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76 NOTES TO THE REGENTIS TRAGEDIE (4-22).
90. Be work or word that slew my deir—i.e., who did the deed or
counselled it. Cf. 11. 96-100.
92. In ««£72tor£ = peradventure, perhaps.
101. Defend jour King andfeir ^our God. “ Deum timete, regem
honorificate.”—1 Pet. ii. 17.
104. Euin and <?«l=all and sundry, one and all. Cf. Poem xx. 1.
120.
109. ^our brasin wall. Jer. i. 18; xv. 20.
XII.^-THE REGENTIS TRAGEDIE.
‘The Regentis Tragedie !—the first of the series of poems on the
death of Murray to which Sempill’s name is appended—appears to
have been one of the most popular in the collection, as it ran through
at least three editions as a broadside, the three copies extant being
all of distinct issues.
4. Lythquo. See Poem x. 1. 2, note. With ane loun. Ibid., 11. 271-
274, note.
5. betrayed, from verb betrase or betrais. Cf. Poems xvii.
1. 131, xxiv. 1. 44; and Lyndsay—
“ The Knicht thairto not condiscendit,
Bot to betrais him ay intendit."
—‘Squyer Meldrum,’ 11. 1209, 1210.
7. Beit=hired. Though the assassination was mainly due to private
revenge, Hamilton was doubtless urged to the committal of the deed
by his kinsmen, who were bent on the Regent’s ruin. See Poem xvii.
1. 95, note.
8, 9. Hangman to Hary, &c. = hangman to Mary’s husband, now
executioner to her brother, &c. Hamilton’s uncle, the Archbishop of
St Andrews, was commonly reputed to be cognisant of the conspiracy
against the life of Darnley.—Buchanan, ‘ Rer. Scot. Hist.,’ Lib. xviii.
cap. 15 ; ‘ Calderwood,’ vol. ii. pp. 345, 346; and Poem xxviii. 11. 34-40,
note.
14. Cose — exchange. A.S. cedsan—
“ And the traste Alethys
With hym hes helmys cossyt, and gaue him his.”
—Douglas, ‘ Eneados,’ ix., vol. iii.
p. 232, 11. 23, 24.
22. Be quhome, lat se, wes Pirats sa opprest ? See Poem x. 1. 62,
note. Lat ^=let us see, for instance.