EBOOK SCOTTISH MINSTRELSY ***
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MINISTRELSY
OF THE
SCOTTISH BORDER:
CONSISTING OF
HISTORICAL AND ROMANTIC BALLADS,
COLLECTED
IN THE SOUTHERN COUNTIES OF SCOTLAND; WITH A FEW
OF MODERN DATE, FOUNDED UPON
LOCAL TRADITION.
IN THREE VOLUMES.
VOL. I
The songs, to savage virtue dear,
That won of yore the public ear,
Ere Polity, sedate and sage,
Had quench'd the fires of feudal rage.--WARTON.
1806.
TO
HIS GRACE,
HENRY,
_DUKE OF BUCCLEUCH_, &c.&c.&c.
THESE TALES,
WHICH
IN ELDER TIMES HAVE CELEBRATED THE PROWESS,
AND
CHEERED THE HALLS,
OF
_HIS GALLANT ANCESTORS_,
ARE RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED
BY
HIS GRACE'S MUCH OBLIGED
AND
MOST HUMBLE SERVANT,
WALTER SCOTT.
CONTENTS
TO
THE FIRST VOLUME.
INTRODUCTION
PART FIRST.
_HISTORICAL BALLADS_.
Sir Patrick Spens,
Auld Maitland,
Battle of Otterbourne,
The Sang of the Outlaw Murray,
Johnie Armstrang,
The Lochmaben Harper,
Jamie Telfer of the Fair Dodhead,
The Raid of the Reidswire,
Kinmont Willie,
Dick o'the Cow,
Jock o'the Side,
Hobbie Noble,
Archie of Ca'field,
Armstrong's Goodnight,
The Fray of Suport,
Lord Maxwell's Goodnight,
The Lads of Wamphray,
INTRODUCTION.
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