Introduction to Canto Second.

When these waste glens with copse were lined,

And peopled with the hart and hind.

Oft in my mind such thoughts awake,

BIRKET FOSTER. 87

Thy tower, proud Bamborough, mark'd they there,

Canto Fourth-The Camp.

VIGNETTE TITLE TO THE CANTO.
Gaping for fear and ruth, they saw
The charger panting on his straw.
There narrower closed, till over head
A vaulted screen the branches made.
Attendant on a King-at-arms,
Whose hand the armorial truncheon held.
At length up that wild dale they wind,
Where Crichtoun Castle crowns the bank.

STANZA

JOHN GILBERT.

JOHN GILBERT.

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BIRKET FOSTER.

JOHN GILBERT.

BIRKET FOSTER.

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Crichtoun though now thy miry court

But pens the lazy steer and sheep.

BIRKET FOSTER.

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With eyes scarce dried, the sorrowing dame,
To welcome noble Marmion, came.

Canto Fifth-The Court.

VIGNETTE TITLE TO THE CANTO.

Their men the warders backward drew,
And carried pikes as they rode through.
Young knights and squires, a lighter train,
Practised their chargers on the plain.
Old Holy-Rood rung merrily,

That night, with wassell, mirth, and glee.

Through this mix'd crowd of glee and game,
The King to greet Lord Marmion came.
Dame Heron rises with a smile
Upon the harp to play.

Introduction to Canto Sixth.

Mertoun-House, the seat of Hugh Scott, Esq.