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Marmion: A Tale of Flodden Field

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Marmion: A Tale of Flodden Field, a poem in six cantos by Sir W. Scott, published in 1808. Marmion is a fictitious character, a favourite of Henry VIII, proud, ambitious, and treacherous, who has tired of one love (a perjured nun, Constance of Beverley, who is walled up alive in a scene of Gothic horror) and is in pursuit of the wealthy Lady Clare, who is herself in love with Ralph de Wilton. After much intrigue and disguise (during which Clare seeks refuge from Marmion at a convent, and Wilton passes for a palmer) the action moves to Flodden, with stirring descriptions of the encamped armies, and then of the battle, during which Marmion is mortally wounded. Clare succours the dying man with water from a fountain, and is finally united with de Wilton. The poem contains the Song of Lochinvar (Canto V).

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