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

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Ga we and wenge 1 sum off the dispyte
And that may we haiff done alss tite;'t
For thai ly traistly,3 but dreding
Off ws, or off our her cummyng.
And thoucht we slepand slew thaim all,
Repruff tharof na man sail.
For werrayour na forss suld ma,
Quhethir he mycht ourcom his fa
Throw strenth, or throw suteltd;
Bot that gud faith ay haldyn be.'"
BARBOUR'S Bruce, Book iv., v. 1.
NOTE R.
The Bruce hath won his father's hall-!-P. 213.
I have followed the flattering and pleasing tradition,
that the Bruce, after his descent upon the coast of
Ayrshire, actually gained possession of his maternal
castle. But the tradition is not accurate. The fact
is, that he was only strong enough to alarm and drive
in the outposts of the English garrison, then commanded, not by Clifford, as assumed in the text, but
by Percy. Neither was Clifford slain upon this occasion, though he had several skirmishes with Bruce.
He fell afterwards in the battle of Bannockburn.
Bruce, after alarming the castle of Turnberry, and
surprising some part of the garrison, who were
quartered without the walls of the fortress, retreated
into the mountainous part of Carrick, and there made
himself so strong, that the English were obliged to
evacuate Turnberry, and at length the Castle of Ayr.
Many of his benefactions and royal gifts attest his
1 Avenge. —2 Quickly.-3 Confidently.