Minstrelsy of the Scottish Borders

The following is from Volumes I and II of the Minstrelsy of the Scottish Borders by Sir Walter Scott:

Consisting of Historical and Romantic Ballads, Collected in the Southern Counties of Scotland; With a Few of Modern Date, Founded Upon Local Tradition

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.

• Introduction
• Part First--Historical Ballads
• Part Second--Romantic Ballads
• Alphabetic Index
• Appendix I
• Appendix II
• Appendix III
• Appendix IV
• Appendix V
• Appendix VI

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