...tastes, I give you something which is guaranteed to stir the blood of even the weariest Caledonian! Scots, wha hae wi' Wallace bled, Scots, wham Bruce...aften led, Welcome to your gory bed, Or to victorie! Wha will be a traitor knave? Wha can fill a coward's grave? Wha sae base as be a slave? Let him turn...

...contemporary attitudes) have been the uncomfortable observation that Robert Burns' celebrated lines Scots ! wha hae wi Wallace bled ! Scots ! wham Bruce has aften led ! are not authentic Scots but a quasi-Scotticisation of a standard English usage, the genuine Scots...

...the guinea's stamp, The Man's the gowdfor a' that. ** 'Bruce's Address to his army at Bannockburn' 'Scots, wha hae wi' Wallace bled, Scots, wham Bruce...Victorie! Now's the day, and now's the hour; See the front of battle lour; See approach proud Edward's power — Chains and Slaverie! Wha will be a traitor knave?...

...heroic followers on that eventful morning. — Robert Bruce's march to BANNOCKBURN — To its ain tune Scots, wha hae wi' WALLACE bled Scots, wham BRUCE has aften led. Welcome to your gory bed, — Or no victorie. — Now's the day, & now's the hour; See the front o' battle lower; See approach proud...

...Bannock-burn': Scots, wha hae wi' Wallace bled, Scots, wham Bruce has aften led; Welcome to your glory bed, Or to victorie. Now's the day, and now's the...front o' battle lour; See approach proud Edward's power — Chains and slaverie! Wha for Scotland's king and law Freedom's sword will strongly draw,...

...XVI — into the powerful stanzas of 'Bruce to his Troops on the eve of the Battle of Bannock-burn': Scots, wha hae wi' Wallace bled, Scots, wham Bruce has aften led; Welcome to your glory bed, Or to victorie. Now's the day, and now's the hour, See the front o' battle lour; See approach...

...Bannockburn and taught Me to sing it, which I was Sometimes called upon to do at Family gatherings: Scots, wha hae wi' Wallace bled Scots, wham Bruce...front o' battle lour, See approach proud Edward's power Chains and Slaverie. — Wha will be a traitor-knave? Wha can fill a coward's grave? Wha sae...

...Ninians, Stirling. This was formerly the Scots Wha Hae (a reference to the Burns' poem which begins: 'Scots, wha hae wi' Wallace bled, / Scots wham Bruce...led, / Welcome to your gory bed, / Or to victorie'. It is sung to the traditional tune of Hey, ttitti tatti or to Land o ' the Leaf). Sir William Wallace...

...sweetest hours that e'er I spend /Are spent among the lasses, O") or, hearts rising, "Scots Wha Hae" ("Scots wha hae wi' Wallace bled,/ Scots wham Bruce has aften led, /Welcome to your gory bed /Or to victor ie"). On the course, the job was to contain what Burns called the "roar o 'sea ."What Playfair...

...could be very radical indeed. Burns's famous song "Robert Bruce's March to Bannockburn," which begins "Scots, wha hae wi' WALLACE bled, / Scots, wham BRUCE has aften led," is a rousing call to arms in defense of "LIBERTY." Significantly, it was written in 1793. In January...