419.  Pride.  Some eds. misprint “power.”

429.  As.  As if.  See on ii. 56 above.

434.  Their flight they ply.  The reading of the 1st ed. and that of 1821.  Most of the eds. have “plight” for flight, and Taylor has the following note on Their plight they ply:  “The meaning of this is not very clear.  Possibly ‘they keep up a constant fire,’ but they seem in too complete a rout for that.”  Cf. iii. 318 above.

438.  The rear.  The 1st ed. has “their rear.”

443.  Twilight wood.  Cf. 403 above.  “The appearance of the spears and pikes was such that in the twilight they might have been mistaken at a distance for a wood” (Taylor).

449-450.  And closely shouldering, etc.  This couplet is not in the Ms.

452.  Tinchel.  “A circle of sportsmen, who, by surrounding a great space, and gradually narrowing, brought immense quantities of deer together, which usually made desperate efforts to breach through the Tinchel” (Scott).

459.  The tide.  The 1st ed. has “their tide.”

473.  Now, gallants! etc.  Cf.  Macaulay, Battle of Ivry: 

    “Now by the lips of those ye love,
      Fair gentlemen of France,
     Charge for the golden lilies,—­
      Upon them with the lance!”

483.  And refluent, etc.  The Ms. reads: 

    “And refluent down the darksome pass
      The battle’s tide was poured;
     There toiled the spearman’s struggling spear,
      There raged the mountain sword.”

488.  Linn.  Here the word is = cataract.  See on i. 71 and ii. 270 above.

497.  Minstrel, away!  The Ms. has “Away! away!”

509.  Surge.  Note the imperfect rhyme.  See on i. 223 above.

511.  That sullen.  The reading of the 1st ed. and that of 1821; “the sullen” in many eds.

514.  That parts not, etc.  Lockhart quotes Byron, Giaour: 

       “the loveliness in death
    That parts not quite with parting breath.”

515.  Seeming, etc.  The Ms. reads: 

    “And seemed, to minstrel ear, to toll
     The parting dirge of many a soul.”

For part = depart, see on ii. 94 above.

523.  While by the lake, etc.  The Ms. reads: 

    “While by the darkened lake below
     File out the spearmen of the foe.”

525.  At weary bay.  See on i. 133 above.

527.  Tattered sail.  The 1st ed. has “shattered sail;” not noted in the Errata.

532.  Saxons.  Some eds. misprint “Saxon.”

538.  Wont.  See on i. 408 above.

539.  Store.  See on i. 548 above.  Bonnet-pieces were gold coins on which the King’s head was represented with a bonnet instead of a crown.

540.  To him will swim.  For the ellipsis, see on i. 528 above.