'lesen,'
cchicre,' German
$33
CANTO VI.] NOTES-TIIE GUARD-ROOM.
i&:Ca^::;;r^'^j;rf - '^eak (Italian 'bccco •
retedt cnte."'' -holly consun.ed ; partly ,unU. but not
3. -_ 7;w dr,7v fwtfir th!, fields the sword,
J ike tenants of af,;ulal imt, '
Ao^ owned the patriarc/uU chum
VJ Uiu'jtaut in their Icider's name -
f < T ^,''''''"^"f'''fs they, » m
^via^s^t^?^z1^:l S t'r ""^i^'^'-r' ''--'
service by then.selves and te nan r£\.t"\^7 -''f^'^y
exercised by the heads of ch . in',1, . r ' , ''Y''''"' '"""^"^-c
was of a dilerent V t re nn I . . ^''-'''•■^'"'s and liorders
p.iucipics. It 1^ f^om 1 r; ':"■'' %\ ^■''^™"-^ ^^"'' ^^■"•'•'^i
themiitia A,^isSLm1hSJ^^;:^'^;ir:''' '■' "^''''"'""^
JoSK.,l^S™^' '^'- '^^^^^'^^y-^^^t "iLd thl!
clKan.eab e vVl e .1 e if , 't I' 'v';'?'""?' P^'"!"^'^ ^^ ^^'^^^ ^xl
h.nd /nd 'b":?' art'';-' '"'^'^ '"'■'.^™ '^^J-.' a
The h^ad gcnS ; cons.' cd of.'" "'? T^' " '°"" '^•-'"'"'^•
o.scent.sh^.ed buSe^a^S i n^^^g ^TwS T ^
"HO England in the rei.n of Edward V J' 1 ,"'°'^"f'"^
weapon of the royal ^uarVl in He rv VIi • I- ""' '^^^P'^culiar
continued in use till the tinK of (Sr.^'i'i/ It't^s inf ";' T^
con,l,u)e m one bill, glaive, and nike intended to
p..ani::'^^,;^';::;S 2 ^;'/-'^- , ^-i'- the French Sects-
t.t n,i;;s you ^e r^ be" L: /?;;J';,",i';" y<^^' '- '^'f ^'"'y ;
0/d A/orta/^t)', ix. Cp the ur^ n . ^^^ 'r''"''''"f^''^ >■''^'•"-
if
i
i *
1
«-'4 THE LADY OF Till; LAKK. Tcanto v,.
.&iS^^, >^,^Tr.;:.y,,];':;-;!„;i;r '"'"■• ■ =" "
JUi)d n. Seo ii. i8, note.
.V,^,?^?""' . ^ '^o""!'-)''"^^". from Cnil,ic 'rravi,' Cernnn 'p-... '
I'Mnc, canton; so in Fiieslan.l 'L'.-ien.an ' -' vi h?'r ^' n '
eja^ . elnmion is M,e that ha.h frl^e E" of A I s^ ii,,.,' ^
f^.ii:i:i;i';;^n:;;;Ki7t^£;,.^r'lv^'r" ""^'' "'-" •-
• ban' against the en^ ny Vl ^3 '^il!: • "'.""'''"y^'^'' ''^
to mean the /..//.. ..-AvW.i.y^;' by an easy "(e,"'."" "'''
Unto hini, •wliich tiie head is,
TT<.n.» . T ,.^"<;'"*^';''brcs/;/uw„ shall /'^:^."
Ilence •obedient.' 'pliable,' "/>u.v^„, tp Uie lawo "-/>.
MU,o„ use, iiyjwu. > r": -"''■'' ''''''"^''"^■■■'
,,,. 'le with bioad sails
^ Uinnowcd the /'w.nw/ air "
'^r.Zosf, bk. ii.842, following SiK.nse,-,'/v7.r/.C«r;;., 5. o ^7
o , ,,. , A daughter fair, ^' ^^'
- f'o /w.nw, bluhe, and debonmii- " /'^//.
Scott uses iU„ .1A.;...., iii. 4 ^ ils'SlI^i^ci?^'^ ^^•
Such /v/4-jw chief shall had his host
to
•IS
^-
Iv[^ f CANTO VI.
talk,' ilioiigli from
ffl so US to (Irnw
'ninil made \>y ilio
^ not always Ijia-u
e son lufore the
uil, miicj hciiee
i,' Cerman 'pan,'
= 'villn-cr.' The
forty .shilliiif^'s l.y
in the election of
n railed upon to
ni,' siunmoiied hy
I'anie in this way
isy steji the ,i/wy
• _ In lej,'al docn-
>i ve\enliir hosti-
llosteni faceie,"
rom 'bugan,' to
} Liov\cr —
e hwc."~Pirs
if conmu idiuion
race of litjure, as
the lilea'of live-
n'nij. "A fi/txom
h.U of a llexiLle
CANTO VI.] NOTKS-TIIE GUARD-ROOM.
■(?«w/f, i. 9, 37.
L'^//c-^;v,
24.
ise—
)St
t;"
ces.
Jhaiicer,
A oiinf
885
/i/,id'
■;<hk. A leathern jug for beer. "The la.fc Mad.
jai U tilled Willi very small Leer of Milnwood
's own brewing.
CJf
I
OLl Mu)l,i/tly, cliai). viii.
Srvm ,i.;u//y si„x. Pride, Sloth, Gluttony, T.ust, Avarice,
l.nvy, and Anger. .See the description in Spender's Jactk- Quarn-.
I'K. 1. canto 4. » ^ f
S,uk. A corru|,lion of 'sec,' dry. Falstair savs, " A r-ood
sherrisM.vC- hati, a tw,.-lold operation in it;" ami in the .vame
siieeeh speaks uf "a ^ec..n.| propeity of your excellent s/urns."
(We have also Canary 'sack,' Malaga 'sack,' inappropriately:
for these are sweet, n.;t dry uines; but the word seems to have
been eoiisi<lered applicable to all white wines.) So the word
came to be used by itself as an e<niivalent for sherry.
"SiirA-, sny^ my bush;
Be merry, and drink s/imy, that's my posie."
rr, . r^/- „ r , ~"''''' J"-^'«'JN. ^\'W /"«, i. 2.
I /'^^■•\, pcnmUy found in the form ' Upsee Dutch,' or
I Ijsee Irise, the Dutch 'op./yn-f,ics,' in the Dutch fa.hion.
So l.eaumont and- Metcher have ' ui,sey.Englisli,' in lu.glish
fasnon. ' I he b,;w which must be 'upsey-Knglish,' strong,
lusty I.ond.m beer." ( Z,',i-„/j ^,«/,, i,, 4.) Scott seems to ha^e
niist.'iken it for a noun.
-•/ Ai,'/"' ///<• z'i'iir. This expression of (
a reiiimiscence of an ignominious punisi:
Milanese by Frederic barbarossa, in rid
nisult a nniive of Milan he would i, mnu
ment by putting his thumb l.etween his hr.l and second filler
an<l thrusting It out at him French 'faire la figue.' (It appears
howevert, to have been a,.,oan ancient Italian custom.-DuL'CE
I.lustratums oj Shal^spere, p. 3r,..; This action became a com-
nion form of insult, or sign of ..ontempt, an<I the expression is
found all over Furope. The same insult was conveyed in another
way, by putting the thumb into the mouth. Cp. Ro„uo and
7 ,\ ' '■•/ iu ^ ,'"'" .'^f, '"y""""^ -^ <lK-m ; whicl: is a discr,ace
o hem , they bear it." Lodge calls it "giving one the>-.,
vuh his thumb in his mouth." Cp. IJany V.\\\. 6: "/>,;
for thy friendship." -^
riackd (Derivation uncertain.) A petticoat, and so tin:
wearer of a petticoat, in the same way that we speak of petti-
coat gov-ernment. Love is called " Dread prince U H^ukch "—
Love s Labour Lmt, iii. i. So b'eaumont and Fletcher, J/um,
lACllt. IV. 3
" Was that brave heart made to pant for a pLichd?"
rons used m the s.me way for the liquor which it contains,
J his t.gure is cal ed maonymy, the thing being named by some
aceompaiumcnt Greek ^rd, 6vof,a) ; so the ermwe is put fur
the judge, or ju.lgeship, the kdiU for the water in it.
is said to be
mllii '.ed upon the
if a man wished t')
him of this lumish
^: 1
i
^
i^
U
:
^-'6 THE I.ADY OF THE LAKE. [eAXXO vr.
