And needs not _thanks_--
A _woman_, in her _country's cause_,
Can dare what man dare! [_They start up._

_Sir Alex_.--What! my Matilda!

_Richard_.--My mother!

_Henry_.--Ha! my mother!

_Lady Seton_.--Joy, joy, my sons; your mother's done her duty!
And joy, my husband, we have saved our _honour_.

_Sir Alex_.--Matilda, thou hast ta'en my heart anew,
And with it, too, my words!

_Provost Ramsay_.--The like o' this! I may weel say, what,
in the universal globe, tempted me to be a bachelor!
[_Exeunt._




XXV.

FAREWELL TO A PLACE ON THE BORDERS.


Lochmaben! I from thee must part,
'Tis destined so to be;