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.

FIFTH EDITION.

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.

EDINBURGH:

PRINTED FOR LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, AND BROWN,

LONDON ; AND A. CONSTABLE AND CO. EDINBURGH.

1821.

CONTENTS

OF

VOLUME SECOND.

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PAGE.

LESLEY's March, . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

The Battle of Philiphaugh, . .. . . . . . . 15

The Gallant Grahams, .;.:. :.:.:. 33

The Battle of Pentland. İfills, . ..

The Battle of Loudonhill; : ; . ...... 58

The Battle of Bothwell-bridge, . . . . . . . . 78

PART SECOND.

ROMANTIC BALLADS.

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Scottish Music, an Ode, . . . . . . . . . . . 103

Introduction to the Tale of Tamlane, .;...

The Young Tamlane, . . . . . . . . . . . . 191

Erlinton, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208

The Twa Corbies, ..

The Douglas Tragedy, ..

Young Benjie, . .

226

Lady Anne, . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234

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