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

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I'd give the lands of Deloraine,
Dark nMusgrave were alive again."-'
XXX.
So mourn'd he, till Lord Dacre's band
Were bowning back to Cumberland.
They raised brave Musgrave from the field,
And laid him on his bloody shield;
On levell'd lances, four and four,
By turns, the noble burden bore.
Before, at times, upon the gale,
Was heard the Minstrel's plaintive wail;
Behind, four priests, in sable stole,
Sung requiem for the warrior's soul:
Around, the horsemen slowly rode;
With trailing pikes the spearmen trode;
And thus the gallant knight they bore,
Through Liddesdale to Leven's shore;
Thence to Holme Coltrame's lofty nave,
And laid him in his father's grave.
ers, however, escaped, notwithstanding a sharp pursuit.
This circumstance serves to show how very long the license of the Borderers continued in some degree to manifest itself.
1 ["' The style of the old romancers has been very successfully imitated in the whole' of this scene; and the speech of
Deloraine, who, roused from his bed of sickness, rushes into
the lists, and apostrophizes his fallen enemy, brought to our
recollection, as well from the peculiar turn of expression
in its commencement as in the tone of sentiments which it
conveys, some of thefunebres oraiones of the Mort Arthur."
- Critical Review.]
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