The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border

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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