And I think that man was I.


Here is something not in Herd, and as remote from the manner of the
English poet, with his


The Chronicle will not lie,


as Heine is remote from, say,--Milman. The verse is magical, it has
haunted my memory since I was ten years old. Godscroft, who does not
approve of the story of Douglas's murder by one of his men, writes that
the dying leader said:-

"First do yee keep my death both from our own folke and from the enemy"
(Froissart, "Let neither friend nor foe know of my estate"); "then that
ye suffer not my standard to be lost or cast downe" (Froissart, "Up
with my standard and call DOUGLAS!";) "and last, that ye avenge my
death" (also in Froissart). "Bury me at Melrose Abbey with my father.
If I could hope for these things I should die with the greater
contentment; for long since I HEARD A PROPHESIE THAT A DEAD MAN SHOULD
WINNE A FIELD, AND I HOPE IN GOD IT SHALL BE I." {75a}


I saw a dead man won the fight,
And I think that man was I!


Godscroft, up to the mention of Melrose and the prophecy, took his tale