“For a laggard in love, and a dastard in war,
Was to wed the fair Ellen of brave Lochinvar.”

—  Walter Scott , Marmion

Canto V, st. 12 (Lochinvar, st. 2).
Marmion (1808)

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Scottish historical novelist, playwright, and poet 1771–1832

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