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The Æneid of Virgil displays little invention in the incidents, for it unites the plan of the Iliad and the Odyssey. Our own early writers have not more originality than modern genius may aspire to reach. To imitate and to rival the Italians and the French formed their devotion. Chaucer, Gower, and Gawin Douglas, were all spirited imitators, and frequently only masterly translators.
Gawin Douglas in his "Palace of Honour," and Henryson in his "Testament of Cressid" and elsewhere, are followers of the southern master.
Gawin heard the bishop's purgation, and chopping on his breast, and perceived the plates of his jack clattering, he thought the bishop deceaved him, so Mr. Gawin said to him, 'My lord, your conscience is not good, for I hear it clattering."
"Oo-ay, ye'll be gawin' to read me a bit o' the book?" "I thought you would ask that; what shall it be?" "Oo, ye canna go wrang." Flora opened the Bible, and, selecting a passage, read it in a slow, clear tone, while the old woman lay back and listened with her eyes upturned and her hands clasped. "Isn't it grawnd?" said she, appealing to Lucy with a burst of feeling, when Flora had concluded.
But I've niver spent a boddle o't. Mony a time have I been tempit, an' mony a time wad I hae gi'en in to the temptation, but for a certain lass ca'd Janet, that's been an angel, it's my belief, sent doon frae heeven to keep me frae gawin to the deevil a'thegither. But be that as it may, I've brought the siller to them that owns it by right, an' so my conscience is clear o't at lang last."
Lester turned round in his chair, and regarded with a serious look, the faces of both sisters. "My dear Ellinor," said he, when he had finished his survey, "you are a kind girl come and kiss me!" "The soft season, the firmament serene, The loun illuminate air, and firth amene The silver-scalit fishes on the grete O'er-thwart clear streams sprinkillond for the heat," Gawin Douglas.
But the Scots congregation went out, to the eye sober, stern, and staid. Glenfernie spoke to Jarvis Barrow. He meant to do no more than give a word of greeting. But the old man put forth an emaciated hand and held him. "Is it the auld laird? My eyes are na gude. Eh, laird, I remember the sermons of your grandfather, Gawin Elliot! Aye, aye! he was a lion against sinners!
To put the finishing-touch to the picture, the grey tower of Gawin Douglas's Cathedral, still and solemn, kept watch over the tomb of the Wolf of Badenoch. But Dunkeld was not the Queen's destination. She was going still farther into the Highlands.
I said I would come back to her in half an hour or so, when the daylight was quite gone, and prove to her there was nothing on the path. A hand caught her arm. It was Mrs. Irwin, holding the door close with the other hand. 'Miss Leyburn Miss Catherine! Yur not gawin' oot not gawin' oop that path? The woman was fond of Catherine, and looked deadly frightened. 'Yes, I am, Mrs.
Lester turned round in his chair, and regarded with a serious look, the faces of both sisters. "My dear Ellinor," said he, when he had finished his survey, "you are a kind girl come and kiss me!" "The soft season, the firmament serene, The loun illuminate air, and firth amene The silver-scalit fishes on the grete O'er-thwart clear streams sprinkillond for the heat," Gawin Douglas.
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