the noon of night
is the man demented ? are you going out without your buckler , and the whole town in misrule ? '' `` You are right , dame , '' said the armourer ; and , throwing the buckler over his broad shoulders , he departed from his house without abiding farther question . How in the noon of night that pibroch thrills , Savage and shrill ! But with the breath which fills Their mountain pipe , so fill the mountaineers With the fierce native daring which instils The stirring memory of a thousand years . BYRON . We must now leave the lower parties in our historical drama , to attend to the incidents which took place among those of a higher rank and greater importance .