Metrical Legends of Exalted Characters: By Joanna Baillie, Author of Plays ...
Metrical Legends of Exalted Characters: By Joanna Baillie, Author of Plays ...
Baillie Joanna
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His countrymen with faithless gaze. Beheld his valour* s early blaze. P. 12. Wintown, in his chronicle, after telling how Wallace surrounded the sherrif of LaneriL in the town at his inn, and slew him ; the con- clusion of which story runs thus. Page 95. ** TTie schyrrave by the throt he gat. And that hey stayre he hurlyd him down And slew him there wythin the town," proceeds to say, ** Fray he thus the scherrave slwe, Scottis men fast to him drew, Ths^ with the Inglis oft tyme ware, Aggrevyd a...nd supprised sare." Holinshed, in his Chronicles, mentions him thus, — ^ In that season also the fame of William Wallace b^an to spring, a yoong gentleman of huge stature and notable strength of bodie, with such skill and knowledge of warlike enterprises, and hereto of such hardinesse of stomach, in attempting all manner of dai^;erous exploits, that his match was not any where lightlie to be found. He was son to one Sir Andrew Wallace of Craigie^ and from his youth bore ever an inward hatred against the English nation.
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