Was not such the reiterated promise by which you allured me to the
field of Falkirk? And when I had covered myself, as Lord Buchan too
truly says, with the blood of my children; when I asked my friend for
the crown I had served for, what was his answer? 'Have I naught to do
but to win kingdoms to make gifts of?' Thus, then, did a king, a
friend, break his often-repreated word! What wonder, then, that I
should feel the indignation of a prince and a friend; and leave the
false, alas! the perjured, to defenders whom he seemed more highly to
approve? But of treachery, what have I shown? Rather confidence, King
Edward; and the confidence that was awakened in the fields of Palestine
brought me hither to-day to remonstrate with you on my rights; when by
throwing myself into the arms of my people, I might have demanded them
at the head of a victorious army."
Edward, who had prepared by the Cummins to discredit all that Carrick
might say in his defense, turned with a look of contempt toward him,
and said, "You have persuaded to act like a madman, and as maniacs both
yourself and your son shall be guarded till I have leisure to consider
any rational evidence you may in future offer in your vindication.
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