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diff --git a/old/66950-0.txt b/old/66950-0.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 91386a7..0000000 --- a/old/66950-0.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,2588 +0,0 @@ -The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Goblin Groom, by R. O. Fenwick, Esq. - -This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and -most other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions -whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms -of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at -www.gutenberg.org. If you are not located in the United States, you -will have to check the laws of the country where you are located before -using this eBook. - -Title: The Goblin Groom - a Tale of Dunse - -Author: R. O. Fenwick, Esq. - -Release Date: December 16, 2021 [eBook #66950] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: UTF-8 - -Produced by: Charlene Taylor and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team - at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images - generously made available by The Internet Archive/American - Libraries.) - -*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE GOBLIN GROOM *** - - - - - THE GOBLIN GROOM; - - A Tale - - OF DUNSE. - - BY - - R. O. FENWICK, ESQ. - - - _Thus, while I ape the measure wild - Of tales that charmed me yet a child, - Rude though they be, still with the chime - Return the thoughts of early time._--SCOTT. - - - EDINBURGH: - - PRINTED BY ALEX. LAWRIE & CO. - - FOR ALEX. LAWRIE, EDINBURGH; - AND - J. RIDGWAY, LONDON. - - 1809. - - - - - TO THOSE ADMIRERS - - OF ENGLISH POETRY - - WHO WISH TO SEE IT RESTORED TO ITS - - “_OLD STYLE OF PATHOS_,” - - THE FOLLOWING POEM - - IS RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED - - BY - - THE AUTHOR. - - - - -ADVERTISEMENT. - - -_The Author of the Goblin Groom can, on no consideration, be induced to -follow the example of the amiable and justly celebrated Madame de -Genlis, who, in her Historical Romance of the Chevaliers du Cygne, -observes,--“Enfin l’ideè de faire mourir l’heroine de l’histoire des les -premieres pages, et cependant de s’occuper d’elle jusqu’ a la fin, est -peutetre assez neuve pour meriter quelqu’ indulgence.” Could he, on the -contrary, prolong the precious life of his exalted hero, but for a -single day, he should feel more real delight, than the indulgence due to -the most afflicting novelty can possibly confer. But though unable to -guard him from the blow, which the unrelenting hand of time must one day -inflict, the author can at least promise, if he shall himself survive -the catastrophe, to restore him to the respectful consideration of his -readers, in a form at once congenial to the spirit of poetry, and -suitable to the taste and temper of the times. To some of his readers, -it may be necessary to remark, which must readily occur to the attention -of the critic, that his true hero is only to be discovered, by the -frequent allusions to his high rank and acknowledged virtues; and having -thus divested the Goblin of the precedency, which he might otherwise -appear to have usurped, it now only remains to give his readers a -general idea of the story. It turns on the several incidents of a -fox-chace, but is called a Tale of Dunse, because in that favourite_ -RENDEZVOUS _of the lovers of the chace, the Goblin first made his -appearance. That the minds of his readers may be as perfectly prepared, -as he could wish, for the manners of the age in which it is laid, he -apprizes them, that the poem opens on the last day of April 1806, and -concludes with the death of a fox on Flodden Field twenty-four hours -thereafter. The country over which he has accompanied his elfin fay and -merry pack, he has viewed with the rapid glance of a sportsman, and -therefore trusts, that his hasty and imperfect sketch will not be -regarded with the too scrupulous eye of rigid criticism. With all its -faults, but without further apology, he commits it to its fate, and, -notwithstanding the protecting influence of wire-wove,--broad -margin,--high price,--and hot-press, he is not without feeling some -apprehensions concerning its success._ - - - - -CONTENTS. - - - PAGE - -_Introduction to Canto First_--TO WALTER MARROWFAT, _Gardener to -his Grace the Duke of B-- --h_ 1 - -CANTO I. THE HOSTEL, OR INN, 13 - -_Introduction to Canto Second_--TO BENJAMIN BUFFET, _Butler to his -Grace the Duke of B-- --h_ 37 - -II. THE FOX CHACE, 47 - -_Notes to Canto First_ 81 - - _Canto Second_ 103 - - - - -ERRATA. - - -Page 40, line 1, _for_ mintrel’s _read_ minstrel’s. -Pages 53 and 57, head line, _for_ FOX-CHASE _read_ FOX-CHACE. -Page 72, line 5, note, _for_ son _read_ sont. - 83, line 9, _for_ Anceps _read_ Auceps. - - - - -THE GOBLIN GROOM. - - -Introduction to Canto First. - - - - -TO WALTER MARROWFAT, - -_GARDENER TO HIS GRACE THE D-- OF B-- --H_. - - - _Edinburgh._ - - Walter, at last, in order due, - The minstrel tunes his harp to you; - The very notes of friendship dear, - Are cordial to a poet’s ear: - Then why, my Walter, should I care - From whence you come, or who you are. - What! tho’ no royal blood should flow - Thro’ veins of blue and breast of snow: - Tho’ lowest of the low you be, - Still you shall hear my minstrelsy: - Enough to me it is that you - Are vassal to the bold B-- --h; - For to my heart they still are dear, - Who serve that stout, that valiant peer. - But now, my friend, ’tis right to ask, - How thrives your culinary task? - Seems it to me the cultured soil, - Should glow beneath your sun-burnt toil. - I see thy face with ruddy glow - Smile on the rising cabbage row; - And now, methinks, I feel thy glee, - For I, my friend, can feel like thee, - E’en at the peeping of a pea; - Just when the germ has broke the soil, - The very sight repays thy toil. - O, Cultivation! Ceres’ child, - Foe to the hill and desert wild! - Foe to the mountain and the moor, - Friend to the hungry and the poor! - But let me not, with thoughts elate, - Forget my Walter’s garden gate: - Of all the gates so wonderous fair - Here round the princely dwelling, - My Watty’s gate, beyond compare, - All these is far excelling![1] - But I forgot the garden fair, - And sought the barren mountain bare. - O’er Tiviot’s hills, I bent my way, - Forgetful of my minstrel lay; - Nor thought I much of this or that, - Till fancy painted Marrowfat. - She painted Walter as I’ve seen, - When weeding D-- --h’s walks so green; - To noble dames, just bent to bow; - Dejected head, erected hoe, - Proclaimed respect to ladye fair, - And shewed her that defence was there. - ’Twas diffidence and manly pride, - That bows, yet shews the power to chide. - Above the common height of man, - My Walter stands at least a span: - A brow of jet, a fiery eye, - Like planet in a sable sky, - Shone from my fancy’s painted chief; - And then, to give the scene relief, - A nose projecting curvedly; - The nose befitting well the eye. - Vails it not me, alas! to speak - Of bushy lip, or cherry cheek; - To say I saw my Walter smile, - I’d rather pause a little while: - For bootless is the task to paint, - When fancy’s self is far too faint, - To shew the gardener of B-- --h, - In form exact, and colours true. - How happy passed my early days, - With thee in D-- --h’s groves of bays; - When slinking sly, from bush to bush, - We sought to catch the nestling thrush; - Or when supported, friend, by thee, - I climbed the giant cherry-tree; - Or ran a race, dear Wat, with you, - To please the gallant young B-- --h. - The bower was still, and all was hushed, - ’Twas eve, and modest nature blushed; - The crimson setting of the sun, - Waved o’er the night-cloud’s visage dun, - And all creation, so serene, - Enjoyed the still, the lovely scene. - The thrush, upon the hazel bough, - Pour’d calmly forth her evening vow, - And every bird, from tree to tree, - Joined in the heavenly melody; - What heart so fraught with woe or care, - But might have tasted pleasure there. - Such, Watty, was the night when we - Pursued the humming bumble bee;[2] - When you averred the beast[3] could sting, - And I responded, no such thing! - “The question fierce, the stern reply,” - Was heard to sound ’twixt U and I.