GLENLOGIE

+The Text+ is from Sharpe's _Ballad Book_ (1823). It is an extremely

popular ballad in Scotland.

+The Story.+--Lady Jean Melville (in other versions Jean of Bethelnie,

in Aberdeenshire), scarce sixteen years old, falls in love at first

sight with Glenlogie, and tells him her mind. But he is already engaged,

and Lady Jean takes to her care-bed. Her father offers the consolation,

usual in such cases, of another and a richer husband. Jean, however,

prefers the love of Glenlogie to the euphony of Drumfendrich, and gets

her father's chaplain to write a letter to Glenlogie, which is so well

indited that it moves him to tears, and all ends happily.

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