[37] Robertson, Appendix, No. 5.--from the Cotton Library. [38] Keith, p. 178.--Chalmers, vol. ii. p. 418--Stranguage, p. 9--and Freebairn, p. 19. [39] Brantome in Jebb, vol. ii. p. 483, et seq.--Keith, p. 179--and Freebairn, p. 16 et seq. [40] Several translations of this song have been attempted, but no translation can preserve the spirit of the original. Adieu, thou pleasant land of France! The dearest of all lands to me, Where life was like a joyful dance-- The joyful dance of infancy. Farewell my childhood's laughing wiles, Farewell the joys of youth's bright day; The bark that bears me from thy smiles, Bears but my meaner half away. The best is thine;--my changeless heart Is given, beloved France! to thee; And let it sometimes, though we part, Remind thee with a sigh of me. Mary was not the only one who commemorated in verse her departure from France. Numerous _Vaudevilles_ were written upon the occasion, several of which are preserved in the _Anthologie Française_. [41] Jebb, vol. ii. p. 484. Keith, p. 180. Miss Benger, vol. ii. p. 125. In an anonymous French work, entitled, "Histoire de Marie Stuart, Reine d'Ecosse et de France," &c. respectably written on the whole, there is an amusing mistake concerning the locality of Holyroodhouse. In tom. i. p. 181, it is said, "The Queen landed at Leith, and then departed for L'Islebourg," (the name anciently given to Edinburgh), "a celebrated Abbey a mile or two distant. In this Abbey Mary remained for three weeks, and in the month of October 1561 took her departure for Edinburgh." This departure for Edinburgh alludes to the visit which Mary paid, a short time after her arrival, to the Castle. [42] The day that his present Majesty George IV. arrived at Leith, in August 1822 (whose landing and progress to Holyroodhouse, though much more brilliant, resembled in some respects that of his ancestor Mary), was as wet and unfavourable as the weather so piously described by Knox. Was this a "forewarning" also of the "comfort" our gracious Sovereign brought into the country? If Knox believed in _warnings_, there is no telling to what conclusions these warnings might have led. [43] M'Crie's Life of Knox, vol. ii. p. 22. [44] Miss Benger (vol. ii. p. 132) erroneously supposes, that the Archbishop of St Andrews had died before Mary's return to Scotland. She should have known that it was he who presided at the baptism of James VI., of which ceremony she gives so particular an account. See Keith, p. 360, and Chalmers, vol. i. p. 196. [45] Jebb, vol. ii. p. 486. Chalmers, vol. ii. p. 202. [46] Buchanan's Detection, in Anderson's Collections, vol. ii. p. 52 and 58.