"Pride of place" is a term of falconry, and means the highest pitch of flight. See _Macbeth_, etc.-- "An eagle towering in his pride of place Was by a mousing owl hawk'd at and killed." ["A falcon towering in her pride of place," etc. _Macbeth_, act ii. sc. 4, line 12.] 2. Such as Harmodius drew on Athens' tyrant Lord. Stanza xx. line 9. See the famous song on Harmodius and Aristogeiton. The best English translation is in Bland's _Anthology_, by Mr. Denman-- "With myrtle my sword will I wreathe," etc. [_Translations chiefly from the Greek Anthology, etc._, 1806, pp. 24, 25. The _Scholium_, attributed to Callistratus (_Poetæ Lyrici Græci_, Bergk. Lipsiæ, 1866, p. 1290), begins thus-- Ἐν μύρτου κλαδὶ τὸ ξίφος φορήσω [E)n my/rtou kladi\ to\ xi/phos phorê/sô], Ὣσπερ Ἁρμόδιος καὶ Ἀριστογείτων [Ô(\sper A(rmo/dios kai\ A)ristogei/tôn], Ὅτε τὸν ύραννον κτανετην [O(/te to\n y/rannon ktanetên] Ἰσονόμους τ' Ἀθήνας ἐποιησάτην [I)sono/mous t' A)thê/nas e)poiêsa/tên] "Hence," says Mr. Tozer, "'the sword in myrtles drest' (Keble's _Christian Year_, Third Sunday in Lent) became the emblem of assertors of liberty."--_Childe Harold_, 1885, p. 262.] 3. And all went merry as a marriage bell. Stanza xxi. line 8. On the night previous to the action, it is said that a ball was given at Brussels. [See notes to the text.] 4. And Evan's--Donald's fame rings in each clansman's ears! Stanza xxvi. line 9. Sir Evan Cameron, and his descendant, Donald, the "gentle Lochiel" of the "forty-five." [Sir Evan Cameron (1629-1719) fought against Cromwell, finally yielding on honourable terms to Monk, June 5, 1658, and for James II. at Killiecrankie, June 17, 1689. His grandson, Donald Cameron of Lochiel (1695-1748), celebrated by Campbell, in _Lochiel's Warning_, 1802, was wounded at Culloden, April 16, 1746. His great-great-grandson, John Cameron, of Fassieferne (b. 1771), in command of the 92nd Highlanders, was mortally wounded at Quatre-Bras, June 16, 1815. Compare Scott's stanzas, _The Dance of Death_, lines 33, _sq_.-- "Where through battle's rout and reel, Storm of shot and hedge of steel, Led the grandson of Lochiel, Valiant Fassiefern. * * * * * And Morven long shall tell, And proud Ben Nevis hear with awe, How, upon bloody Quatre-Bras, Brave Cameron heard the wild hurra Of conquest as he fell." Compare, too, Scott's _Field of Waterloo_, stanza xxi. lines 14, 15-- "And Cameron, in the shock of steel. Die like the offspring of Lochiel."] 5.