"Comets importing change of times and states;"

and again,—

"Now shine it like a Comet of revenge, A prophet to the fall of
all our foes;"

and Milton, in Paradise Lost,—

"and like a Comet burn'd,
That fires the length of Ophiuchus huge
In th' Artick sky, and from his horrid hair
Shakes pestilence and war."

[664] Newbattle, in the parish of that name in Mid-Lothian, was the site of an Abbey founded by David the First, in the year 1140.

[665] Wark Castle: [see note [327].

[666] Maxwell-heugh, is a village on a height to the south of the Tweed, nearly opposite the eastern part of the town of Kelso.

[667] Hume Castle: [See note [524].

[668] In MS. G, "pavilion."