THE

POETICAL WORKS

OF

SIR WALTER SCOTT, BART.

VOL. IV.

BORDER MINSTRELSY-IV.

EDINBURGH:

ADAM AND CHARLES BLACK.

1861.

CONTENTS

MINSTRELSY OF THE SCOTTISH BORDER.

PART III.-IMITATIONS OF THE ANCIENT BALLAD.

Thomas the Rhymer. In three Parts. Part. I.

110

On a Visit paid to the Ruins of Melrose Abbey, by the

Countess of Dalkeith, and her Son, Lord Scott

379

Archie Armstrong's Aith

381

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.

VOL. IV.

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.