and greater son. He remained on the field till forced away by the Earl of Pembroke, when all was lost. He then rode to the Castle of Stirling, and demanded admittance; but the governor, remonstrating upon the imprudence of shutting himself up in that fortress, which must so soon surrender, he assembled around his person five hundred men-at-arms, and, avoiding the field of battle and the victorious army, fled towards Linlithgow, pursued by Douglas with about sixty horse. They were augmented by Sir Lawrence Abernethy with twenty more, whom Douglas met in the Torwood upon their way to join the English army, and whom he easily persuaded to desert the defeated monarch, and to assist in the pursuit. They hung upon Edward's flight as far as Dunbar, too few in number to assail him with effect, but enough to harass his retreat so constantly, that whoever fell an instant behind, was instantly slain, or made prisoner. Edward's ignominious flight terminated at Dunbar, where the Earl of March, who still professed allegiance to him. 'received him full gently. From thence, the monarch of so great an empire, and the late commander of so gallant and numerous an army, escaped to Bamborough in a fishing vessel.

THE FIELD of Waterloo.

Page 363, line 31. Plies the hooked staff and shortened scythe.

The reaper in Flanders carries in his left hand a stick with an iron hook, with which he collects as much grain as he can cut at one sweep with a short scythe, which he holds in his right hand. They carry on this double process with great spirit and dexterity.

Page 364, line 71. A stranger might reply. [On the margin of the proof sheets submitted by Ballantyne and preserved by him appeared the following:

James. My objection to this is probably fantastical, and I state it only because, from the first moment to the last, it has always made me boggle. I don't like a stranger · Query, the questioned," "the spectator"

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99 gazer, etc.

Scott. Stranger is appropriate - it means stranger to the circumstances."

Line 113. Her garner-house profound.

James. You had changed "garner-house profound," which I think quite admirable, to garner under ground" which I think quite otherwise. I have presumed not to make the change must I?

Scott.I acquiesce, but with doubts: profound sounds affected.']

Page 365, line 155. Pale Brussels! then what thoughts were thine.

It was affirmed by the prisoners of war that Bonaparte had promised his army, in case of victory, twenty-four hours' plunder of the city of Brussels.

Line 177. On! On!' was still his stern exclaim.

The characteristic obstinacy of Napoleon was

never more fully displayed than in what we may be permitted to hope will prove the last of his fields. He would listen to no advice and allow of no obstacles. An eyewitness has given the following account of his demeanor towards the end of the action:

It was near seven o'clock; Bonaparte, who till then had remained upon the ridge of the hill whence he could best behold what passed, contemplated with a stern countenance the scene of this horrible slaughter. The more that obstacles seemed to multiply, the more his obstinacy seemed to increase. He became indignant at these unforeseen difficulties; and, far from fearing to push to extremities an army whose confidence in him was boundless, he ceased not to pour down fresh troops, and to give orders to march forward- to charge with the bayonet -to carry by storm. He was repeatedly informed, from different points, that the day went against him, and that the troops seemed to be disordered; to which he only replied, "En-avant! En-avant!"

Line 187. The fate their leader shunned to share.

It has been reported that Bonaparte charged at the head of his guards, at the last period of this dreadful conflict. This, however, is not accurate. He came down, indeed, to a hollow part of the high-road leading to Charleroi, within less than a quarter of a mile of the farm of La Haye Sainte, one of the points most fiercely disputed. Here he harangued the guards, and informed them that his preceding operations had destroyed the British infantry and cavalry, and that they had only to support the fire of the artillery, which they were to attack with the bayonet. This exhortation was received with shouts of Vive l'Em pereur, which were heard over all our line, and led to an idea that Napoleon was charging in person. But the guards were led on by Ney; nor did Bonaparte approach nearer the scene of action than the spot already mentioned, which the rising banks on each side rendered secure from all such balls as did not come in a straight line.

Line 194. England shall tell the fight!

In riding up to a regiment which was hard pressed, the duke called to the men, 'Soldiers, we must never be beat, what will they say in England?' It is needless to say how this appeal was answered.

Page 366, line 241. As plies the smith his clanging trade.

A private soldier of the 95th regiment compared the sound which took place immediately upon the British cavalry mingling with those of the enemy, to a thousand tinkers at work mending pots and kettles.'

Line 255. As their own ocean-rocks hold stance. [In the marginal notes, John Ballantyne writes: I do not know such an English word as stance,' and Scott rejoins, Then we 'll make it one for the nance.']

