Stanza II, ll. 27-30. Cp. 'Faerie Queene,' III. iv. 7.:—
That 'gainst the craggy clifts did loudly rore,
And in their raging surquedry disdaynd
That the fast earth affronted them so sore.'
ll. 34-6.' The cognizance was derived from the commission Bruce gave the Good Lord James Douglas to carry his heart to Palestine. The Field is the whole surface of the shield, the Chief the upper portion. The Mullet is a star-shaped figure resembling the rowel of a spur, and having five points.
l. 45. Bartisan, a small overhanging turret.
l. 46. With vantage-coign, or advantageous corner, cp. 'Macbeth,' i. 6. 7.
Stanza III, l. 69. Adown, poetical for down. Cp. Chaucer, 'Monkes Tale,' 3630, Clarendon Press ed.:—
Til in his fadres barme adoun it lay.'
ll. 86-91. Cp. Coleridge's 'Christabel,' l. 68.
Stanza IV. 11. 108-9. Cp. 'Il Penseroso,' 161–6,—
To the full voic'd quire below,
In service high, and anthems clear,
As may with sweetness, through mine ear,
Dissolve me into ecstasies,
And bring all Heav'n before mine eyes.'
See also Coleridge's 'Dejection,' v.:—
l. 112. 'I shall only produce one instance more of the great veneration paid to Lady Hilda, which still prevails even in there our days; and that is, the constant opinion, that she rendered, and still renders herself visible, on some occasions, in the Abbey of Streamshalh, or Whitby, where she so long resided. At a particular time of the year (viz. in the summer months), at ten or eleven in the forenoon, the sunbeams fall in the inside of the northern part of the choir; and 'tis then that the spectators, who stand on the west side of Whitby churchyard, so as just to see the most northerly part of the abbey pass the north end of Whitby church, imagine they
