[741]suffer.[742]death.[743]The dramatic incidents of the raid have been immortalized in famous ballads like “Johnnie Armstrong,” “The Sang of the Outlaw Murray,” and “The Border Widow’s Lament.”[744]History of Scotland, vol. ii., p. 361, and note z. The historian shows that the attempt to poison the king was by no means the first capital offence of which Lady Glammis had been convicted, though her youth and beauty were used by the reforming party to excite popular feeling against James.[745]Orlando Furioso, canto xiii., stanzas 8 and 9.[746]Sibbald’sChronicle of Scottish Poetry.[747]Irving’sHistory of Scottish Poetry, p. 145.[748]The failure of Dunbar, Asloan, and Lyndsay to mention James I. upon the strength of “The Kingis Quair” may be accounted for by the situation of that poem, the only copy now known to exist being that contained in the Selden MS. in the Bodleian Library at Oxford. No such argument can account for the overlooking of popular pieces like “Christis Kirk” and “Peblis to the Play” had they been then in existence.[749]In “Christis Kirk” occur theexpressions—“His lymmis wes lyk twa rokkis; ...Ran vpoun vtheris lyk rammis; ...Bet on with barrow trammis;”and in “The Justyng” we find—“Quod Jhone, ‘Howbeit thou thinkis my leggis lyke rokkis ...Yit, thocht thy braunis be lyk twa barrow-trammis,Defend thee, man!’ Than ran thay to, lyk rammis.”[750]See Murray’sDialect of the Southern Counties of Scotland, pp. 56 and 69.[751]Rogers’Poetical Remains of King James I., 1873.[752]In 1526–27, according to the Treasurer’s Accounts, £13 6s. 8d. was paid “to Johne Murray the Kingis barbour, for corsbowis, windaiss, and ganzies” (crossbows, pulleys, and arrows). And Alexander Scot in his poem “Of May,”circa1550, describes the merry gathering of archers “To schute at buttis, at bankis, and brais.”[753]Introduction toThe Kingis Quair, Scottish Text Society, 1883–84.[754]InThe Daily News, March 19, 1892.[755]Beltane, believed to be from the Gaelic Beal-tein, or Baal fire, was the great Druid festival of the first of May. The sports of Beltane, it appears, were celebrated at Peebles till a recent date, when a market was established, known as the Beltane Fair.[756]when each person sets forth.[757]By outland.[758]went.[759]clad.[760]time, occasion.[761]turmoil.[762]For preparation and sport.[763]kerchiefs.[764]gloomy.[765]Said she.[766]collarette.[767]permitted not.[768]band, ribbon.[769]so foolish and playful.[770]knew.[771]weep not.[772]lost.[773]market.[774]so badly sunburnt.[775]carry my rags,i.e.woven cloth.[776]shall once venture.[777]look by stealth.[778]Man, woman, and prentice-lad (Hob, caile, curdower).[779]Gathered out thick-fold.[780]thronged out.[781]steadings unnumbered.[782]over the plain.[783]started in that place.[784]lively.[785]become not weary.[786]clear, mild.[787]raised a high rough song.[788]fared.[789]wood.[790]way.[791]conceit, opinion.[792]that.[793]dispose of.[794]remainder.[795]play the fool with.[796]Swiftly.[797]encountered.[798]young woman.[799]maukin, a little maid.[800]to play the mate so.[801]override.[802]too good.[803]go.[804]Laughed.[805]Was come.[806]jollity.[807]words wondrous brave.[808]Have done (?).[809]“Set up the board,” he calls soon.[810]dance, party.[811]napery be white.[812]good woman, hostess.[813]wall.[814]Wait till we reckon our lawing (bill).[815]that ye owe.[816]laugh.[817]scorn.[818]twopence half-penny.[819]over stupid.[820]deserved a blow.[821]pointed staff.[822]Wincing as he were mad.[823]uproar.[824]earth.[825]clearance, settlement.[826]slid.[827]Thirty-three lay there.[828]Tumbling about.[829]distiller’s waste.[830]A hawker on the market street.[831]debate, battle.[832]overtake.[833]Two lines of the stanza have here apparently been lost.[834]glimpse.[835]separate.[836]leaped.[837]girthing.[838]At once.[839]dirtied.[840]became.[841]low-born.[842]counsel.[843]Go home his ways.[844]defiled.[845]See how.[846]treated.[847]great.[848]hinder.[849]know.[850]fatigued.[851]then.[852]By the time that.[853]notches (of bows).[854]broil.