One of the most quoted excerpts from Scottish poetry[12] is derived from Canto VI, stanza XVII (although it is often erroneously attributed to Shakespeare):[13][7]
Oh, what a tangled web we weave
When first we practise to deceive!
Marmion: A Tale of Flodden Field is, as I said before, long. Really long. It consists of six cantos, each of which is composed of dozens of rhymed stanzas. Scott had the decency to shake up his rhyme scheme - here, rhymed couplets in iambic tetrameter, there, iambic pentameter using alternating rhyme, still elsewhere, hymn meter using a combination of alternating and nested rhyme.
The poem is a piece of historical fiction, set during the Battle of Flodden Field back in 1513, a huge battle between the English and the invading Scots, with a tremendous number of casualties (and an English victory). Scott tells the story of Lord Marmion, his fictional hero, who gets his mistress (a nun) to help him plot the downfall of the honorable Sir Ralph de Wilton, whose fiancee Marmion wants to wed.
Marmion manages to drive Wilton into exile, but Clara (the fiancee/object) joins a convent rather than hook up with Marmion. Constance (the nun/mistress) is caught having broken her vows and is walled up - alive - into the walls of her island convent, but not before she turns over documents proving that Wilton was innocent.
Marmion is killed in battle at Flodden Field, where Wilton
distinguishes himself, thereby reclaiming and enhancing his reputation. He also regains his land and marries Clara.
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In all his arms, with all his train,
Shield, lance, and brand, and plume, and scarf,
Fay, giant, dragon, squire, and dwarf,
And wizard with his wand of might,
And errant maid on palfrey white.
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Yet Clare's sharp questions must I shun;
Must separate Constance from the Nun--
O, what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practise to deceive!
A Palmer too!--no wonder why
"Sir Walter Scott (1771 - 1832)".
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