A 1 • / , " ^''^ '"'■'-''^' ''^" swords o' the '^atlPiid "
A^slnp W.. when it d.ps, so as to be lo^t'n tile trough of tl>e
6. — l\r!mtrd. T!ie
'nienestfar='aitis;in.
' K
snmc word as 'minister.' Trovenc^l
n.i,,j^rcd.ou;e„;;;;em^;;;':?T,!rJSrm°:'iirj1[^^^^
T.~Pitrz'ey. French 'pourvoir/ to provide Tn -, .^ i
progress x\,^puri<eyors we^e those who S t^fore to rnl?^
provisions the saleof whicli they could enfu -ce a the 2, T '"'
secured lodging t-niuice, as tlie/w/Av/ytr
d«w„ over rt.e h,aa iile a veil, s'ile s^, ;K;Ti J
-A'-r<;«.
Formerly a royal forest in the Tr.^^t Valley
8. — h'eechvood.
in Staffordshiie.
.,d ,l..g„n„on ,i,l ,l,oy acquired ufeA.l J ij^.e^^ri';;;!:",';
^« A'^y^X'' ""''/■/''', -Mith ha>p,r hoar.
Like i'fi-ant daniosd of yore >
armes of a knight and his speart in th d v fc' 'h , ""5,1'f
fal ing before the Queene of Faeries, coinplavned t n h.r A i '
and mother had been by a huge dragon m^rye' JilLltt'up S^a^
E. [CANTO VI.
'nit, to 1)e on the
get a thing fust,
1(1."
lie trough of tlie
er.' rrovenfp.l
me to those who
cand jesting."
'itglcur, or jiig.
m]3anied. Tiie
r Louise,
f the ape soon
ing band of tlie
:hiction to the
m the audience
his fair, nor a
le chain for the
and sit still on
."—Scott.
In a roval
rore to coH'cct
s the harbiu'er
o
lidenas a veil;
", which was
ion-grace.^'
Trent Valley
ichterarder, in
heir residence
is and title by
anight.
I in the letter
" Soone afier
a white As<e,
lliat ijore the
land. Shee,
lat her father
shut up in a
CANTO VI.] NOTES-TIIE GUARD-ROOM.
*i
brazen Castle, and therefore Hesought the Faery Queen e to
assyyne her some one of her kni.y:lits to lake on iiim this""cxpioyt."
Compare also Tennyson's Care.h and Lynette.
^o.—Peniiit I marshal. An unusual construction ; understand
'that.'
Barret-cap. A cloth cap. Italian 'hcrretta,' French 'barrelte,'
from Low Latin ' birretum.'aiul thai from 'birriis'or 'hyrihus,'
a coarse cloth. The ' berrelta ' fatiil forms a part of ecclesias-
tical costume.
\\.— Wilh the Chiefs birth, &c. Note how this speech is
fiamctl so as to mislead the hearer. He would naturally suppose
the chief to be Roderick.
12.— Wheel. An instrument of torture on which malefactors
were stretched after their limbs had been broken. Hence the
French word 'roue,' ' broken upon the wheel.' Cp. —
"The lifted axe, the agonizing wheel,
Luke's iron crown, and Damiens' bed of steel."
—Goldsmith, Traveller.
Unhasp. A.S. 'hreps,' 'a latch or bolt of a door ;' German
Miaspe.' For the change of letters, compare 'task' and 'tax.'
Dungeon. An underground prison. The same word as 'don-
jon,' 'the lar-e tower in a fortress,' 'the keep,' 'that which
f.'W/wawrt'j' the rest.' Latin 'dominio,' 'domnio.' Cp. 'sono-e,'
from 'somnium.' '^
Garniture; 'furniture,' 'tapestry.' French 'garnir,' Italian
'guarnire,' related to 'garer,' 'to look out.' as our 'warn' (its
equivalent), to 'ware.' So it is ' 'o make another look out,' 'to
provide against a thing;' then 'to provide,' 'furnish.'
Leech. A.S. 'Ixce,' Gothic 'leikeis,' 'ahealer,"aphysi
Icelandic 'loekna,' 'to cure.'
