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

CANTO II.] THE LORD OF THE ISLES. 69
When this broach, triumphant borne,
Beam'd upon the breast of Lorn.
" Farthest fled its former Lord,
Left his men to brand and cord,1
Bloody brand of Highland steel,
English gibbet, axe, and wheel.
Let him fly from coast to coast,
Dogg'd by Comyn's vengeful ghost,
While his spoils, in triumph worn,
Long shall grace victorious Lorn! "
XIV.
As glares the tiger on his foes,
Hemm'd in by hunters, spears, and bows,
And, ere he bounds upon the ring,
Selects the object of his spring,?" With him was a bold baron,
Schyr William the Baroundoun,
Schyr Gilbert de la Haye alsua."
There were more than one of the noble family of Hay engaged in Bruce's cause; but the principal was Gilbert de la
Haye, Lord of Errol, a stanch adherent to King Robert's interest, and whom he rewarded by creating him hereditary
Lord High Constable of Scotland, a title which he used 16th
March, 1308, where, in a letter from the peers of Scotland to
Philip the Fair of France, he is designed Gilbertus de Hay
Constabulacrius Scotice. He was slain at the battle of Halidoun-.hill. Hugh de la Haye, his brothel, was made prisoner at
the battle of Methven.
1 [MS. —" Left his followers to the sword."]