Minstrelsy of the Scottish border - National Library of Scotland

278 MINSTRELSY OF
" dictorum judicum responsione, petierunt a me notario pub-
" lico infra scripto prffisentium acta fuerunt
" haec apud Foulis, in itinere justiciario ibidem tento anno
" mense die et pontificatu prescriptis per nobilibus et discre-
" tis viris Dominis JMauricio Archidiacono Dumblan, Williel-
" mo de Grame, Vinfrido de Cunyngham, David de
" JVIilitibus, JNIoritio de Drummond, Waltero de Drummond,
" Walter de Moravia, Scutiferis, testibus ad praemissa voca-
" tis specialiter et rogatis.
" Et ego Johannes Symonis Clericus Dunlceldensis publicus
" imperial, notarius prsedicti Domini Alexandri comparatione
" ipsius petitione et protestatione desuper justiciariormn re-
" sponsione omnibusque aliis et singulis dum sic ut prius-
" quam et agerentur una cum prenominatis testi-
" bus prescns interfui eaque sic fieri vidi et
" in banc forinam publicam, redegi manuque mea propria
" scripsi requisitus et roga om omnium pre-
" missorum signo meo consueto signavi."
Alas ! that e'er thou raised'st thine eyes,
Thine eyes to look on ine.—P. 265. v. 5.
The idea of Lord Soulis' familiar seems to be derived from
the curious story of the spirit Orthone and the Lord of Co-
rasse, which, I think, the reader will be pleased to see in all
its Gothic simplicity, as translated from Froissart, by the Lord
of Bernprs.
" It is great marveyle to consyder one thynge, the whiche
" was shewed to me in the Earl of Foiz house at Ortayse, of
" hym that enfourmed me of the busynesse at Juberothe ( Al-
"^ jubarota, where the Spaniards, with their French allies, were
" defeated by the Portugueze, A. D. 1385.) He shewed me one
" thyng that I have oftentymes thought on sithe, and shall do
" as long as I live. As thys squyer told me that of trouthe
" the next day after the battayl was thus fought, at Juberoth,
" the Erie of Foiz knewe it, whereof I had great marveyle ; for
" the said Sonday, IMonday, and Tuesday, the erle was very
'' pensyf, and so sadde of chere, that no man could have a
" worde of hym. And all the said three days he wold nat issue