LONDON:

E., B., AND G. CLARKE, SILVER STREET, FALCON SQUARE.

ELLEN DOUGLAS & FITZ-JAMES.. J. H. NixON.

Frontispiece.

BRIGG OF BRACKLINN

She sigh'd, then smiled, and took the word;
"You see the guardian champion's sword:
As light it trembles in his hand,

As in my grasp a hazel wand."-Page 25.

BOTHWELL CASTLE

I grant him brave,
But wild as Bracklinn's thundering wave.-Page 44.

..R. R. REINAGLE. O'er the arch'd gate of Bothwell proud.-Page 53.

INCH-CAILLIACH

DUNFERMLINE

Rods of yew,

Whose parents in Inch-Cailliach wave.-Page 76.

DOUNE CASTLE................

Merry it is in good greenwood

When the mavis and merle are singing,

But merrier were they in Dunfermline grey,
When all the bells were ringing.-Page 116.

STIRLING CASTLE

BEN-VENUE....

G. F. ROBSON.

..J. D. HARDING.

Their pennons will abroad be flung,
Which else in Doune had peaceful hung.-Page 138.

JAMES V..

G. CATTERMOLE.

......

The bulwark of the North,

Grey Stirling, with her towers and town,
Upon their fleet career look'd down.-Page 153.

G. F. ROBSON.

.G. F. ROBSON.

The minstrel came once more to view

The eastern ridge of Ben-venue.-Page 185.

"Tis under name which veils my power,
Nor falsely veils-for Stirling's tower

Of yore the name of Snowdoun claims,

And Normans call me James Fitz-James.-Page 202.

ARGUMENT.

The Scene of the following Poem is laid chiefly in the vicinity of Loch-Katrine, in the Western Highlands of Perthshire. The Time of Action includes Six Days, and the transactions of each day occupy a Canto.