festivity (especially at Christmas). As an adj. it is compounded not only with bowl, but with cup, candle, &c. Cp. Comus, l. 179:—
To meet the rudeness and swill'd insolence
Of such late wassailers.'
Cp. also note on 'gossip's bowl' of Midsummer Night's Dream, ii. I. 47, in Clarendon Press edition, and Prof. Minto's 'Lay of the Last Minstrel,' p. 174.
l. 232. Cp. Iliad i. 470, and ix. 175, and Chapman's translation, 'The youths crowned cups of wine.'
l. 238. Raby Castle, in the county of Durham, the property of the Duke of Cleveland.
l. 254. As a page in a lady's chamber. 'Bower' is often contrasted with 'hall,' as in 'Jock o' Hazeldean':—
'They socht her baith by bower an' ha'.'
Cp. below, 281.
Stanza XVI. l. 264. For Lindisfarn, or Holy Island, see note to Canto II. St. i.
Stanza XVII. l. 284. leash, the cord by which the greyhound is restrained till the moment when he is slipt in pursuit of the game. Cp. Coriolanus, i. 6. 38:—
'Even like a fawning greyhound in the leash.'
Stanza XVIII. l. 289. bide, abide. Cp. above, 215.
l. 294. pray you=I pray you. Cp. 'Prithee,' so common in Elizabethan drama.
l. 298. Scott annotates as follows:—
'The story of Perkin Warbeck, or Richard, Duke of York, is well known. In 1496, he was received honourably in Scotland; and James IV, after conferring upon him in marriage his own relation, the Lady Catharine Gordon, made war on England in behalf of his pretensions. To retaliate an invasion of England, Surrey advanced into Berwickshire at the head of considerable forces, but retreated, after taking the inconsiderable fortress of Ayton. Ford, in his Dramatic Chronicle of Perkin Warbeck, makes the most of this inroad:—
"Are all our braving enemies shrunk back,
Hid in the fogges of their distemper'd climate,
Not daring to behold our colours wave
In spight of this infected ayre? Can they
Looke on the strength of Cundrestine defac't;