\JI3. — Prore. Latin 'prora,* 'prow.*
^ Stem. To stay, resist. I'rom the root 'j/^' of rirceTc forr/z/t,
^.atin 'sto;' Icelandic 'stemmi.' A ship stems the billows by
making head against them. Any one who has seen a stranded
vessel break up will feel the force of the simile. Nothing gives
a better notion of strength made heljiless.
\6,.— Again where ne'er. One of Scott's strange inversions for
' where ne'er at^'ain.'
O'er DermicVs race. A pibroch of the Macgrcgor clan cele-
brated this victory. "There are several insta^K■es, at least in
tradition, of persons so mucli attached to particular tunes as to re-
quire to hear them on their death-bed. "— ScoTT. iJrantome gives
sicianj'
Hi
■ i|
11
J
"3 THE LADY OF THE LAKE, [canto vr.
a curious instance of a lady at the court of France, who asked in
have played to her in thi. way a tune composed on 1 e de eat of
she ^S:ut tj^;M^iL e:rp^i:r?.j'^n;:r ^^'-^ ^° ''^
^ l^'—fl'/^^''// ^'•"^' cft Dume. In 16^0 and 16? r after th*.
ba tie o Dunbar, Cronnvell^s troops wercM^upied in '• redu^^
< etached castles, coercing moss-troopers and in doMil 1.^ n ^
the country to ohedience'"-CARi.J,"'; Cn^S ii ' ^IT^
was durnig this tune thot "a skirmish actually ookphce at a
pass thus called in the Trosachs, and closed wifh the remaH-1,1^
ina lent mentioned in the text "—Scott Oni '"-?;,'^'^^'^^f.''le
engage<l is buried on a littfe emini^K^to the'^o'urh of'the^pr
II s death ed his comrades to make the attack on the island
in? S^.tt?:S :? "^^^ -^'-^ ^^°- ^^
The hvehness of this description of the battle is due to th^
greater variety ot the metre, which resembles tha' of .W.m;V
Ihe hree-accent hues introduced at intervals give t S ness
and he repetition of the some rhyme enables the poet ftS
together withotit break all that forms part of one Stme
t\i'^'''>'' J^-f- '^^F;' P^"""^^ 'cegru;' Old English 'evren»
(Morns 96), 'eggs;' literally 'a collection of e-r/' so S nest '
Sm!a^:r't °"'^°f--^''^'--t. (Greek .r;:ladn "^^^
•vf''r;.n?^i'- '^•?-- u"""' °' '""™'' Gothic 'arn,' German
tToi V.t ' ."o'spl -n? " "'•""' '" ""' """"'^'^ ^^"'^ ^^
Note in this stanza the alliteration which the poet uses In
describing the distant rumbling of the soldiers' march
'^- — ^afieJ. Used of the trapninfrs of n lm,i:« . ,,,.^1 1 1
corruption of ' bard,' French ; bar^" 'honsela.-m ^..^'(^^'^ fs*
^Imrda. 'an armed war-ship.' Icelandic 'barth/a beakcS shipi
IM-a. A plural formed, after a false analogy, like that of
Crock nouns, such as ' phecnomenon,' 'idolon '
^'r?T<wry='vanward,' 'in the front.' 'Van 'is from Ttn;.«
nvanti, French 'avant,' Latin 'ab ante.' C 3. ^li^.e'l 3
1 rcnch 'avantage. ^ »«imaj,c ana
1 7. — Their plight they fy. The meaning of thi
;s is not very
C. [canto VI.
e, wlio asked to
on the defeat of
3ng was "Tout
lel came to this
I.
165 1, after the
din "reducing
detail, bringinjj
^•//, ii. 244. It
3ok place at a
the remarlca1)Ie
of the soldiers
th of the pass,
on the island,
ibove the pie-
is due to the
of Afannion.
■e it lightness,
I)oet to throw
picture,
description of
irists, if once
2te quiet and
jlish 'eyren*
' so 'a nest;'
^vatin «— '■— »
,
'ovum,'
irn,' German
ed with Stem
poet uses in
■ch.
