Brightest! if there be remaining
Any service, without feigning
I will do it---were I fet

To catch the nimble wind, or get
Shadows gliding on the green;

Or to steal from the great Queen

Of the Fairies, all ber beauty.-A& 5. sc. laft.

So too in the fong of Tamlane, published in the Minstrelsy of the Scen ifb Border:

On we lap, and away we rade,

Down to a bonny green;
We lighted down to bait our steed,
And we faw the fairy queen,

With four and twenty at her back,

Of ladies clad in green :

Though the king of Scotland had been there,

The worst might hae been his queen.

Spenfer makes his principal hero, King Arthur, perform all his deeds in order to be rewarded with the love of the Queen of Fairies. Also in Chaucer's Rime of Sir Thopas, the knight, like Spenser's Arthur, goes in fearch of the Fairy Queen.

An Elf Quene well I love, I wis,

For in this world no woman is

Worthy to be my make;

All othir womin I forfake,

And to an Elfe Quene me take,

By dale and eke by doune.

Into his faddle he clombe anon,
And pricked over style and stone,
An Elfe Quene to espie;

Till he fo long had ridden and gone,
That he fonde in a private wonne,

The country of Fairie.

10. But every land affords a grave., Grata quies patriae, fed et omnis terra fepulchrum.

-Sannaxarius.

Gg

11. Farewell, where we did refide,

Rocky caves of Moufs

Of the Moufs we have spoken in another note. It runs through the parish of Lanark, which it feparates: Its banks are every where fteep and woody; which steepness increases to an awful height not far from Lanark, where it makes a sweep before entering the Clyde. Here the banks are about 400 feet in height, and are finely varied by the different appearances of rocks, wood, and precipice. To those who have not seen it, the steep banks of the Esk at Roslin will give an in perfect idea. At the bottom runs the river Moufs, in the bed of which one muft walk in order to traverse this den. At every turn of the Moufs the fcene varies; and wherever there is a prominent rock on the one fide there is a corresponding recefs on the other. In one of the moft dreadful of these rocks is the cave which, tradition fays, fheltered Wallace.

In Cririe's Scotifh Scenery there are fome very poetical lines relative to the Mouis, and an engraving from a fine view by Walker.

12. The cave in the round rocky wa'.—In the immense circular rocks facing the Fall of Corra, beneath the pavilion, there is seen a small cave, above a bush or small tree growing from the rock. This is probably that here alluded to by the fairies.'

13. Hemton! Hamton !-Reginald Scott tells us, " Our grandams maides were wont to fet a boll of milke before Incubus and his coufin Robin Goodfellow, for grinding of malt or mustard, and sweeping the house at midnight; and that he would chafe exceedingly if the maid or goodwife of the house, having compaffion of his nakedness, laid afide clothes for him, befides his meffe of white-bread and milke, which was his standing fee. For in that cafe he faith, What have we here? Hemton! Hamten! here will I never more tread nor flampen.”—Difcoveries of Witchcraft, 1585, p. 85.

15. On Douglas' wild and favage fiream.---The water of Douglas flows into the Clyde above the Fall of Bonniton. The country is very

wild towards the mouth of it; but about nine miles up becomes beau. tiful, where the village of Douglas and the Caftle are. This is the the wing of a large new houfe built, where the principal feat was of the most warlike and illuftrious private family in Europe.

16. Down Stonebyres at midnight hour.---The Fall of Stonebyres is about two miles and a half below the Corra Lin, and is fo called from the adjacent estate of Stonebyres. This fail is about eighty feet high, having, like the Corra Lin, three diftinét stages. The cataract is best feen from a point a little below it, and its wild impetuofity contrasts finely with the placidity of the river beneath. The Bonniton Fall contrafts with the calm flow of the Clyde above; in the Corra there is nothing of this. The hanging rocky banks on each side of the Stonebyre Lin are skirted with coppice wood; and upon the whole there is feldom to be feen fo grand a scene.

16. And passing Bothwell's massy tower.---This castle, a few miles below Hamilton, is accounted by fome the nobleft decayed structure in Scotland. Its ruins are two hundred and thirty-four feet in length, and ninety-nine in breadth. The river Clyde here makes a fine sweep, and immediately oppofite the old caftle are the ruins of the Priory of Blantyre. On both fides of the river the banks are steep and fringed with wood.

17. Never up the Leven take.---This river, celebrated by Smollet, who was born on its banks, flows from Lochlomond, and enters the Clyde at Dumbarton Castle.

18. Native land, farewell! farewell !---From a fong in Percy's Reliques of Antient Poetry, written by Bishop Corbett, and entitled, A proper new ballad, entitled the Fairies Farewell, or God-a-mercy Will; to be fung or whistled to the tune of The Meadores Brown, by the learned ;

by the unlearned, to the tune of Fortune." We learn that the fairies did actually disappear about this time, though the good Bishop did not know the true reason.

Witness those rings and round-e-lays

Of theirs, which yet remain,
Were footed in Queen Mary's days,

On many a graffy plain :
But fince of late Elifabeth,

And later James came in ;
They never danc'd on any heath,
As when the time hath been.

END OF THE NOTES.

ERRATA.

Page 139, line 3. For cherry bufhes read cherry blushes.

Airt, point of the compafs, di- Bowt, bolt, dart

Ásk, newt, an animal of the liz- Brock, badger.