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. Hume's (of Godscroft) History of the House of Douglas, p. 29, &c.

The description of the good Lord James of Douglas, in Barbour's Bruce, is not uninteresting.

"In visage was he some deal gray, And had black hair, as I heard say, But then he was of limbs well made, With bones great and shoulders braid. His body well made and lenzie, As they that saw him said to me. When he was blyth he was lovely And meek and sweet in company. But who in battle might him see Another countenance had he. And in his speech he lispt some deal, But that set him right wonder well." The Bruce, p. 13.

[233] Spenser's Fairy Queen,