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

CANTO II.] THE LORD OF THE ISLES. 83
And done to death by felon hand,
For guarding well his father's land.
Where's Nigel Bruce? and De la Haye,
And valiant Seton-where are they?
Where Somerville, the kind and free?
And Fraser, flower of chivalry? 1
Have they not been on gibbet bound,
Their quarters flung to hawk and hound,
And hold we here a cold debate,
To yield more victims to their fate?
WVhat! can the English Leopard's mood
Never be gorged with northern blood?
W~as not the life of Athole shed,
dant of Wallace, as tradition states him to be. The truth
seems to be, that Menteith, thoroughly engaged in the English interest, pursued Wallace closely, and made him prisoner
through the treachery of an attendant, whom Peter Langtoft
calls Jack Short.
"; William Waleis is nomen that master was of theves,
Tiding to the king is comen that robbery mischeives,
Sir John of Alenetest sued William so nigh,
He tok him when he ween'd least, on night, his leman him by,
That was through treason of Jack Short his man,
He was the encheson that Sir John so him ran,
Jack's brother had he slain, the Walleis that is said,
The more Jack was fain to do William that braid."
From this it would appear that the infamy of seizing Wallace,
must rest between a degenerate Scottish nobleman, the vassal
of England, and a domestic, the obscure agent of his treachery; between Sir John Menteith, son of Walter, Earl of
Menteith, and the traitor Jack Short.
1 [See Appendix, Note H.]