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For the rest, as the bad trans- Bailie Craigdallie, Oliver Proudfute bonnet- attempt to carry her off, by Rothsay, and Ralators from the French say, they will peruse it maker, Griffin not of that ilk but of that inn, morny and his other adherents, is defeated by the so soon, that any elaborate criticism of ours &c. &c. are all faithfully painted, and cleverly brave Smith, who is her Valentine, and who in would be worse than wasted, even were we at contrasted: whilst Mrs. Proudfute, Dorothy the affray chops off the hand of the luckless masthis time of day inclined to deliver opinions Glover the domestic of Simon, Luckie Shool-ter of the prince's horse. Other scenes and revels upon the Author of Waverley. 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The corpse is found Of the battle of Homildon Hill he made a hearted and wavering; his gay and thoughtless on the morning of Ash Wednesday, and the dramatic poem; and the conflict between the son Rothsay, and his brother the crafty and hardly appeased tumults in the city, occasioned Clan Chattan and the Clan Kay, on the North ambitious Duke of Albany, are finely deve- by the gallant affair at Simon Glover's, are Inch of Perth, forms one of the most remark-loped. The Black Douglas is not perhaps so renewed against the reckless courtiers with able of the Tales of a Grandfather (see that accurately depicted: indeed he is more pecu- greater fury than before. The rumour runs work, vol. ii. p. 67). In the present publica- liarly and forcibly drawn by several ancient at first that Henry Smith has been murdered; tion we have the characters of the same era writers; but still he is a bold sketch upon the which throws the Fair Maid, who had hitherto drawn out in fuller proportions, from King canvass of Sir Walter's grouping. Of the been coy and cold to his addresses, off her guard; Robert III. to Henry Wynd, the valiant citi- equally potent Earl of March we do not see and the following ensues. zen of Perth, whose alliance so largely contri- much; but these mighty feudal lords, together "Catharine ran through the streets of Perth buted to win the field for the Clan Chattan; with their followers, priors and monks, Sir in a manner which at another moment would some fictitious personages introduced; and the Patrick Charteris provóst of Perth, Ra- have brought on her the attention of every one whole wrought into a Chronicle (if such a com- morny master of the horse to the Duke of who saw her hurrying on with a reckless imposition can with propriety be so called) of Rothsay, Eviot his page, Bonthron a ruffian, petuosity, wildly and widely different from the vivid and striking reality. The circumstances the foster-father and brothers of the chieftain ordinary decency and composure of her step are related with all the force of actual truth; of Clan Kay, and many inferior characters, and manner, and without the plaid, scarf, or the dramatis persona are developed either with are stamped with the masterly touch of our mantle, which women of good,' of fair chahistorical fidelity or a keen perception of hu- great delineator of the men and manners of racter and decent rank, universally carried man nature in those fierce and barbarous times; ancient as well as modern days. Of his powers around them, when they went abroad. But, and king, prince, noble, citizen, clansman, re- in this respect, nearly the whole of the last distracted as the people were, every one intainer, glee-maiden, &c. are individualised volume is a remarkable example: the cata- quiring or telling the cause of the tumult, and with the skill of an acute observer, who had strophe of Rothsay in Falkland castle'; and, still most recounting it different ways, the neglilived among the chivalrous barons, warlike more, the contest of the clans on the Inch of gence of her dress, and discomposure of her burghers, and wild Highlanders,-amidst the Perth, are not surpassed by any thing he has manner, made no impression on any one; and fends and brawls,-of the closing years of the ever done. The latter we are inclined to class she was suffered to press forward on the path fourteenth century. above the matchless tournament in Ivanhoe, she had chosen, without attracting more notice We do not, however, mean to say that the inasmuch as its reality and deep tragedy are than the other females, who, stirred by anxious facts of history or of individual character have superior to the show and chivalry of that su- curiosity or fear, had come out to inquire the been scrupulously adhered to: on the contrary, perb picture. But the most original and strik-cause of an alarm so general it might be to they have been disregarded when it suited the ing feature in this production is, that the seek for friends, for whose safety they were inauthor to shape his narrative into a higher, more author has contrived to invest the character of terested. As Catharine passed along, she felt affecting, or more tragical tone. Thus, Henry a coward with the finest of our sympathies. all the wild influence of the agitating scene, Wynd, the little bandy-legged saddler of tra- This is an entirely novel idea; and we wonder and it was with difficulty she forbore from redition, who for half a French crown periled when we find that such a being-the general peating the cries of lamentation and alarm his life in mortal combat, is elevated into the scoff, derision, and at best pity, of all preced- which were echoed around her. In the meanbest armourer in Scotland,-an athlete of good ing times and writers-is, by a magical charm time, she rushed rapidly on, embarrassed like bodily appearance, and a hero in soul. The and a just view of nature, rendered one for one in a dream, with a strange sense of dreadchief of the Clan Kay is a creature of super- whom our feelings are warmly excited, and for ful calamity, the precise nature of which she stition and romance, whose imagined conduct whose destiny our tears are