32. Beacon. Why beacon?

33. Benvoirlich. Ben is Gaelic for mountain.

34. Deep-mouthed. Cf. Shakespeare, 1 Henry VI., II. iv. 12, "Between two dogs, which hath the deeper mouth."

38-41. As . . . haste. Notice simile. Have you seen Landseer's picture, "The Monarch of the Glen"?

45. Beamed frontlet. Antlered forehead.

46. Adown. A poetic word not permitted in prose. list of all such words that you find.

47. Tainted gale., Meaning of "tainted" here?

53. Uam-Var. An ancient robber stronghold.

Make a

pack. Prose order? Notice force of inversion

54. Yelled and of opening trochee.

Opening. Barking when the view opened.

66. Cairn.

Unusual use of the word.

What?

68. Ken. Find other words from the same root. Read the stanza aloud to get the effect of its crescendo and diminuendo. 71. Linn. Cascade? Pool?

81. Breathe. Transitive.

84. Shrewdly. Severely.

85. Burst. What part of speech?

89. Menteith. Borders of river Teith.

91. Moss. Boggy place. Have you read Crockett's The Men of the Mosshags? It is the obverse of Scott's Old Mortality. 93. Lochard. Appears in Rob Roy and Waverley.

95. Loch Achray. The eastern outlet of the Trosachs Pass. 102. 'Twere. What part of the verb?

112. Brigg of Turk. Brigg means bridge. Read Burns's "The Brigs of Ayr."

117. Embossed. Old hunting expression.

120. Saint Hubert's breed. Scott says, quoting from an old writer, "These are the hounds which the abbots of Saint Hubert have always kept some of their race or kind in honor or remembrance of the saint, which was a hunter with Saint Eustace. Whereupon we may conceive that (by the grace of God) all good huntsmen shall follow them into paradise."

127. Quarry. The animal hunted.

138. Whinyard. Short thick knife.

142. Turned him. Reflexive use, found in older writers. A Latinism.

145. Trosachs. The wild country near Lochs Katrine and Vennachar, especially the pass between Lochs Katrine and Achray. 147. Couched. Syntax?

150. Amain. Cf. "with might and main." Derivation of word? Milton's Lycidas, l. 111, speaking of Saint Peter's keys •

"The golden opes, the iron shuts amain."

151. Chiding. See 1. 287. Cf. 1 Henry IV., III. i. 45.

"The sea that chides the banks of England.”

Explain the faded metaphor.

163. Seine. Where is the Seine? At the end of the poem recall this allusion and find out when and why the hunter visited the Seine.

166-67. Woe worth. Woe be to

184-277. The western waves

bare. ...

Try to learn this

description "by heart," having first aunted out all the delicate

touches which make it exquisite. Scott was able to describe so perfectly because he had learned to see so accurately and lovingly. 195. Native bulwarks. MS. reads, "The mimic castle of the pass.

196. Tower. See Gen. xl. 1–9.

208. Sheen. Adj., bright.

212. Boon. Adj. Derivation?

217. Bower. Dwelling, home, A.-S. búr. Cf. Shakespeare, Sonnets, cxxvii. 7. In domestic use the word is applied to any private sitting-room. Cf. "in hall or bower.' Neighbor (neah-búr) is

from same root.

218. Foxglove and nightshade. Mr. Ruskin, in his Modern Painters, III., refers to Scott's habit of drawing a slight moral from every scene-and that this slight moral is almost always melancholy. "He seems to have been constantly rebuking his own worldly pride and vanity, but purposefully." This is one of the illustrations given. But is the idea Scott's, or only Ruskin's? 228-229. Where sky. Notice this bit. 254-260. And now

made.

won.

True until the present road was

256. Nice. Used correctly, not in schoolgirl fashion, "a nice ""nice chocolate creams." 99 gown,

258. Broom. What royal family used the broom as its emblem, and was named therefrom? Was any one in this poem descended from that family?

262. Living gold. Why living? Study a photograph of Loch Katrine.

269. Sentinel enchanted land. Did Scott suspect that he him. self was to be the Enchanter? Derivation and history of enchanted. 274. Wildering. Poetic contraction.

285. Cloister. Here a monastery, not the inner covered walk.

290. Should lave. Cf. MS., "did lave.”

293. Matins. Do you see any connection between matins and matinée ?

321-322. Oak. rock. This is an imperfect rhyme. Distin guish such from Scotch pronunciation.

331. Silver strand. Really such.

342. Naiad. See mythology for this and line 344.

348. Sportive toil. Explain contradiction.

352. Courtly. Here, belonging to the court. Cf. Milton's Comus, 323-326.

353. Measured. Governed by court etiquette.

362. A Chieftain's daughter. Proofs, 363-364.

363. Snood. The silken ribbon about the flowing hair which distinguishes a Scotch maiden from a matron.

Plaid. See note on 321-322 above.

377. Confessed. How different from present meaning?

384. Indignant spirit. Illustrate from Scottish history.

385. One only passion. Cf. Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar, I. ii. 157, "When there is in it but one only man. 99

404. Prune. Arrange damaged plumage.

408. Wont. Past tense of Anglo-Saxon wonan, to dwell. Here used as a present, meaning "are wont."

409. On .. sage. Show force of personification.

413. Forward and frolic. What part of speech?

425. Slighting. Paying little attention to.

433. Open. What do you know of Highland hospitality Heather.

438. Couch.

441. Mere. Lake, as in Grasmere, where Scott used to visit the nature-poet, Wordsworth.

443. Rood.

from the rood?

Cross, a common oath. What palace was named

449. Fair. Young lady. Cf. Midsummer Night's Dream, I. i. 182.

457. As far as. What is omitted?

457. Yesternight. Obsolete, but cf. yesterday, fortnight.

458-460. Foretold . . . bent. Ask some old Scotch lady to tell you instances of second sight.

461. Dappled. Spotted. Cf. Milton's L'Allegro, 1. 44.

464. Lincoln Green. Made in Lincoln. Cf. the dress of Robin Hood's merry men.

475. Errant-knight. What was a knight-errant ?

476. Sooth. Adj., truthful.

478. Emprise. Enterprise, but a more poetic word.

490. Frequent. Part of speech? Find other similar examples of such exchange.

492. Rocky Isle. "It is a little island, but very famous in Romance land as 'Ellen's Isle'; for Ellen . . . was the name of the Lady of the Lake. It is mostly composed of dark gray rocks, mottled with pale and gray lichen, peeping out here and there amid trees that mantle them, — chiefly light, graceful birches, intermingled with red-berried mountain ashes and a few dark green spiry pines. A more poetic, romantic retreat could hardly be imagined; it is unique. It is completely hidden, not only by the trees, but also by an undergrowth of beautiful and abundant ferns and the loveliest of heather.". - HUNNEWELL'S Lands of Scott.

500. Winded. Why did he not say wound ?

504. Here, for retreat. Scott says in a note: "The Celtic chief