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2T4 MINSTRELSY OF
nanced by the mentioning our Lady's Chapel. Perhaps
the hero may have been an Englishman, and the lady a
native of Scotland, which renders the catastrophe even
more probable. The style of the ballad is rather Scot-
tish than Northumbrian. They certainly did bury in
former days near the Nine-Stane Burn ; for the editor
remembers finding a small monumental cross, with ini-
tials, lying among the heather. It was so small, that,
with the assistance of another gentleman, he easily pla-
ced it upright.

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Volume 1
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Minstrelsy of the Scottish border
DescriptionConsisting 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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