On Malcolm’s shoulder, kindly said,

“Canst thou, young friend, no meaning spy

In my poor follower’s glistening eye?

I’ll tell thee:—he recalls the day

When in my praise he led the lay

O’er the arch’d gate of Bothwell proud,

While many a minstrel answer’d loud,

When Percy’s Norman pennon,[133] won

In bloody field, before me shone,

And twice ten knights, the least a name