CONSISTING OFHISTORICAL AND ROMANTIC BALLADS,COLLECTEDIN THE SOUTHERN COUNTIES OF SCOTLAND; WITH A FEWOF MODERN DATE, FOUNDED UPONLOCAL 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.
THIRD EDITION.
1806.
CONTENTSTOTHE SECOND VOLUME.
LESLEY'S MARCH
The Battle of Philiphaugh
The Gallant Grahams
The Battle of Pentland Hills
The Battle of Loudon-hill
The Battle of Bothwell-bridge
PART SECOND.
Scottish Music, an Ode
Introduction to the Tale of Tamlane
The Young Tamlane
Erlinton
The Twa Corbies
The Douglas Tragedy
Young Benjie
Lady Anne
Lord William
The Broomfield-Hill
Proud Lady Margaret
The Original Ballad of the Broom of Cowdenknows
Lord Randal
Sir Hugh Le Blond
Graeme and Bewick
The Duel of Wharton and Stuart, Part I.
Part II.
The Lament of the Border Widow
Fair Helen of Kirkonnel, Part I.
Part II.
Hughie the Graeme
Johnie of Breadislee
Katherine Janfarie
The Laird o' Logie
A Lyke-wake Dirge
The Dowie Dens of Yarrow
The Gay Goss Hawk
Brown Adam
Jellon Grame
Willie's Ladye
Clerk Saunders
Earl Richard
The Lass of Lochroyan
Rose the Red and White Lilly
MINSTRELSYOF THESCOTTISH BORDER.
PART FIRST.—CONTINUED.
HISTORICAL BALLADS.
"But, O my country! how shall memory trace
"Thy glories, lost in either Charles's days,
"When through thy fields destructive rapine spread,
"Nor sparing infants' tears, nor hoary head!
"In those dread days, the unprotected swain
"Mourn'd, in the mountains, o'er his wasted plain;
"Nor longer vocal, with the shepherd's lay,
"Were Yarrow's banks, or groves of Endermay."
LANGHORN—Genius and Valour.
Such are the verses, in which a modern bard has painted the desolatestate of Scotland, during a period highly unfavourable to poeticalcomposition. Yet the civil and religious wars of the seventeenth centuryhave afforded some subjects for traditionary poetry, and the reader ishere presented with the ballads of that disastrous aera. Some prefatoryhistory may not be unacceptable.
That the Reformation was a good and a glorious work, few will be suchslavish bigots as to deny. But the enemy came, by night, and sowed taresamong the wheat; or rather; the foul and rank soil, upon which the seedwas thrown, pushed forth, together with the rising crop, a plentifulproportion of pestilential wee