For so the Dwarf his part did play."
And there, according to his own malicious nature, played likewise a score of monkey tricks, all of which, grotesque and "undignified"! as they may be, yet most ingeniously divert the mind of the reader from the real errand and mission of this supernatural being.
Shortly afterwards, on his exhibiting symptoms of cowardice at the expected contest, he is conveyed from the castle by the Ladye's order, and speedily rejoins his lord, after the infliction of a severe chastisement from the arm of Wat Tinlinn. He then procures Cranstoun's admission within the walls of Branksome (where the whole clan Scott was assembling at the tidings of the English Raid) by the same spell—
"Which to his lord he did impart,
And made him seem, by glamour art,
A knight from hermitage."
And on the following day, as Deloraine did not appear in the lists ready to engage in the appointed duel with Richard Musgrave, we are told,—
"Meantime, full anxious was the Dame,
For now arose disputed claim,