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.

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,
LONDON; AND A. CONSTABLE AND CO. EDINBURGH.

1821.

BODLEIAL

n 2NOV. 1982

KIBRARY

Printed by James Ballantyne and Co. Edinburgh.