- The Lord Buchan.
- I will hold to what I have promised.
- He probably magnifies his strength to induce him to surrender.
- All that follows, included in brackets, was not in the first edition.
- The ancient arms of Douglas are pretty accurately emblazoned in the former
stanza, and if the readings were,The crowned harte, andAbove stode starres thre, it
would be minutely exact at this day. As for the Percy family, one of their ancient
badges or cognizances wasa white lyon,statant, and thesilver crescentcontinues to
be used by them to this day: they also givethree luces argentfor one of their quarters.
26.i.e.the English.
- Being all in armour, he could not know him.
- For the names in this page, see the Remarks at the end of this ballad.
30.i.e. he died that day.
- Our old Minstrel repeats these names, as Homer and Virgil do those of their
heroes:-
... fortemque Gyam, fortemque Cloanthum, &c. &c.
32.i.e. on.
- Sc. captive.
- In the Cotton MS. is the following Note on ver. 164, in an ancient hand:--"Syr
Hewe Mongomery takyn prizonar, was delyvered for the restorynge of Perssy."