Discourse on Duels, and the work on the same subject, « si gentement écrit,» by the venerable Dr Paris de Puteo. The Highlanders continued to use broadsword and target until disarmed after the affair of 1745-6. Note 8. Stanza xvi. Like mountain-cat who guards her young, I have not ventured to render this duel so savagely desperate as that of the celebrated Sir Ewan of Lochiel, chief of the clan Cameron, called, from his sable complexion, Ewan Dhu. He was the last man in Scotland who maintained the royal cause during the great civil war, and his constant incursions rendered him a very unpleasant neighbour to the republican garrison at Inverlochy, now Fort William. The governor of the fort detached a party of three hundred men to lay waste Lochiel's possessions, and cut down his trees; but, in a sudden and desperate attack, made upon them by the chieftain, with very inferior numbers, they were almost all cut to pieces. The skirmish is detailed in a curious memoir of Sir Ewan's life, printed in the Appendix of Pennant's Scottish Tour. << In this engagement, Lochiel himself had several wonderful escapes. In the retreat of the English, one of the strongest and bravest of the officers retired behind a bush, when he observed Lochiel pursuing, and seeing him unaccompanied with any, he leapt out, and thought him his prey. They met one another with equal fury. The combat was long and doubtful: the English gentleman had by far the advantage in strength and size; but Lochiel exceeding him in nimbleness and agility, in the end tript the sword out of his hand: they closed, and wrestled, till both fell to the ground, in each other's arms. The English officer got above Lochiel, and pressed him hard, but stretching forth his neck, by attempting to disengage himself, Lochiel, who by this time had his hands at liberty, with his left hand seized him by the collar, and jumping at his extended throat, he bit it with his teeth quite through, and kept such a hold of his grasp, that he brought away his mouthful: this, he said, was the sweetest bit he ever had in his lifetime.»-Vol. I, p. 375. Note 9. Stanza xx. -Ye towers! within whose circuit dread its having been the scene of a courtly amusement alluded to by Sir David Lindsay, who says of the pastimes in which the young king was engaged, Some harl'd him to the Hurly-hacket; which consisted in sliding, in some sort of chair it may be supposed, from top to bottom of a smooth bank. The boys of Edinburgh, about twenty years ago, used to play at the hurly-hacket on the Calton-hill, using for their seat a horse's skull. Note 10. Stanza xx. The burghers hold their sports to-day. Every burgh of Scotland, of the least note, but more especially the considerable towns, had their solemn play, or festival, when feats of archery were exhibited, and prizes distributed to those who excelled in wrestling, hurling the bar, and the other gymnastic exercises of the period. Stirling, a usual place of royal residence, was not likely to be deficient in pomp upon such occasions, especially since James V was very partial to them. His ready participation in these popular amusements was one cause of his acquiring the title of King of the Commons, or Rex Plebeiorum, as Lesley has latinised it. The usual prize to the best shooter was a silver arrow. Such a one is preserved at Selkirk and at Peebles. At Dumfries, a silver gun was substituted, and the contention transferred to fire-arms. The ceremony, as there performed, is the subject of an excellent Scottish poem, by Mr John Mayne, entitled the Siller Gun, 1808, which surpasses the efforts of Fergusson, and comes near those of Burns. Of James's attachment to archery, Pitscottie, the faithful, though rude recorder of the manners of that period, has given us evidence: << In this year there came an ambassador out of England, named Lord William Howard, with a bishop with him, with many other gentlemen, to the number of threescore horse, which were all the able men and waled (picked) men for all kind of games and pastimes, shooting, louping, running, wrestling, and casting of the stone, but they were well 'sayed (essayed or tried) ere they past out of Scotland, and that by their own provocation; but ever they tint; till at last, the Queen of Scotland, the king's mother, favoured the Englishmen, because she was the king of England's sister: and therefore she took an enterprise of archery upon the English-men's hands, contrary her son the king, and Stirling was often polluted with noble blood. It is any six in Scotland that he would wale, either gentlethus apostrophised by J. Johnston: -Discordia tristis Heu quoties procerum sanguine tinxit humum! The fate of William, eighth Earl of Douglas, whom James II stabbed in Stirling Castle with his own hand, and while under his royal safe-conduct, is familiar to all who read Scottish history. Murdack Duke of Albany, Duncan Earl of Lennox, his father-in-law, and his two sons, Walter and Alexander Stuart, were executed at