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extract, cannot now be found in the Chapter Library of Durham, or, at least, has hitherto escaped the researches of my friendly correspondent.
'Lindesay is made to allude to this adventure of Ralph Bulmer, as a well-known story, in the 4th Canto, Stanza xxii. p. 103.
'The northern champions of old were accustomed peculiarly to search for, and delight in, encounters with such military spectres. See a whole chapter on the subject in Bartholinus De Causis contemptæ Mortis a Danis, p. 253.'
l. 508. Sir Gilbert Hay, as a faithful adherent of Bruce, was created Lord High Constable of Scotland. See note in 'Lord of the Isles,' II. xiii. How the Haies had their beginning of nobilitie' is told in Holinshed's Scottish Chronicle,' I. 308.
Stanza XXVI. l. 510. Quaigh, 'a wooden cup, composed of staves hooped together."—Scott.
Stanza XXVIII. l. 551. Darkling, adv. (not adj. as in Keats's 'darkling way' in 'Eve of St. Agnes'), really means 'in the dark.' Cp. 'Lady of the Lake,' IV. (Alice Brand):—
'For darkling was the battle tried';
and see Midsummer Night's Dream, ii. 2. 86; King Lear, i. 4. 137. Lord Tennyson, like Keats, uses the word as an adj. in 'In Memoriam,' xcix:—
'Who tremblest through thy darkling red.'
Cp. below, V. Introd. 23, 'darkling politician.' For scholarly discussion of the term, see Notes and Queries, VII. iii. 191.
Stanza XXX. ll.585-9. Iago understands the 'contending flow' of passions when in a glow of self-satisfied feeling he exclaims:
Stanza XXXI. l. 597. 'Yode, used by old poets for went.'—Scott. It is a variant of 'yod' or 'yede,' from A.S. códe, I went. Cp. Lat. so, I go. See Clarendon Press 'Specimens of Early English,' II. 71:—
Spenser writes, 'Faerie Queene,' II. vii, 2:—
'So, long he yode, yet no adventure found.'
l. 590. Sells, saddle. Cp. 'Faerie Queene,' II. v. 4:—
'On his horse necke before the quilted sell.'