[CXXXVIII]–[CXL]
The first is from The Monastery (1820).
l. 8. the Queen. Mary, Queen of Scots.
9. hirsels. Flocks.
The second, written in 1825, first appeared in The Doom of Devergoil (1830), Act ii. scene 2.
‘The air of Bonnie Dundee running in my head to-day,’ Scott writes (22nd December), ‘I wrote a few verses to it before dinner, taking the keynote from the story of Clavers leaving the Scottish Convention of Estates in 1688–9. I wonder if they are good!’ (Journal, i. 60).
barkened. Tanned.
carline. Old woman.
couthie. Kind.
douce. Quiet.
duniewassals. Yeomen.
flyting. Scolding.
gang. Go.
ilk. Every.
pow. Pate.
target. A round shield.
The full title of the third number is ‘War Song of the Royal Edinburgh Light Dragoons.’ It was written under the apprehension of a French invasion. The corps of volunteers to which the song is addressed was raised in 1797, and consisted of Edinburgh gentlemen mounted and armed at their own expense.
[CXLI]
From Scott’s Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, 3 vols. (1802–1803). The first four lines of the fourth stanza appear on the title-page of Marmion.