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

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HALID ON HILL.

[ACT II.

Saint Andrew's silver cross?-or would they
charge
Full on our archers, and make havoc of them?Bruce is alive again-ho, rescue! rescue!Who was't survey'd the ground?
Rib. Most royal LiegeKing Ed. A rose hath fallen from thy chaplet,'
Ribaumont.
Rib. I'll win it back, or lay my head beside it.
[Exit.
King Ed. Saint George! Saint Edward! Gentlemen, to horse,
And to the rescue!-Percy, lead the bill-men;
Chandos, do thou bring up the men-at-arms.If yonder numerous host should now bear down
Bold as their vanguard [to the Abbot,] thou may'st
pray for us,
We may need good men's prayers.-To the rescue,
Lords, to the rescue! ha, Saint George! Saint
Edward!2 [Exeunt.
1 The well-known expression by which Robert Bruce censured the negligence of Randolph, for permitting an English
body of cavalry to pass his flank on the day preceding the
oattle of Bannockburn.
2 ["- In the second act, after the English nobles have amused
themselves in some trifling conversation with the Abbot of
Walthamstow, Edward is introduced; and his proud courageous temper and short manner are very admirably delineated; though, if our historical recollections do not fail us,
it is more completely the picture of Longshanks than of the
third Edward...... We conceive it to be extremely probable
that Sir Walter Scott had resolved to commemorate some of