82113 F5115

HISTORICAL AND ROMANTIC

BALLADS,

CHIEFLY ANCIENT;

WITH

EXPLANATORY NOTES AND A GLOSSARY.

TO WHICH ARE PREFIXED

SOME REMARKS ON THE EARLY STATE OF ROMANTIC COMPOSITION IN SCOTLAND :

BY

JOHN FINLAY, 781510

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

EDINBURGH:

Printed by James Ballantyne & Co.

FOR JOHN SMITH AND SON, GLASGOW; WILLIAM CREECH,
AND ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE AND CO. EDINBURGH; WIL-
LIAM MILLER, CADELL AND DAVIES, LONGMAN, Hurst,
REES, AND ORME, AND JOHN MURRAY, LONDON.

1808.