made to flow. was unable to define, but which implied the has a leading influence throughout the tale. With these preliminaries we shall proceed terrible consciousness, that the man who loved The death of the unfortunate Duke of Roth-to a brief epitome of the Fair Maid of Perth, her so fondly, whose good qualities she so highly say is brought about by other causes and other and a few quotations to exemplify her Chro-esteemed, and whom she now felt to be dearer instruments than our annals have assigned, nicle. The book opens on St. Valentine's eve: than perhaps she would before have acknowthough the principal incidents of his sad fate, King Robert is holding his court in the Domi-ledged to her own bosom, was murdered, and as report has handed them down, have been nican convent at Perth; and we become ac-most probably by her means. preserved with appalling minuteness. quainted with the inhabitants of that city who "Without knowing what she sought, exare necessary to the tale, especially with Katie cept the general desire to know the worst of Glover, whose rare beauty inspires all hearts, the dreadful report, she hurried forward to the from that of the heir-apparent to Henry Wynd very spot, which of all others her feelings of

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the preceding day would have induced her to said; and, Holy Mother-a dying woman, as morning that would cure me of laughter, at avoid. Who would, upon the evening of Shrove- it would seem!' 'Not so, old woman,' said least till Lent was over; but this would make tide, have persuaded the proud, the timid, the her foster-son; the dear heart throbs-theme curl my cheek if I were dying. Why, here shy, the rigidly decorous Catharine Glover, sweet breath comes and returns! Come thou, stands honest Henry Smith, who was lamented that before mass on Ash Wednesday she that may aid her more meetly than I-bring as dead, and toll'd out for from every steeple should rush through the streets of Perth, mak-water-essences-whatever thy old skill can in town, alive, merry, and, as it seems from ing her way amidst tumult and confusion, with devise. Heaven did not place her in my arms his ruddy complexion, as like to live as any her hair unbound, and her dress disarranged, to die, but to live for herself and me.' With man in Perth. And here is my precious to seek the house of that same lover, who, she an activity which her age little promised, daughter, that yesterday would speak of nohad reason to believe, had so grossly and inde- Nurse Shoolbred collected the means of restor- thing but the wickedness of the wights that licately neglected and affronted her, as to pur- ing animation; for, like many women of the haunt profane sports, and protect glee-maidens sue a low and licentious amour! * period, she understood what was to be done in-ay, she who set St. Valentine and St. Cupid "At length, without any distinct idea of her such cases, nay, possessed a knowledge of treat- both at defiance,-here she is, turned a gleeown purpose, she stood before her lover's door, ing wounds of an ordinary description, which maiden herself for what I can see! Truly, I and knocked for admittance. The silence which the warlike propensities of her foster-son kept am glad to see that you, my good Dame succeeded the echoing of her hasty summons in pretty constant exercise. Come now,' she Shoolbred, who give way to no disorder, have increased the alarm which had induced her to said, 'son Henry, unfold your arms from about been of this loving party. You do me wrong, take this desperate measure. Open, open, my patient-though she is worth the pressing my dearest father,' said Catharine, as if about Henry!' she cried. Open, if you yet live !and set thy arms at freedom to help me with to weep. 'I came here with far different exOpen, if you would not find Catharine Glover what I want. Nay, I will not insist on your pectations than you suppose. I only came bedead upon your threshold!' As she cried thus quitting her hand, if you will beat the palm cause because Because you expected to franticly to ears which she was taught to be- gently, as the fingers unclose their clenched find a dead lover,' said her father; and you lieve were stopped by death, the lover she in- grasp.' I beat her slight beautiful hand!' have found a living one, who can receive the voked opened the door in person, just in time said Henry; you were as well bid me beat a tokens of your regard and return them. Now, to prevent her sinking on the ground. The glass cup with a fore-hammer, as tap her fair were it not a sin, I could find in my heart to extremity of his ecstatic joy upon an occasion palm with my horn-hard fingers. But the fin- thank Heaven that thou hast been surprised at so unexpected, was qualified only by the won- gers do unfold, and we will find a better way last into owning thyself a woman-Simon der which forbade him to believe it real, and than beating;' and he applied his lips to the Glover is not worthy to have an absolute saint by his alarm at the closed eyes, half-opened pretty hand, whose motion indicated returning for his daughter.