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FAUSE FOODRAGE.
NEVER REFOUE PUBLISHED.
This ballad has been popular in many parts of Scot-
land. It is chiefly given from Mrs Brown of Falkland's
MSS. — The expression^
" The boy stared wild like a gray goss-hawk," Verte 3 ,
strongly resembles that in Hardykmtte,
" Norse e'en like gray goss-hawk stared wild ;"
a circumstance which led the editor to make the strict-
est enquiry into the authenticity of the song. But every
doubt was removed by the evidence of a lady of high
rank, who not only recollected the ballad, as having
amused her infancy, but could repeat many of the verses;
particularly those beautiful stanzas from the 20th to the
25th. The editor is therefore compelled to believe, that
the author of Hardijknutc copied the old ballad ; if -the
coincidence be not altogether accidental.
NEVER REFOUE PUBLISHED.
This ballad has been popular in many parts of Scot-
land. It is chiefly given from Mrs Brown of Falkland's
MSS. — The expression^
" The boy stared wild like a gray goss-hawk," Verte 3 ,
strongly resembles that in Hardykmtte,
" Norse e'en like gray goss-hawk stared wild ;"
a circumstance which led the editor to make the strict-
est enquiry into the authenticity of the song. But every
doubt was removed by the evidence of a lady of high
rank, who not only recollected the ballad, as having
amused her infancy, but could repeat many of the verses;
particularly those beautiful stanzas from the 20th to the
25th. The editor is therefore compelled to believe, that
the author of Hardijknutc copied the old ballad ; if -the
coincidence be not altogether accidental.
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| Early Gaelic Book Collections > J. F. Campbell Collection > Minstrelsy of the Scottish border > Volume 3 > (15) |
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| Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/80620564 |
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| Description | Vol III. |
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| Shelfmark | Cam.2.d.19 |
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| Description | Consisting of historical and romantic ballads, collected in the southern counties of Scotland; with a few of modern date, founded upon local tradition. |
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| Shelfmark | Cam.2.d.17-19 |
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| Description | Volumes from a collection of 610 books rich in Highland folklore, Ossianic literature and other Celtic subjects. Many of the books annotated by John Francis Campbell of Islay, who assembled the collection. |
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| Description | Selected items from five 'Special and Named Printed Collections'. Includes books in Gaelic and other Celtic languages, works about the Gaels, their languages, literature, culture and history. |
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