[855]grovelling.[856]Had rather given.[857]Ere.[858]favourite.[859]a dance now unknown.[860]jerked, rocked.[861]how.[862]dwelling.[863]performs wondrous long.[864]laughed.[865]hence your ways.[866]enough.[867]So fiercely fire-hot.[868]Tibbie, Isabella.[869]latch.[870]encountered.[871]all the men to cackle.[872]quite nothing.[873]the wenches and wooers parted.[874]Alison.[875]damsel.[876]swooned that sweet one of the glen foot.[877]sipped, uttered a sipping sound.[878]weeping.[879]shock of lips,i.e.osculation.[880]The Christ’s Kirk of the poem, in Tytler’s opinion, was that near Dunideer in Aberdeenshire. About the burial ground of the ancient kirk was a green where, so late as the end of last century, a yearly fair was still held on the 1st of May. “In former times,” says Tytler, “this fair was continued during the night, from which circumstance it was called by the country people Sleepy Market. On such occasions it was natural that such disorders as are so humorously described by the royal author should have taken place.”[881]merriment, disorder.[882]wooers.[883]think.[884]Kittie, now the common abbreviation of Catherine, was in James’s time the general name for a playful girl.[885]prepared.[886]gay of manners.[887]doeskin.[888]coarse woollen.[889]Lincoln-green.[890]simple, foolish.[891]approached.[892]goats, kids.[893]slim, dainty.[894]the ruddy part of the face.[895]skin.[896]Full.[897]frail,i.e., she was love-sick.[898]death.[899]girded.[900]mocked him by making mouths.[901]go hang himself.[902]counted.[903]clucks.[904]distaffs.[905]how he did launch (the fiddle bow).[906]shrill.[907]an ancient dance.[908]forsake.[909]behaved.[910]stepping in with long strides.[911]course.[912]Flat-footed.[913]bounds.[914]He leaped till he lay on his buttocks.[915]exerted.[916]coughed.[917]began.[918]dragged.[919]drove him side-wise (gable-wards).[920]The angry man clutched the stave.[921]did not they have by the ears.
[741]suffer.
[741]suffer.
[742]death.
[742]death.
[743]The dramatic incidents of the raid have been immortalized in famous ballads like “Johnnie Armstrong,” “The Sang of the Outlaw Murray,” and “The Border Widow’s Lament.”
[743]The dramatic incidents of the raid have been immortalized in famous ballads like “Johnnie Armstrong,” “The Sang of the Outlaw Murray,” and “The Border Widow’s Lament.”
[744]History of Scotland, vol. ii., p. 361, and note z. The historian shows that the attempt to poison the king was by no means the first capital offence of which Lady Glammis had been convicted, though her youth and beauty were used by the reforming party to excite popular feeling against James.
[744]History of Scotland, vol. ii., p. 361, and note z. The historian shows that the attempt to poison the king was by no means the first capital offence of which Lady Glammis had been convicted, though her youth and beauty were used by the reforming party to excite popular feeling against James.
[745]Orlando Furioso, canto xiii., stanzas 8 and 9.
[745]Orlando Furioso, canto xiii., stanzas 8 and 9.
[746]Sibbald’sChronicle of Scottish Poetry.
[746]Sibbald’sChronicle of Scottish Poetry.
[747]Irving’sHistory of Scottish Poetry, p. 145.
[747]Irving’sHistory of Scottish Poetry, p. 145.
[748]The failure of Dunbar, Asloan, and Lyndsay to mention James I. upon the strength of “The Kingis Quair” may be accounted for by the situation of that poem, the only copy now known to exist being that contained in the Selden MS. in the Bodleian Library at Oxford. No such argument can account for the overlooking of popular pieces like “Christis Kirk” and “Peblis to the Play” had they been then in existence.
[748]The failure of Dunbar, Asloan, and Lyndsay to mention James I. upon the strength of “The Kingis Quair” may be accounted for by the situation of that poem, the only copy now known to exist being that contained in the Selden MS. in the Bodleian Library at Oxford. No such argument can account for the overlooking of popular pieces like “Christis Kirk” and “Peblis to the Play” had they been then in existence.
