[A confused echo of the Scotch expedition which should have brought the Maid of Norway to Scotland, about 1285.]

THE KING sits in Dunfermline town,
  Drinking the blude-red wine,
“O whare will I get a skeely skipper,
  To sail this new ship of mine!”

O up and spake an eldern knight,
  Sat at the king’s right knee,—
“Sir Patrick Spens...