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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Minstrelsy of the Scottish border (3rd ed) (1 of 3), by Walter Scott This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: Minstrelsy of the Scottish border (3rd ed) (1 of 3) Author: Walter Scott Release Date: June 25, 2004 [EBook #12742] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SCOTTISH MINSTRELSY *** Produced by Jonathan Ingram, Jonathan Ingram, Bill Hershey and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. 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. From the remote period; when the Roman province was contracted by the ramparts of Severus, until the union of the kingdoms, the borders of Scotland formed the stage, upon which were presented the most memorable conflicts of two gallant nations. The inhabitants, at the commencement of this aera, formed the first wave of the torrent which assaulted, and finally overwhelmed, the barriers of the Roman power in Britain. The subsequent events, in which they were engaged, tended l
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