Hush ye, hush, ye, little pet ye;
  Hush ye, hush ye, do not fret ye;
  The Black Douglas shall not get thee.

Sir W. Scott, Tales of a Grandfather, i. 6.

Douglas, a tragedy by J. Home (1757).  Young Norval, having saved the life of Lord Randolph, is given a commission in the army.  Lady Randolph hears of the exploit, and discovers that the youth is her own son by her first husband, Lord Douglas.  Glenalvon, who hates the new favorite, persuades Lord Randolph that his wife is too intimate with the young upstart, and the two surprise them in familiar intercourse in a wood.  The youth, being attacked, slays Glenalvon, but is in turn slain by Lord Randolph, who then learns that the young man was Lady Randolph’s son.  Lady Randolph, in distraction, rushes up a precipice and throws herself down headlong, and Lord Randolph goes to the war then raging between Scotland and Denmark.

Douglas (Archibald earl of), father-in-law of Prince Robert, eldest son of Robert III. of Scotland.

Margery of Douglas, the earl’s daughter, and wife of Prince Robert duke of Rothsay.  The duke was betrothed to Elizabeth, daughter of the earl of March, but the engagement was broken off by intrigue.—­Sir W. Scott, Fair Maid of Perth (time, Henry IV.).

Douglas (George), nephew of the regent Murray of Scotland, and grandson of the lady of Lochleven.  George Douglas was devoted to Mary Queen of Scots.—­Sir W. Scott, The Abbot (time, Elizabeth).

DOUGLAS AND THE BLOODY HEART.  The heart of Bruce was entrusted to Douglas to carry to Jerusalem.  Landing in Spain, he stopped to aid the Castilians against the Moors, and in the heat of battle cast the “heart,” enshrined in a golden coffer, into the very thickest of the foe, saying, “The heart or death!” On he dashed, fearless of danger, to regain the coffer, but perished in the attempt.  The family thenceforth adopted the “bloody heart” as their armorial device.

DOUGLAS LARDER (The).  When the “Good Sir James” Douglas, in 1306, took his castle by coup de main from the English, he caused all the barrels containing flour, meal, wheat, and malt to be knocked in pieces and their contents to be thrown on the floor; he then staved in all the hogsheads of wine and ale upon this mass.  To this he flung the dead bodies slain and some dead horses.  The English called this disgusting mass “The Douglas Larder.”  He then set fire to the castle and took refuge in the hills, for he said “he loved far better to hear the lark sing than the mouse cheep.”

[Illustration] Wallace’s Larder is a similar phrase.  It is the dungeon of Ardrossan, in Ayrshire, where Wallace had the dead bodies of the garrison thrown, surprised by him in the reign of Edward I.

Douloureuse Garde (La), a castle in Berwick-upon-Tweed, won by Sir Launcelot du Lac, in one of the most terrific adventures related in romance.  In memory of this event, the name of the castle was changed into La Joyeuse Garde or La Garde Joyeuse.