The Ballad of Flodden Field : a Poem of the Xvith Century
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— " Sever'd," L. "covered." Skailed = dispersed, see gloss to stanza 26, ante. All SAM, see gloss to stanza 35, page 115. "Hash," W. "dash," L. "clash." Alliteration to "his helmet high," as well as the sense of the phrase, requires hash =z hack, from the French hacher. 47. — " Fierce in," L. "in the." K\}t Ballati of Jlotition jFidti. 119 48. — " Flick'ring," L. " fluttering." L. inserts here the following stanza : — Who now, entombed, lies at a church Carved out in stone to shew his fate, Tha...t though, by fate, left in the lurch. He died a death renowned and great. 49. — Wrack =: ruin. 50. — Hyed = hastened. 51. — Scot-free. A capital pun, legitimately used. The ordinary "scot-free" is by Latham derived from the A. S. sceat, payment, though it is questionable whether the derivation from the Celtic scot, contribution, share, is not the more natural, and more in consonance with its specific meaning. Compare the French ecot, derived by French lexico- graphers from scot. 52.
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