124 THE BORDER ANGLER. 



u The Douglas Tragedy" were buried here, according 

 to the ballad, the result of their interment being a 

 floral phenomenon that has since been greatly affected 

 by parish minstrels in all parts of the kingdom : 



" Lord William was buried in St. Mary's Kirk, 



Lady Margaret in Marie's quire ; 

 Out o' the Lady's grave grew a bonny red rose, 

 And out o' the Knight's a brier," 



the love which they had borne to each other being re- 

 presented in the twisting and twining of the rose and 

 the brier, until " bye and rade the Black Douglas/' the 

 lady's father, who " pulled up the bonnie brier, and 

 flanged in St. Mary's loch." The scene of the Douglas 

 Tragedy itself the elopement of Lady Margaret with 

 Lord William, and of the unequal combat in which 

 her seven brothers fell before her lover's sword is in 

 Douglas-burn, which flows into the Yarrow about three 

 miles further down. In St. Mary's Chapel, also, was 

 the more satisfactory denouement of " the Gray Goss- 

 Hawk," when the lady, after having been carried in 

 her coffin for dead out of England to be buried here, 

 was awakened by the kisses of her lover a pleasant 

 catastrophe imitated in Hogg's " Mary Scott" which 

 we have already mentioned. The real Mary Scott, 

 the Flower of Yarrow, was born at Dryhope Tower, 

 and was married to Sir Walter Scott of Harden in 

 Eoxburghshire, the prudent father agreeing to keep 

 his son-in-law and daughter and suites for a certain 

 time at Dryhope, but requiring the security of a num- 

 ber of barons for his newly-acquired mosstrooping re- 

 lative, that at the end of the agreed period he would 

 remove without any attempt to establish himself upon 



