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with a gallery for music. The King's wardrobe, or dressing-room, looking to the west, projects over the walls, so as to have a delicious prospect on three sides, and is one of the most enviable boudoirs we have ever seen.'—Sir Walter Scott's Provincial Antiquities.—Prose Works, vol. vii. p. 382.
l. 288. With 'jovial June' cp. Gavin Douglas's 'joyous moneth tyme of June,' in prologue to the 13th Æneid, 'ekit to Virgill be Maphaeus Vegius,' and the description of the month in Lyndsay's 'Dreme,' as:—
'Weill bordourit with dasyis of delyte.'
l. 291. 'I am glad of an opportunity to describe the cry of the deer by another word than braying, although the latter has been sanctified by the use of the Scottish metrical translation of the Psalms. Bell seems to be an abbreviation of bellow. This silvan sound conveyed great delight to our ancestors, chiefly, I suppose, from association. A gentle knight in the reign of Henry VIII, Sir Thomas Wortley, built Wantley Lodge, in Wancliffe Forest, for the pleasure (as an ancient inscription testifies) of "listening to the hart's bell."'—Scott.
l. 298. Sauchie-burn, where James III fell, was fought 18 June, 1488., 'James IV,' says Scott, 'after the battle passed to Stirling, and hearing the monks of the chapel-royal deploring the death of his father, he was seized with deep remorse, which manifested itself in severe penances.' See below, note on V. ix.
l. 300. 'When the King saw his own banner displayed against him, and his son in the faction of his enemies, he lost the little courage he ever possessed, fled out of the field, fell from his horse as it started at a woman and water-pitcher, and was slain, it was not well understood by whom.'—Scott.
Stanza XVI. l. 312. In the church of St. Michael, adjoining the palace.
l. 316. The earliest known mention of the thistle as the national badge is in the inventory of the effects of James III, Thistles were inscribed on the coins of the next four reigns, and they were accompanied in the reign of James VI for the first time by the motto Nemo me impune lacessit. James II of Great Britain formally inaugurated the Order of the Thistle on 29 May, 1687, but it was not till the reign of Anne, 31 Dec. 1703, that it became a fully defined legal institution. The Order is also known as the Order of St. Andrew.—See Chambers's Encyclopædia.
l. 318. It was natural and fit that Lyndsay should be present. It is more than likely that he had a leading hand in the enterprise. As