[749]In “Christis Kirk” occur theexpressions—“His lymmis wes lyk twa rokkis; ...Ran vpoun vtheris lyk rammis; ...Bet on with barrow trammis;”and in “The Justyng” we find—“Quod Jhone, ‘Howbeit thou thinkis my leggis lyke rokkis ...Yit, thocht thy braunis be lyk twa barrow-trammis,Defend thee, man!’ Than ran thay to, lyk rammis.”
[749]In “Christis Kirk” occur theexpressions—
“His lymmis wes lyk twa rokkis; ...Ran vpoun vtheris lyk rammis; ...Bet on with barrow trammis;”
“His lymmis wes lyk twa rokkis; ...Ran vpoun vtheris lyk rammis; ...Bet on with barrow trammis;”
“His lymmis wes lyk twa rokkis; ...Ran vpoun vtheris lyk rammis; ...Bet on with barrow trammis;”
“His lymmis wes lyk twa rokkis; ...
Ran vpoun vtheris lyk rammis; ...
Bet on with barrow trammis;”
and in “The Justyng” we find—
“Quod Jhone, ‘Howbeit thou thinkis my leggis lyke rokkis ...Yit, thocht thy braunis be lyk twa barrow-trammis,Defend thee, man!’ Than ran thay to, lyk rammis.”
“Quod Jhone, ‘Howbeit thou thinkis my leggis lyke rokkis ...Yit, thocht thy braunis be lyk twa barrow-trammis,Defend thee, man!’ Than ran thay to, lyk rammis.”
“Quod Jhone, ‘Howbeit thou thinkis my leggis lyke rokkis ...Yit, thocht thy braunis be lyk twa barrow-trammis,Defend thee, man!’ Than ran thay to, lyk rammis.”
“Quod Jhone, ‘Howbeit thou thinkis my leggis lyke rokkis ...
Yit, thocht thy braunis be lyk twa barrow-trammis,
Defend thee, man!’ Than ran thay to, lyk rammis.”
[750]See Murray’sDialect of the Southern Counties of Scotland, pp. 56 and 69.
[750]See Murray’sDialect of the Southern Counties of Scotland, pp. 56 and 69.
[751]Rogers’Poetical Remains of King James I., 1873.
[751]Rogers’Poetical Remains of King James I., 1873.
[752]In 1526–27, according to the Treasurer’s Accounts, £13 6s. 8d. was paid “to Johne Murray the Kingis barbour, for corsbowis, windaiss, and ganzies” (crossbows, pulleys, and arrows). And Alexander Scot in his poem “Of May,”circa1550, describes the merry gathering of archers “To schute at buttis, at bankis, and brais.”
[752]In 1526–27, according to the Treasurer’s Accounts, £13 6s. 8d. was paid “to Johne Murray the Kingis barbour, for corsbowis, windaiss, and ganzies” (crossbows, pulleys, and arrows). And Alexander Scot in his poem “Of May,”circa1550, describes the merry gathering of archers “To schute at buttis, at bankis, and brais.”
[753]Introduction toThe Kingis Quair, Scottish Text Society, 1883–84.
[753]Introduction toThe Kingis Quair, Scottish Text Society, 1883–84.
[754]InThe Daily News, March 19, 1892.
[754]InThe Daily News, March 19, 1892.
[755]Beltane, believed to be from the Gaelic Beal-tein, or Baal fire, was the great Druid festival of the first of May. The sports of Beltane, it appears, were celebrated at Peebles till a recent date, when a market was established, known as the Beltane Fair.
[755]Beltane, believed to be from the Gaelic Beal-tein, or Baal fire, was the great Druid festival of the first of May. The sports of Beltane, it appears, were celebrated at Peebles till a recent date, when a market was established, known as the Beltane Fair.
[756]when each person sets forth.
[756]when each person sets forth.
[757]By outland.
[757]By outland.
[758]went.
[758]went.
[759]clad.
[759]clad.
[760]time, occasion.
[760]time, occasion.
[761]turmoil.
[761]turmoil.
[762]For preparation and sport.
[762]For preparation and sport.
[763]kerchiefs.
[763]kerchiefs.
[764]gloomy.
[764]gloomy.
[765]Said she.
[765]Said she.
[766]collarette.
[766]collarette.
[767]permitted not.
[767]permitted not.
[768]band, ribbon.
[768]band, ribbon.
[769]so foolish and playful.