Stirling, in 1425. They were beheaded upon an eminence without the castle walls, but making part of the same hill, from whence they could behold their strong castle of Doune, and their extensive possessions. This << heading hill,» as it was sometimes termed, bears commonly the less terrible name of Hurly-hacket, from men or yeomen, that the English-men should shoot against them, either at pricks, revers, or buts, as the Scots pleased. << The king hearing this of his mother, was content, and gart her pawn a hundred crowns, and a tun of wine, upon the English-men's hands; and he incontinent laid down as much for the Scottish-men. The field and ground was chosen in St Andrews, and three landed men and three yeomen chosen to shoot against the English-men, to wit, David Wemyss of that ilk, David Arnot of that ilk, and Mr John Wedderburn, vicar of Dundee ; the yeomen, John Thomson, in Leith, Steven Taburner, with a piper, called Alexander Bailie; they shot very near, and warred (worsted) the Englishmen of the enterprise, and wan the hundred crowns and the tun of wine, which made the king very merry that his men wan the victory.»—P. 147. Note 11. Stanza xxii. --Robin Hood. proud, and that they had too high a conceit of themselves, joined with a contempt and despising of all others. Wherefore, being wearied of that life, and The exhibition of this renowned outlaw and his band remembering the king's favour of old towards him, he was a favourite frolic at such festivals as we are de- determined to try the king's mercifulness and clemency. scribing. This sporting, in which kings did not disdain So he comes into Scotland, and, taking occasion of the to be actors, was prohibited in Scotland upon the Re-king's hunting in the park at Stirling, he casts himself formation, by a statute of the 6th Parliament of Queen to be in his way, as he was coming home to the castle. Mary, c. 61. A. D. 1555, which ordered, under heavy So soon as the king saw him afar off, ere he came penalties, that «< na manner of person be chosen Robert near, he guessed it was he, and said to one of his Hude, nor Little John, Abbot of Unreason, Queen of courtiers, yonder is my Gray-Steill, Archibald of KilsMay, nor otherwise.» But 1561, «<the rascal multi-pindie, if he be alive. The other answered, that it tude,» says John Knox, «were stirred up to make a could not be he, and that he durst not come into the Robin Hude, whilk enormity was of mony years left king's presence. The king approaching, he fell upon and damned by statute and act of Parliament; yet his knees and craved pardon, and promised from would they not be forbidden.» Accordingly they raised thenceforward to abstain from meddling in public afa very serious tumult, and at length made prisoners fairs, and to lead a quiet and private life. The king the magistrates who endeavoured to suppress it, and went by, without giving him any answer, and trotted a would not release them till they extorted a formal good round pace up the hill. Kilspindie followed, and, promise that no one should be punished for his share though he wore on him a secret, or shirt of mail, for of the disturbance. It would seem, from the comhis particular enemies, was as soon at the castle-gate as plaints of the General Assembly of the Kirk, that these the king. There he sat him down upon a stone withprofane festivities were continued down to 1592. Bold out, and entreated some of the king's servants for a Robin was, to say the least, equally successful in maincup of drink, being weary and thirsty; but they, feartaining his ground against the reformed clergy of Eng-ing the king's displeasure, durst give him none. When land for the simple aud evangelical Latimer complains of coming to a country church, where the people refused to hear him, because it was Robin Hood's day; and his mitre and rochet were fain to give way to the village pastime. Much curious information on this subject may be found in the Preliminary Dissertation to the late Mr Ritson's edition of the songs respecting this memorable outlaw. The game of Robin Hood was usually acted in May; and he was associated with the morrice-dancers, on whom so much illustration has been bestowed by the commentators on Shakspeare. A very lively picture of these festivities, containing a great deal of curious information on the subject of the private life and amusements of our ancestors, was thrown by the late ingenious Mr Strutt, into his romance entitled Queen-Hoo-ilall, published after his death, in 1808. Note 12. Stanza xxii. The monarch gave the arrow bright. The Douglas of the poem is an imaginary person, a supposed uncle of the Earl of Angus. But the king's behaviour during an unexpected interview with the Laird of Kilspindie, one of the banished Douglasses, under circumstances similar to those in the text, is imitated from a real story told by Hume of Godscroft. I would have availed myself more fully of the simple and affecting circumstances of the old history, had they not been