[4] - Anon: my Watty dared to fight - The fancied foeman Wallace wight; - And I, if pleasing mem’ry hold. - Dared to the combat, Bruce the bold. - Perhaps, my friend, you’ll wish to know - Th’ event of each successive blow; - How Bruce, transported, swore he’d die, - But never, never yield or fly; - How Wallace to the combat flew, - With fancied pride, but courage true. - Alas! my friend, your hopes are vain, - For friendship still forbids the strain: - The tale, alas! would only tend - To make a foeman of a friend. - And whilst I live, and whilst I breathe, - I swear it is so much beneath - The soul of man, to harbour hate - Against the good, against the great, - That I will ne’er to man disclose - The purport of these bloody blows. - Enough! enough! it is to me - To hate the name of bumble bee. - - - - -THE GOBLIN GROOM. - -CANTO FIRST. - -The Hostel, or Inn. - - - - -THE GOBLIN GROOM. - - - - -CANTO FIRST. - -The Hostel, or Inn. - - -I. - - Joy reign’d in Dunse’s[5] distant seat, - Thro’ tavern, market place, and street, - The scene of many a valiant feat - In days of distant yore. - But now those distant days are fled, - Peace rears again her placid head, - And gory feud I hope is staid - To plague the land no more. - Where garden is, was place of tilt - Or tournament, where blood was spilt; - Where stain’d was many a foeman’s hilt - With blood of knight laid low; - Now peeps the pea, from glowing bed, - Forgetful of December dread; - The broader bean, her leaf has spread - Th’ unhallow’d spot to show. - - - II. - - Now why are Dunse’s people glad, - Who once were wont to be so sad; - How was the feudal hatred staid - That waste their lovely fields had laid; - Why rolls the Whittadder[6] so white, - The scene of many a bloody fight; - And how has peace reception found - On such unhallowed bloody ground? - I may not tell the change of time; - It ill becomes my minstrel rhyme: - ’Twere impious surely to relate - The fancied works of fancied fate. - Enough, the bloody feud is staid; - Enough, the sword aside is laid; - And Whittadder long may’st thou flow - With spotless wave and crystal tide; - And may’st thou never, never know, - Again the strife of border side. - - -III. - - The sun o’er Dunse’s hills of grey, - Had nearly shed his parting light, - Save to the west, one lingering ray, - Seemed to forbid th’ approach of night; - And Lammermoor, with transient smile, - Now lighted up her visage bleak, - And every distant hill, the while, - Shone with a vivid, passing streak; - And Tweed’s broad river, from afar, - Blazed like a beacon flame of war: - Sure ’twould have pleased your heart to see - So much of grandeur, so much glee. - ’Twas so to Dunse, when keen of sport - The Lothian sportsmen bent their way; - Her hostel then became a court; - If courts are jovial, courts are gay. - But why need I pretend to tell, - What to each chief or squire befel - In journeying that way. - - -IV. - - Thronged was the hostel’s chambered space, - With peer, with baron, knight, and squire, - And many a waiting man in lace - Stood ready round the kitchen fire, - Attentive to the jirking wire; - For each attendant knew full well - The jirking of his master’s bell. - I’ll say the sportsmen all are dressed, - Have doffed their morning’s spattered vest, - And after salutation meet, - And question after lady fair, - Each at the board has ta’en his seat; - For ev’ry sportsman had his chair. - - -V. - - Perchance, my friend, you’d have me name - Each, after each, in his degree; - Or even say from whence they came; - Alas! that must not, may not be. - In truth, I only know a few - Of all the gallant, noble crew: - But he, the chieftain of them all, - Is absent from the festival, - The heir of bold B-- --h. - - -VI. - - Why stands that chair - So empty there, - Whilst anxious eyes are cast around; - And looks that show - They do not know - Where one so worthy may be found? - The chair, they vow, shall empty stand, - To shew their loyalty and truth; - For each and all, this huntsman-band, - Admired and loved the gallant youth; - And said they, with a passing tear, - “How much we miss his presence here.” - - -VII. - - Four-and-twenty huntsmen keen - Round the table sat, I ween; - Four-and-twenty footmen neat, - Plied the beer, and served the meat: - Landlady, and daughter fair - Paid their due obedience there. - Well I ween, each gallant youth, - Cast an eye upon the maid; - Each thought his look, in real truth, - By the maiden’s well repaid: - One alone, of all the crew, - More than all the others knew; - What he knew, I may not tell, - But the maiden knew full well. - - -VIII. - - Fish, from Dunbar’s rocky shore, - Stood the president before, - If my mem’ry do not fail, - Sent by noble L-- --le. - In the centre, soup was seen - Smoking, from a vase of snow. - Beef, at bottom, fat and lean,-- - Beef of Indian Buffalo. - This was sent by T-- --le’s peer - To augment the sportsman’s cheer; - T-- --le, sprung from mighty H--y, - Foremost in the border day. - Tarts and pastry sent, I ween, - By the lady De G-- --ne. - - -IX. - - ’Tis not for me to say what more - The hostess’ care supplied; - But welcome free, and open door, - And pease, from D-- --h’s garden store, - Were seen on every side: - So one and all, at once agreed, - That bold B-- --h had earlier seed - Than any northward of the Tweed. - - -X. - - The dinner’s o’er, the circling glass - Now full, now emptier, passes round, - As strikes the ear, the pleasing sound - Of jovial song, or toasted lass: - But short, alas! this tabled glee; - For who the coming woe might see! - - * * * * * - - --Said I, D-- --h’s much honoured chair - Might not be filled by any there; - And, said I, it was right that he, - Though absent from the company, - With honour due should treated be; - D-- --h, so honoured for his worth, - For rank, for titles, and for birth, - Had not an equal here on earth, - To fill his vacant chair: - So one and all, with one consent, - Their voice have given, and vote have lent, - To let the seat be bare: - - (Friend Walter, I am certain quite, - You’ll say both voice and vote went right). - - -XI. - - But why that hollow note of woe, - That stops of wine the genial flow; - Why shrinks the late convivial throng, - And why has silence banished song; - And why is horror’s aching stare - Sent wildly to the empty chair: - Oh! why is every eyebrow knit, - When turned to where D-- --h should sit.-- - - * * * * * - - The chair is filled! a stranger sat - Upon the honoured seat; - Nor deigned he to doff his hat, - Though more than one had hinted that - Respect was always meet. - But he was heedless of them all, - And thrice he gazed round the hall, - But ne’er a word did he let fall: - Whilst thus he sat, whilst thus he gazed, - The goodly throng were all amazed;-- - - -XII. - - And marvelled they, how this could be, - And how he entered none might say; - And some averred a sprite was he, - And others swore he was a fay: - And all agreed ’twas passing strange, - And marvellous withall, - That either sprite or fay should range - Into a festal hall: - Nor could the wisest present name - From whence he sprung, or how he came. - - -XIII. - - He was of little form, and tight; - His weight, if man, had been full light: - In short, he was a sportsman-sprite. - A pea-green jerkin on his back - All dabbled by a splashing hack; - His dirty boots, his leathers long - With crimson whip-cord tied; - His straight necked spurs, and heavy thong, - Proclaimed him formed to ride: - And he had ridden far that day, - For he was daubed, and splashed with clay. - - -XIV. - - The circling glass again goes round, - As fear in wine and use is drowned: - The goblin sprite enjoys each joke, - Though never once the while he spoke, - But lent a civil listening ear, - Resolved minutely all to hear; - And every toast with ready will - His elfin hand consents to fill. - Heavens! what a wondrous draught he drew - When e’er they toasted bold B-- --h. - - -XV. - - Oh! ’twould have done you good to see - How keen, how long, how heartily - He pushed the liquor round: - He never left or spilt a drop; - He never let the bottle stop, - Nor uttered a sound. - And, strange to tell, the jovial fay, - Though fond of wine, had nought to say. - A man of words might never learn - To be so wondrous taciturn. - And now the song, with jovial strain, - Awakened midnight’s dull repose; - Though many pleaded colds in vain, - Ayes had the ’vantage still of noes: - And thus may rulers ever be - Supported by majority.[7] - - -XVI. - - Dear unto me, my native land, - Is every field of thy wide realm; - And dearer still the guardian hand - That holds the way-directing helm; - And now I love thee ten times more, - When threatened is thy rocky shore: - When waves on every side assail, - And adverse winds and tides prevail. - But why should I with sorrow’s flow - Bewail my much loved country’s woe, - And all her coming danger tell; - Enough to me it is to know - I love my native country well. - - -XVII. - - The song went round, the Goblin Groom - Still plied the wine in festal room; - And bumper after bumper flew; - It was I ween a jovial crew.-- - What chance had mortal man at drink - With one of charmed degree; - I cannot say, but needs must think - That chance but small could be. - And so it proved, and so they found, - E’er thirty bumper toasts went round. - - -XVIII. - - Why need I tell, why need I show - Humanity debased, laid low; - How some beneath the table lay; - How others strove to get away, - And, tumbling headlong on the floor, - Ne’er reached the fated festal door; - Whilst stammering, incoherently, - Towards the goblin turned an eye; - Still saw him quaff the liquor down; - Still saw him smile, still saw him frown, - As fancied joke, or fancied toast, - Or fancied anger, ruled him most: - And thus he toasting bumpered on, - As long as he was looked upon. - - -XIX. - - And many say they heard the splash, - And jingle of the elfin glass, - Long after all the rest were dead, - And carried lifeless into bed: - But none may tell, for none can say, - Where the unhallowed goblin lay: - But he had beat the sportsmen all, - At drinking in the festal hall; - And soon I’ll show, if luck betide, - How this elf goblin dared to ride.