[126] The armorial emblem was gules.
[127] Prince Charles Edward was expected.
[128] Dress ornaments are much prized by the humbler Gael, and make a great figure in their poetry.
[129] The most frequent of all song-images in Gaelic, is the description of yellow or auburn hair.
[130] We must suppose some sylvan social occupation, as oak-peeling or the like, in which Morag and her associates had been employed.
[131] Here follows a catalogue of rival beauties, with satirical descriptions. Cowley has such a list, which may possibly have been in the poet's eye.
[132] Mull.
[133] Morag's beauties are so exquisite, that all Europe, nay, the Pope would be inflamed to behold them. The passage is omitted, though worthy of the satiric vein of Mephistopheles.
[134] The gannet, or the stranger-bird, from his foreign derivation and periodic visits to the Islands.
[135] A snowy grass, well known in the moors.