The Works of Walter Scott Esq Author:Walter Scott Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: NOTES SIR TRISTREM. What ailt me I may not, as well as they. Rake up some fur-worn tales, that smothered lay In chimney corners, smoked with winter fires. ... more »To read and rock asleep our drowsy sires ? No man his threshold better knows, than I Brute's first arrival, and first victory; St George's sorrel, and his cross of blood; Arthur's round board, or Caledonian wood, Or holy battles of bold Charlemaine; What were his knights did Salem's siege maintain; How the mad rival of fair Angelice Was physicked from the new-found paradise: High stories these.— Hall'i Satyres, Book VI. NOTES SIR TRISTREM. FYTTE FIRST. I was at [Erceldoune.]—P. 11. st . 1. There is a blank, where the word Erceldoune is inserted, occasioned by cutting out the illumination; but fortunately the whole line is written at the bottom of the preceding page, by way of catch-word, and runs thus: Y wu at Krtheldoimc. The faint vestiges of the text, as well as probability, dictated the spelling, which, however, ought not to be adopted without acknowledgment. Thit temly tomer't day, In winter it it nought ten.— P. 12. st. 2. An ancient poem, preserved in the Cotton Library, opens with a similar piece of morality. Winter wakeneth al my care, Now this leve waxeth bare. Oft Y tike and mourne sare. When hlt cometh in my thoht, Of this worldis joie him hit gotb al to nouht. Now hit it, and now hit nis, Ah tho hit ner nere Y wis. 'I'tn't on wot Douk Morgan, That other Rouland Riis.—P. 13. st. 4. The names of these two chiefs sufficient!; denote their British origin, and are still common in Wales. Rowland Riis, with his son Tristrem, are enumerated among the heroes of romance by a translator of Guido de Colonna, whose work is preserved in the Bodleian Library. Many spekyn of me...« less