[37] The Grand Seignior.


CHAPTER XVIII.

Bruce returns to Europe.—Visits Paris—Italy.—Returns to England.—Quarrels with the Writers of the Day.—Retires to Scotland.—Marries.—At last publishes his Travels.—The Incredulity of the Credulous.—Bruce's Disappointment—Sorrow—Death.

"Breathes there the man, with soul so dead,

Who never to himself has said,

This is my own, my native land!

Whose heart has ne'er within him burn'd,

As HOME his footsteps he has turn'd,

From wandering on a foreign strand?"