...Maria, shield us well! No living wight, save the Ladye alone, Had dared to cross the threshold stone. The tables were drawn, it was idlesse all; Knight and page and household squire, Loitered through the lofty hall, Or crowded round the ample fire; The stag-hounds, weary with the chase,...

...lofty h.ill, Or crowded round thfc ample fire : The st:«ghounds, weary with the chase, Lay stretched upon the rushy floor, And urged, in dreams, the forest race. From Tcviot-stone to Eskdalc-moor." The modern English Foxhound is thought to be only a smaller kind of...

...Scott, in the "Lay of the Last Minstrel," says: The stag-hounds, weary with the chase, Lay stretched upon the rushy floor, And urged in dreams the forest race From Teviot-stone to Eskdale Moor. Tennyson also speaks of dogs that hunt in dreams. Darwin, in the " Descent of Man," Vol....

...dared to cross the threshold stone. The tables were drawn, it was idlesse all; Knight, and page, aml household squire, Loiter'd through the lofty hall,...the forest race, From Teviot-stone to Eskdale-moor. Nine-and-twenty knights of fame Hung their shields in Branksome Hall,1 Nine-and-twenty squires of name...

...and is thus referred to in Scott's "Lay": — "The stag-hounde, weary with the chase, Lay etretehed upon the rushy floor ; And urged in dreams the forest race, From Teviot Stone to Eskdale Moor;" and again in the well-known and beautiful lines: — "By Yarrow's streams...

...shield us well ! No living wight, save the Ladye alone, Had dared to cross the threshold stone. IL The tables were drawn, it was idlesse all ; Knight,...with the chase, Lay stretch'd upon the rushy floor, 1 See Appendix, Note A. 7 And urged, in dreams, the forest race, From Teviot-stone to Eskdale-moor.1...

...lofty hall, i« Or crowded round the ample fire: The stag-hounds, weary with the chase, Lay stretched upon the rushy floor, And urged in dreams the forest race, From Teviot-stone to Eskdale-moor. Nine-and-twenty knights of fame Hung their shields in Branksome 1Ы1; Nine-and-twenty squires of name...

...Maria, shield us well ! No living wight, save the Ladye alone, Had dared to cross the threshold stone. The tables were drawn, it was idlesse all; Knight and page and household squire Loitered through the lofty hall, 10 Or crowded round the ample fire: The stag-hounds, weary with the...

...the chimney, probably realized sir Walter Scott's description in the ' Lay of the last minstrel ' : ' The tables were drawn, it was idlesse all ; Knight and page and household squire, Loitered through the lofty hall, Or crowded round the ample fire.' Sir Piers himself, kept a retinue...

...his evening, and killed his deer again ; while ' The Staghounds weary with the chase, Lay stretched upon the rushy floor, And urged in dreams the forest race From Castle Hill to wild Exmoor.' ' Tout again retired to " his own place." ' The drinking of the toast...