MINSTRELSY OF THE SCOTTISH BORDER: CONSISTING OF HISTORICAL AND ROMANTIC BALLADS, COLLECTED IN THE SOUTHERN COUNTIES OF SCOTLAND; WITH A FEW 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. FIFTH EDITION. EDINBURGH: Printed by James Ballantyne and Co. FOR LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, AND BROWN, PATERNOSTER- 1812. |