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BY SIR WALTER SCOTT, Canto IV., Cup. X., (omitted in some or all U.S. reprints.) Scots of Esk Dale, a stalwart band, Came troopiay down the Todshawhill; By the sword they won their land, And by the sword they hold it still. Hearken, Ladye to the tale, How thy sires won fair Usk Dale. Earl Morton was Lord of that valley fair, The Beattison’s were his vassals there. The Earl was geutie, and mild of mood, The vassals were warlixe, and fierce and rude; High of heart, and haughty of word, Little they recked of a tame Liege Lord. The Earl to his lands in Esk Dale came, Homage and se gneury to claim : Of Gilbert the Ualliard a Heriot he sought, Saying, ‘‘Give thy best steed, as a vassal ought !” ; ‘ ‘‘ Dear to me is my bonny white steed, s *‘Oft has he helped me at time of need ! ‘* Lord and Earl the’ thou be, I trow” . ‘7 can rein Bucksfoot better than thou. Word on word gave tuel to fire, Till so highly blazed the Beattisons ire, But that the Earle the flight had ta‘en, The vassals there their Lord had slain. Sore he plied both whip and spur, : As he ured his steed through Esk Dale Munir ; And it fell down, a weary weight, Just on the threshold of Branscho!lm gate, The Karl was 2 wrathfal man to see; Fall fain avenged would he be. In haste to Branscholin’s Lord he spoke, Saying, ‘‘ Tuk» these traitors to thy yoke!” « For a cast of Hawks and a purse of gold,” ‘* All Esk Dale I'll sell thee to have and to hold,” ‘¢ Beshrew thy heart, of the Beattison clan” **1f thou leave on Esk Dale a landed man!’ ** Bat spare W oodherrick’s lands alone,” ** Por he lent me his horse to escape upen.” A glad man thea was Branscholin bold ; Down he flan, him the hawks and the gol. To Esk Vale s.on he spurred amain ; And with him five hundred men in his train, He left his me in the mist of the hill, And bade thea hold them close and still ; And alone he wended to the plain, To meet with the Galliard and all his train. To Gilbert the Galliard thus he said, ‘Know thou me for thy Liege Lord and Head !", ** Deal not with me as with Morton tame!” ‘* We Scots play best at’ the roughest game!” ‘*Give me in peace my Heriot due, ’ ‘* Thy bonny white steed, or thou shalt rue.” **Tf my horn [ three times wind,” “‘Esk Dale shall long have the seund in mind.” Loudly the Boattison laughed in scora ; ** Little care we for thy winded horn.” ** Ne’er shall it be the Galliard’s lot ”’ **To yield his steed to a haughty Scot.” ** Wend thou to Branscholm back on foot,” ** With rasty spur and mirry boot !” Then Branscholm’s bugle blew hoarse ; The dim deer started a fair Craig Cross ; so lond and so clear, Through the grey mountain mist there did lances appear ; { And the third blast rang with such a din , That the echoes replied from Penton Linn, And all the Scot riders came Ightly in. Then had vou seen a gallant shock,

loud and

When sadiies were emptied and lances broke.

For each scornful word the Galliard had & ain,

A Beattison tnere on the field lay dead, His own goo i sword the Chieftan drew, And bore the Galliard through and through : Where the Beattison’s blood mixed with the Rill, “The Galliacd’s Haugh,” men call it still, The Scots have scattered the Beattison clan, Woodherric they left as ene landed man ; The Valley of Eske, from mouth to source, Was lost aud won for that bouny white horse ! NOTES.

English books are frequently reprinted aud republished in the United States oi America, Whether many, or any, of such reprints are genuine and correct represent ations of original works, I do» not know; but some of them certainly are not se. ‘The Lay of the last Minstrel,’ a well known poem, by Sir Walter Scott, contains along paragraph which has been tetally omitted in two American editions or re- prints. [t describes the process of a medieval distraint and ejectment for rent, doubtiess very displeasing to Ayrarian ears. Rent, in those days, generally meant “‘suit and service,” rather than cash pay- ment. Onchanging of holding, by death, a fine, as the law still terms it, was paid by the incoming tenant as an acknowledgement of the licge lord’s title ; this fine was, im many cases, the best horse of the tenant, in the na ne of Heriot or Herezeld Lands in England, especially in Kent and Sussex, the stron sholds of Saxon descendants, have still many suit-holdings or tenures. In Scotland, if the vassal ran. short of ‘“provauut,” heand his family would, asa matter of course, take their places ‘‘below the salt’ at the table of their liege lord ; if he, on the other hand, ran short, or if a friend cise unexpectedly when the larder was low, a white table cloth, hoisted by way of s.gnal, on the castle flagstaff, would bring seores of willing hands, with ‘“‘what- sever cometh,” as we may read in a much elder and better history. { need only add

that ‘‘Galliard” means a brisk, sharp, or!

smart ‘oan, in medern phaseology ; and that Tol means a foe, while haugh is tle naine given to what would in England be termed a rough piece of sloping land bearing copawood, 2 -Vicu Duomnorm Naw Orp.

P. S$ —Sir Walter Seatt’s legal training comes oddly forth in poem. Lord Morton’s elfering his lands to Scott’s of Bucclengh (Banscliolm) “to have and to hold.” One oe’ the oldest deeds of conveyance in England, 18a model to all long-winded lawyers :

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** Sutton, Eling, and Totton.” **'PHll all the world is rotten !”"

Vid» also the conveyance of the field and @aveo’ Macphelah, in which we find that the tiaber was part of the fee simple and not open to trespass by squatters or others.

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