[8] People would not have me speak any more harm of Mr. Mill, because he’s dead, I suppose? Dead or alive, all’s one to me, with mischievous persons; but alas! how very grievously all’s two to me, when they are helpful and noble ones. [↑]
[9] Out of the first of Scott’s notes to the Lay, but the note is so long that careless readers are sure to miss the points; also I give modern spelling for greater ease. [↑]
[10] A walled group of houses: tynen, Saxon, to shut in (Johnson). [↑]
[11] i. 68. “The indignant laird was on the point of desiring his prisoner to say a last prayer, when his more considerate dame interposed milder counsels, suggesting that the culprit was born to a good estate, and that they had three unmarried daughters. Young Harden, it is said, not without hesitation, agreed to save his life by taking the plainest of the three off their hands.” [↑]
[12] Eldest son, or grandson, of Sir William Scott of Harden, the second in our genealogy. [↑]
[13] Came, by invitation from his landlord, Scott of Harden. [↑]
[14] Here, you see, our subject begins to purpose! [↑]
[15] I give the round numbers for better remembering. Wat of Harden married the Flower of Yarrow in 1567; Robert of Sandy-Knowe married Barbara Haliburton in 1728. [↑]