Chapter 51

227. Who else, etc. The MS. has the following couplet before this line: "Who else dared own the kindred claim That bound him to thy mother's name?" 229. The Douglas, etc. Scott says here: "The exiled state of this powerful race is not exaggerated in this and subsequent passages. The hatred of James against the race of Douglas was so inveterate, that numerous as their allies were, and disregarded as the regal authority had usually been in similar cases, their nearest friends, even in the most remote part of Sco…