20.  Battled.  The reading of the 1st ed. and that of 1821; “battle” in most others.  Cf. i. 626 above.

22.  Where beauty, etc.  The Ms. has “At tourneys where the brave resort.”  The reference is to the tournaments, “Where,” as Milton says (L’Allegro, 119),

      “throngs of knights and barons bold. 
    In weeds of peace, high triumphs hold,
    With store of ladies, whose bright eyes
    Rain influence, and judge the prize
    Of wit or arms, while both contend
    To win her grace whom all commend.”

Cf. 87 below.

26.  Love’s.  The reading of the 1st ed. and that of 1821; most eds. have “love.”

29.  Plaided.  The plaid was properly the dress of a Highlander, though it was worn also in the Lowlands.

51.  The Harper on the islet beach.  “This picture is touched with the hand of the true poet” (Jeffrey).

56.  As from.  As if from.  Cf. 64 and 83 below.  This ellipsis was common in Elizabethan English.  Cf.  Shakespeare, Macb. ii. 2. 28: 

    “One cried ‘God bless us!’ and ‘Amen’ the other,
     As they had seen me with these hangman’s hands.”

65.  In the last sound.  For the measure, see on i. 73 above.

69.  His fleet.  That is, of ducks.  Cf. i. 239 above.

80.  Would scorn.  Who would scorn.  See on i. 528 above.

84.  Turned him.  See on i. 142 above, and cf. 106 below.

86.  After.  Afterwards; as in Shakespeare, Temp. ii. 2. 10:  “And after bite me,” etc.  The word is not now used adverbially of time, though we may say “he followed after,” etc.  The 1st ed. reads “that knight.”

94.  Parts.  Departs; as often in poetry and earlier English.  Cf.  Goldsmith, D. V. 171:  “Beside the bed where parting life was laid;” Gray, Elegy, 1:  “the knell of parting day,” etc.  On the other hand, depart was used in the sense of part.  In the Marriage Service “till death us do part” is a corruption of “till death us depart.”  Wiclif’s Bible, in Matt. xix. 6, has “therfor a man departe not that thing that God hath ioyned.”

103.  Another step, etc.  The Ms. has “The loveliest Lowland fair to spy;” and the 1st ed. reads “The step of parting fair to spy.”

109.  The Graeme.  Scott has the following note here:  “The ancient and powerful family of Graham (which, for metrical reasons, is here smelled after the Scottish pronunciation) held extensive possessions in the counties of Dumbarton and Stirling.  Few families can boast of more historical renown, having claim to three of the most remarkable characters in the Scottish annals.  Sir John the Graeme, the faithful and undaunted partaker of the labors and patriotic warfare of Wallace, fell in the unfortunate field of Falkirk, in 1298.  The celebrated Marquis of Montrose, in whom De Retz saw realized his abstract idea of the heroes of antiquity, was the second of these worthies.  And, not withstanding the severity of his temper, and the rigor with which he executed the oppressive mandates of the princes whom he served, I do not hesitate to name as the third, John Graeme, of Claverhouse, Viscount of Dundee, whose heroic death, in the arms of victory, may be allowed to cancel the memory of his cruelty to the non-conformists, during the reigns of Charles ii. and James ii.”