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Scott obtained his excellent version from "a ladyresiding not far from Ercildoune. " This Thomas the Rhymer, or TrueThomas, or Thomas of Ercildoune, was a veritable personage, who dweltin the village of Ercildoune situate by "Leader's silver tide" sometwo miles above its junction with the Tweed. Tradition has it thathis date was the thirteenth century and his full name Thomas Learmont. He was celebrated as poet and prophet, the rustics believing that hisgift of soothsaying was imparted by the F...airy Queen, who kept him withher in Elfland for seven years, permitting him then to return to theupper world for a season and utter his oracles, but presentlyrecalling him to her mysterious court. A fragmentary old poem, showingprobable traces, as Jamieson suggests, of the Rhymer's own authorship, tells this famous adventure in language whose antiquated form cannotdisguise its sweetness. The melancholy likelihood seems to be thatTrue Thomas was a fibbing Thomas, after all, and invented this storyof his sojourn in Elfland to gain credit for his poetical prophecies, which claim to have first proceeded from the mouth of the Fairy Queen, when "Scho broghte hym agayne to Eldone tree, Vndir nethe that grenewode spraye; In Huntlee bannkes es mery to bee, Whare fowles synges bothe nyght and daye.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Scott obtained his excellent version from "a ladyresiding not far from Ercildoune. " This Thomas the Rhymer, or TrueThomas, or Thomas of Ercildoune, was a veritable personage, who dweltin the village of Ercildoune situate by "Leader's silver tide" sometwo miles above its junction with the Tweed. Tradition has it thathis date was the thirteenth century and his full name Thomas Learmont. He was celebrated as poet and prophet, the rustics believing that hisgift of soothsaying was imparted by the F...airy Queen, who kept him withher in Elfland for seven years, permitting him then to return to theupper world for a season and utter his oracles, but presentlyrecalling him to her mysterious court. A fragmentary old poem, showingprobable traces, as Jamieson suggests, of the Rhymer's own authorship, tells this famous adventure in language whose antiquated form cannotdisguise its sweetness. The melancholy likelihood seems to be thatTrue Thomas was a fibbing Thomas, after all, and invented this storyof his sojourn in Elfland to gain credit for his poetical prophecies, which claim to have first proceeded from the mouth of the Fairy Queen, when "Scho broghte hym agayne to Eldone tree, Vndir nethe that grenewode spraye; In Huntlee bannkes es mery to bee, Whare fowles synges bothe nyght and daye.
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