CONSISTING OFHISTORICAL AND ROMANTIC BALLADS,COLLECTEDIN THE SOUTHERN COUNTIES OF SCOTLAND; WITH A FEWOF MODERN DATE, FOUNDED UPONLOCAL TRADITION.
IN THREE VOLUMES.
VOL. I
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.
1806.
TOHIS GRACE, HENRY,DUKE OF BUCCLEUCH, &c.&c.&c. THESE TALES, WHICH IN ELDER TIMES HAVE CELEBRATED THE PROWESS,AND CHEERED THE HALLS, OF HIS GALLANT ANCESTORS,ARE RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED