[555] croaked.
[556] each.
[557] fared.
[558] describe.
[559] fell.
[560] twigs.
[561] beryl.
[562] moist empurpled.
[563] embroidered.
[564] dark.
[565] sojourn.
[566] wandering.
[567] sure guide.
[568] care.
[569] breaking forth.
[570] boughs.
[571] Æolus.
[572] peacock pruning his feathers fair.
[573] thrush.
[574] pleasant.
[575] salute.
[576] partly.
[577] rocks.
[578] The name is spelt variously, Ballantyne, Ballenden, Bellendyne, &c.
[579] Murray’s Dialects of the Southern Counties of Scotland, p. 61.
[580] According to Hume’s History of the Houses of Douglas and Angus, p. 258.
[581] In the appendix to Scotstarvet’s History Sir John Bellenden is stated to have been Justice-Clerk from 1547 till 1578.
[582] Dr. Irving quotes the statements of Conn, Bale, and Dempster respectively for these three facts. But both the date and place remain, as he remarks, uncertain; and by some, as by Sibbald in his Chronicle of Scottish Poetry, Bellenden is stated to have died at Paris.
[583] Hector Boece, born 1465–66, was Principal of King’s College, Aberdeen, then newly founded by Bishop Elphinstone; and he died Rector of Tyrie in Buchan, in 1536. The second edition of his History was not published till 1574. It included the eighteenth and part of the nineteenth book by Boece, and a continuation to the end of the reign of James III. by the celebrated scholar Ferrerius.
[584] On the title page the translator is styled “Archdene of Murray and Chanon of Rosse,” and, as Irving points out, he was not in possession of these titles at the time of purchasing escheat in 1538. The date of 1536 sometimes assigned to this edition is probably therefore a mistake. Only two copies of the edition are now known to exist.
[585] This MS., by the older writers on Bellenden, is called sometimes the “Carmichael Collection,” from the name of the owner who lent it to Allan Ramsay, sometimes the “Hyndford MS.,” from John, third Earl of Hyndford, who presented it to the Advocates’ Library. This difference of appellation has not lessened the confusion hitherto involving the poet and his work.
[586] The prohemes from the translation of Boece, after being copied in part by Bannatyne in his MS., were included in Ramsay’s Evergreen and in Sibbald’s Chronicle of Scottish Poetry. The prologue to Livy was printed first by Dr. Leyden in the dissertation prefixed to his edition of The Complaynt of Scotland.
[587] From dark.
[588] Above.
[589] valued.
[590] could.
[591] unworthy.
[592] Till.
[593] harried.
[594] though.
[595] cares.
[596] doom yet constantly endures.
[597] earthly.
[598] swam.
[599] That grave deliberation.
[600] slothful.
[601] Diffusing.
[602] penetrative.
[603] loud noise.
[604] fourth.
[605] over the grasslands.
[606] revenues.
[607] was named.
[608] as they deemed best.
[609] splendour.
[610] enterprise.
[611] choose.
[612] most agreeable.
[613] Who.
[614] earth.
[615] powerful.
[616] live.
[617] By sight of these.
[618] doubt.
[619] was taken.
[620] without.
[621] prevent.
[622] must.
[623] devoured.
[624] folded.
[625] To caress and embrace.
[626] wit.
[627] pleasure.
[628] float.
[629] give practice.
[630] with forward-moving wheels.
[631] shires, lit. districts sheared off.
[632] vexing.
[633] much pain.
[634] end.
[635] war.
[636] overcome.
[637] constant warfare.
[638] makes breach in.
[639] serene.
[640] not be daunted.
[641] certain.
[642] shall vanish without delay.
[643] gone.
[644] know.
[645] In such fashion.
[646] smoky.
[647] converts sores.
[648] the day star, i.e. the sun.
[649] perfects.
[650] without peer.
[651] wipe, cleanse.
[652] sphere.
[653] called.
[654] hurts.
[655] mingled.
[656] warlike rage.
[657] slit.
[658] delicate.
[659] warlike.
[660] reigned.
[661] drove from their realms.
[662] bite.
[663] lost.
[664] stop.
[665] daunted by his war.
[666] children.
[667] acquire substance.
[668] deified.
[669] illustrious.
[670] high above genius.
[671] repulsive.
[672] darkness.
[673] solely.
[674] would not.
[675] lives as beast conscious of knowledge.
[676] ages.
[677] overhauls.
[678] barren wife.
[679] the prolific fails.
[680] And then possess.
[681] cover over.
[682] strong, raging.
[683] adorn.
[684] praise.
[685] champion.
[686] the praise is.
[687] those who propose to take place.
[688] must.
[689] which.
[690] fearful.
[691] strain, race.
[692] courtesy.
[693] same stock.
[694] overcome.
[695] host.
[696] come, begotten.
[697] care.
[698] dying.
[699] powerful deeds.
[700] who could.
[701] save, preserve.
[702] The prologue consists of twenty stanzas, of which the first four and the last are here printed.
[703] hazards of war.
[704] map of the world.
[705] diffuse.
[706] the spirits of my dull intelligence.
[707] glittering.
[708] flame.
[709] stars.
[710] stop.
[711] strong, hard to encounter.
[712] hard rock.
[713] lost.
[714] perish long ere.
[715] Spirit.
[716] Some are deep-thinking.
[717] war.
[718] cares.
[719] rage.
[720] feud.
[721] death.
[722] lives.
[723] of good fellows counts not a bean.
[724] He burns, without regard.
[725] living.
[726] loyal.
[727] compliant and attentive.
[728] of your courtesy forbear with it.
[729] composition.
[730] scattered.
[731] earth.
[733] same.
[734] limbo.
[735] From the time when.
[736] lament.
[737] own.
[738] lost.
[739] end.
[740] aggravated.