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

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HALIDON HILL.

[ACT It.

King Ed. As belted Knight and crowned King,
I will.
Gor. And let mine
Sleep at his side, in token that our death
Ended the feud of Swinton and of Gordon.
King Ed. It is the Gordon!-Is there aught
beside
Edward can do to honour bravery,
Even in an enemy?
Gor. Nothing but this:
Let not base Baliol, with his touch or look,
Profane my corpse or Swinton's. I've some
breath still,
Enough to say-Scotland-Elizabeth! [Dies.
Chan. Baliol, I would not brook such dying
looks,
To buy the crown you aim at.
King Ed. [to VIPONT.] Vipont, thy crossed
shield shows ill in warfare
Against a Christian king.
Vip. That Christian King is warring upon
Scotland.
I was a Scotchman ere I was a Templar,1
Sworn to my country ere I knew my order.
qualities, grouped and embodied in one and the same character, render it morally impossible that we should not at once
sympathize and admire. The inherent force of his character
is finely illustrated in the effect produced upon Lord Gordon
by the first appearance of the man 'who had made him
fatherless.' "-Edinburgh Magazine, July, 1822.]
1 A Venetian General, observing his soldiers testified some