OF THE SCOTTISH BORDER: CONSISTING OF HISTORICAL AND ROMANTIC BALLADS, COLLECTED IN THE SOUTHERN COUNTIES OF SCOTLAND; WITH A FEW LOCAL TRADITION. IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL. III. FIFTH EDITION. 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. EDINBURGH : PRINTED FOR LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, AND BROWN, 1821. |