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DECADENCE AND DISASTERS--REIGN OF DAVID II.
The heroic generation of Scotland was passing off the stage.

The King was a child.

The forfeiture by Bruce of the lands of hostile or treacherous lords, and his bestowal of the estates on his partisans, had made the disinherited nobles the enemies of Scotland, and had fed too full the House of Douglas.

As the star of Scotland was thus clouded--she had no strong man for a King during the next ninety years--the sun of England rose red and glorious under a warrior like Edward III.