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NOTES.
And many a head had got contusions
By both these weapons, in confusions;
For when he killed not with the word,
He did it with the powerful sword;
And made his enemies perplexed,
Either with awful sword or text.
He was content to fight his foes,
Either with paraphrase or blows;
And if the one did not succeed,
The other knocked them on the head[1].
By both these weapons, in confusions;
For when he killed not with the word,
He did it with the powerful sword;
And made his enemies perplexed,
Either with awful sword or text.
He was content to fight his foes,
Either with paraphrase or blows;
And if the one did not succeed,
The other knocked them on the head[1].
PART II.
P. 92. v. 264. The history of St. Kentigern is related with some variations by Joceline. His mother was named Thanes or Taneu. Joceline terms her the daughter of a Cambrian prince; but the name of her father, according to Fordun, was Loth or Lodun, the Leodegan of romance, from whom Lothian is supposed to have derived its name. According to Joceline, she conceived without knowing who was the father of her child: But by an anonymous monkish writer, quoted by Pinkerton on a note to his edition of Joceline's Life of St. Kentigern, he is called Ewen the son of Erwegende, a British prince, whom the minstrels denominated Ewen the son of Ulien. Ulien seems to be the celebrated warrior Urien
- ↑ Meston's Poems, p. 8. 1767.
