The Troubadour

From the French

Song for the Anniversary Meeting of the Pitt Club

of Scotland

Song, on the Lifting of the Banner of the House of

Buccleuch, at a great Foot-Ball Match on

Carterhaugh

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PREFACE

TO THE

BRIDAL OF TRIERMAIN.

VOL. XI.

A

PREFACE

TO THE FIRST EDITION.

[1813.]

IN the EDINBURGH ANNUAL REGISTER for the year 1809, Three Fragments were inserted, written in imitation of Living Poets. It must have been apparent, that, by these prolusions, nothing burlesque, or disrespectful, to the authors, was intended, but that they were offered to the public as serious, though certainly very imperfect, imitations of that style of composition, by which each of the writers is supposed to be distinguished. As these exercises attracted a greater degree of attention than the author anticipated, he has been induced to complete one of