. Good faith. In good faith, bona fide; as often in old writers.

192. Bower. See on i. 217 above.

195. This rebel Chieftain, etc. The MS. reads:

"This dark Sir Roderick | and his band;"
This savage Chieftain |

and below:

"From copse to copse the signal flew.
Instant, through copse and crags, arose;"

and in 205 "shoots" for sends.

208. And every tuft, etc. The MS. reads:

"And each lone tuft of broom gives life
To plaided warrior armed for strife.
That whistle manned the lonely glen
With full five hundred armed men;"

and below (214):

"All silent, too, they stood, and still,
Watching their leader's beck and will,
While forward step and weapon show
They long to rush upon the foe,
Like the loose crag whose tottering mass
Hung threatening o'er the hollow pass."

219. Verge. See on iv. 83 above.

230. Manned himself. Cf. Addison's "manned his soul," quoted by Wb.

238. The stern joy, etc. Cf. iv. 155 above.

239. Foeman. The reading of the 1st ed. and that of 1821; "foeman" in
many recent eds.

246. Their mother Earth, etc. Alluding to the old myths of the
earth-born Giants and of Cadmus.

252. Glinted. Flashed; a Scottish word. Jamieson defines glint "to
glance, gleam, or pass suddenly like a flash of lightning."

253. Glaive. See on iv. 274 above. The jack was "a horseman's defensive
upper garment, quilted and covered with strong leather" (Nares). It
was sometimes also strengthened with iron rings, plates, or bosses. Cf.
Lyly, Euphues: "jackes quilted, and covered over with leather, fustian,
or canvas, over thick plates of yron that are sowed to the same." Scott,
in the Eve of St. John, speaks of "his plate-jack." For spear the 1st
ed. has "lance."

267. One valiant hand. The MS. has "one brave man's hand."

268. Lay. Were staked.

270. I only meant, etc. Scott says: "This incident, like some other
passages in the poem, illustrative of the character of the ancient Gael,
is not imaginary, but borrowed from fact. The Highlanders, with the
inconsistency of most nations in the same state, were alternately
capable of great exertions of generosity and of cruel revenge and
perfidy. The following story I can only quote from tradition, but with
such an assurance from those by whom it was communicated as permits me
little doubt of its authenticity. Early in the last century, John Gunn,
a noted Cateran, o