The poetical works of Sir Walter Scott, baronet; ed with a careful revision of the text . THE LAY OF THE LAST MINSTREL. 43. Whose footcloth swept the ground ;White was her wimple and her veil,And her loose locks a chaplet pale Of whitest roses bound ;The lordly Angus, by her side,In courtesy to cheer her tried ;Without his aid, her hand in vainHad strove to guide her broidered deemed she shuddered at the sightOf warriors met for mortal fight;But cause of terror, all fluttering in her gentle breast,When, in their chairs of crimson placed,The dame and she the barriers grace
The poetical works of Sir Walter Scott, baronet; ed with a careful revision of the text . THE LAY OF THE LAST MINSTREL. 43. Whose footcloth swept the ground ;White was her wimple and her veil,And her loose locks a chaplet pale Of whitest roses bound ;The lordly Angus, by her side,In courtesy to cheer her tried ;Without his aid, her hand in vainHad strove to guide her broidered deemed she shuddered at the sightOf warriors met for mortal fight;But cause of terror, all fluttering in her gentle breast,When, in their chairs of crimson placed,The dame and she the barriers graced. XVIII. Prize of the field, the young BuccleuchAn English knight led forth to view;Scarce rued the boy his present much he longed to see the the lists in knightly prideHigh Home and haughty Dacre ride;Their leading staffs of steel they marshals of the mortal to each knight their care assignedLike vantage of the sun and heralds hoarse did loud King and Queen and Wardens name, That none, while lasts the strife,Should dare, by look or sign or word,Aid to
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