already woven into a pathetic ballad by my friend Mr Finlay.2 « His (the king's) implacability (towards the family of Douglas) did also appear in his carriage towards Archibald of Kilspindie, whom he, when he was a child, loved singularly well for his ability of body, and was wont to call him his Gray-Steill.3 Archibald being banished into England, could not well comport with the humour of that nation, which he thought to be too 1 Book of the Universal Kirk, p. 414. See Scottish Historical and Romantic Ballads. Glasgow, 1808, vol. II, p. 117. A champion of popular romance. See ELLIS's Romances, vol. II. cup of the king was set at his dinner, he asked what he had Note 13. Stanza xxiii. Prize of the wrestling match, the king The usual prize of a wrestling was a ram and a ring, but the animal would have embarrassed my story. Thus in the Cokes Tale of Gamelyn, ascribed to Chaucer: There happed to be there beside Tryed a wrestling; Again the Litil Geste of Robin Hood: -By a Bridge was a wrestling, A full fayre game there was set up, A great courser with saddle and brydle, RITSON'S Robin Hood, vol. I. CANTO VI. Note 1. Stanza iii. These drew not for their fields the sword, Of chieftain in their leader's name; The Scottish armies consisted chiefly of the nobility and barons, with their vassals, who held lands under them, for military service by themselves and their tenants. The patriarchal influence exercised by the heads of clans in the Highlands and Borders was of a different nature, and sometimes at variance with feudal principles. It flowed from the Patria Potestas exercised by the chieftain, as representing the original father of the whole name, and was often obeyed in contradiction to the feudal superior. James V seems first to have introduced, in addition to the militia furnished from these sources, the service of a small number of mercenaries, who formed a body-guard, called the Foot-Band. The satirical poet, Sir David Lindsay (or the person who wrote the prologue to his play of the <<Three Estaites»), has introduced Finlay of the Foot-Band, who, after much swaggering upon the stage, is at length put to flight by the fool, who terrifies him by means of a sheep's skull upon a pole. I have rather chosen to give them the harsh features of the mercenary soldiers of the period, than of this Scottish Thraso. These partook of the character of the Adventurous Companions of Froissart, or the Condottieri of Italy. One of the best and liveliest traits of such manners is the last will of a leader, called Geoffroy Tete Noir, who having been slightly wounded in a skirmish, his intemperance brought on a mortal disease. When he found himself dying, he summoned to his bed-side the adventurers whom he commanded, and thus addressed them : -I wyll give them accordynge to my conscyence. Wyll ye all be content to fulfil my testament; howe say ye?-Sir, quod they, we be ryghte well contente to fulfyl your commaundement. Thane first, quod he, I wyll and give to the chapel of Saynt George, here in this castell, for the reparations thereof, a thousande and five hundrede frankes: and I give to my lover, who hath truly served me, two thousand and five hundrede frankes: and also I give to Aleyne Roux, your new capitayne, four thousande frankes: also to the varlettes of my chambre I gyve fyve hundrede frankes. To mine offycers I give a thousande and five hundrede frankes. The rest I gyve and bequeth as I shall show you. Ye be upon a thyrtie companyons all of one sorte: ye ought to be brethrene, and all of one alyaunce, without debate, ryotte, or stryffe among you. All this that I have showed you ye shall fynde in yonder cheste. I wyll that ye departe all the residue equally and truelly bitwene you thyrtie. And if ye be nat thus contente, but that the devylle wyll set debate bitwene you, than beholde yonder is a strong axe, breke up the coffer, and gette it who can.-To these words every one ansuered and said, Sir, and dere maister, we are and shall be all of one accorde. Sir, we have so moch loved and doated you, that we will breke no coffer, nor breke no poynt of that ye have ordayned and commanded.»-Lord BERNERS' Froissart. Note 2. Stanza vi. Thou now hast glee-maiden and harp! The jongleurs, or jugglers, as we learn from the elaborate work of the late Mr Strutt, on the sports and pastimes of the people of England, used to call in the aid of various assistants, to render these performances as captivating as possible. The glee-maiden was a necessary attendant. Her duty was tumbling and dancing; and therefore the Anglo Saxon version of Saint Mark's Gospel states Herodias to have vaulted or tumbled before King Herod. In Scotland, these poor creatures seem, even at a late period, to have been bondswomen to their masters, as appears from a case reported by Fountainhall. << Reid the mountebank pursues Scot of Harden and his lady, for stealing away from him a little girl, called the tumbling-lassie, that danced upon his stage; and he claimed damages, and produced a contract, whereby he bought her from her mother for 3ol. Scots. But we have no slaves in Scotland, and mothers cannot sell their bairnes; and physicians and her joints were now grown stiff, and she declined to return; though she was at least a 'prentice, and so could not run away from her master yet some cited Moses's law, that if a servant shelter himself with thee, against his master's cruelty, thou shalt surely not deliver him up. The lords, renitente cancellario, assoilzied Harden, on the 27th of January (1687).»