[8] - But now I’ve left them all at rest: - Where is the greatest, and the best? - He, amid D-- --h’s lovely groves, - With virtuous footsteps strays the while, - And woos the graces, and the loves, - With many a courtly winning smile. - - -XX. - - Long mayst thou flourish, gallant peer, - For Caledonia owns thee dear, - And bids her fav’rite minstrel tell, - How that she loves her hero well; - Though polished mail no more shall grace, - Oh! S--tt, thy ancient chieftain race: - No more the splintered spear shall sound - On N-- --k’s green or D-- --h’s ground: - These days are past, and with them, too, - The deeds their chiefs were wont to do: - The towering plume, and nodding crest, - Have with their wearers gone to rest; - And ease and peace may now be seen - In every hamlet, wood, or green. - But nowhere are they seen so true - As round the mansion of B-- --h; - Where patriarchal peace is found, - And care in rosy liquor drowned; - Where all of this illustrious line - Together sup, together dine. - And now I’ll cease my minstrel lay, - For time it is I should give up, - But once again, D-- --h, I’ll say, - Long may you dine, long may you sup. - - -END OF CANTO FIRST. - - - - -THE GOBLIN GROOM. - - -Introduction to Canto Second. - - - - -TO BENJAMIN BUFFET, - -_BUTLER TO HIS GRACE THE D--OF B-- --H._ - - - _Edinburgh._ - - The cracking cork has pleased my ear, - Has silenced grief, has banished fear; - Has made dark winter’s dreary night - Seem to my senses noonday bright. - December’s cold was then forgot; - The wine was good, the fire was hot: - Thus many a heedless evening flew, - In table-talk, dear Ben, with you. - Though mentioned last in mintrel’s lay, - First in my heart you hold the sway: - For love and interest must combine; - And you are love, and interest wine: - And what must make you still more dear, - They say you have your master’s ear; - And if this rumour, Ben, be true, - Speak well of me to bold B-- --h. - Pleasing to me is every scene, - Where, with my dearest friends, I’ve been. - I love the green, I love the grove, - The cavern vast, the neat alcove, - The mountain high, the valley low, - The scenes of friendship all may show. - These scenes I’ve loved, and still adore, - But, Oh! I love the pantry more. - There have I sat, there have I sung, - Have twirled a cork, or rolled a bung; - As infant fancy played her part, - That was a coach, this was a cart. - Those were the days of childish youth, - That promised parts, that promised truth; - For fancy shewed herself in play, - E’en in my earliest infant day: - When older grown, the pantry still - Was dear to me, against my will. - What there was done, I may not tell; - It might not please your master well; - So please me joy, or pierce me woe, - The bold B-- --h shall never know. - Enough, the claret is not there; - But you and I both had a share. - And joy, you know, by danger bought, - Is always sweeter, dearer thought: - Regrets for past mistakes are vain, - And pleasure often follows pain. - Pleasure is but an empty sound, - And surely never yet was found: - It reigns but in the poet’s brain; - Reality is always pain: - And reasoning thus, it is my plan, - To be as merry as I can: - And though they say the claret went, - I don’t repine, I won’t repent. - It scarcely seems a summer’s day, - Though years and years have past away, - Since in the pantry’s snug retreat, - I, at the fire, first took my seat. - Oh! how I loved those moments dear; - Oh! how your lessons pleased my ear. - How oft you spoke of N-- --k’s tower, - Forgetful of the midnight hour; - Of noble dames, of valiant knights, - Of bloody fields, and listed fights; - Of ancient manners, past and fled; - How S--tts, victorious, fought and bled; - In every combat, strife, or fight, - S--tt was victorious, S--tt was right. - And said I to myself, that they - Shall one time hear my minstrel lay: - That all my powers should then combine, - To praise B-- --h’s illustrious line. - Yet whilst I sing the noble race, - My humbler friend shall have a place. - What though the oak be grand to see? - The humbler shrub is dear to me. - The sturdy oak unused to bend, - Too stately looks to be my friend. - So I’m content, and amply paid, - To crouch beneath the expansive shade. - There, wondring at the form sublime, - To friendship’s heights, I dare not climb; - And so I tune my humbler lays, - To notes of wonder, notes of praise. - And thus the minstrel’s efforts tend, - To claim a patron, not a friend. - In you, dear Ben, the shrub I see, - That lowly bows his head like me: - And thus I choose thee for my friend; - For both alike are doomed to bend: - And whilst we bend, and whilst we bow, - The adverse winds may rage and blow. - We need not fear misfortune’s stroke, - While couched beneath the stately oak: - And may that oak long live and last, - That guards us from misfortune’s blast. - Dear Ben, the oak shall have his due, - If bows, and flattering praise will do. - And those, you know, who bow and bend, - Ne’er want a patron, or a friend. - - - - -THE GOBLIN GROOM. - - - - -CANTO SECOND. - -The Fox-Chace. - - - - -THE GOBLIN GROOM. - -CANTO SECOND. - -The Fox-Chace. - - -I. - - Now crows the cock in Dunse’s streets; - The twittering sparrow morning greets; - The braying ass his trumpet blew, - For well the morning air he knew; - And hies the hostler to his care, - With bosom light as morning air. - The ruddy streaks of infant day - On Lammer’s hills and Chiviot’s play; - And freshly blows the morning breeze, - From Firth of Forth to German seas. - - -II. - - The kennelled pack, with conscious ear, - Well know the huntsman to be near; - Their deep-toned notes, in concert rise, - As to the door each staunch hound flies; - And merry were the huntsman’s cries: - Full well he knew to cheer each hound, - Or quell his riot, by the sound - Of angry word, or cracking thong. - But now the pack as round they crowd, - In notes melodious, and loud, - Pour forth their morning song. - And, on my soul, the sound was dear, - And transport to the huntsman’s ear. - Out dashed the pack, a stauncher crew - Ne’er snuffed the pearly morning-dew: - And soon the huntsman’s sounding thong - Has checked the ardour of the throng: - In meet procession, quiet, slow, - Behind their master’s horse they go: - His two assistants after ride, - To bring them all to cover side. - - -III. - - Meanwhile the hostled sportsmen rise, - With bosoms light, but heavy eyes; - For last night’s liquor still remained, - And some would liked to’ve lain in bed, - To ease a fevered, aching head; - But manly pride such ease disdained. - So all have risen, and all have dressed, - In jockey cap, and scarlet vest; - And now they’re met, and seated all - At breakfast, in the festal hall: - And question after question passed, - Who saw the goblin jockey last? - Disputes arise, but all agree - That mortal man he could not be; - And cried they, with a jovial air, - Faith, but he drank his liquor fair! - The hostess enters in to say, - The Goblin Groom had gone away, - And who his share of drink should pay. - And all agree ’twas passing fair, - As he had filled great D-- --h’s chair, - That his account for jovial cheer, - Should be discharged by D-- --h’s peer. - - -IV. - - The hacks are pacing now before - The Hostel’s arch projecting door; - Full twelve miles off the cover lay; - The hunters went at peep of day: - And some, I’m told, went over night, - To be in better hunting plight. - Each sportsman mounts his cover steed, - And through the town with fiery speed, - Spurs on his ready hack: - One thinks a canter gives him grace, - Another thinks a trot the pace, - And knowingly looks back; - And pleased he looks, in sooth to find - His cantering comrade left behind. - Now one, now t’other takes the lead, - As jockey whim directs the speed. - - -V. - - At Ladykirk the cover lay, - Where, steep and high, a birken brae - Hangs o’er the river Tweed: - Hence many a fox the hounds have driven, - Whose dirtied brush has oft been given, - The foremost horseman’s meed. - This bank, in former days, has been - Sad witness of a different scene; - When Norham’s border castle rang - With England’s war foreboding clang; - When threatened feud was heard to sound - Defiance to the Scottish ground; - When cannon roared from Norham’s wall, - The English border clans to call: - Then flew the fox this brae of birk, - And far from Scottish Ladykirk; - And sought he, much against his will, - The safe retreat of Chiviot hill. - - -VI. - - Hither the hounds have bent their way, - And hither come the sportsmen gay: - Sure such a sight was never seen, - At tournament, or listed green. - The neighing steeds were seen to prance, - As through the copse-wood green they came: - The sounding whip displaced the lance, - And sport has banished feudal flame. - In every face a smile of joy, - From titled peer, to huntsman-boy; - In every eye a flash of fire; - A flash of hope, but not of ire: - In every heart joy’s transport bounds, - As into cover dash the hounds: - And in they dash with such a clang, - That Norham’s empty castle rang: - And every bush in tremor shook, - And every sapling waved on high; - Each horseman gazed with eager look, - Or listened for the joyous cry: - And sideways on their steeds they sat, - With side-placed cap, or side-placed hat. - - -VII. - - But when they hear the well known hound - Proclaim the rascal to be found, - High beats each gallant sportsman’s heart - To take the lead, or have the start. - And now the banks of Ladykirk - Ring with the pack’s melodious cry; - And waves its head, each verdant birk, - To merry notes of extacy. - O! how the hounds together dash, - And make the greenwood cover crash. - Poor Reynard! all your hopes are vain; - In vain you strive to tarry here; - Go seek the fields, or plains so drear; - At Ladykirk you can’t remain; - To Tweed’s green banks now bid adieu, - They ne’er again shall greet your view; - No more her murm’ring streams shall cheer, - With soothing notes, your listening ear. - - -VIII. - - Now peeping from the copse so green, - The Fox’s cunning head is seen, - His ready ears turned back: - His open mouth his terror shows; - For time put off, full well he knows, - Will bring the eager pack. - So down towards the Tweed he steels, - With outstretched brush, and nimble heels; - When, hark! a horseman from below - Has given the welcome Tallyho! - Amazement filled the listening crew; - The note was strange, the voice was new: - Wondered they