The poetical works of Sir Walter Scott, with memoir of the author.

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As bands, their stragglers to regain,
Give the shrill watchword of their clan;
And revellers, o'er their bowls, proclaim
Douglas or Dacre's conquering name.
IX.
Less frequent heard, and fainter still,
At length the various clamours died:
1 Patten remarks, with bitter censure, the disorderly conduct
of the English Borderers, who attended the Protector Somerset on his expedition against Scotland. " As we wear then a
setling, and the tents a setting up, among all things els commendable in our hole journey, one thing seemed to me an
intollerable disorder and abuse: that whereas always, both in
all tounes of war, and in all campes of armies, quietness and
stilnes, without nois, is, principally in the night, after the
watch is set, observed, (I nede not reason why,) our northern
prikers, the Borderers, notwithstandyng, with great enormitie,
(as thought me,) and not unlike (to be playn) unto a masterles hounde howlying in a hie way when he hath lost him he
waited upon, sum hoopynge, sum whistlyng, and most with
crying, A Berwyke, a Berwyke! A Fenwyke, a Fenwyke!
A Bulmer, a Bulmer! or so ootherwise as theyr captains
names wear, never lin'de these troublous and dangerous noyses
all the nyghte longe. They said, they did it to find their captain and fellows; but if the souldiers of our oother countreys
and sheres had used the same maner, in that case we should
have oft tymes had the state of our campe more like the outrage of a dissolute huntyng, than the quiet of a well ordered
armye. It is a feat of war, in mine opinion, that might right
well be left. I could reherse causes (but yf I take it, they
are better unspoken than uttred, unless the faut wear sure
to be amended) that might shew thei move alweis more peral
to our armie, but in their one nyght's so doynge, than they
shew good service (as some sey) in a hoole vyage.'-Apud
DALZELL'S Fragments, p. 75.
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