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CONTENTS OF THE

FIRST VOLUME.

[The pieces marked thus * first appeared in Herd's Collection;
also many others of less note.]

William and Margaret. David Mallet.

Waly, waly. About 1670.

Willie's drown'd in Yarrow

* Bothwell

68

73

76

78

81

82

83

Hardyknute; or, The Battle of Largs. Lady Wardlaw

119

* "Earl Douglas, than quhan nevir knicht."

"I dream'd a dreary dream last night."

*"She has call'd to her her bower-maidens."

144

145

145

148

* "My sheep I neglected, &c." Sir Gilbert Elliot

Alloa-House. Rev. Alexander Webster of Edinburgh

"Oh! how could I venture to luve ane like thee."

174

175

176

Auld Lang Syne. Allan Ramsay

177

"When flowr'y meadows deck the year."

178

"When summer comes, the swains on Tweed." William

180

181

"Ye sylvan pow'rs that rule the plain."

Bush aboon Traquair. Robert Crawford

Birks of Invermay

185

188

188

190

191

Braes of Ballenden. By Mr. Blacklock

Braes of Yarrow. Partly by Ramsay

193

194

Bonny Boatman

194

Blink over the Burn, sweet Betty. Joseph Mitchell

196

Bessy Bell and Mary Gray. Partly by Ramsay

Bonny Lass of Branksome

199

201

"Adieu, ye streams that smoothly glide."

Gilderoy. Sir Chas. Sedley's play of the Mulberry Garden, 1675 219

"The lawland maids gang trig and fine." Allan Ramsay

224

I'll ne'er love thee more. James Graham, Marquis of Montrose 236

Last Time I came o'er the Muir. Allan Ramsay

249

"The morn was fair, saft was the air."

Lochaber no more. Allan Ramsay

256

"'Twas summer, and the day was fair.”

261

* Pinky House. Attributed to Joseph Mitchell

"As Sylvia in a forest lay." David Mallet

Peggy, I must leave thee

269

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