much who it could be - That shouted with such melody; - For such a voice, or such a sound, - Ne’er till this moment cheered a hound. - - -IX. - - And round they gazing looked, when, lo! - The Goblin Groom is seen below, - Dressed as he was last night; - Save that a cap, place hat, he wore, - And neater looked he than before, - His leathers were more tight. - He strode a poney, lank and lean, - That looked as if astray ’t had been: - Dun was its hue, with flowing mane; - The tail was black, and like a train - Swept far behind the scented plain, - Save, when at speed, he whisking spread - It round the Goblin’s fated head; - Or to the spur, the sure reply - Was lashed across the Goblin’s thigh: - On every side, above, below, - The whisking tail was seen to flow. - - -X. - - Said I the Fox towards the Tweed - Had urged with fear his utmost speed; - And that the hounds approaching nigh - Had bid the cowering ruffian fly; - And that the Goblin Groom had seen - Him leave his haunts of copse-wood green; - Had seen him leave the bank so steep, - And stem the tide so broad and deep; - And that he ready staid below - To give the welcome Tallyho! - - -XI. - - No sooner had the shout been given, - Than to the hilt the spurs were driven: - The lank-lean poney knew full well - The signal for the chace; - And only those who’ve seen may tell - The issue of the race. - But Norham’s castle saw the start, - And knows the Goblin did his part; - At least she knows, if it may be - That Castles are allowed to see, - That first the Goblin saw the find, - And left the boldest far behind. - - -XII. - - Into the river, broad and deep, - Beneath old Norham’s ruined keep, - Where the descent appears most steep, - The gallant pack have dashed: - In likewise dashed the Elf and horse, - Quite heedless of the torrent’s force; - And as they stemmed the river’s course - His tail the poney lashed. - The Goblin Groom now screamed a scream; - For Goblins hate a running stream; - And, if the truth my records say, - The Elfin Poney neighed a neigh. - - -XIII. - - O! ’twas a gallant sight, and brave, - To see them stem the chrystal wave: - But now the tide and stream have bore - The Groom and pack to England’s shore: - The other sportsmen, round about, - With hurried speed, have ta’en their route; - For well they knew th’ attempt were vain - Here the English side of Tweed to gain; - And so they’ve gone a mile below, - Where gurgling Tweed runs on more slow; - And much they marvel, all the way, - How crossed that gallant daring fay. - - -XIV. - - Meanwhile the hounds round Norham’s base - Have ta’en their way with eager pace; - Have hurried on with ready will - To where the Tweed receives the Till: - Through Tillmouth’s wooded banks they fly, - Whilst Echo answers to the cry;[9] - And then they seek the higher lands, - Where Twizel’s lordly castle stands: - High on her wood surrounded mead, - She views at once both Till and Tweed: - Two fairer streams ne’er met, I ween, - In such a grand and lovely scene; - Where braes and banks, and woods combine, - And swiftly gliding waters shine; - Where distant hills and mountains rise, - And fade beneath th’ expansive skies. - - -XV. - - The Goblin Groom has led the van - O’er hill and dale, through grove and glen; - And as the breast-high scent they ran, - Nor yawning ditch nor boggy fen, - Nor thickset-hedge, nor strong built wall, - Could stop his bold career; - His Elfin Steed disdained to fall, - And dashed impetuous at them all, - Determined each to clear. - And thus he hilter skilter flew, - And distanced all the huntsmen-crew; - Whilst much they wondered such a steed - So well could leap and take the lead. - - -XVI. - - From lordly Twizel’s wide domain, - An opener country now they gain; - No longer dells obstruct the sight: - The fields were large, the soil was light; - The eager hounds increase their pace; - The gallop now becomes a race: - But vain it were for horse to try - To race with one that seemed to fly: - And oft the Goblin looked in rear - As if he sought great D-- --h’s Peer: - For be it known, and it is true, - The Goblin honoured bold B-- --h; - And had he come t’enjoy the chace, - The Goblin sure had slacked his pace; - For, Goblin as he was, he knew - Respect to rank is always due. - - -XVII. - - Past Duddo’s black and ruined tower - The hard pressed Fox has bent his way; - Past Etal’s town and Etal’s bower, - Which in the neighb’ring valley lay: - Climbed they the hills so steep and fair, - Which over Ford’s proud castle stare; - And pleased was every eye, I ween, - Whilst glanced along the princely scene. - The castle first attracts the eye, - In all her ancient majesty: - Meandering Till’s impetuous flow, - Runs wildly in the vale below; - And mountains bleak, and hills of green, - Diversify the giant scene. - Such is the wide domain and hall - Of John the Peer of Delaval. - - -XVIII. - - And now the country bleaker grew, - As to the upland grounds they drew; - A barren waste, so bleak and drear, - Is seen on every side: - No objects to the sight appear - The eye to glad, or heart to cheer, - In all the desert wide. - The ocean blue, with clustered isles,[10] - The only feature here that smiles; - Here glouring[11] o’er the German flood, - Bare Barmoor’s baby castle stood, - With pallid face of new built woe, - Sad contrast to the moor below. - The owner saw the hounds run by, - And, from a tower, joined in the cry; - Wondered he much who it could be - That led the joyous revelry: - To right, or left, the leading hound, - The Goblin Groom was always found. - “Oh!” cried the squire of Barmoor bare, - “Oh! like yon Elf, that I were there!” - Amazement seized his soul to find - The others were a mile behind. - - -XIX. - - From Barmoor’s bare and shrubless hill, - The hounds have doubled back to Till, - And seem to make for Chiviot hill. - Ah! hapless Fox, and dost thou know, - That fated Flodden lies below; - And does not dark foreboding fear - Warn thee that fated Flodden’s near; - And art thou doomed so soon to yield - Thy life on Flodden’s fated field. - - -XX. - - And now old Milfield’s town they gain, - And reach dark Flodden’s dreary plain, - Where, in full cry, and all abreast, - The hounds the wily villain pressed: - The Goblin Groom still keeps his place, - And glories in the varying chace; - No demi volte, nor demi air; - No high curvett, nor terre-a-terre; - No hand to guide the gay croupade, - Nor heel to aid the balotade; - No capriole his skill to shew; - He these disdained, with pas et saut.[12] - Stiff on his stirrups, standing now, - He scorns to touch the saddle bow; - His elbows squared, and head awry, - As if he rode a race; - But none might know, for none might spy, - The Goblin’s spell-bound face: - For were he sprite, or were he fay, - He only shewed his back that day. - - -XXI. - - And now the Fox is losing ground; - Now strains his speed each eager hound; - Now at his brush the foremost prest; - Now at his side, now at his breast; - And now despair o’ercoming fright, - The crafty Fox turns round to fight; - But soon by numbers overthrown, - He yields his life without a groan. - Thus fell the Fox, and, hate aside, - We’ll say, at least, he nobly died. - - -XXII. - - Down from his Poney jumped the Elf, - When, lo! the Poney disappeared; - And now the Goblin Groom himself - Has ta’en the brush, the hounds has cheered; - Has bowed his head to Chiviot gray, - And vanished from the light of day: - And when the distanced horsemen neared - The bloody scene on Flodden’s plain, - No vestige of the Elf appeared; - The Poney too, was sought in vain. - Loud howled each hound; I will presume - They howled at loss of Goblin Groom; - And well they might, for such a fay - Ne’er rode before on hunting day; - And hounds, like ladies fair, I’m told, - Dote on the daring and the bold; - And than the Goblin, we’ll agree, - A bolder there could never be. - - -XXIII. - - On Flodden’s field there stands a bush, - A willow bush where sedges grow, - The fav’rite haunt of Friar Rush:[13] - This bush the neighb’ring shepherds know: - ’Twas here the hounds had killed their prey, - And vanished here the Goblin fay; - And, even to this very day, - The passing shepherd calls the bush, - The Winning-Post of Friar Rush; - And, therefore, I may well presume, - That Friar Rush was Goblin Groom. - - -XXIV. - - I do not rhyme to that dull clown - That has no fancy of his own; - Who thinks on Flodden’s dreary plain - The wearied hunters still remain, - Because not mentioned in my strain; - Who cannot figure in his mind, - That they returned to Dunse and dined; - That flowing bumpers then went round - To every horse, to every hound; - That e’en midst jokes, and converse hot. - The Goblin Groom was not forgot; - And that they sat ’twixt hope and fear, - To see his Elfin form appear; - And that they drank, with honours due, - In three times three, the bold B-- --h; - And midst the wassel-wine and cheer, - They thought on D-- --h’s noble Peer; - And crowned in bowls of rosy wine, - The whole of that illustrious line. - - -L’Envoy, - -TO THE READER. - - Now let the Minstrel bid adieu, - With votive lays, my friends to you: - To you, my friends, he’ll now impart - The wishes of a Minstrel’s heart; - If my poor rede be dull and flat, - Pray blame my head alone for that; - But when I act a friendly part - You must not, cannot, blame my heart. - To every Peer, if Peer there be, - To read my idle minstrelsy, - Unspotted fame, and courage true, - And boundless wealth, like bold B-- --h: - To every Bard that serves his Grace, - A goodly pension or a place; - To every Gardener may there be - A Bard to sing his praise, like me; - And may the bard be favoured too, - With Gardener-friend, dear Wat, like you: - Strong head, strong liquor, and good cheer, - To every Butler, far and near, - That serves a worthy, gallant, Peer: - Long life to all; my friends adieu, - And pray with me for bold B-- --h. - - -THE END OF THE GOBLIN GROOM. - - - - -NOTES. - - - - -NOTES TO CANTO FIRST. - - -NOTE I, P. 16. - - Where garden is, was place of tilt - Or tournament, where blood was spilt; - Where stain’d was many a foeman’s hilt - With blood of knight laid low. - -The martial exercise of Tilting is said to have been introduced some -time between the years 920 and 937, by Henry I of Germany, styled -Anceps, or Falconer, but better known by the appellation of the Fowler: -his motto was, “Tardus ad vindictam, ad beneficentiam velox.”