-FOUNTAINHALL'S Decisions, vol. I, p. 439.1 << Fayre sirs, quod Geffray, I knowe well ye have alwayes served and honoured me as men ought to serve their soveraygne and capitayne, and I shal be the glad-attested, the employment of tumbling would kill her; der if ye will agre to have to your capitayne one that is descended of my blode. Behold here Aleyne Roux, my cosyn, and Peter his brother, who are men of armes and of my blode. I require you to make Aleyne your capitayne, and to swere to him faythe, obeysaunce, love, and loyalte, here in my presence, and also to his brother: howe be it, I will that Aleyne have the soverayne charge.—Sir, quod they, we are wel content, for ye hauve right well chosen. There all the companyons made theym servyant to Aleyne Roux and to Peter his brother. When all that was done, then Geffraye spake agayne, and sayd: Nowe, sirs, ye have obeyed to my pleasure, I canne you great thanke; wherefore, sirs, I wyll ye have parte of that ye have holpen to conquere. I say unto you, that in yonder chest that ye se stande yonder, therein is to the sum of xxx thousande frankes, Though less to my purpose, I cannot help noticing a circumstance, respecting another of this Mr Reid's attendants, which occurred during James II's zeal for catholic proselytism, and is told by Fountainhall with dry Scottish irony. January 17th, 1687. Reid the mountebank is received into the popish church, and one popish priests, and to turn christian papist; which was a great of his blackamores was persuaded to accept of baptism from the trophy: he was called James, after the king and chancellor, and the apostle James."—Ibid. p. 440. << In this roughly-wooded island,' the country people secreted their wives and children, and their most valuable effects, from the rapacity of Cromwell's sol The facetious qualities of the ape soon rendered him an acceptable addition to the strolling band of the jongleur. Ben Jonson, in his splenetic introduction to the comedy of « Bartholomew Fair,» is at pains to in-diers, during their inroad into this country, in the time form the audience «that he has ne'er a sword and buckler man in his Fair, nor a juggler, with a welleducated ape, to come over the chaine for the King of England, and back again for the prince, and sit still on his haunches for the pope and the King of Spaine.»> Note 3. Stanza xiv. That stirring air that peals on high, O'er Dermid's race our victory. Strike it! There are several instances, at least in tradition, of persons so much attached to particular tunes, as to require to hear them on their death-bed. Such an anecdote is mentioned by the late Mr Riddel of Glenriddel, in his collection of Border tunes, respecting an air called the «< Dandling of the Bairns,» for which a certain Gallovidian laird is said to have evinced this strong mark of partiality. It is popularly told of a famous freebooter, that he composed the tune known by the name of Macpherson's Rant while under sentence of death, and played it at the gallows-tree. Some spirited words have been adapted to it by Burns. similar story is recounted of a Welch bard, who com A posed and played on his death-bed the air called Dafyddy Garregg Wen, But the most curious example is given by Brantome, of a maid of honour at the court of France, entitled, Mademoiselle de Limueil. «Durant sa maladie, dont elle trespassa, jamais elle ne cessa, ains causa tousjours; car elle estoit forte grande parleuse, brocardeuse, et très-bien et fort à propos, et très-belle avec cela. Quand l'heure de sa fin fut venue, elle fit venir à soy son valet, (ainsi que les filles de la cour en ont chacune un), qui s'appeloit Julien, et scavoit très-bien jouer du violon. ‘Julien, luy dit elle, prenez vostre violon, et sonnez moy tousjours jusques à ce que me voyez morte (car je m'y en vais) la défaite des Suisses, et le mieux que vous pourrez, et quand vous serez sur le mot,' Tout est perdu,' sonnez le par quatre ou cing fois, le plus piteusement que vous pourrez,' ce que fit l'autre, et elle-mesme luy aidoit de la voix, et quand ce vint ‘tout est perdu,' elle le réitera par deux foix; et se tournant de l'autre costé du chevet, elle dit à ses compagnes: Tout est perdu à ce coup, et à bon escient;' et ainsi décéda. Voila une morte joyeuse et plaisante. Je tiens ce conte de deux de ses compagnes, dignes de fois, qui virent jouer ce mystere.»