14 NETHER LOCHABER. 



Let hira for succour sue from place to place. 

 Torn from his subjects and his son's embrace. 

 First let him see his friends in battle slain, 

 And their untimely fate lament in vain ; 

 And when at length the cruel wars shall cease, 

 On hard conditions may he buy his peace. 

 Nor let him then enjoy supreme command, 

 But fall untimely by some hostile hand. 

 And lie unburied on the barren sand. " 



Lord Falkland's eye fell on the following lines in the eleventh 

 book : — ■ 



" Non hsec, O Palla, dederas promissa parenti. 

 Cautius ut .s£evo veDes te credere Marti ! 

 Hand ignarus eram, quantum nova gloria in armis, 

 Et predulce decus primo certamine posset. 

 PrimitisB juvenis miserae ! bellique propinqui 

 Dura rudimenta ! et nulli exaudita Deorum 

 Vota, precesque meie ! " 



— which the same translator has rendered as follows : — 



' ' Pallas, thou hast failed thy plighted word, 

 To fight with caution, not to tempt the sword ; 

 I warn'd thee, but in vain, for well I knew 

 What perils youthful ardour would pursue ; 

 That boiling blood would carry thee too tar. 

 Young as thou wert to dangers, raw to war ; 

 O cura'd essay of arms, disastrous doom. 

 Prelude of bloody fields and fights to come. 

 Hard elements of unauspicious war. 

 Vain vows to heaven and unavailing care." 



How the most pious man of his age, and one of the best kings that 

 ever adorned a throne, suffered death at the hands of his rebellious 

 subjects is well known. Poor Lord Falkland — a young nobleman of 

 the most estimable character ; a poet and man of lettere, so fond of 

 books that he used to say that " he pitied unlearned gontlemon in 

 a rainy day" — fell gallantly fighting for the royal cause in the 

 battle of Newbury, before he had yet completed his thirty-fourth 

 year. It is curious to find the eminent poet Abiuliam Cowlev, a 



