CORD.

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.

FIFTH EDITION.

EDINBURGH:

Printed by James Ballantyne and Co.

FOR LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, AND BROWN, PATERNOSTER-
ROW, LONDON; AND A. CONSTABLE AND CO. EDINBURGH.

1812.

The Original Ballad of the Broom of Cowdenknows, 255