52. “Reciters,” says Scott, “sometimes call the messenger the laird of Skene.”
21==8.
213. the wanting.
214. in the.
22==9.
224. land.
24==11.
244. come to.
353. Carhead.
50, 54. Passing over the king’s taking off his cap to an outlaw, which is monstrously ‘beneath his state and his dignitie,’ I can make nothing of the line which succeeds in each of these stanzas.