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.

VOL. III.

A