(From Wyntoun.)
22. (H.) Line 2. "Right keen."
(S.) Line 2. "Fu' fain."
Line 4.
The blood ran down like rain.
Line 4.
The blood ran them between.
23. (H.)
But Piercy wi' his good broadsword
Was made o' the metal free,
Has wounded Douglas on the brow
Till backward did he flee.
24. (S.)
But Piercy wi' his broadsword good
That could so sharply wound,
Has wounded Douglas on the brow,
Till he fell to the ground.
25. (H.) Here Hogg has mixed prose and verse, and does his best.
Scott deletes Hogg's 25.
27. (H.) Douglas repeats the story of his dream. Scott deletes the
stanza.
28. In Hogg's second line,
Nae mair I'll fighting see.
Scott gives, from Herd,
Take thou the vanguard of the three.
29. Hogg's verse is
But tell na ane of my brave men
That I lie bleeding wan,
But let the name of Douglas still
Be shouted in the van.
This is precisely what Douglas does say, in Froissart, but Scott
deletes the stanza. Probably Hogg got the fact from his reciters, "in
plain prose," with a phrase or two in verse.
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