MINSTRELSY 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. * * * * * 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. * * * * * THIRD EDITION. EDINBURGH: =Printed by James Ballantyne and Co.= FOR LONGMAN, HURST, REES AND ORME, PATERNOSTER-ROW, LONDON; AND A. CONSTABLE AND CO. EDINBURGH. 1806. CONTENTS TO THE THIRD VOLUME. * * * * * PAGE. Fause Foodrage 4 Kempion 15 Lord Thomas and Fair Annie 36 The Wife of Usher's Well 45 Cospatrick 51 Prince Robert 58 King Henrie 63 Annan Water 72 The Cruel Sister 78 The Queen's Marie 86 The Bonny Hynd 98 O gin my Love were yon Red Rose 104 O tell me how to woo thee 106 The Souters of Selkirk 108 The Flowers of the Forest, Part I. 125 Part II. 130 The Laird of Muirhead 134 Ode on visiting Flodden 136 PART THIRD. _IMITATIONS OF THE ANCIENT BALLAD._ Christie's Will 147 Thomas the Rhymer, Part I. 166 Part II. 186 Part III. 213 The Eve of St John 229 Lord Soulis 245 The Cout of Keeldar 284 Glenfinlas, or Lord Ronald's Coronach 303 The Mermaid 323