Page 368, line 440. Period of honor as of woes. [Sir Thomas Picton, Sir William Ponsonby,

and Sir William de Lancey were among the lost. The last-named was married in the preceding April. Colonel Miller, when mortally wounded, desired to see the colors of the regiment once more ere he died. They were waved over his head, and the expiring officer declared himself satisfied. Colonel Cameron, of Fassiefern, so often distinguished in Lord Wellington's despatches from Spain, fell in the action at Quatre Bras (16th June, 1815), while leading the 92d or Gordon Highlanders, to charge a body of cavalry supported by infantry. Colonel Alexander Gordon fell by the side of his chief.]

Line 446. Redoubled Picton's soul of fire. [James. From long association, this epithet strikes me as conveying a semi-ludicrous idea. 'Scott. It is here appropriate, and your objection seems merely personal to your own association.']

HAROLD THE Dauntless.

Page 381, line 8. Some reverend room, some prebendary's stall.

[It is possible that in these introductory lines, Scott did have a half sly purpose of throwing readers off the scent as to the authorship of the poem. Nobody would suspect Scott of such dreams, though the sentiment might easily have been attached to Erskine, a son of an Episcopal clergyman, and by his temper and predilections, quite likely to entertain such hopes.]

Line 14. There might I share my Surtees' happier lot.

[Robert Surtees of Mainsforth. A Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, and author of The History and Antiquities of the County Palatine of Durham. He was an early and dear friend of Scott's. A club for the publication of documents connected with the history of the English border was formed, named The Surtees Club.] Page 385, line 27. And such-if fame speak truth the honored Barrington.

[Shute Barrington, Bishop of Durham, was a friend of Scott's. The lives of Bishops Matthew and Morton are recorded by Surtees in his History of the Bishopric of Durham.]

Page 398, line 380. A tale six cantos long, yet scorned to add a note.

[Scott here gives a sly dig at the Scott, whose name was not attached to Harold the Dauntless, and whose predilection for notes was well known.]

THE NORMAN HORSE-SHOE.

Page 399, line 14. In crimson light on Rymny's stream.

Rymny is a stream which divides the counties of Monmouth and Glamorgan. Caerphili, the scene of the supposed battle, is a vale upon its banks, dignified by the ruins of a very ancient castle.

THE POACHER.

Page 407, line 62. On the bleak coast of frostbarred Labrador.

Such is the law in the New Forest, Hamp

Page 439, line 10. Since the New Jail became our next-door neighbor.

It is necessary to mention, that the allusions in this piece are all local, and addressed only to the Edinburgh audience. The new prisons of the city, on the Calton Hill, are not far from the theatre.

Line 22. With the tempestuous question, Up or down?

At this time, the public of Edinburgh was much agitated by a lawsuit betwixt the magistrates and many of the inhabitants of the city, concerning a range of new buildings on the western side of the North Bridge, which the latter insisted should be removed as a deformity.

THE BATTLE OF SEMPACH.

Page 442, line 27. The Switzer priest has ta'en the field.

All the Swiss clergy who were able to bear arms fought in this patriotic war.

Line 52. Might well-nigh load a wain.

This seems to allude to the preposterous fashion, during the middle ages, of wearing boots with the points or peaks turned upwards, and so long, that in some cases they were fastened to the knees of the wearer with small chains. When they alighted to fight upon foot, it would seem that the Austrian gentlemen found it necessary to cut off these peaks that they might move with the necessary activity.

THE NOBLE MORINGER.

Page 444. The original of these verses occurs in a collection of German popular songs, entitled Sammlung Deustcher Volkslieder, Berlin, 1807, published by Messrs. Busching and Von der Hagen, both, and more especially the last, distinguished for their acquaintance with the ancient popular poetry and legendary history of Germany.

In the German editor's notice of the ballad, it is stated to have been extracted from a manuscript Chronicle of Nicolaus Thomann, chaplain to Saint Leonard in Weisenhorn, which bears the date 1533; and the song is stated by the author to have been generally sung in the neighborhood at that early period. Thomann, as quoted by the German editor, seems faithfully to have believed the event he narrates. He quotes tombstones and obituaries to prove the existence of the personages of the ballad, and discovers that there actually died, on the 11th May, 1349, a Lady Von Neuffen, Countess of Marstetten, who was, by birth, of the house of Moringer. This lady he supposes to have been Moringer's daughter, mentioned in the ballad. He quotes the same authority for the death of Berckhold Von Neuffen, in the same year. The editors, on the whole, seem to embrace the opinion of Professor Smith, of Ulm, who, from the language of the ballad, ascribes its date to the 15th century.

