Readers already acquainted with my Poems will recognise, in the following composition, some eight or ten lines which I have not scrupled to retain in the places where they originally stood. It is proper, however, to add, that they would not have been used elsewhere, if I had foreseen the time when I might be induced to publish this Tragedy. February 28, 1842. ACT I. SCENE-Road in a Wood. WALLACE and LACY. Lacy. The Troop will be impatient; let us hie Wal. Lacy. True; and, remembering how the Band That Oswald finds small favour in our sight, Wal. I have heard Of some dark deed to which in early life Lacy. Where he despised alike Enter MARMADUKE and WILFRED. |