[14] He is -likewise said to have purchased the lance which pierced our Saviour’s -side, and, with it, some of the nails of the holy cross; giving in -exchange a great portion of Suabia, and other valuable gifts. - - -NOTE II, P. 23. - - In the centre, soup was seen - Smoking, from a vase of snow. - -That learned philosopher and prince of culinary perfection, Count -Rumford, has taught the world the mode of preparing ice-cream in a hot -oven, and of sending it freezing to table in a light crust of smoking -pastry. The epicurean reader will be much disappointed if he expects to -find that the above lines allude to some recent improvement in the -science of chemistry, establishing the converse of this discovery; and -that the soup at Dunse was actually served steaming to the company in an -excavated snow-ball. It is hoped, that “a vase of snow” will be allowed -as an appropriate figure for a clean white crockery tureen. - - - - -NOTE III, P. 26, 27. - - The chair is filled! a stranger sat - Upon the honoured seat; - Nor deigned he to doff his hat, - Though more than one had hinted that - Respect was always meet. - But he was heedless of them all, - And thrice he gazed round the hall, - But ne’er a word did he let fall: - Whilst thus he sat, whilst thus he gazed, - The goodly throng were all amazed.-- - -The subject of superstition, as connected with the history of man, -whether it be considered as influencing his character, or as affecting -his conduct in society, seems sufficiently important to occupy the -serious attention of the most learned investigator. It has been treated, -however, with so much ability by an elegant author of our own -times,[15] that, if not altogether exhausted, little more seems left to -the ingenuity of any succeeding writer, than to avail himself, as his -occasions may require, of the store of information thus amply afforded -him. No maxim being more certainly founded on truth, than that early -impressions are generally the most lasting. Would it not be highly -meritorious in any one equal to the task, to favour the public with new -editions of these invaluable productions, Satan’s Invisible World, and -Glanvil’s History of Witchcraft, rendered, on the modern and improved -plan of juvenile education, into easy ditties, to be sung or said by -nurse or child? Might we not then expect to see the pure principles of -poetic taste reared on the solid basis of useful knowledge? - -The following marvellous occurrence, recorded in the letter of a noble -peer, and said to be founded in fact, may appear to the reader of -prosaic fancy, as extremely dull and uninteresting; but as it has been -the ground-work of the present poem, the author cannot think of -refusing it insertion. It will likewise help to increase the volume to -that respectable size which may entitle it to the honours of Russia or -Morocco, and to a distinguished situation on the well arranged shelves -of a modern library. - - “MY DEAR SIR, - - “I obey your commands with some reluctance, in relating the story - of which you have heard so much, and to which your curiosity - appears to be so broad awake. I do it unwillingly, because such - histories depend so much upon the manner in which they are related; - and this, which I have told with such success, and to the midnight - terrors of so many simple souls, will make but a sorry figure in a - written narration.--However, you shall have it. - - - “It was in the early part of-- -- --’s life, that he attended an - hunting club at their sport, when a stranger, of a genteel - appearance, and well mounted, joined the chace, and was observed - to ride with a degree of courage and address that called forth the - utmost astonishment of every one present. The beast he rode was of - amazing powers; nothing stopped them; the hounds could never escape - them; and the huntsman, who was left far behind, swore that the man - and his horse were devils from hell. When the sport was over, the - company invited this extraordinary person to dinner; he accepted - the invitation, and astonished the company as much by the powers of - his conversation, and the elegance of his manners, as by his - equestrian prowess. He was an orator, a poet, a painter, a - musician, a lawyer, a divine; in short, he was every thing, and the - magic of his discourse kept the drowsy sportsmen awake long after - their usual hour. At length, however, wearied nature could be - charmed no more, and the company began to steal away by degrees to - their repose. On his observing the society diminish, he discovered - manifest signs of uneasiness: he therefore gave new force to his - spirits, and new charms to his conversation, in order to detain the - remaining few some time longer. This had some little effect; but - the period could not be long delayed when he was to be conducted to - his chamber. The remains of the company retired also; but they had - scarce closed their eyes, when the house was alarmed by the most - terrible shrieks that were ever heard: several persons were - awakened by the noise; but, its continuance being short, they - concluded it to proceed from a dog who might be accidentally - confined in some part of the house: they very soon, therefore, - composed themselves to sleep, and were very soon awakened by - shrieks and cries of still greater terror than the former. Alarmed - at what they heard, several of them rung their bells, and, when the - servants came, they declared that the horrid sounds proceeded from - the stranger’s chamber. Some of the gentlemen immediately arose, to - inquire into this extraordinary disturbance; and, while they were - dressing themselves for that purpose, deeper groans of despair, and - shriller shrieks of agony, again astonished and terrified them. - After knocking sometime at the stranger’s chamber-door, he answered - them as one awakened from sleep, declared he had heard no noise, - and, rather in an angry tone, desired he might not be again - disturbed. Upon this they returned to one of their chambers, and - had scarce begun to communicate their sentiments to each other, - when their conversation was interrupted by a renewal of yells, - screams, and shrieks, which, from the horror of them, seemed to - issue from the throats of damned and tortured spirits. They - immediately followed the sounds, and traced them to the stranger’s - chamber, the door of which they instantly burst open, and found him - upon his knees in bed, in the act of scourging himself with the - most unrelenting severity, his body streaming with blood. On their - seizing his hand to stop the strokes, he begged them, in the most - wringing tone of voice, as an act of mercy, that they would retire, - assuring them that the cause of their disturbance was over, and - that in the morning he would acquaint them with the reasons of the - terrible cries they had heard, and the melancholy sight they saw. - After a repetition of his entreaties, they retired; and in the - morning some of them went to his chamber, but he was not there; - and, on examining the bed, they found it to be one gore of blood. - Upon further inquiry, the groom said, that, as soon as it was - light, the gentleman came to the stable booted and spurred, desired - his horse might be immediately saddled, and appeared to be - extremely impatient till it was done, when he vaulted instantly - into his saddle, and rode out of the yard on full speed.--Servants - were immediately dispatched into every part of the surrounding - country, but not a single trace of him could be found; such a - person had not been seen by any one, nor has he been since heard - of. - - - “The circumstances of this strange story were immediately committed - to writing, and signed by every one who were witnesses to them, - that the future credibility of any one, who should think proper to - relate them, might be duly supported. Among the subscribers to the - truth of this history are some of the first names of this - century.--It would now, I believe, be impertinent to add any thing - more, than that I am, yours, &c.” - -If farther proof were necessary to shew, that the dominion of -superstition is not altogether confined, as has been erroneously -supposed, to the heroes of romance, it might be found in the learned -support afforded, but a few years ago, to the predictions of the -unfortunate Prophet Brothers: And although the sublime and simple truths -of the Christian faith have given a fatal blow to the superstitious -absurdities of more early creeds, our propensity to the marvellous, has -still retained sufficient influence, to screen from detection the -grossest impositions of the Roman Church. Among the numberless -deceptions, which Popish craft has successfully practised upon the -credulity of its votaries, one has been handed down by a venerable -historian, the insertion of which cannot fail to gratify the enlightened -commentators and note-compilers of the present age.