; probably a
r.' Cp. A.S.
beaked ship,
, like that of
from Italian
'antage' and
is not very
CANTO VI.] NOTES— THE GUARD-ROOM. 229
clsar. Possibly 'they keep up a constant fire,' but they seem in too
coaiplete a rout for that. Note the effect of the rcpeate^l rhymes.
Tivilight -dvod. Cp. stanza 16 : "A twilight forest frowned."
The a]ipearance of the spears and pike w;is such that in the
twilight they might have been mistaken at a distance for a wood.
Serried, French 'serre,' 'closely pressed.' From 'serrer,'
Latin 'serare' ('sera'), 'to lock in,' 'bolt,' 'confine.' The
doubling of the r is a mistake which has arisen from a confusion
with 'serra,' 'a saw.'
Tinchel. A snare or gin. "After this there followed nothing
but slaughter in this realm, every party ilk one lying in wait for
another, as they liad been setting tiin/ii/ls for the slair^hter of
wild beasts."— Jam ir.soN. It is a sort oi battue, the game being
surrounded and d.ivcn together.
18. — Hnrhd them. See v. S, and note.
l.inn. i. 3, and not'- "iviceives her linn " is receives the
waters that form the I-'.' . oooL.
19. — Defile. A nariuw gorge, which must be passed in a
//(■ or a string ('de ' and 'filum,' ic string o(V).
The sun tf set, &c. Note the effect of the touch of colour
here, and also that of the rhymes within the line.
^7ho.' /'urii not ■'•11' "ivilh partint,^ life. •
* " The loveliness in death
Thnt 1 art."- ;ini quite with parting breath."— BvRON.
AVv'- l'rui)cily Miiige,' the beginning of a solemn hymn,
"iJirige 1 Jumine, grcs;-\is nieos." So Chaucer —
" Resort, I jiray, unto my sepulture.
To sing my c/i/ige with great devocioun."
20. — Boniet-pures. A gold coin in which the king's hoid
was represented with a bonnet instead of a crown, coined by
the "Commons' King."
Buncraggaii's widowed dame. See iii. 18.
2\.— Elemental. Of the elements.
22. — Note the three-fold rhymes.
l\e,]uiem (like ding), the lirst word of the funernl miss in
the Romish Church, "Requiem a:ternam da iis, Douiinc."
2-5. — Storied ; i.e. of painted glass, representing some scene
from history.
I'\ill. Lightened. See v. 3, and note.
24. — Pereh and hood', i.e. of idleness. The hawk was hooded
when it was not to be llown at any game.
-30 THE LADY OF THE LAKE, [canto vk
so^'Zi^k S!""tE'' ot'''r!f: 'f -'-e (connected 1.
I?i-ced;, hence ' uSlon^^U^'L^i^ ^'il^^' -fT^ !^^"«
livity.' ' '- ""^'^ — servitude,' 'c.-:p-
J repines. Prizes of victory f;iPoV V" ..
a roui. vicioiy. fleck rpoira-m, from rpoTr^,
Ti;:^.i:^rxttfr^rr:;=:r^^^^
so!'/.;:;^ ^?iii.^/;;'^'l^'- °J^l poets for the reccptb„.roo.;
Romeo ar.i'^:^^:^^^ - the/;-.....-'
Cp. ^/a.v2?,'i."8.!i' ^*^^^^'"S/'-^^^«^^full of hVh,.-
•• If she had been \n presence there."
27-— Mr. Ruskin (/7^,/^r;/ 7',?/;,/^;-. :;; ,,q\,.,
nor.I.ern love of rocks in the o S 'jff^y^^ "' ""^'^ '"'«
c.niid not iiave thou^^ht of i5 ' -« Sf' 'f •'■•"'"• " '^'""«
-ow. He must pu\ it on the ne iLchefif"!; '"VT '"
I'eace." Cp. AtKocrat of (he Bmll^^^n I 'I '° ''«^ ''^t
aw.y from I'lcr seat hke /.-^.l^'ftl ?.''^'^ " «'- "-Ued
-4r./5/. AVV,W,>, quoted da ilJluo V ^'"' '" '^^"^ ^^^''-'^^^ ^^
2S.-77.. .-^W .r... /.,. common, pnl.llc. Cp. Hamlet',
rwas caviare to tlie gau; al. " ^ ^' *
-, ■^^ir/t/r,--'s /oracr
Liodsay bes.c^ws the same ^epL?et upon t''""q '^''" ^tl^'^
name generaliy nssumed by Tames U T^ !' ,--'5cott. The
"Laird of Balinpeich " I i^lrnLi' }f ^'-'g^'se, was the
town of Stirhnp, an 1 descends he n^' '^'A ''''^' ^'^"^ t'^«
He was James fv.), the Sid? fc n vT ''"'"'^ ''^^ ^^^''^•"
Jahsiiian. A charm ni- cr>«ii .i \ i
produce »„„eex,rS™™a°;e£ ' ?' 'f?, ""/?'' P""'" '»
^_^r.„,/«„i„._„5i,,,,,,„, g,„ i„,„,^^,.^,_ ___ ^^___^ . _ _^^.^^^_
-. [canto VI,
! (connected !)•.
