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

LAY OF THE LAST MINSTREL. 239
and brought to our castell whete mele, good wynes,
beffes, and fatte mottons, pullayne, and wylde foule:
We were ever furnyshed as tho we had been kings.
When we rode forthe, all the countrey trymbled for
feare: all was ours goyng and comynge. How tok we
Carlast, I and the Bourge of Companye, and I and
Perot of Bernoys took Caluset; how dyd we scale,
with lytell ayde, the strong castell of Marquell, pertayning to the Erl Dolphyn: I kept it nat past fyve
days, but I receyved for it, on a feyre table, fyve thousande frankes, and forgave one thousande for the love
of the Erl Dolphyn's children. By my fayth, this was
a fayre and a good lyfe! wherefore I repute myselfe
sore deceyved, in that I have rendered up the fortress
of Aloys; for it wolde have kept fro alle the worlde,
and the daye that I gave it up, it was fournyshed with
vytaylles, to have been kept seven yere without any revytayllinge. This Erl of Armynake hath deceyved
me: Olyve Barbe, and Perot le Bernoys, shewed to
me how I shulde repente myselfe: certayne I sore repente myselfe of what I have done.' "-FROISSART,
vol. ii. p. 195.
NOTE I.
By wily turns, by desperate bounds,
Had bafled Percy's best bloodhounds. —P. 56.
The kings and heroes of Scotland, as well as the
Border-riders, were sometimes obliged to study how
to evade the pursuit of bloodhounds. Barbour informs
us, that Robert Bruce was repeatedly tracked by sleuthdogs. On one occasion, he escaped by wading a bow