Of the babble and the rhyme,
And the imitative chime
That amused him on a time, -
Now he's grey.



NOTES



A SCOT TO JEANNE D'ARC


Jeanne d'Arc is said to have led a Scottish force at Lagny, when
she defeated the Burgundian, Franquet d'Arras. A Scottish artist
painted her banner; he was a James Polwarth, or a Hume of Polwarth,
according to a conjecture of Mr. Hill Burton's. A monk of
Dunfermline, who continued Fordun's Chronicle, avers that he was
with the Maiden in her campaigns, and at her martyrdom. He calls
her Puella a spiritu sancto excitata. Unluckily his manuscript
breaks off in the middle of a sentence. At her trial, Jeanne said
that she had only once seen her own portrait: it was in the hands
of a Scottish archer. The story of the white dove which passed
from her lips as they opened to her last cry of Jesus! was reported
at the trial for her Rehabilitation (1450-56).

ONE OF THAT NAME.

Two archers of the name of Lang, Lain, or Laing were in the French