-Nay, look not so piteously, and blanched lips, total absence of complexion, sensation. One or two deep sighs succeeded, nor expect condolence from me! Only I will and apparently total cessation of breathing. and the Fair Maid of Perth opened her eyes, try not to look merry, if you will be pleased to Henry had remained at home, in spite of the fixed them on her lover, as he kneeled by the stop your tears, or confess them to be tears of general alarm, which had reached his ears for a bedside, and again sunk back on the pillow. joy.' If I were to die for such a confession,' considerable time, fully determined to put him- As she withdrew not her hand from her lover's said poor Catharine, I could not tell what to self in the way of no brawls that he could avoid; hold or from his grasp, we must in charity be- call them. Only believe, dear father, and let and it was only in compliance with a summons lieve that the return to consciousness was not Henry believe, that I would never have come from the magistrates, which, as a burgher, he so complete as to make her aware that he hither, unless — unless—'Unless you had was bound to obey, that, taking his sword and abused the advantage, by pressing it alternately thought that Henry could not come to you,' buckler from the wall, he was about to go forth, to his lips and his bosom. At the same time said her father. And now shake hands in for the first time unwillingly, to pay his ser- we are compelled to own, that the blood was peace and concord, and agree as Valentines vice, as his tenure bound him. It is hard,' colouring in her cheek, and that her breathing should.'" he said, to be put forward in all the town was deep and regular, for a minute or two durfeuds, when the fighting work is so detestable ing this relapse. The noise at the door began to Catharine. I am sure there are enough of now to grow much louder, and Henry was wenches in Perth, that say to their gallants, called for by all his various names, of Smith, "Go out do your devoir bravely, and win Gow, and Hal of the Wynd, as heathens used your lady's grace;' and yet they send not for to summon their deities by different epithets." their lovers, but for me, who cannot do the Simon Glover comes from the inquest upon duties of a man to protect a minstrel woman, Proudfute's body to quicken his friend the or of a burgess who fights for the honour of his Smith. town, but this peevish Catharine uses me as if "Unrestrained by the considerations of I were a brawler and bordeller!' Such were doubt and hesitation which influenced others, the thoughts which occupied his mind, when, he repaired to the parlour; and having overas he opened his door to issue forth, the person heard the bustling of Dame Shoolbred, he took dearest to his thoughts, but whom he certainly the privilege of intimacy to ascend to the bedleast expected to see, was present to his eyes, room, and, with the slight apology of I and dropped into his arms. His mixture of crave your pardon, good neighbour," he opened surprise, joy, and anxiety, did not deprive him the door, and entered the apartment, where a of the presence of mind which the occasion de singular and unexpected sight awaited him. manded. To place Catharine Glover in safety, At the sound of his voice, May Catharine exand recall her to herself, was to be thought of perienced a revival much speedier than Dame whose discourses have converted the beautiful before rendering obedience to the summons of Shoolbred's restoratives had been able to pro- Catharine, and led even her cautious father the magistrates, however pressingly that had duce; and the paleness of her complexion to speak rather irreverently of the church, been delivered. He carried his lovely burden, changed into a deep glow of the most lovely draws a hasty but striking outline. "When as light as a feather, yet more precious than red. She pushed her lover from her with both I behold," he says, " this rich and varied the same quantity of purest gold, into a her hands, which, until this minute, her want land, with its castles, churches, convents, small bedchamber which had been his mother's. of consciousness, or her affection, awakened by stately palaces, and fertile fields, these exIt was the most fit for an invalid, as it looked the events of the morning, had well nigh tensive woods, and that noble river, I know into the garden, and was separated from the abandoned to his caresses. Henry Smith, not, my daughter, whether most to admire the noise of the tumult. Here, Nurse Nurse bashful as we know him, stumbled as he rose bounty of God or the ingratitude of man. He Shoolbred come quick come for death and up; and none of the party were without a hath given us the beauty and fertility of the life here is one wants thy help! Up trotted share of confusion, excepting Dame Shoolbred, earth, and we have made the scene of his the old dame. If it should but prove any one who was glad to make some pretext to turn bounty a charnel-house and a battle-field. He that will keep thee out of the scuffle for she her back to the others, in order that she might hath given us power over the elements, and also had been aroused by the noise, but what enjoy a laugh at their expense, which she felt skill to erect houses for comfort and defence, was her astonishment, when, placed in love herself utterly unable to restrain, and in which and we have converted them into dens for rob and reverence on the bed of her late mistress, the Glover, whose surprise, though great, was bers and ruffians." The flight of this holy and supported by the athletic arms of her foster of short duration, and of a joyful character, father to the Highlands, and also of Simon son, she saw the apparently lifeless form of the sincerely joined. Now, by good St. John,' Glover, who is accused of heresy, changes the Fair Maid of Perth. Catharine Glover!' she he said, I thought I had seen a sight this scene, and brings us into contact with the wild

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Suspicion of Proudfute's murder falls on Ramorny and his people: the former is assoilzied on the testimony of the Prince; but the latter are put to the ordeal of bier-right, that is, to attest their innocency by oath in the church, where the corpse is placed on the altar before them. This ceremony is well described: Bonthron refuses the appeal, and challenges single combat instead. He is opposed by the Smith, as the widow's chosen champion, and defeated. Upon this he confesses the murder, but is suborned by his master Ramorny and Dwining to accuse the Duke of Rothsay of having employed him: he is then borne to execution, but saved from the gallows-death by the devices of the fiendish Pottingar. The prince is, at the instigation of Albany, placed in ward of the Constable Errol. Of the unhappy state of the country at this period, a reforming monk,