19. What does "aye" mean? (In this place it means "for a long time.") What is meant by on our "lee"? (The wind blew toward Spain, and across the course of the ship; hence the coast appeared on the lee side of the vessel.) Why should the poet say the coast rose "grimly"? 20. What are "atabals"? (Tabors or kettledrums used by the Moors.) 21. Who asks the question about the Eastern music and the crowd of armed men? 22. What was Castile? (A province of Spain.) Who answers the question asked in the twenty-first stanza? 23. What is meant by the "Cross in jeopardie"? (The Spaniards were a Christian nation fighting under the symbol of the Cross. The Moors were the infidels or Moslems whose success would destroy the Christian religion in Spain. Their symbol was the crescent.) 24. What does "Have down" mean? (It means "Let us land.") 25. Who speaks in the twenty-fifth stanza? 26. Explain what is said in the twenty-sixth stanza. (Do you come because you have promised to fight the pagans or do you come to fight for money? Are you French or Burgundians?) 27. What is a "belted peer"? 28. What is the meaning of "died upon the tree"? 29. What is a "weltering wave"? (To "welter" is to tumble over. The "weltering wave" is the sea.) 30. Does the word "pilgrim" mean the same here as in the ninth stanza? 31. What King is this who speaks in the thirty-first stanza? 32. What do the words "full well" express? 33. Is the word "amain" in use nowadays? What does it mean? 34. What is a high glance? 35. What does this speech by Douglas show us of his character? 36. What were "cross-bolts"? (Short, blunt arrows fired from the cross-bows.) 37. What is a Saracen? (Here the word means merely a Mohammedan hostile to the Christians.) What does "rode like corn" mean? (We rode through their ranks as we would ride through corn.) 38. What is the meaning of "fain"? (Willing.) 39. What does "fell" mean? (Deadly.) 40. What is meant by "Make in"? (Here it means, "Gather together.") 41. What was the "rain"? What was the "swarm"? 42. What had happened to Saint Claire? 43. What was James's purpose in holding aloft the heart of Bruce? 44. Why did he throw the sacred relic before him? What does "wert wont of yore" mean? ("As you used to do.") 45. What is the meaning of "stour"? (Battle or combat.) Why are the spears said to come in "shivering"? 46. Who speaks in the forty-sixth stanza? 47. Who replies in the forty-seventh stanza? What does "dree" mean? (Suffer, endure.) 48. What does "stark" mean? 49. What is the meaning of "lyart"? (Gray. The word was usually applied to a horse.) 50. What is this "heaviest cloud" that is bound for the banks of Bothwell? 51. What is this "sorest stroke" that has fallen upon Scotland? 52. What was to be carried back to the ship and laid in hallowed ground in Scotland? 53. Who is the "Lord King" referred to in the fifty-third stanza? 54. Does the line "so stately as he lay" seem a natural way of expressing the fact?