’The King, hearing this of his mother, was content, and gart her pawn a hundred crowns and a tun of wine upon the English-men’s hands; and he incontinent laid down as much for the Scottish-men.  The field and ground was chosen in St. Andrews, and three landed men and three yeomen chosen to shoot against the English-men,—­to wit, David Wemyss of that ilk, David Arnot of that ilk, and Mr. John Wedderburn, vicar of Dundee; the yeomen, John Thomson, in Leith, Steven Taburner, with a piper, called Alexander Bailie; they shot very near, and warred [worsted] the English-men of the enterprise, and wan the hundred crowns and the tun of wine, which made the King very merry that his men wan the victory.’”

571.  Play my prize.  The same expression occurs in Shakespeare, T. A. i. 1. 399:  “You have play’d your prize.”  Cf. also M. of V. iii. 2. 142:  “Like one of two contending in a prize,” etc.

575.  The Castle gates.  The main entrance to the Castle, not the postern gate of 532 above.

580.  Fair Scotland’s King, etc.  The Ms. reads: 

    “King James and all his nobles went ... 
     Ever the King was bending low
     To his white jennet’s saddle-bow,
     Doffing his cap to burgher dame,
     Who smiling blushed for pride and shame.”

601.  There nobles, etc.  The Ms. reads: 

    “Nobles who mourned their power restrained,
     And the poor burgher’s joys disdained;
     Dark chief, who, hostage for his clan,
     Was from his home a banished man,
     Who thought upon his own gray tower,
     The waving woods, his feudal bower,
     And deemed himself a shameful part
     Of pageant that he cursed in heart.”

611.  With bell at heel.  Douce says that “the number of bells round each leg of the morris-dancers amounted from twenty to forty;” but Scott, in a note to The Fair Maid of Perth, speaks of 252 small bells in sets of twelve at regular musical intervals.

612.  Their mazes wheel.  The Ms. adds: 

    “With awkward stride there city groom
     Would part of fabled knight assume.”

614.  Robin Hood.  Scott says here:  “The exhibition of this renowned outlaw and his band was a favorite frolic at such festivals as we are describing.  This sporting, in which kings did not disdain to be actors, was prohibited in Scotland upon the Reformation, by a statute of the 6th Parliament of Queen Mary, c. 61, A. D. 1555, which ordered, under heavy penalties that ’na manner of person be chosen Robert Hude, nor Little John, Abbot of Unreason, Queen of May, nor otherwise.’  But in 1561, the ’rascal multitude,’ says John Knox, ’were stirred up to make a Robin Hude, whilk enormity was of mony years left and damned by statute and act of Paliament; yet would they not be forbidden.’  Accordingly they raised a very serious tumult, and at length made prisoners the magistrates who endeavored