Vengeance! vengeance! when and where?
On the house of Coldingknow, now and ever mair!
The spot is rendered classical by its having given name to the beautiful melody, called the Broom o' the Cowdenknows.
They roused the deer from Caddenhead,
To distant Torwoodlee.—P. [216]. v. 3.
Torwoodlee and Caddenhead are places in Selkirkshire.
How courteous Gawaine met the wound.—P. [218]. v. 2.
See, in the Fabliaux of Monsieur le Grand, elegantly translated by the late Gregory Way, Esq. the tale of the Knight and the Sword.
As white as snow on Fairnalie.—P. [221]. v. 5.
An ancient seat upon the Tweed, in Selkirkshire. In a popular edition of the first part of Thomas the Rhymer, the Fairy Queen thus addresses him:
"Gin ye wad meet wi' me again,
Gang to the bonny banks of Fairnalie."