-OEuvres de Brantome, III, 507. The tune to which this fair lady chose to make her final exit was composed on the defeat of the Swiss at Marignano. The burden is quoted by Panurge, in Rabelais, and consists of these words, imitating the jargon of the Swiss, which is a mixture of French and German : Tout est velore, La Tintelore, Tout est velore bi Got? Note 4. Stanza xv. Battle of Beal' an Duine. A skirmish actually took place at a pass thus called in the Trosachs, and closed with the remarkable incident mentioned in the text. It was greatly posterior in date to the reign of James V. of the republic. These invaders, not venturing to ascend by the ladders, along the side of the lake, took a more circuitous road, through the heart of the Trosachs, the most frequented path at that time, which penetrates the wilderness about half-way between Binean and the lake, by a tract called Yea-chilleach, or the Old Wife's Bog, << In one of the defiles of this by-road, the men of the country at that time hung upon the rear of the invading enemy, and shot one of Cromwell's men, whose marks the scene of action, and gives name grave to that pass. In revenge of this insult the soldiers resolved to plunder the island, to violate the women, and put the children to death. With this brutal intention, one of the party, more expert than the rest, swam towards the island, to fetch the boat to his comrades, which had carried the women to their asylum, stood on the shore of the main-land, in full view of all and lay moored in one of the creeks. His companions that was to pass, waiting anxiously for his return with the boat. But just as the swimmer had got to the nearest point of the island, and was laying hold of the very point where he meant to land, hastily snatcha black rock, to get on shore, a heroine, who stood on severed his head from the body. His party seeing this ing a dagger from below her apron, with one stroke disaster, and relinquishing all future hope of revenge rilous situation. This amazon's great-grandson lives at or conquest, made the best of their way out of their peBridge of Turk, who, besides others, attests the truth of this anecdote.»-Sketch of the Scenery near Callender. Stirling, 1806, p. 20. I have only to add to this account that the heroine's name was Helen Stuart. Note 5. Stanza xxvi. And Snowdoun's knight is Scotland's king. This discovery will probably remind the reader of the beautiful Arabian tale of Il Bondocani. Yet the incident is not borrowed from that elegant story, but from Scottish tradition. James V, of whom we are treating, was a monarch whose good and benevolent intentions often rendered his romantic freaks venial, if not respectable, since, from his anxious attention to the interests of the lower and most oppressed class of his subjects, he was, as we have seen, popularly termed King of the Commons. For the purpose of seeing that justice was regularly administered, and frequently from the less justifiable motive of gallantry, he used to traverse the vicinage of his several palaces in various disguises. The two excellent comic songs, entitled << The Gaberlunzie Man,» and « We'll gae nae mair a roving,>> are said to have been founded upon the success of his amorous adventures when travelling in the disguise of a beggar. The latter is perhaps the best comic ballad in any language. Another adventure, which had nearly cost James his life, is said to have taken place at the village of Cramond, near Edinburgh, where he had rendered his addresses acceptable to a pretty girl of the lower rank. That at the eastern extremity of Loch Katrine, so often mentioned in the text. 2 Beallach an duine. Four or five persons, whether relations or lovers of his mistress is uncertain, beset the disguised monarch, as he returned from his rendezvous. Naturally gallant, and an admirable master of his weapon, the king took post on the high and narrow bridge over the Almond river, and defended himself bravely with his sword. A peasant, who was threshing in a neighbouring barn, came out upon the noise, and, whether moved by compassion or by natural gallantry, took the weaker side, and laid about with his flail so effectually, as to disperse the assailants, well threshed, even according to the letter. He then conducted the king into his barn, where his guest requested a basin and towel, to remove the stains of the broil. This being procured with difficulty, James employed himself in learning what was the summit of his deliverer's earthly wishes, and found that they were bounded by the desire of possessing, in property, the farm of Braehead, upon which he laboured as a bondsman. The lands chanced to belong to the crown: and James directed him to come to the palace of Holyrood, and inquire for the Gudeman (i. e. farmer) of Ballanguich, a name by which he was known in his excursions, and which answered to the Il Bondocani of Haroun Alraschid. He presented himself accordingly, and found, with due astonishment, that he had saved his monarch's life, and that he was to be gratified with a crown-charter of the