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FROM GUY MANNERING.

*Norman, the Forester's Song,

The Prophecy,

Mottoes, 1-6,

FROM THE LEGEND OF MONTROSE.

Ancient Gaelic Melody,

The Orphan Maid,

Mottoes, 1, 2, 3,

FROM IVANHOE.

The Crusader's Return,

*The Barefooted Friar,

672

ib.

ib.

676

ib.

Norah's Vow,

Macgregor's Gathering,

Verses composed for the occasion, and

sung by a select band, after the Din-

ner given by the Lord Provost of

Edinburgh to the Grand Duke

Nicholas of Russia and his Suite,

19th December 1816,

FROM THE ANTIQUARY.

*Time,

Epitaph on Jon o' ye Girnell,

. Elspeth's Ballad,

656

Saxon War-Song,

Rebecca's Hymn,

The Black Knight's Song,

Song-The Black Knight and Wamba, 677

*Funeral Hymn,

Mottoes, 1-9,

ib.

* Mottoes in the Antiquary, 1-20, 658

Songs of the White Lady of Avenel-

On Tweed River,

*

To the Sub-Prior,

Halbert's Second Interview,

To Mary Avenel,

To Edward Glendinning,

The White Lady's Farewell,

Border Ballad,

Mottoes, 1-20,

ib.

678

FROM THE ABBOT.

The Pardoner's Advertisement,

The Search after Happiness; or, The

Mottoes, 1-17,

684

ib.

FROM KENILWORTH.

Letter to his Grace the Duke of Buc-

* Mottoes, 1-13,

685

ib.

FROM THE PIRATE.

To the Memory of Edward the Black

Prince,

The Song of the Tempest,

667

Claud Halcro's Song,

687

ib.

Harold Harfager's Song,

Song of the Mermaids and Mermen,

688

ib.

Mackriminon's Lament,

Donald Caird's Come again,

FROM THE HEART OF MID-LOTHIAN.

Madge Wildfire's Songs,

Mottoes, 1-7,

FROM THE BRIDE OF LAMMERMOOR.

ib.

Cleveland's Songs,

690

ib.

670

ib.

Lucy Ashton's Song,

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THE

POETICAL WORKS

OF

SIR WALTER SCOTT, BART.

The Lay of the Last Minstrel:

A POEM, IN SIX CANTOS.

Dum relego, scripsisse pudet; quia plurima cerno,
Me quoque, qui feci, judice, digna lini.

ADVERTISEMENT TO EDITION 1833.

THE INTRODUCTION to THE LAY OF THE LAST MIN-

STREL, written in April 1830, was revised by the

Author in the autumn of 1831, when he also made

some corrections in the text of the Poem, and several

additions to the notes. The work is now printed from

his interleaved copy.

was once so popular, may still attract public attention

and curiosity, it seems to me not without its use to

record the manner and circumstances under which

the present, and other Poems on the same plan, at-

tained for a season an extensive reputation.

the period at which I broke off in the Essay on the

I must resume the story of my literary labours at

Imitation of Popular Poetry, [see post,] when I had

It is much to be regretted that the original MS. of enjoyed the first gleam of public favour, by the suc-

this Poem has not been preserved. We are thus

denied the advantage of comparing throughout the tish Border. The second edition of that work, pub-

cess of the first edition of the Minstrelsy of the Scot-

Author's various readings, which, in the case of Mar-lished in 1803, proved, in the language of the trade,

mion, the Lady of the Lake, the Lord of the Isles, &c.

are often highly curious and instructive.-ED.

INTRODUCTION TO EDITION 1830.

A POEM of nearly thirty years' standing' may be sup-

posed hardly to need an Introduction, since, without

one, it has been able to keep itself afloat through

the best part of a generation. Nevertheless, as, in

the edition of the Waverley Novels now in course of

publication, [1830,] I have imposed on myself the

task of saying something concerning the purpose and

history of each, in their turn, I am desirous that the

Poems for which I first received some marks of the

public favour, should also be accompanied with such

scraps of their literary history as may be supposed to

carry interest along with them. Even if I should be

mistaken in thinking that the secret history of what

1 Published in 4to, (£1, 5s.) January 1805.

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rather a heavy concern. The demand in Scotland

had been supplied by the first edition, and the curio-

sity of the English was not much awakened by poems

in the rude garb of antiquity, accompanied with notes

referring to the obscure feuds of barbarous clans, of

whose very names civilized history was ignorant. It

was, on the whole, one of those books which are more

praised than they are read.

At this time I stood personally in a different posi-

tion from that which I occupied when I first dipt my

desperate pen in ink for other purposes than those of

my profession. In 1796, when I first published the

translations from Bürger, I was an insulated indivi-

dual, with only my own wants to provide for, and

having, in a great measure, my own inclinations alone

to consult. In 1803, when the second edition of the

Minstrelsy appeared, I had arrived at a period of life

2 "The Lay' is the best of all possible comments on the

Border Minstrelsy."-British Critic, August 1005.

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