[769]so foolish and playful.
[770]knew.
[770]knew.
[771]weep not.
[771]weep not.
[772]lost.
[772]lost.
[773]market.
[773]market.
[774]so badly sunburnt.
[774]so badly sunburnt.
[775]carry my rags,i.e.woven cloth.
[775]carry my rags,i.e.woven cloth.
[776]shall once venture.
[776]shall once venture.
[777]look by stealth.
[777]look by stealth.
[778]Man, woman, and prentice-lad (Hob, caile, curdower).
[778]Man, woman, and prentice-lad (Hob, caile, curdower).
[779]Gathered out thick-fold.
[779]Gathered out thick-fold.
[780]thronged out.
[780]thronged out.
[781]steadings unnumbered.
[781]steadings unnumbered.
[782]over the plain.
[782]over the plain.
[783]started in that place.
[783]started in that place.
[784]lively.
[784]lively.
[785]become not weary.
[785]become not weary.
[786]clear, mild.
[786]clear, mild.
[787]raised a high rough song.
[787]raised a high rough song.
[788]fared.
[788]fared.
[789]wood.
[789]wood.
[790]way.
[790]way.
[791]conceit, opinion.
[791]conceit, opinion.
[792]that.
[792]that.
[793]dispose of.
[793]dispose of.
[794]remainder.
[794]remainder.
[795]play the fool with.
[795]play the fool with.
[796]Swiftly.
[796]Swiftly.
[797]encountered.
[797]encountered.
[798]young woman.
[798]young woman.
[799]maukin, a little maid.
[799]maukin, a little maid.
[800]to play the mate so.
[800]to play the mate so.
[801]override.
[801]override.
[802]too good.
[802]too good.
[803]go.
[803]go.
[804]Laughed.
[804]Laughed.
[805]Was come.
[805]Was come.
[806]jollity.
[806]jollity.
[807]words wondrous brave.
[807]words wondrous brave.
[808]Have done (?).
[808]Have done (?).
[809]“Set up the board,” he calls soon.
[809]“Set up the board,” he calls soon.
[810]dance, party.
[810]dance, party.
[811]napery be white.
[811]napery be white.
[812]good woman, hostess.
[812]good woman, hostess.
[813]wall.
[813]wall.
[814]Wait till we reckon our lawing (bill).
[814]Wait till we reckon our lawing (bill).
[815]that ye owe.
[815]that ye owe.
[816]laugh.
[816]laugh.
[817]scorn.
[817]scorn.
[818]twopence half-penny.
[818]twopence half-penny.
[819]over stupid.
[819]over stupid.
[820]deserved a blow.
[820]deserved a blow.
[821]pointed staff.
[821]pointed staff.
[822]Wincing as he were mad.
[822]Wincing as he were mad.
[823]uproar.
[823]uproar.
[824]earth.
[824]earth.
[825]clearance, settlement.
[825]clearance, settlement.
[826]slid.
[826]slid.
[827]Thirty-three lay there.
[827]Thirty-three lay there.
[828]Tumbling about.
[828]Tumbling about.
[829]distiller’s waste.
[829]distiller’s waste.
[830]A hawker on the market street.
[830]A hawker on the market street.
[831]debate, battle.
[831]debate, battle.
[832]overtake.
[832]overtake.
[833]Two lines of the stanza have here apparently been lost.
[833]Two lines of the stanza have here apparently been lost.
[834]glimpse.
[834]glimpse.
[835]separate.
[835]separate.
[836]leaped.
[836]leaped.
[837]girthing.
[837]girthing.
[838]At once.
[838]At once.
[839]dirtied.
[839]dirtied.
[840]became.
[840]became.
[841]low-born.
[841]low-born.
[842]counsel.
[842]counsel.
[843]Go home his ways.
[843]Go home his ways.
[844]defiled.
[844]defiled.
[845]See how.
[845]See how.
[846]treated.
[846]treated.
[847]great.
[847]great.
[848]hinder.
[848]hinder.
[849]know.
[849]know.
[850]fatigued.
[850]fatigued.
[851]then.
[851]then.
[852]By the time that.
[852]By the time that.
[853]notches (of bows).
[853]notches (of bows).
[854]broil.
[854]broil.
[855]grovelling.
[855]grovelling.
[856]Had rather given.
[856]Had rather given.
[857]Ere.
[857]Ere.