lands of Braehead, under the service of presenting an ewer, basin, and towel, for the king to wash his hands, when he shall happen to pass the Bridge of Cramond. This person was ancestor of the Howisons of Braehead, in Mid-Lothian, a respectable family, who coutinue to hold the lands (now passed into the female line) under the same tenure. Another of James's frolics is thus narrated by Mr Campbell, from the Statistical Account. Being once benighted when out a-hunting, and separated from his attendants, he happened to enter a cottage in the midst of a moor, at the foot of the Ochil hills, near Alloa, where, unknown, he was kindly received. In order to regale their unexpected guest, the gudeman (i, e. landlord, farmer,) desired the gudewife to fetch the hen that roosted nearest the cock, which is always the plumpest, for the stranger's supper. The king, highly pleased with his night's lodging and hospitable entertainment, told mine host, at parting, that he should be glad to return his civility, and requested that the first time he came to Stirling he would call at the castle, and inquire for the gudeman of Ballanguich. Donaldson, the landlord, did not fail to call on the gudeman of Ballanguich, when his astonishment at finding that the king had been his guest afforded no small amusement to the merry monarch and his courtiers; and, to carry on the pleasantry, he was thenceforth designated by James with the title of King of the Moors, which name and designation have descended from father to son ever since, and they have continued in possession of the identical spot, the property of Mr Erskine of Mar, till very lately, when this gentleman, with reluctance, turned out the descendant and representative of the King of the Moors, on account of his majesty's invincible indolence, and great dislike to reform or innovation of any kind, although from the spirited example of his neighbour tenants on the same estate, he is convinced similar exertion would promote his advantage.»> The author requests permission yet farther to verify the subject of his poem, by an extract from the genealogical work of Buchanan of Auchmar, upon Scottish surnames. «This John Buchanan of Auchmar and Arnpryor was afterwards termed King of Kippen,' upon the following account: King James V, a very sociable, debonair prince, residing at Stirling, in Buchanan of Arnpryor's time, carriers were very frequently passing along the common road, being near Arnpryor's house, with necessaries for the use of the king's family; and he, having some extraordinary occasion, ordered one of these carriers to leave his load at his house, and he would pay him for it; which the carrier refused to do, telling him he was the king's carrier, and his load for his majesty's use; to which Arnpryor seemed to have small regard, compelling the carrier, in the end, to leave his load; telling him, if King James was king of Scotland, he was king of Kippen, so that it was reasonable he should share with his neighbour king in some of these loads, so frequently carried that road. The carrier representing this usage, and telling the story, as Arnpryor spoke it, to some of the king's servants, it came at length to his majesty's ears, who, shortly thereafter, with a few attendants, came to visit his neighbour king, who was in the mean time at dinner. King James having sent a servant to demand access, was denied the same by a tall fellow with a battle-axe, who stood porter at the gate, telling, there could be no access till dinner was over. This answer not satisfying the king, he sent to demand access a second time; upon which he was desired by the porter to desist, otherwise he would find cause to repent his rudeness. His majesty finding this method would not do, desired the porter to tell his master that the goodman of Ballageigh desired to speak with the king of Kippen. The porter telling Arnpryor so much, he, in all humble manner, came and received the king, and having entertained him with much sumptuousness and jollity, became so agreeable to King James, that he allowed him to take so much of any provision he found carrying that road as he had occasion for; and seeing he had made the first visit, desired Arnpryor in a few days to return him a second to Stirling, which he performed, and continued in very much favour with the king, always thereafter being termed king of Kippen while he lived.»> -BUCHANAN'S Essay upon the Family of Buchanan. Edin. 1775, Svo. p. 74. The readers of Ariosto must give credit for the amable features with which he is represented, since he is generally considered as the prototype of Zerbino, the most interesting hero of the Orlando Furioso. Note 6. Stanza xxviii. Of yore the name of Snowdoun claims. William of Worcester, who wrote about the middle of the fifteenth century, calls Stirling Castle Snowdoun. Sir David Lindsay bestows the same epithet upon it in his Complaint of the Paping. Adieu, fair Snawdoun, with thy towers high, A small district of Perthshire. |
