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

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where Kenneth had halted, and laid the buck at the
Sovereign's feet.1
"The deer being curee'd in that place,
At his Majesty's demand,
Then John of Galloway ran apace?
And fetched water to his hand.
The King did wash into a dish,
And Galloway John he wot;
He said,'Thy name now after this
Shall ever be called John Scott.
"'The forest and the dear therein,
We commit to thy hand;
For thou shalt sure the ranger be,
If thou obey command;
And for the buck thou stoutly brought
To us up that steep heuch,
Thy designation ever shall
Be John Scott in Buckscleuch.'
" In Scotland on Buckcleuch was then,
Before the buck in the clench was slain;
Night's men 2 at first they did appear,
Because moon and stars to their arms they bear.'Froissart relates, that a knight of the household of the
Comte de Foix exhibited a similar feat of strength. The hallfire had waxed low, and wood was wanted to mend it. The
knight went down to the court-yard, where stood an ass
laden with fagots, seized on the animal and burden, and
carrying him up to the hall on his shoulders, tumbled him
into the chimney with his heels uppermost: a humane pleasantry, much applauded by the Count and all the spectators.
2 "Minions of the moon," as Falstaff would have said.
The vocation pursued by our ancient Borderers may be justified on the authority of the most polished of the ancient
nations: " For the Grecians in old time, and such barbarians as. in the continent lived neer6 unto the sea, or else inhabited the islands, after once they began to crosse over one