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204 REIGN OF ELIZABETH. [CH. 53. the courts of law. In the short leisure which he could snatch from his own labours he sat on trials with the judges ; and ' his presence struck such reverence into them that the poor were not oppressed by false accusa- tions, nor tired out by long attendance, nor their causes put off to gratify the rich/ He had his father's vir- tues without his father's infirmities ; and so with such poor resources as he could command at home, with hol- low support from England, and concentrating upon his own person the malignity of political hatred and spurious sentiment, he held on upon his road till the end came and he was taken away. Scotland was struck to the heart by his death. The pathetic intensity of popular feeling found expression in a ballad which was published at Edinburgh immedi- ately after Murray's death. It was written probably by Robert Lord Sempell, on whose arm he leant after he was wounded. 1 The Exhortatioun to all pleasand thingis quhaivin man can half delytc to withdraw thair plesur from mankynde, and to deploir the cruell Mur- ther of umquhile my Lord Eegentis Grace. Ye Mountaines murne, ye valayis wepe, Ye clouds and Firmament, Ye fluids dry up, ye seyis so depe, Deploir our lait Regent. Ye greinis grow gray, ye gowanis dune, Ye hard rocks ryve for sorrow : Ye mariguildis forbid the sune To oppin yow euerie morrow. Thow Lauand lurk, thow Time be tint, Thow Margelene swaif, Chow Camomylde, ye balme and mint, Your fragrant odouris laif.