of slaves beiiiij
rvitude,' 'c.-:p-
", from rpoir^,
prayer, 6 a.m.
y-
ccptbn-roo/n ;
lit."
's us n-)te t'-e
za. "Dame
:r 'est even to
t is to be at
"She melted
the ballad of
p. Hamlet's
lie of the fif.
Sir David
:oTT. I'lie
se, was the
Is from the
the castle."
d power to
ic 'telsam,'
reek rereX-
Kmpiie lo
:l mischicf-
o i., witch-
GIOSS/IRIAL INDEX.
TiiF. References are to Cantos and Stanzas.
-gniist
aciaiii
aiiller
avouch
ban
baiKiuet
bailn.'d
baricl-cai)
bask
batten
battled
bay, at
bead
beaker'
beam
beck
beetle
beltane
beni};hted
ISenhliie
besiirew
bison,
black-jack
blast
blench
bonnel-picce
boon
bootless
l)0SS
boune
bourgeox
bourne
l)OUt,
bower
bra^.i'^r
i. In.
iii. II
iii. 3
I.
8
i. 2
iv. 6
iii. 7
ii. 27
vi. 16
vi. ID
iv. 30
iv. 23
ii. 3'i
i. 8
•• 15
vi. 2
i. 2
V. 9
u.
ii
". 15
. 1. 21
iii. 7
i. 16
i. 27
vi- 5
iii. 26
ii. 30
vi. 20
. i. 12
ii. 30
iv. 5
iv. a
ii. 19
iv. i6
iv. 2
ii. 6
iii. 23
bri(le.,'room
hrigy
brinilled
broi^ne
broke
brook (verb
broom
buckler
bullet
buijle
bulwark
burden
butts
imxom
Cabala
cairn
caitiff
Caledon
caniia
canopy
carpet-knij
chalice
champion
cheer
cliecjuer
chime
claymore
clench
coiMii/ance
coif
coil
coronach
correi
cowl,
crevice
crossbow
ni. 20
iv. 23
i. 6
i. 27
111- 13
>^'- 5
i. 28
i. i.^
iii. 5
V. 25
'• 15
i. II
ii. 18
V. 22
vi. 4
ui
•II
1
vi. I
i. In.
ii. 15
i. 16
V. 14
iii. 2
iv. 23
i. 22
ii- 35
iv. 21
ii. 14
iii. II
V. 31
iii. 20
iii. 24
iii. IS
iii. 16
V. 22
i. 26
V. 18
6
3
I cumber,
curious
cushat-dove
dajTfrer
day-led
dank
daiijded
deiwte
defile (n
dingle
dhge
dispensatioi
doom
drench
dun
dungeon
eglantine
eider
ellia
embo3s
emprize
erne
eyrie
fain
falchion
fallow
fealty
fcml
fell
feud
file
fig (a fig r,;i
flag
flush
foil
iii. 16
iii. 6
iii. 2
V. 16
iv. 27
V- 3
V. 2
vi. 4
vi. 19
i. 10
vi. ly
ii. 12
ii- 34
iii. II
i. 27
vi. 12
i. 12
iii. 29
iv. 3
•• 7
i. 24
vi. 15
vi. IS
T. 4
i. (6
i- 3»
V. 28
V- 15
iii. 10
iv. 17
>• 31
vi- 5
i. 6
iii. 16
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232
fiaught
frolic
frontlet
gallant
gaMl)ol
garniture
gauntlet
ghastly
glaive
glen
glint
gloze
gored
gossliawk .
