The selfsame moment I could pray; And from my neck so free The Albatross fell off, and sank Like lead into the sea.' line 487. bowne = prepare. See below, V. xx, 'to bowne him for the war'; and 'Lay of the Last Minstrel,' V. xx, 'bowning back to Cumberland.' Cp. 'Piers the Plowman,' III. 173 (C Text):-- 'And bed hem alle ben BOUN . beggeres and othere, To wenden with hem to Westemynstre.' Stanza XXIII. line 490. Dun-Edin = Edwin's hill-fort, poetic for Edinburgh. line 497. The Braid Hills, S. E. of Edinburgh, recently added to the recreation grounds of the citizens. Stanza XXIV. Blackford Hill has now been acquired by the City of Edinburgh as a public resort. The view from it, not only of the city but of the landscape generally, is striking and memorable. lines 511-15. Cp. Wordsworth's 'The Fountain--a Conversation':-- 'No check, no stay, this Streamlet fears: How merrily it goes! 'Twill murmur on a thousand years, And flow as now it flows. And here on this delightful day, I cannot choose but think How oft, a vigorous man, I lay Beside this fountain's brink. My eyes are dim with childish tears, My heart is idly stirred, For the same sound is in my ears Which in those days I heard.' Stanza XXV. line 521. 'The Borough, or Common Moor of Edinburgh, was of very great extent, reaching from the southern walls of the city to the bottom of Braid Hills. It was anciently a forest; and, in that state, was so great a nuisance, that the inhabitants of Edinburgh had permission granted to them of building wooden galleries, projecting over the street, in order to encourage them to consume the timber; which they seem to have done very effectually. When James IV mustered the array of the kingdom there, in 1513, the Borough-moor was, according to Hawthornden, "a field spacious, and delightful by the shade of many stately and aged oaks." Upon that, and similar occasions, the royal standard is traditionally said to have been displayed from the Hare Stane, a high stone, now built into the wall, on the left hand of the highway leading towards Braid, not far from the head of Bruntsfield Links. The Hare Stane probably derives its name from the British word Har, signifying an army.'--SCOTT. Stanza XXVI. lines 535-538. The proper names in these lines are Hebrides; East Lothian; Redswire, part of Carter Fell near Jedburgh; and co. of Ross. Stanza XXVII. line 557. 'Seven culverins so called, cast by one Borthwick.'--SCOTT. Stanza XXVIII. line 566. 'Each ensign intimated a different rank.'-- SCOTT. line 567. As illustrating an early mode of English encampment, Scott quotes from Patten's description of what he saw after Pinkie, 1547:- -