He did these things in the effort to construct what
Lockhart calls "a standard text."
1. In stanza i., for Hogg's "Douglas WENT," Scott put "bound him to
ride."
2. (H) "With the Lindsays."
(S.) "With THEM the Lindesays."
3. (H) "Almonshire."
(S.) "Bamboroughshire."
(H) "Roxburgh."
(S.) "Reidswire."
6. (H.) "The border again.
(S.) "The border fells."
7. (H) "MOST furiously."
(S.) "RIGHT furiouslie."
9. (H.) A modernised stanza.
(S.) Scott deletes it.
15. (H) Scott rewrites the stanza thus,
(H.)
But I will stay at Otterburn,
Where you shall welcome be;
And if ye come not at three days end,
A coward I'll call thee.
(S.)
"Thither will I come," proud Percy said,
"By the might of Our Ladye."
"There will I bide thee," said the Douglas,
"My troth I'll plight to thee."
19. (H.) "I have SEEN a dreary dream."
20. (S.) "I have DREAMED a dreary dream."
21. (H)
Where he met with the stout Percy
And a' his goodly train.
21. (S.)
But he forgot the helmet good
That should have kept his brain.
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