Note G — SONG AT THE FEAST OF BROUGHAM CASTLE,
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The martial character of the Cliffords is well known to the readers of English History; but it may not be improper here to say, by way of comment on these lines and what follows, that, besides several others who perished in the same manner, the four immediate Progenitors of the person in whose hearing this is supposed to be spoken, all died in the Field.—W. W. 1807.
Compare The Borderers, act III. l. 56 (vol. i. p. 173)—
They say, Lord Clifford is a savage man.Ed.