groyjiound .
grilled
g'i^'ly
guerdon .
gyve
hafTfrard •
lialljerd
liamlet
hap
hectic
henchman
hest
hie
liomage
host
THE LADY OF THE LAKE.
ii- 8 I lurch
jack
jennet
ken
kernes
lackey
lea
leech
links
linn
hn'e-Iiirn
lu l;'e
. 1. 21
. i. 2
V. 17
V. rs
vi. 12
>• 34
li. 29
iv. 8
iii. 4
V. 10
ii. 28
vi. 4
iii. 10
..''• 34
iii. 4
!4
vi. I
II. 12
mavis
meed .
merle ,
meteor
mew
minaret
minion .
minstrel
moody
niorrice- dan-
cers
mosque ,
muster ,
Naiad
odds, tlie
Oread
VI.
iv.
ii.
iy.
iii.
V.
i.
ii
\'i,
ii ■
V.
i.
V.
12
2
12
6
6
II
34
5
6
rout
rowan
ruffian
rubsct
lii.
V.
iv.
i. 17
V. 16
i. 17
iii. 8
vi. 3
iii. 14
J'- 3
u. 32
ii- 35
iii. 18
iv. 10
ii. 29
vi. 4
Lla^an vine . i. 26
imbrue , iv. 28
. V. 10
v. 21
.'• 3
iv. 4
ii- 35
11. 9
vi. 12
ii. 30
i- 3
vi. I
I 23 '
pack . i. 4
page . iii. 27
pngeant . v. 20
palfrey . v. 17
pall . iv. 12
pallet . vi. I
pennon . i. 27
pent . V. 7
pibroch, i. 31, ii. 17
placket . vi. 5
plaid . ii. 3
port . i. 29
Pnck . V. 18
Prore . vi. 13
ptarmigan . i. 22
purvey . vi. 7
quail (verb), ii. 21;
quarry . i. 7
read
reave
recreant
requiem
requite
rile
nod
v. 13
ii. 9
v. 16
vi. 22
i'- 33
iv. 10
i. 2 '
sable -lettered
sack
sapling
sa ve ,
scahl)ard
scathe
I scaur
20 scout
1 1 scar ,
5 sentinel
serried
shaft
shallop
sheen
shelve
shingle
shock
siirewd
shroud
snood
Solstice
sooth
spray
spurn
stalwart
stance
stanch
stedfast
steer (noun)
stem
stoop
store
strath
strathspey ,
streamer
stieight
striplinj .
swain
swarthy
swathe ,
symbol ,
talisman
III,
. \i.
. i.
• ii.
. V.
. iii.
. iii.
. iv.
. iii.
. iv.
. vi.
. iv.
i.
i.
iv.
iii.
v.
i.
ii.
i.
i\'.
i.
iv.
i.
i.
iv.
i.
iv.
v.
\i.
iii.
3
1
5
12
f>
5
i\-
14
14
10
>3
2
iG
2
'7
27
2 J
1 1
5
7
7
4
»■>
29
24
2
5
2)
8
7
S
7
111.
ii.
iv.
ii.
iii.
V.
iii.
iii.
iii.
\i.
'5
27
4
I r
S
I)
14
•4
1 J
:i:.
t
• '• 3
I'.in
. lil. .(
fiaii
. IV. 12
set
le-lcUeretl iii. ^
• ^i- S
ing
. i. 11
:»
• ii. 14
ibard
. V. I.J
. lii. 10
he
r
• ''i- '.^
t
. iv. 2
. iii. 16
incl
. iv. 2
ed
• vi. ]j
t
. iv. 27
op
. i. 2 J
1
• i 11
/e
. 111. 7
:ie
k
. V. 7
vd
. 1. 4
1(1
1
• »• 3,^
. 1. ij
ce
. 1\'. 2<J
. i. 24
. IV. 2
• '• 5
art
. i. 2>
c»
. iv. 8
1
• >• 7
St
. iv. 8
[noun
). V. 7
. VI. 13
• ^''- '5
• ..'• 27
• '"• 4
spcy
• li. 1 1
lor
. iv. 8
U
. ii. ^S
ir'
- 1,1 1 -
o
• 111. i -»
. V. ()
y
. iii. 14
»
• iii. 14
i
• iii. 12
geni:ral index to note.s.
