Scott's Lady of the Lake

by Walter Scott

And with him in the battle bled.

Not from the valiant, or the strong,

Should exile’s daughter suffer wrong.”—

Answer’d De Brent, most forward still

In every feat or good or ill,—

“I shame me of the part I play’d;

And thou an outlaw’s child, poor maid!

An outlaw I by forest laws,

And merry Needwood[339] knows the cause.

Poor Rose,—if Rose be living now,”—