CARLE, NOW THE KING'S COME.

Page 469, line 47. Come, Clerk, and give your bugle breath.

Sir George Clerk, of Pennycuik, Bart. The Baron of Pennycuik is bound by his tenure, whenever the king comes to Edinburgh, to receive him at the Harestone (in which the standard of James IV. was erected when his army encamped on the Boroughmuir, before his fatal expedition to England), now built into the park

wall at the end of Tipperlin Lone, near the Boroughmuirhead; and, standing thereon, to give three blasts on a born.

Page 470, line 25. Come forward with the Blanket Blue.

[The Blue Blanket is the standard of the incorporated trades of Edinburgh, and is kept by their convener, at whose appearance therewith," observes Maitland, **'tis said, that not only the artificers of Edinburgh are obliged to repair to it, but all the artificers or craftsmen within Scotland are bound to follow it, and fight under the convener of Edinburgh, as aforesaid."']

THE BANNATYNE CLUB.

Page 471. [This club was instituted in 1822 for the publication of rare and curious works connected with the history and antiquities of Scotland. It consisted, at first, of a very few members, gradually extended to one hundred. They assume the name from George Bannatyne, of whom little is known beyond that prodigions effort which produced his present honors, and is, perhaps, one of the most singular instances of its kind which the literature of any country exhibits. His labors as an amanuensis were undertaken during the time of pestilence, in 1568. The dread of infection had induced him to retire into solitude, and under such circumstances he had the energy to form and execute the plan of saving the literature of the whole nation; and, undisturbed by the general mourning for the dead, and general fears of the living, to devote himself to the task of collecting and recording the triumphs of human genius in the poetry of his age and country; thus, amid the wreck of all that was mortal, employing himself in preserving the lays by which immortality is at once given to others, and obtained for the writer himself. He informs us of some of the numerous difficulties he had to contend with in this self-imposed task. The volume containing his labors, deposited in the Library of the Faculty of Advocates at Edinburgh, is no less than eight hundred pages in length, and very neatly and closely written, containing nearly all the ancient poetry of Scotland now known to exist.']

To J. G. LOCKHART, ESQ.

Page 475, line 2. Fat worship.

[So also at foot of the page; Fatsman, one of the many aliases of Mr. James Ballantyne, Speats and raxes are spits and ranges.']

canna, cotton-grass.

arms or chief herald.

carp, talk.

cast, pair (of hawks).

chanters, the pipes of the bagpipe. check at, meditate attack (in falconry). cheer, face, countenance. claymore, a large sword. clerk, scholar.

clip, clasp, embrace.

combust, astrological term.

corbel, bracket.

coronach, dirge.

correi, hollow in hillside, resort of game. crabs, crab-apples.

crenell, aperture for shooting arrows through.

cresset, hanging lamp or chandelier. culver, small cannon.

cumber, trouble.

curch, matron's coif, or head-dress. cushat-dove, wood-pigeon.

darkling, in the dark.

deas, dais, platform.

deft, skilful.

demi-volt, movement in horsemanship. dern, hid.

dight, decked, dressed.

donjon, main tower or keep of a castle.

doom, judgment, arbitration.

double tressure, a kind of border in heraldry. dought, could.'

down, hill.

drie, suffer, endure.

earn (see erne).

eburnine, made of ivory.

embossed, foaming at the mouth (hunter's term). emprise, enterprise.

ensenzie, ensign, war-cry.

erne, eagle.

even, spotless.

falcon, a kind of small cannon. fang, to catch.

far yaud, the signal made by a shepherd to his dog, when he is to drive away some sheep at a distance.

fauld, sheep-fold.

fay, faith.

ferlie, marvel.

flemens-firth, asylum for outlaws.

force, waterfall.

fosse, ditch, moat.

fretted, adorned with raised work.

fro, from.

frounced, flounced, plaited.

galliard, a lively dance.

gallowglasses, heavy-armed soldiers (Celtic).

gar, to make.

gazehound, a hound that pursues by sight rather

than scent.

ghast, ghastly.

plate-jack, coat-armor.

plump, body of cavalry; group, company. poke, sack, pocket.

port, martial bagpipe music.

post and pair, an old game at cards. presence, royal presence-chamber. pricked, spurred.

pryse, the note blown at the death of the game pursuivant, attendant on herald.

quaigh, wooden cup, composed of staves hooped together.

quarry, game (hunter's term).

quatre-feuille, quatrefoil (Gothic ornament). quit, requite.