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iHE SCOTTISH BOKDi:!?. 21'
THOMAS THE RHYJNIER.
PART THIRD.— MODERN.
BY THE EDITOiJ.
Thomas the Rhymer was renowned among his con-
temporaries, as the author of the celebrated romance of
Sir Tristrem. Of this once-admired poem only one copy
is now known to exist, which is in the Advocates' Li-
brary. The editor, in 180t, published a small edition
of this curious >vork ; which, if it does not revive the
reputation of the bard of Ercildoune, is at least the
earliest specimen of Scottish poetry hitherto publish-
ed. Some account of this romance has already been
given to the world in Mr Ellis's Specimens of Ancient
Poelry, vols. I. p. \65, 3d. p. 410 ; a work to which our
))redeces.sors and our posterity are ahke obliged; the
former, for the preservation of the best selected ex-
amples of their poetical taste ; and the latter, for a his-

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Volume 3
DescriptionVol III.
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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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