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Title: Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, Vol. II (of 3)
Consisting Of Historical And Romantic Ballads, Collected In The
Southern Counties Of Scotland; With A Few Of Modern Date, Founded
Upon Local Tradition

Author: Walter Scott

Release Date: July 11, 2004 [EBook #12882]

Language: English

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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.

IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

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.

THIRD EDITION.

1806.

CONTENTS
TO
THE SECOND VOLUME.

LESLEY'S MARCH
The Battle of Philiphaugh
The Gallant Grahams
The Battle of Pentland Hills
The Battle of Loudonhill
The Battle of Bothwell-bridge

PART SECOND.

_ROMANTIC BALLADS._

Scottish Music, an Ode
Introduction to the Tale of Tamlane
The Young Tamlane
Erlinton
The Twa Corbies
The Douglas Tragedy
Young Benjie
Lady Anne
Lord William
The Broomfield-Hill
Proud Lady Margaret
The Original Ballad of the Broom of Cowdenknows
Lord Randal
Sir Hugh Le Blond
Graeme and Bewick
The Duel of Wharton and Stuart, Part I.
Part II.
The Lament of the Border Widow
Fair Helen of Kirkonnel, Part I.
Part II.
Hughie the Graeme
Johnie of Breadislee
Katherine Janfarie
The Laird o' Logie
A Lyke-wake Dirge
The Dowie Dens of Yarrow
The Gay Goss Hawk
Brown Adam
Jellon Grame
Willie's Ladye
Clerk Saunders
Earl Richard
The Lass of Lochroyan
Rose the Red and White Lilly

MINSTRELSY
OF THE
SCOTTISH BORDER.

PART FIRST.--CONTINUED.

_HISTORICAL BALLADS._

LESLY'S MARCH.

"But, O my country! how shall memory trace
"Thy glories, lost in either Charles's days,
"When through thy field