-- - - - “Qui, cum die quadam tale aliquid foris ageret, digressis ad - ecclesiam sociis, ut dicere cœperam, et episcopus solus in oratorio - loci, lectioni vel orationi operam daret; audivit repente, ut - postea referebat, vocem suavissimam cantantium atque lætantium de - cœlo ad terras usque descendere: quam videlicet vocem ab Euro - austro, id est, ab alto brumalis, exortam, primo se audisse - dicebat, ac deinde paulatim eam sibi appropiare, donec ad tectum - usque oratorii, in quo erat Episcopus, perveniret; quod ingressa - totum implevit, atque in gyro circundedit. At ille, dum solicitus - in ea quæ audiebat, animum intenderet, audivit denuo transacto - quasi dimidiæ horæ spatio, ascendere de tecto ejusdem oratorii idem - lætitiæ canticum; et ipsa qua venerat via, ad cœlos usque cum - ineffabili dulcedine, reverti. Qui cum aliquantulum horæ quasi - attonitus maneret, et quid hæc essent solerti animo scrutaretur, - aperuit Episcopus fenestram oratorii, et sonitum manu faciens, ut - sæpius consuevit, siquis foris esset, ad se intrare præcepit. - Introivit ille concitus; cui dixit antistes: vade cito ad - ecclesiam, et hos septem fratres huc venire facito; tu quoque simul - adesto. Qui cum venissent, primo admonuit eos, ut virtutem - dilectionis et pacis, ad invicem et ad omnes fideles servarent. - Instituta quoque disciplinæ regularis, quæ vel ab ipso - didicissent, vel in ipso vidissent, vel in patrum præcedentium - factis sive dictis invenissent, indefessa instantia sequerentur. - Deinde subjunxit, diem sui obitus jam proxime instare. Namque - hospes, inquit, ille amabilis, qui fratres nostros visitare - solebat, ad me quoque hodie venire, meque de seculo evocare - dignatus est. Propter quod revertentes ad ecclesiam, dicite - fratribus, ut et meum exitum Domino precibus commendent, et suum - quoque exitum, (cujus hora incerta est), vigiliis, orationibus, - bonis operibus, prævenire meminerint. Cumque hæc et hujusmodi plura - loqueretur, atque illi, percepta ejus benedictione, jam multum - tristes exiissent, rediit ipse solus, qui carmen cœleste audierat, - et prosternens se in terram, Obsecro, inquit pater, licetne aliquid - interrogare? Interroga, inquit, quod vis. At ille, Obsecro, inquit, - ut dicas, quod erat canticum illud lætantium, quod audivi, - venientium de cœlis super oratorium hoc, et post tempus redeuntium - ad cœlos. Respondit ille; Si vocem carminis audivisti, et cœlestes - supervenire cœtus cognovisti, præcipio tibi in nomine Domini, ne - hoc cuiquam, ante meum obitum, dicas. Revera autem Angelorum fuere - spiritus, qui me ad cœlestia, quæ semper amabam ac desiderabam, - præmia vocare venerunt; et post dies septem se redituros, ac me - secum adducturos esse promiserunt. Quod quidem ita ut dictum ei - erat opere completum est. Nam confestim languore corporis tactus - est, et hoc per dies ingravescente, septimo (ut promissum ei - fuerat) die, postquam obitum suum dominici corporis, et sanguinis - perceptione munivit, soluta ab ergastulo corporis anima sancta, - ducentibus (ut credi fas est), angelis comitibus, æterna gaudia - petivit.” - - E HIST. ECCLES. VENER. BED. - - - - -NOTE IV, P. 28. - - A pea-green jerkin on his back, - All dabbled by a splashing hack.-- - -The dress of this little stranger, and his manner of introducing himself -to the festival, must satisfy the reader that the Goblin Groom is one -of those supernatural sportsmen usually termed Fairies. In the sequel, -however, it will appear evident, that he owes his origin to the hardy -race of northern Elves, rather than to the more delicate family of -eastern Peris.[16] - -The existence of the Fairy, like that of the Mermaid, no longer rests on -the credulity of the ignorant, but is confirmed and established by -attestations no less respectable than the affidavits so frequently made -before the Lord Mayor of London, in support of the infallibility of a -quack and his nostrums. - -In the isle of Man, where sportsmen of more tangible materials enjoy a -temporary security, these little supernaturals, probably under similar -circumstances, find an agreeable retreat. In the Minstrelsy of the -Scottish Borders, on the unrefuted authority of Mr. Waldron, we have -the following interesting particulars.-- - - “Like the FELD ELFEN of the Saxons, the usual dress of the Fairies - is green; though, on the moors, they have been sometimes observed - in heath-brown, or in weeds dyed with the stoneraw, or lichen. They - often ride in invisible procession, when their presence is - discovered by the shrill ringing of their bridles. On these - occasions, they sometimes borrow mortal steeds; and when such are - found at morning, panting and fatigued in their stalls, with their - manes and tails dishevelled and entangled, the grooms, I presume, - often find this a convenient excuse for their situation; as the - common belief of the elves quaffing the choicest liquors in the - cellars of the rich, (see the story of Lord Duffus below), might - occasionally cloak the delinquencies of an unfaithful butler. - - “The Fairies, beside their equestrian processions, are addicted, it - would seem, to the pleasures of the chace. A young sailor, - travelling by night from Douglas, in the Isle of Man, to visit his - sister, residing in Kirk Merlugh, heard the noise of horses, the - holla of a huntsman, and the sound of a horn. Immediately - afterwards, thirteen horsemen, dressed in green, and gallantly - mounted, swept past him. Jack was so much delighted with the sport, - that he followed them, and enjoyed the sound of the horn for some - miles; and it was not till he arrived at his sister’s house that he - learned the danger which he had incurred. I must not omit to - mention, that these little personages are expert jockeys, and scorn - to ride the little Manks ponies, though apparently well suited to - their size. The exercise, therefore, falls heavily upon the English - and Irish horses brought into the Isle of Man. Mr. Waldron was - assured by a gentleman of Ballafletcher, that he had lost three or - four capital hunters by these nocturnal excursions. - - WALDRON’S WORKS, P. 132.” - - - -It is to be lamented, for the comfort of that valuable class of society -denominated Hunting-Grooms, that their masters do not look into the -casualties of their studs with the discriminating eye of the worthy -gentleman of Ballafletcher. - - -NOTE V, P. 29. - - And every toast with ready will - His elfin hand consents to fill. - Heavens! what a wondrous draught he drew - Whene’er they toasted bold B-- --h. - -Monsieur Mallet, the learned author of the ingenious work on Northren -Antiquities, seems to consider Fairies and Elves as synonymous terms. In -his remarks on the ninth fable of the Edda, we find him thus expressing -himself.--“ALFHEIM signifies, in Gothic, the abode of the Genii, that -is, the Fairies of the male-sex.” To prove the Gothic origin of our Elf, -we need only appeal to the devotion he shews to the bottle. His conduct -at the Dunse Festival is truly northern, and the mighty Thor himself, -the great champion of Scandinavian revelry, could not have displayed -greater zeal in emptying the enchanted horn.--But of this the reader may -judge by perusing the Gothic fable.-- - - - THE TWENTY-FIFTH FABLE. - - _Of the Trials that Thor underwent._ - - “Then the king asked Thor, in what art he would choose to give - proof of that dexterity for which he was so famous. Thor replied, - that he would contest the prize of drinking with any person - belonging to his court. The king consented, and immediately went - into his palace to look for a large horn, out of which his - courtiers were obliged to drink when they had committed any - trespass against the customs of the court.[17] This the cup-bearer - filled to the brim, and presented to Thor, whilst the king spake - thus.--Whoever is a good drinker, will empty that horn at a single - draught; some persons make two of it; but the most puny drinker of - all can do it at three. Thor looked at the horn, and was astonished - at its length;[18] however, as he was very thirsty, he set it to - his mouth, and, without drawing breath, pulled as long and as - deeply as he could, that he might not be obliged to make a second - draught of it; but when he withdrew the cup from his mouth, in - order to look in, he could scarcely perceive any of the liquor - gone. To it he went again with all his might, but succeeded no - better than before. At last, full of indignation, he again set the - horn to his lips, and exerted himself to the utmost to empty it - entirely: then looking in, he found that the liquor was a little - lowered; upon this, he resolved to attempt it no more, but gave - back the horn. I now see plainly, says the king, that thou art not - quite so stout as we thought thee; but art thou willing to make - any more trials? I am sure, says Thor, such draughts as I have been - drinking, would not have been reckoned small among the Gods. - - MALLET’S NORTH. ANTIQ. VOL. II, P. 126-127.” - - - - - - -NOTES TO CANTO SECOND. - - -NOTE I, P. 60. - - He strode a poney, lank and lean, - That looked as if astray ’t had been; - Dun was its hue, with flowing-mane; - The tail was black, and like a train-- - -Contrary to the custom of the Manx Fairies, it might be inferred, that -our Groom had just returned from the sanctuary of sportsmen, with a nag -of the native breed. But having already made considerable progress in -establishing the origin of the rider, we shall now take some pains in -proving to our readers the pedigree of the steed: and in asserting him -to be from the stock of the far-famed Sleipner, we hope to be borne out -by his performances, and confirmed by probability in our opinion. The -circumstance of that noted stallion having had eight legs, does not in -the least degree weaken our belief in the genuine descent of the -Goblin’s poney; for, reasoning by analogy, we have never yet heard of a -parent with a wooden-leg transmitting timber-toes to posterity. - -To those sportsmen who confine their genealogical inquiries to the -general stud-book and racing-calendar, we present, in the words of the -Gothic Edda, the history of a horse, more famed than the Childer’s Barb, -or the Godolphin Arabian.