16. Why should Scotland’s earth be called “kindly”?
17. What does “betide” mean? Tell in your own words what Sir Simon replied. (“Whatever happens to me, I’ll do as you command.”)
18. What does Sir Simon promise?
19. What does “aye” mean? (In this place it means “for a long time.”) What is meant by on our “lee”? (The wind blew toward Spain, and across the course of the ship; hence the coast appeared on the lee side of the vessel.) Why should the poet say the coast rose “grimly”?
20. What are “atabals”? (Tabors or kettledrums used by the Moors.)
21. Who asks the question about the Eastern music and the crowd of armed men?
22. What was Castile? (A province of Spain.) Who answers the question asked in the twenty-first stanza?
23. What is meant by the “Cross in jeopardie”? (The Spaniards were a Christian nation fighting under the symbol of the Cross. The Moors were the infidels or Moslems whose success would destroy the Christian religion in Spain. Their symbol was the crescent.)
24. What does “Have down” mean? (It means “Let us land.”)
25. Who speaks in the twenty-fifth stanza?