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

170 THE LORD OF THE ISLES. [CANTO IV.
And wilt thou now deny thine aid
To an oppress'd and injured maid,
Even plead for Ronald's perfidy,
And press his fickle faith on me?So witness Heaven, as true I vow,
Had I those earthly feelings now,
Which could my former bosom move
Ere taught to set its hopes above,
I'd spurn each proffer he could bring,
Till at my feet he laid the ring,
The ring and spousal contract both,
And fair acquittal of his oath,
By her who brooks his perjured scorn,
The ill-requited Maid of Lorn!"
XXVIII.
With sudden impulse forward sprung
The page, and on her neck he hung;
For certes I trow there is no man
That he no will rues a woman than.' 6 Pity.
His hosts all there arrested he,
And gert7 a tent soon stintits be, 7 Caused. 8 Pitched.
And gert her gang in hastily,
And other women to be her by
While she was delivered he bade;
And syne forth on his ways rade.
And how she forth should carried be,
Or he forth fure,` ordained he..- Moved.
This was a full great courtesy,
That swilk a king and so mighty,
Gert his men dwell on this manner,
But for a poor lavender."
BARBOUR'S Bruce, Book xvi. pp. 39, 40.