-- - - - HISTORIA VICESIMA PRIMA. - - _Quomodo Loco procreavit equum Sleipnerum cum Svadilfaro._ - - “Faber quidam Asas adveniens, ad urbem illis ædificandam per tres - annos sese obtulit, eamque adeo munitam, ut tuta esset ab - incursionibus Gigantum. Mercedem vero laboris Frejam postulavit, ut - et lunam solemque. Dii vero, inito consilio, paciscuntur; si vero - quid laboris prima die æstatis superesset, præmium amitteret; - nullius vero opera ei uti liceret. Hic de auxilio equi sui - Svadelfari tantum pactus fuit. Omnia vero hæc fiebant, dirigente et - instigante Locone. Hic urbam ædificaturus, noctu per equum lapides - attraxit. Asis mirum videbatur, eam tam magnos adferre montes; nec - non equum plus, quam fabrum, conficere. Pacto autem multi - interfuere testes: quippe cum gigas videretur non satis tutus inter - Asas, si hic esset, Toro domum reverso. Qui jam mari Baltico - trajecto, hinc per amnes et fluvios ad Asiam progressus, (quod - priscis Austerveg audit) bellum cum gigantibus gessit. Urbs fuit - munita et tam alta, ut perspicere non valeres. Tribus vero reliquis - fabro diebus, Dii congregati solia sua ascendentes quæsiverunt, - quisnam auctor esset, ut Freya in Jotunheimiam elocaretur? ut et - aer perderetur, inducta cœlo calligine, sublatum solem et lunam - dando gigantibus. Illos vero inter conventum fuit, Loconem hoc - dedisse consilium. Dicebant, eum misera morte afficiendum esse, - nisi rationem, qua faber mercedem amitteret, inveniret, adjicientes - fore ut statim illum comprehenderent. Examinatus vero jurejurando - promisit se effecturum, ut faber mercede frustraretur, quicquid - tandem huic negotio impenderet. Fabro autem lapidis advehendi - causa, cum Svadilfaro, egressuro, ex sylva prosiliit equa quædam - solitaria, equo adhinniens. Quam conspicatus equus, in furorem - actus, rupto fune, eam adcurrit, jam in sylvam accelerantem, - insequente fabro, equum assecuturo. Equa vero totam per noctem - discurrente, faber impeditus fuit, quominus, hac nocte, una cum die - sequente, opus, uti antea, fuerit continuatum. Quo cognito, animo - percellitur giganteo. Quo viso, juramentis non parcentes Torum - invocarunt: qui statim adveniens, vibrato in aera malleo, dataque - mercede, occisum fabrum in Niflheimium detrusit. Loconi vero cum - Svadilfaro res fuit, ut equuleum genuerit nomine Sleipnerum, octo - habentem pedes. - - EDDA, FAB. XXI, OPERA ET STUDIO JO. GORANSON.” - - - - -NOTE II, P. 63. - - The Goblin Groom now screamed a scream; - For Goblins hate a running stream; - And, if the truth my records say, - The Elfin Poney neighed a neigh. - -The terror of the inhabitants of Alfheim, or Fairy land, for running -water, has been too often asserted to require much comment. Unlicensed -spirits, that wander on the face of the earth, with intentions injurious -to mankind, are always represented as tortured with hydrophobia. The -author cannot hope that he has painted the Goblin’s terror in all the -glowing colours of a Burns,[19] or with the finer tints of a Scott; yet -he flatters himself some beauty may be found, by the admirers of -pleonastic redundancy, in the passage expressive of the horror of the -horse and rider; and he feels that, in this judgment, he will be -supported by the most classical authorities in the English language; -_e.g._ - - -GILES SCROGGINS. - - Giles Scroggins courted Molly Brown, - Fol deriddle lol, fol deriddle lido; - The fairest wench in all the town, - Fol deriddle lol, fol deriddle lido; - He bought a ring with posie true, - “If you loves I as I loves you, - “No knife can cut our love in two.” - Fol deriddle lol, fol deriddle lido. - - But scissars cut as well as knives, - Fol deriddle lol, fol deriddle lido; - And quite unsartin’s all our lives, - Fol deriddle lol, fol deriddle lido; - The day they were to have been wed, - Fate’s scissars cut poor Giles’s thread, - So they could not be mar-ri-ed. - Fol deriddle lol, fol deriddle lido. - - Poor Molly laid her down to weep, - Fol deriddle lol, fol deriddle lido; - And cried herself quite fast asleep, - Fol deriddle lol, fol deriddle lido; - When, standing all by the bed-post, - A figure tall her sight engrossed, - And it cried, I beez Giles Scroggins’ Ghost! - Fol deriddle lol, fol deriddle lido. - - The Ghost it said, all solemnly, - Fol deriddle lol, fol deriddle lido; - O Molly, you must go with I! - Fol deriddle lol, fol deriddle lido; - All to the grave, your love to cool.-- - She says, I am not dead, you fool!-- - Says the Ghost, says he, Vy that’s no rule. - Fol deriddle lol, fol deriddle lido. - - The Ghost he seized her, all so grim, - Fol deriddle lol, fol deriddle lido; - All for to go along with him; - Fol deriddle lol, fol deriddle lido. - “Come, come, said he, ere morning beam.”-- - “I vont!” said she, and she screamed a scream-- - Then she woke and found she dreamed a dream. - Fol deriddle lol, fol deriddle lido. - -And again,-- - - With rapid round the Baron bent; - He sighed a sigh, he prayed a prayer; - The prayer was to his patron Saint, - The sigh was to his lady fair. - - LAY OF THE LAST MINSTREL. - - -NOTE III, P. 66. - - And thus he hilter skilter flew, - And distanced all the huntsmen-crew. - -We cannot give a better idea of the hilter skilter mode of riding with -hounds, than by quoting the truly classical words of an accomplished -Leicestershire sportsman, who is equally celebrated as a painter and a -poet.-- - - And next in the cluster - See Wor’ster and Muster; - Now Muster sets Wor’ster, - Now Wor’ster beats Muster; - Now Muster is first, Sir, - And Wor’ster is burst, Sir: - Such bunglers as those are - Ought both to be curst, Sir. - -Although we in general disapprove of Parodies, the above is so -excellent, and so applicable to our subject, that we sacrifice our -principles for the gratification of our readers. - - -NOTE IV, P. 72. - - No demi volte, nor demi air; - No high curvett, nor terre-a-terre; - No hand to guide the gay croupade. - Nor heel to aid the balotade; - No capriole his skill to shew; - He these disdained, with pas et saut. - -It must be truly gratifying to yeomanry officers, and those who have not -had the advantages of an equestrian education, that, in works of fancy, -they may be at once amused and instructed with valuable hints on -horsemanship; and believing, as we do, that those who have feasted on -the pages of Marmion are now enabled to take a leading part in a meslee -or fight, we shall proceed to forward them in their pursuits, by -recommending to their attention Astley’s explanation of the Croupade. - -The Tailor too of Brentford will be enjoyed with greater glee, when the -spectators do not curb their mirth by a fellow-feeling for the Cockney -equestrian. - - - “CROUPADE. - - “The horse leaps into the air with all his feet off the ground at - one and the same time, and without stretching out those behind: by - an attention to this action, much good might result to the cavalry; - and here I will relate a manœuvre, to which I often had recourse in - 1761, and at other periods of the seven years war. I instructed my - horse to strike an object, or objects, at the will of the rider, - within a given distance, before, behind, or together; and necessity - furnished me with the idea. - - “In patroling, a soldier sometimes wants a guide, and gentle means - often prove ineffectual to induce a peasant to quit his bed, at - the dead of the night, for the accommodation of others,--to - dismount for the purpose of procuring admittance into a house, at - such a time, barred and bolted within, and perhaps in an enemy’s - country, would be dangerous. I knew my duty, and, ere this, my - horse knew his. On approaching the door, I caused him to strike it - with his fore-feet; and if this did not answer my purpose, (for it - would sometimes fail), I faced him about, when, with his croup, he - would break the door in pieces: this he would accomplish in a few - moments, to the surprise and terror of the inhabitants: on the - other hand, when upon the defensive, no person could approach me - without danger; and when on the offensive, and animated at my - pleasure, to the highest pitch, he would strike in every direction, - and clear his way! - - ASTLEY’S EQUESTRIAN EDUCATION, P. 177.” - - - -We do not remember that La Broue has any where pointed out the -application of this useful air du Manège, as the French term it. - - -NOTE V, P. 74. - - Loud howled each hound; I will presume - They howled at loss of Goblin Groom; - And well they might, for such a fay - Ne’er rode before on hunting day;-- - -Though not exactly authorized by the writer of the following poem, yet -we cannot think he will take offence at our availing ourselves of its -beauties, to illustrate the fidelity and attachment of the canine -species to their masters, and those who have shared with them in the -dangers and fatigues of the chace. We extract this poem from a Calcutta -Gazette of 1807.-- - - -BETH-GELERT, - -OR - -THE GRAVE OF THE GREYHOUND.