[Footnote 90: This line is illegible according to Scott; but Bell in his Ballads gives the verse:-- Scho gav her meete upon the flower [Scho made a bed beneath a bower, With moss and broom besprent; The sewe was gentle as mote be, Ne rage ne ire flashed fra her e'e, Scho seemèd wele content.] ] [Footnote 91: Each one.] [Footnote 92: Since then, after that.] [Footnote 93: The above lines are wanting in Dr. Whitaker's copy.] [Footnote 94: Cease, stop.] [Footnote 95: Run.] [Footnote 96: Warlock, or wizard.] [Footnote 97: Harm.] [Footnote 98: Need.] [Footnote 99: Dr. Whitaker's copy reads, perhaps better:-- "The fiend would ding you down ilk one." ] [Footnote 100: "Yon guest" may be yon _gest_, i. e. that adventure; or it may mean yon _ghaist_, or apparition, which in old poems is applied sometimes to what is supernaturally hideous. The printed copy reads,--"The beast hath," &c.] [Footnote 101: Hired.] [Footnote 102: Such like a roar.] [Footnote 103: Drew out.] [Footnote 104: In the combat.] [Footnote 105: Meeting, battle.] [Footnote 106: Hie, to hasten.] [Footnote 107: The MS. reads, mistakenly, every day.] [Footnote 108: At the back of French-gate, in Richmond, a little without the walls, stood the monastery of the Grey Friars, founded, in 1258, by Ralph Fitz-Randolph, lord of Middleham, and, after flourishing nearly three centuries, was surrendered, in 1539, by Robert Sanderson, the last warden, and fourteen brethren. Several of the families of Scroop, Plessey, and Frank, were buried here. In the time of Leland, the house, garden, orchard, and meadow, were walled in, and the edifice existed unimpaired; but there now remains only a solitary steeple, majestic and beautiful in ruins, to mark the residence and the sanctuary of that order of mendicants called Franciscans from their founder St. Francis.] [Footnote 109: Prize.] [Footnote 110: The father of sir Gawain, in the "Romance of Arthur and Merlin." The MS. is thus corrupted:-- "More loth of Louth Ryme." ] THE RISING IN THE NORTH. The subject of this ballad is the great Northern Insurrection in the 12th of Elizabeth, 1569. It happened thus:--