Ministrelsy

About this eBook

Author

Scott, Walter, 1771-1832

Title

Minstrelsy of the Scottish border, Volume 1

Credits

Produced by Jonathan Ingram, Jonathan Ingram, Bill Hershey and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team.

Language

English

LoC Class

PR: Language and Literatures: English literature

Subject

Scottish Borders (Scotland) -- Poetry

Category

Text

eBook-No.

12742

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/12742

Release Date

June 25, 2004

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.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.
2. 2.CONTENTS TO THE FIRST VOLUME.
3. 3.INTRODUCTION.
4. 4.APPENDIX. No. I.
5. 5.APPENDIX, No. II. — HISTORY OF GEORDIE BOURNE.
6. 6.APPENDIX, No. III. — MAITLAND'S COMPLAYNT AGANIS THE THIEVIS OF LIDDISDAIL, FROM PINKERTON'S EDITION, COLLATED WITH A MS. OF MAITLAND'S POEMS, IN THE LIBRARY OF EDINBURGH COLLEGE.
7. 7.APPENDIX, No. IV. — BOND OF ALLIANCE, OR FEUD STAUNCHING, BETWIXT THE CLANS OF SCOTT AND KER.
8. 8.APPENDIX, No. V. — ANE INTERLUDE OF THE LAYING OF A GAIST.
9. 9.APPENDIX, No. VI. — SUPPLEMENTAL STANZAS TO COLLINS'S ODE ON THE SUPERSTITIONS OF THE HIGHLANDS. — BY — WILLIAM ERSKINE, ESQ. ADVOCATE. — MINSTRELSY OF THE SCOTTISH BORDER.
10. 10.PART FIRST.
11. 11.HISTORICAL BALLADS .
12. 12.SIR PATRICK SPENS. — SIR PATRICK SPENS. — NOTES ON SIR PATRICK SPENS.
13. 13.AULD MAITLAND. — NEVER BEFORE PUBLISHED. — AULD MAITLAND. — NOTES ON AULD MAITLAND.
14. 14.BATTLE OF OTTERBOURNE. — THE SCOTTISH EDITION. — BATTLE OF OTTERBOURNE. — NOTES ON THE BATTLE OF OTTERBOURNE.
15. 15.THE SANG OF THE OUTLAW MURRAY. — THE SANG OF THE OUTLAW MURRAY. — NOTES ON THE SANG OF THE OUTLAW MURRAY.
16. 16.JOHNIE ARMSTRANG. — JOHNIE ARMSTRANG — SUPPLEMENT TO THE BALLAD OF JOHNIE ARMSTRANG. — BOND OF MANRENT.
17. 17.THE LOCHMABEN HARPER. — NOW FIRST PUBLISHED. — NOTES ON THE LOCHMABEN HARPER. — JAMIE TELFER OF THE FAIR DODHEAD. — NOTES ON JAMIE TELFER OF THE FAIR DODHEAD.
18. 18.THE RAID OF THE REIDSWIRE. — THE RAID OF THE REIDSWIRE. — NOTES ON THE RAID OF THE REIDSWIRE.
19. 19.KINMONT WILLIE — KINMONT WILLIE. — NOTES ON KINMONT WILLIE.
20. 20.DICK O' THE COW. — DICK O' THE COW. — NOTES ON DICK O' THE COW.
21. 21.JOCK O' THE SIDE. — JOCK O' THE SIDE.
22. 22.HOBBIE NOBLE. — HOBBIE NOBLE. — NOTES ON HOBBIE NOBLE.
23. 23.ARCHIE OF CA'FIELD. — ARCHIE OF CA'FIELD.
24. 24.ARMSTRONG'S GOODNIGHT.
25. 25.THE FRAY OF SUPORT. — AN ANCIENT BORDER GATHERING SONG FROM TRADITION. — THE FRAY OF SUPORT. — NOTES ON THE FRAY OF SUPORT.
26. 26.LORD MAXWELL'S GOODNIGHT. — NEVER BEFORE PUBLISHED. — LORD MAXWELL'S GOODNIGHT. — NOTES ON LORD MAXWELL'S GOODNIGHT. — BOND OF MANRENT.
27. 27.THE LADS OF WAMPHRAY. — THE LADS OF WAMPHRAY.
28. 28.THE END OF THE FIRST VOLUME. — FOOTNOTES.

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