MINISTRELSY 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. I

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.

1806.

TO HIS GRACE,
HENRY, DUKE OF BUCCLEUCH, &c.&c.&c.
THESE TALES, WHICH IN ELDER TIMES HAVE CELEBRATED THE PROWESS, AND CHEERED THE HALLS, OF HIS GALLANT ANCESTORS, ARE RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED

BY

HIS GRACE'S MUCH OBLIGED AND MOST HUMBLE SERVANT,

WALTER SCOTT.

CONTENTS TO
THE FIRST VOLUME.

INTRODUCTION.
Appendix, No. I.
Appendix, No. II.
Appendix, No. III.
Appendix, No. IV.
Appendix, No. V.
Appendix, No. VI.

MINSTRELSY OF THE SCOTTISH BORDER PART FIRST.

SIR PATRICK SPENS.
AULD MAITLAND.
POEM.
NOTES ON AULD MAITLAND.
BATTLE OF OTTERBOURNE.
POEM.
NOTES ON THE BATTLE OF OTTERBOURNE.
THE SANG OF THE OUTLAW MURRAY.
POEM.
NOTES ON THE SANG OF THE OUTLAW MURRAY.
JOHNIE ARMSTRANG.
POEM.
SUPPLEMENT TO THE BALLAD OF JOHNIE ARMSTRANG.
THE LOCHMABEN HARPER.
NOTES ON THE LOCHMABEN HARPER.
JAMIE TELFER OF THE FAIR DODHEAD.
NOTES ON JAMIE TELFER OF THE FAIR DODHEAD.
THE RAID OF THE REIDSWIRE.
POEM.
NOTES RAID OF THE REIDSWIRE.
KINMONT WILLIE.
POEM.
NOTES ON KINMONT WILLIE.
DICK O' THE COW.
POEM.
NOTES ON DICK O' THE COW.