Sir Walter Scott Ministrelsy of the Scottish Border, Vol. I
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,
