Howe the right and lawes of the land / Were execute, and who durſt take in hand / To diſobey his ſtatutes and decrees, / If they were well kept in all countrees: / Of theſe he made ſubtile inueſtigation / Of his owne eſpie, and other mens relation.
[T]he mother who had shaped him if any had toward the man he almost was, … whom he had revered and harkened to and loved and lost and grieved: …
Based partly on the Border ballad 'Gilpin Horner', Scott's poem is on the whole a medievalising concoction set in an Ossianic zone of lastness, fading and death.
For years, the little tax-free extras or inducements took the form of “boot money” – a few notes left surreptitiously in a player's boot […]
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