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Hardy in the original implies ftrong, not valiant ; and though ufed in the latter fenfe by the Englifh, yet the Scots (till take it in its firft acceptation. " The names in " Cunningham, " fays Sir David Dalrymple, " are all " Saxon, as is the name of the country itfdf. " An- nals of Scotland, an. 1160, note. The Danjb and Saxin are both derived from the old Gothic, and were fo fimilar, that a pcrfon of the one nation might underftand one of the other fpeaking in his proper tongue. From the nam...es and whole tenor of I 2 tills ii6 NOTES. this poem, I am inclined to think the chief fcene is laid in Cunninghamfliire ; where Hkewiie the lattle cf Largs, fuppofed to be that fo nobly defcribed in the firllpart, was fought. Ver. 5. Briton. ] This was the common name which the Scots gave the Englifh anciently, as may be obferved in their old poets; and particularly Blind Harry, whofe teftimony indeed can only be relied on, as to the common language and manners of his time ; his Life of Wallace being a tifiue of the moft abfurd fa- bles ever mingled.
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