[858]favourite.
[858]favourite.
[859]a dance now unknown.
[859]a dance now unknown.
[860]jerked, rocked.
[860]jerked, rocked.
[861]how.
[861]how.
[862]dwelling.
[862]dwelling.
[863]performs wondrous long.
[863]performs wondrous long.
[864]laughed.
[864]laughed.
[865]hence your ways.
[865]hence your ways.
[866]enough.
[866]enough.
[867]So fiercely fire-hot.
[867]So fiercely fire-hot.
[868]Tibbie, Isabella.
[868]Tibbie, Isabella.
[869]latch.
[869]latch.
[870]encountered.
[870]encountered.
[871]all the men to cackle.
[871]all the men to cackle.
[872]quite nothing.
[872]quite nothing.
[873]the wenches and wooers parted.
[873]the wenches and wooers parted.
[874]Alison.
[874]Alison.
[875]damsel.
[875]damsel.
[876]swooned that sweet one of the glen foot.
[876]swooned that sweet one of the glen foot.
[877]sipped, uttered a sipping sound.
[877]sipped, uttered a sipping sound.
[878]weeping.
[878]weeping.
[879]shock of lips,i.e.osculation.
[879]shock of lips,i.e.osculation.
[880]The Christ’s Kirk of the poem, in Tytler’s opinion, was that near Dunideer in Aberdeenshire. About the burial ground of the ancient kirk was a green where, so late as the end of last century, a yearly fair was still held on the 1st of May. “In former times,” says Tytler, “this fair was continued during the night, from which circumstance it was called by the country people Sleepy Market. On such occasions it was natural that such disorders as are so humorously described by the royal author should have taken place.”
[880]The Christ’s Kirk of the poem, in Tytler’s opinion, was that near Dunideer in Aberdeenshire. About the burial ground of the ancient kirk was a green where, so late as the end of last century, a yearly fair was still held on the 1st of May. “In former times,” says Tytler, “this fair was continued during the night, from which circumstance it was called by the country people Sleepy Market. On such occasions it was natural that such disorders as are so humorously described by the royal author should have taken place.”
[881]merriment, disorder.
[881]merriment, disorder.
[882]wooers.
[882]wooers.
[883]think.
[883]think.
[884]Kittie, now the common abbreviation of Catherine, was in James’s time the general name for a playful girl.
[884]Kittie, now the common abbreviation of Catherine, was in James’s time the general name for a playful girl.
[885]prepared.
[885]prepared.
[886]gay of manners.
[886]gay of manners.
[887]doeskin.
[887]doeskin.
[888]coarse woollen.
[888]coarse woollen.
[889]Lincoln-green.
[889]Lincoln-green.
[890]simple, foolish.
[890]simple, foolish.
[891]approached.
[891]approached.
[892]goats, kids.
[892]goats, kids.
[893]slim, dainty.
[893]slim, dainty.
[894]the ruddy part of the face.
[894]the ruddy part of the face.
[895]skin.
[895]skin.
[896]Full.
[896]Full.
[897]frail,i.e., she was love-sick.
[897]frail,i.e., she was love-sick.
[898]death.
[898]death.
[899]girded.
[899]girded.
[900]mocked him by making mouths.
[900]mocked him by making mouths.
[901]go hang himself.
[901]go hang himself.
[902]counted.
[902]counted.
[903]clucks.
[903]clucks.
[904]distaffs.
[904]distaffs.
[905]how he did launch (the fiddle bow).
[905]how he did launch (the fiddle bow).
[906]shrill.
[906]shrill.
[907]an ancient dance.
[907]an ancient dance.
[908]forsake.
[908]forsake.
[909]behaved.
[909]behaved.
[910]stepping in with long strides.
[910]stepping in with long strides.
[911]course.
[911]course.
[912]Flat-footed.
[912]Flat-footed.
[913]bounds.
[913]bounds.
[914]He leaped till he lay on his buttocks.
[914]He leaped till he lay on his buttocks.
[915]exerted.
[915]exerted.
[916]coughed.
[916]coughed.
[917]began.
[917]began.
[918]dragged.
[918]dragged.
[919]drove him side-wise (gable-wards).
[919]drove him side-wise (gable-wards).
[920]The angry man clutched the stave.
[920]The angry man clutched the stave.
[921]did not they have by the ears.
[921]did not they have by the ears.