6. What contrasts are presented in this Canto? 7. How does its tone differ from that of Canto I.? of Canto II.? 8. Make an abstract of this Canto, one short sentence to each stanza. CANTO FOURTH 5. Wilding. A poetic word, daintier than wild. Whom. Because personified by address. 31. Eagle watch. Watch sharp as an eagle's. 36. Boune. Prepared. 37. Doune. An old castle on the Teith. 42. Inured bout. Trained to endure such hard fortune. 63. Taghairm. "A person was wrapped in the skin of a newly slain bullock, and deposited beside a waterfall, or at the bottom of a precipice, or in some other strange, wild, and unusual situation, where the scenery around him suggested nothing but objects of horror. In this situation he revolved in his mind the question proposed; and whatever was impressed upon him by his exalted imagination passed for the inspiration of the disembodied spirits who haunt these desolate recesses." - SCOTT. 73. Kerns. Light-armed soldiers in the Highlands and Ireland. 74. Beal'maha. A pass on the east of Loch Lomond. 77. Dennan's Row. Now Rowardennan, the usual point for ascending Ben Lomond. 82. Boss. Central knob on a shield. 83. Verge. Pronounced to rhyme with Targe. 84. Targe. Shield. 98. While . . . broke. While the deer is quartered. 112. Sentient. Possessing feeling. 115. Rouse. Intransitive. Stand on end. 132. Which ... life. Modifies party. 139. Self-offered. Offered by himself. Is this clear? 150. Glaive. Sword. 153. Sable pale. Heraldic terms. A broad perpendicular stripe of black in the middle of the shield. 164. Shaggy glen. The word Trosachs itself means country." 213-214. My bristling his. Cf. Brutus's Portia, "so fathered and so husbanded." Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, II. i. 297. 217. Rife. Everywhere prevalent. 223. Trowed. Believed. Cf. troth. 227. Both. Refers to whom? 231. Cambus-kenneth's fane. Stirling. 245. Bode of. Forebode. 249. Presaged. Foretold. Cambus-kenneth Abbey, near 261. Read another ballad, one of Robin Hood, the NutBrowne Mayde, or Chevy Chase, and compare with this modern one, which Scott based on an old Danish ballad. 262. Mavis and merle. Thrush and blackbird. 267. Wold. Open country. The word wold is from the AngloSaxon weald and originally meant forest, then waste ground, then plain or upland. 277. Vest of pall. Rich crimson or purple stuff of which palls (mantles) were made. Latin, pallium. 285. Vair. Squirrel's fur. 298. Woned. Dwelt. 306. Fairies'.. green. Refers perhaps to the green caps of the (Stop little hill-people, or green habits of the "Men of Peace." at this point for a little review of fairy-lore, and one or two fairy stories. Cf. Drake's The Culprit Fay, and Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.) 330. Kindly. Kindred. 349. Inconstant. Ever taking new forms. 358. Durst sign. Dared to make the sign of the cross upon his brow. 371. Dumfermline. The residence and burial-place of many Scottish kings, Robert Bruce being the last of them. It is seventeen miles from Edinburgh. 387. Bourne. Boundary. 392. Augur scathe. Foresee danger. 395. Conjure. Him understood. Adjure. 424. Forth . . . shall. It shall be said. 430. Infamy. Merely disgrace here. 456-460. Try to see the picture in your mind's eye. 471. Lordship. Lordly domain. Embattled field. Battle-field. 473. Who . . . land. Modifies I. Reck of care for. 477. Signet. Ring. 478. Claim thy suit. Secure your request. 500. Fared. Journeyed, a beautiful obsolete word. way fare, farewell, wayfarer, welfare. 506. Weeds. Garments. 508. Glancing . . . eye. Cf. rail We still say "widow's weeds." 531-532. Allan and Devan. Two Perthshire streams. 555. Maudlin's charge. An insane asylum. Contracted from Magdalen. Cf. "Maudlin" College, Oxford, colloquial for " Mary Magdalen's." 559. Pitched... bar. In athletic contests. 562. Pennons. Wings. She is preparing to fly to her mur. dered lover. 567. Batten. Fatten. 571. Meet. Appropriate. 590. Jeffrey objects to this song on the ground that a maniac would not sing a sensible warning song. Can you answer his objection? The... set. The nets and stakes are prepared for the stag of ten (ten branches on its horns). The stag is James Fitz-James. Who are the hunters and the wounded doe ? 617. Thrilled in. Pierced. 630. Pine. Appropriateness of the pine? 642. Daggled. Besmeared, soaked. 686. Favor. Token of affection for his lady, worn by a knight. 687. Imbrue. Moisten. 698. Hoar. Does this mean aged? 722. Summer Solstice. Summer's greatest heat. 734-750. Thy name strength. 744. Privilege .. chase. Explained by following lines. Interpret the figure. 780. Stranger. Noun. 787. Coilantogle's Ford. On the Teith just below Loch Vennachar. 798. Purpled. Morning again, as in Canto I. How did Canto III. end? GENERAL QUESTIONS ON CANTO FOURTH 1. Compare this lovely prelude with Burns's "My love is like the red, red rose." 2. Tell the story of Ellen from the beginning of the poem through this Canto, and point out, with your evidence, all the traits which you have discovered in her. Is Malcolm a satisfactory suitor for her hand? 3. What do you know of fairy-lore? Tell the prettiest fairy story that you know. 4. How does the impression left by the second visit of FitzJames differ from that of his first? 5. Tell the story of poor Blanche, and why she warns Snowdoun's Knight. How did she know that he was in danger? 6. You have already found exhibitions of Highland hospitality; what others appear in the latter part of this Canto ? 7. Note the various means by which the effect of weirdness is produced. 8. Who was the Lady of the Lake? What lake? Precisely where is it? "The Chase "—by whom, of what, where, and how ended? "The Island" what island? Who were its occupants? "The Gathering"-why, where, of whom, how made ? Prophecy" - what was it? Who made it? To whom? "The 9. How much time has been covered by the action of these four cantos ? CANTO FIFTH 2. Pilgrim. Here apparently a mere traveller. 8. Martial Faith. Why martial ? Does this introduction change our feeling toward Roderick Dhu ? 14. Dappled. Flecked with spots. See note to I.. 1. 461. |