al peculiarity of this song is that the
rhymes of the even lines of the first quatrain (or set of four lines)
are taken up as those of the odd lines in the second, and that they are
the same in all three stanzas" (Taylor).

722. We now must share. The MS. has "my sire must share;" and in 725
"The murky grotto's noxious air."

733. Bow us. See on i. 142, and cf. 749 below.

754. Lanrick height. Overlooking Lanrick Mead. See on 286 above.

755. Where mustered, etc. The MS. reads:

"Where broad extending far below,
Mustered Clan-Alpine's martial show."

On the first of these lines, cf. i. 88 above.

773. Yell. See on 357 above.

774. Bochastle's plain. See on i. 106 above.

Canto Fourth.

2. And hope, etc. The MS. has "And rapture dearest when obscured by
fears."

5. Wilding. Wild; a rare word, used only in poetry. Cf. Tennyson,
Geraint and Enid: "And like a crag was gay with wilding flowers."
Spenser has the noun (= wild apples) in F. Q. iii. 7. 17: "Oft from
the forrest wildings he did bring," etc. Whom is used on account of the
personification.

9. What time. Cf. ii. 307 and iii. 15 above.

19. Braes of Doune. The undulating region between Callander and Doune,
on the north side of the Teith. The Doune of 37 below is the old Castle
of that name, the ruins of which still form a majestic pile on the steep
banks of the Teith. It figures in Waverley as the place where the hero
was confined by the Highlanders.

36. Boune. Prepared, ready; a Scottish word. Cf. 157 and vi. 396 below.

42. Bide. Endure; not to be printed 'bide, as if a contraction of
abide. Cf. Shakespeare, Lear, iii. 4. 29: "That bide the pelting of this
pitiless storm," etc.

Bout. Turn (of fortune).

47. Repair. That is, to repair.

55. 'T is well advised. Well thought of, well planned. Cf. advised
careful, well considered; as in M. of V. i. 1. 142: "with more advised
watch," etc.

The MS. reads:

"'Tis well advised--a prudent plan,
Worthy the father of his clan."

59. Evening-tide. See on iii. 478 above.

63. The Taghairm. Scott says here: "The Highlanders, like all rude
people, had various superstitious modes of inquiring into futurity. One
of the most noted was the Taghairm, mentioned in the text. A person was
wrapped up in the skin of a newly-slain bullock, and deposited beside
a waterfall, or at the bottom of a precipice, or in some other strange,
wild, and unusual situ