[20] - - The spearmen heard the bugle sound, - And cheerly smiled the morn, - And many a brach, and many a hound, - Obeyed Llewelyn’s horn. - - And still he blew a louder blast, - And gave a lustier cheer, - “Come, Gelert, come, wer’t never last - “Llewelyn’s horn to hear. - - “Oh! where does faithful Gelert roam, - “The flower of all his race? - “So true, so brave; a lamb at home, - “A lion in the chace!” - - ’Twas only at Llewelyn’s board - The faithful Gelert fed; - He watched, he served, he cheered his lord, - And sentineled his bed. - - In sooth he was a peerless hound, - The gift of royal John; - But now no Gelert could be found, - And all the chace rode on. - - And now, as o’er the rocks and dells - The gallant chidings rise, - All Snowdon’s craggy chaos yells - The many mingled cries! - - That day Llewelyn little loved - The chace of hart or hare, - And scant and small the booty proved, - For Gelert was not there. - - Unpleased, Llewelyn homeward hied: - When, near the portal seat, - His truant Gelert he espied - Bounding his lord to greet. - - But, when he gained his castle door, - Aghast the chieftain stood; - The hound all o’er was smeared with gore, - His lips, his fangs, ran blood. - - Llewelyn gazed with fierce surprise:-- - Unused such looks to meet, - His fav’rite checked his joyful guise, - And crouched and licked his feet. - - Onward in haste Llewelyn past, - And on went Gelert too, - And still, where’er his eyes he cast, - Fresh blood-gouts shocked his view. - - O’erturned his infant’s bed he found, - With blood-stained covert rent; - And all around, the walls and ground - With recent blood besprent. - - He called his child, no voice replied; - He searched with terror wild; - Blood, blood he found on every side; - But no where found his child. - - “Hell-hound! my child by thee’s devoured!” - The frantic father cried; - And to the hilt his vengeful sword - He plunged in Gelert’s side. - - His suppliant looks, as prone he fell, - No pity could impart: - But still his Gelert’s dying yell - Passed heavy o’er his heart. - - Aroused by Gelert’s dying yell - Some slumberer wakened nigh: - What words the parent’s joy could tell - To hear his infant’s cry! - - Concealed beneath a tumbled heap, - His hurried search had missed: - All glowing from his rosy sleep, - The cherub boy he kissed. - - Nor scath had he, nor harm, nor dread; - But the same couch beneath - Lay a gaunt wolf, all torn and dead, - Tremendous still in death. - - Ah, what was then Llewelyn’s pain! - For now the truth was clear; - His gallant hound the wolf had slain, - To save Llewelyn’s heir. - - Vain, vain was all Llewelyn’s woe: - “Best of thy kind adieu! - “The frantic blow, which laid thee low, - “This heart shall ever rue.” - - And now a gallant tomb they raise, - With costly sculpture deckt; - And marbles storied with his praise, - Poor Gelert’s bones protect. - - There never could the spearman pass, - Or forester, unmoved; - There oft the tear-besprinkled grass - Llewelyn’s sorrow proved. - - And there he hung his horn and spear, - And there, as evening fell, - In Fancy’s ear he oft would hear - Poor Gelert’s dying yell. - - And till great Snowdon’s rocks grow old, - And cease the storm to brave, - The consecrated spot shall hold - The name of “Gelert’s Grave!” - - -NOTE VI, P. 76. - - The passing shepherd calls the bush, - The Winning-Post of Friar Rush;-- - -This Friar, or “esprit follet,” is a gentleman of as many names and -titles as any Spanish Grandee; “Will o’ the Wisp,” however, is the name -he is best known by, when stript of his ecclesiastical honours: he has -always been considered a tricky knave, and is thus spoken of in -Marmion.-- - - Better we had through mire and bush - Been lanthorn led by Friar Rush. - -MARMION, CANTO IV, P. 187. - - -NOTE VII, P. 79. - - To every Bard that serves his Grace, - A goodly pension or a place;-- - -We here call upon our readers, to attend to the origin of the word Bard; -inasmuch as, that term has become applicable to poem-mongers in general. -The learned Mr. Prideaux informs us,-- - - “BARDUS possessed his father Druis’ place. To his ancestors - Phylosophy, Magick, Politicks, Rites and Ceremonies, this man added - Poetry, and set all their excellencies at a higher key. 2. From him - we have the ancient Bardi, the chroniclers of all heroick actions, - and commenders of their performers, to the imitation of their - posterity, whom an ancient poet thus bespeaketh,-- - - Vos quoq. qui fortes animas belloq. peremtas, - Laudibus in longum vates deducitis ævum. - Plurima securi fudistis carmina Bardi. - - Then you brave Bards securely song, - The praise of dead Pears; - In lofty strains, for to prolong - Their fame for many years. - - 3. Their esteem was such amongst the greatest commanders, that if - two armies were even at push of pike, and a Bard had step’d in - between them, they would have held their hands, harkened to their - advice, and not have offered to strike until he were out of danger. - 4. Famous amongst those Bards (before the coming of our Saviour) - were held Plenidius and Glaskirion, and of late years, Davye Dee, - David ap Williams and others. They say the island Bardsey had - Bardorum Insula, its name, from them, and Aquila, Perdix, Patrick, - Maddoch, and both the Merlins the wisards, were from this - institution.” - - PRIDEAUX’S INTRODUCTION TO HISTORY, P. 255-256. - - - -Although the terms Bard and Poet are those in more general use to -express the rhyme-weaving brotherhood, yet there are words of Gothic -origin which may still be found of uncommon meaning, and, on certain -occasions, even more significant than the former. Thus, a dame -declaiming in heroics to her waiting-women and children, is denominated -a Scold, from the Scalds or Poets of Iceland; and the term Bragger may, -from “Brage” of the Goths, be employed to designate a blustering -Poetaster, who claims, for alleged facility and unquestionable length of -composition, the applause reserved for creative genius and continued -exertion. - - -THE END. - - -_Printed by Alex. Lawrie & Co. Edinburgh._ - - -FOOTNOTES: - -[1] In this happy manner of expressing his admiration of the object -before him, the author assures his readers, that he lays no claim to -originality. - -[2] Bumble or bumbart bee. _Vide_ Dr. Jamieson’s Dictionary. - -[3] North of the Tweed _beast_ is applied, as a general term, to -animals, without distinction. - -[4] The following anecdote, with many others equally interesting, is -recorded in a very _rare_ work, to be found in few _collections, however -excellent_. A gentleman and his friend, passing along Oxford Road, were -stopped by an immense crowd near Hyde Park, and, on inquiring into the -cause, were told that a person of the name of Vowel was leading to -execution at Tyburn. “I wonder what vowel it can be,” (cried the one). -“It is neither U nor I, (replied the other), so let us pass on.” JOE -MILLER, a very old edition. - -[5] Dunse, supposed to be derived from the old Celtic word _Dun_, a -hill, is situated in the centre of the county of Berwick, near to the -Lammermoor hills,--is famous for its _cabbages_,--from its being the -birth-place of _Duns Scotus_,--and from the number of _alehouses_ which -it contains. For an account of its places of ancient strength, _vide_ -Statistical Account of Scotland, vol. iv. - -[6] Whitadder and Blackadder, probably corruptions of Whitewater and -Blackwater, two streams which, uniting in their course, empty themselves -into the Tweed a little above Berwick. - -[7] Those who feel with the author on this subject, will consult, with -peculiar pleasure, the general tenor of our Parliamentary Reports. - -[8] - - O fortes pejoraque passi - Mecum sæpe viri nunc vino pellite curas - Cras ingens iterabimus æquor. - - HOR. ODE 7, LIB. 1. - - -[9] Et vox assensu nemorum ingeminata remugit. - - GEORG. III. - - -[10] The Fern Islands. - -[11] Looking intensely. Dr. Jamieson gives the following authority for -this meaning of the word.-- - - “He girnt, he _glourt_, he gapt, as he war weid.” - DUNBAR, MAITLAND POEMS, p. 77. - - -[12] - - Il monte avec la main les eperons et gaule, - Le cheval de pegase qui volle en capriole, - Il monte si haut qu’il touche de sa teste les cieux, - Et par ses merveilles ravit en extasses les Dieux, - Les chevaux corruptible qui la bas sur terre son - En courbettes demi-airs terre-à-tere vont - Avec humilite soumission et bassesse, - L’adorer, comme Dieu et auteur de leur adresse. - - _See a General System of Horsemanship, &c. - by the DUKE OF NEWCASTLE._ - - -[13] Alias “Will o’ the Wisp,”--alias, in Scotland, “Spunkie.” The -reader who is anxious for farther information on this interesting -subject is referred to the notes on MARMION. - -[14] Hedio. Sleidan. - -[15] SCOTT. _Vide_ Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, vol. ii. - -[16] By some etymologists of that learned class, who not only know -whence words come, but also whither they are going, the term _Fairy_, or -_Faërie_, is derived from _Faë_, which is again derived from _Nympha_. -It is more probable the term is of oriental origin, and is derived from -the Persic, through the medium of the Arabic. In Persic, the term _Peri_ -expresses a species of imaginary being, which resembles the Fairy in -some of its qualities, and is one of the fairest creatures of romantic -fancy. - - _MINSTRELSY OF THE SCOTTISH BORDER, p. 115-116._ - - -[17] Our modern Bachanals will here observe, that punishing by a bumper -is not an invention of these degenerate days. The ancient Danes were -great Topers. - -[18] The drinking vessels of the northern nations were the horns of -animals, of their natural length, only tipt with silver, &c. 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