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. III.
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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.
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THIRD EDITION.
EDINBURGH:
=Printed by James Ballantyne and Co.=
FOR LONGMAN, HURST, REES AND ORME, PATERNOSTER-ROW,
LONDON; AND A. CONSTABLE AND CO. EDINBURGH.
1806.
CONTENTS
TO
THE THIRD VOLUME.
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PAGE.
Fause Foodrage 4
Kempion 15
Lord Thomas and Fair Annie 36
The Wife of Usher's Well 45
Cospatrick 51
Prince Robert 58
King Henrie 63
Annan Water 72
The Cruel Sister 78
The Queen's Marie 86
The Bonny Hynd 98
O gin my Love were yon Red Rose 104
O tell me how to woo thee 106
The Souters of Selkirk 108
The Flowers of the Forest, Part I. 125
Part II. 130
The Laird of Muirhead 134
Ode on visiting Flodden 136
PART THIRD.
_IMITATIONS OF THE ANCIENT BALLAD._
Christie's Will 147
Thomas the Rhymer, Part I. 166