"I never mair suld gang frae hame,
"Till borne on a bier-tree."
NOTES ON AULD MAITLAND.
Young Edward hight his name.—P, 25. v. 2.
Were it possible to find an authority for calling this personage Edmund, we should be a step nearer history; for a brother, though not a nephew of Edward I., so named, died in Gascony during an unsuccessful campaign against the French.—Knighton, Lib. III. cap. 8.
I wish him dool and pyne.—P. 26. v. 3.
Thus, Spenser, in Mother Huberd's tale—