233
in
\L ^a
tnnc;led
. iv.
29
vair
iv.
12
wistful
• ii.
23
tartaa
. ii.
16
vaward .
vi.
16
witch-ehn
. i.
In.
thrall
. vi.
24
veer .
i.
13
Wfild
. iv.
12
Tinchel
. vi.
17
veri^e
V.
29
wone
:)'■
20
Tincman
. ii.
IS
virgin-bower
i.
26
wont
train
. iv.
18
worth ( woe
trophy
. vi.
24
warp
iv.
22
worth)
. I.
9
trow
. iv.
10
weeds
weird
iv.
i.
21
30
wreak
. iv.
27
uncouth
. i.
34
while (verb).
ii.
27
yeoman
. vi.
4
upsces
. vi.
5
wliinyard .
i.
8
yore,
. iii.
I
uaher
. iv.
19
wight
V.
22
GENERAL INDEX TO NOTES.
Adjective for adverb
Adjcctises of Saxon and French derivalion
Albany, Duke of, Regent of Scotland
Alliteration
Alpine
Amphibrachic metre,
Angus, Earl of
Archie of Kilspindie.
Armour, Scottish ... v.
»\scabart . .
Ballad metres .
Jallangeich .
Beltane . .
Ben and Pen .
Bleeding Heart, the .
Borderers James V. suppresses
Bothwell Castle ,
Breaking the deer .
Bruce, Robert .
Cabala . .
Celtic festivals
,, worship .
Deer-flesh dried .
Dispensation, Papal .
Douglas family, their history
,, William, liis death
„ Archie, of Kilspindie
. i.
3
i.
V.
4
6
. iii.
28
ii.
. iii.
19
16
i.
8
V.
22
10, IS,
16
• i.
28
. iv.
12
vi.
28
ii.
IS
i.
I
ii.
16
ii.
28
ii.
8
iv.
8, 10,
5
16
iii.
16
ii.
i.
■1
iv.
31
ii.
12
ii.
8
v.
20
. V.
23
1 1
11
23 ^
■ THE LADY OF THE LAKE.
r.iiries , ,
I'"enai,nis . ,
Fiery Cniss
I'illnn, St.
]''iaiKlors, ils ferliliiy.' [
Flodden, battle of .
Glenartney ,
Iliijhland brogues . ,
M hospitality ,
James v., in France.
„ incognito adventures
„ and the Douglases .
It and the Borderers .
,t the Commons' King
Killing the deer' ,
Knight errantry ,
Loch Ard . ,
„ Achray , *
Menteith .
Metaphor and Simi!
Morrice-dancers
Of — its uses
Otterbourne
Percy ,
;n.
Raven-bone ,
J\.obin Mood
I'ioinan remains
Scotch superstition ,
Scott, his descriptiriD
,, love of c 1
„ songs,
„ inversion .
,, moralising'
Second sight,
Simile and metaphor
Sjienserian stanza
Taghairm . .
Tineman . ,
to (to wife) ,
)tir
V. 13
i. 2S
iii. I
i. In.
vi. 3
i. 2<)
1.
111.
i.
2i>
1. 9
i. 21
ii. 8
ii. 28
V. 21
i. 8
i. 24
\- 5
»• S
!• 5
'• 3
V. 20
i. 26
il. 23
ii. 23
V. 20
y. 12
i. II,
iii. 4
i. rr
iii. 2
..'■ 31
.'.l- '3
III. 2
i. 23
I. In.
iy. 4
}]' »s
11. 30
n,
V. 13
i. 2S
iii. I
i. l!i.
vi. 3
1. 29
i. I
1:1.
29
1
9
I
21
II
8
u.
28
V.
21
i.
8
1.
24
i.
5
1.
5
i.
S
X.
3
V.
20
i.
26
a.
23
ii.
23
\v.
5
V,
20
V.
12
111.
4
].
n
III.
2
1.
31
II.
13
III.
2
I.
23
1.
3
i. In.
iv. 4
li. 15
ii. 30
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