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SIR WALTER SCOTT'S

MINSTRELSY

OF

THE SCOTTISH BORDER

EDITED BY

T. F. HENDERSON

VOLUME II

10577

WILLIAM BLACKWOOD AND SONS

EDINBURGH AND LONDON

CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS

NEW YORK

1902

25265.2.6

B

HARVARD UNIVERSITY

LIBRARY

MINSTRELSY

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

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.

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