OF THE SCO T T I SH BO R D E R CONS I ST I NG OF HI D STOR I CAL AN ROMANT I C BALLADS, C O L L EC T ED I N THE SOUT H E R N COU NT I ES or SCOT LAN D ; W I TH A F E W OF M ODE R N DAT E FO N DE D PON , U U LOCA L T R A DI T I ON . IN THREE V L MES O U . V I I . OL . IT F I FT H E D I T I ON . ' lo v virtue dea r Tlu wnga, m agc , n or the ublic car Tha t wo q c p , date and ” t Ere P olity, x g , ’ — ' Had quench d thcjm qffcudd mga Wu u os . EDI NBUR GH ' 1m m m A rn mrn n FOB LONGMAN, m msr, m , 0 , ND nnown , ONSTABLE AN D c o . E DI N B H . LONDON ; AND A . C U RG 1821 . E LY’ M L S S ARCH . Bng O myeounu-y! how dn ll ma norymee ’ Th lories lost in either Charlesc yg . days. When throu h th field. destructive n ine s g y p pread, ’ N i tt w spafing nfan teau , nor hoeryha d ! I ea e n those dr d days, th unprotected t wain ’ ' Mm d in the mountains o er his v , , ested plain ’ Nor lm er vo al with the she herd g c . p slay, ’ ” Were m sbanks or roves of Bu , g den n y. — Ln l en ou Genin and Velour. Soon are the vereee in w rd hu aint , hich a modern ha p cd the desolate state of co lahd durin a eriod hi h S t , g p g l u nfavourable to o i Yet the civil y p et cal composition . ' an d religious wars of the seventeen th century have af forded some sub ects for tradi ion r oetr an d the j t a y p y, reader ie here presented with the ballads of that disu trous r unac e s. Some prefatory history may n ot be ce t ubl p e. That the Refor i loriouswork mat on wasa good and a g , few will be su h he ene c slavish bigoteasto deny. But t 4 “IN STRE LSY 0 ? m came b ni t and s h res m o the wheat y , y gh g owed ng or rather the fo l and k soi u on which the aeed , n m l, p wasthmwn n with the t isin cro , p M M W g p, a plentiful pro] usuallyrespecu fmfimnd g and their elo eonld fir et that their g , ' rise had heen a ii not the fall, of the Crm in Scotlan d for n earl two centuries sometimes the , y ; avowed en emies alwa s the ambitious rivals of their , y , rin p ce. The disciples of Calvin cou ld scarcely avoid a tendenc to democrac and the re ublican form of y y, p ch urch overnment was sometimes hinted at as no u n g , l tit model for the sta te at east, the kirkmen labou red to impress u pon their followers an d hearers th e fun damental rinci le that the church hould be sole] o p p , s yg verned those un to whom God had iven the s i by , g p ritual sce tre. T eld r Melvine in a conferen ce with p he e , James VL seized the mon h the sleeve an d ad , arc by , , ’ dressin him as s cillie v al told him There g God au , , are two kin s and two kin dom“. There is Christ g , g , and his kin dome the kirke whose sub ect Kin g , ; j g James S an d f w kin dome he is n ot the . ixth is o hose , g a kin nor a head 1 1 1 u t a ma n b r an d g, , nor a 01 , b e they whom Christ hath called and comma nded t o ' ' TH E sc o rri sn BORDER . 5 watch ower his kirke and overn his s iritual in , g p k g dome have su fi cient an thoritie an d ow fi'om h , p er im so to do which n o Chris ian k no rinee s l ; t ing, p , hou d contronl or dischar e but fortifie n ssi o g , a d a st ; ther ” wise h not ul s b — t ey are faithf u jects to Christ. Can n . h ele at h r us t m: woon , p. 329 T e d g ed t eoc acy, th sem ' l claimed was exercised with ual i our. he at y , eq rg T ’ fences in the king s household fell un der their uncare monious u isdi ion an he as formall reminded if j r ct , d w y hisoccasional neglect to saygrace before an d afi er meat - his repairing to hear the word more rarely than was — rofa n in and swe in kee fittin g his p ne ban g at g, and p ’ in of evil com an —an d finall of his uem s card g p y , y, q in dan cin ni ht- walkin and such - lihe rof ne as g, g, g g, p a p . 3 1 . A cu di e or i li times p 3 rse, r ct mp c d was formall denounced a ainst ever man horse , y g y , , s wh s d assis th and . ear o houl t e kin in his uarrel p , g q with the Earl of Gowrie ; md fi om the pnlpig the fa vourites of the listening sovereign were likened to Ha n his wife to Herodias and he himself ma , , to Ahab, to m h ’ B en d, and to Jeroboa . T ese eflnsion s of zeal could n ot be very agreeable to the temper of James: an d ac eordin l b a course of slow and often crooked and g y, y , c n nin olic he laboured to arran e the ch urch - o u g p y, g g rn men t u on a less rbulen t an d men acin f ve p tu g ooting. His eyes were n aturally turned towards the English hierarch which had been modelled b the y, , y despotic Henr V in to such a form as to con indisso y III , nect lubly the interest of the c hurch with that of the regal ' rm: sc o rmsn 3 0 3 m m. 7 were plain and decent ; the system of tythes and erha s on the whole the i h h con , p p , , Scott s ierarchy tained as few objectionable points as any system of church - overnment in d i u isted to the g Em pe. Ha t s bs resent da althou h ts doctrinescould not have been p y, g j more ure nor its morals more exem lar than those p , p y, of h s of ro t e p u ent Kirk of Seotlan d. yet its degree p ' ‘ motion might have atlorded greater m ana gement to learn in and ob ectsoflaudable ambition to those who g, j , ' h ms l i s er i ut the re lmght fiedicate t e e ves to t s v ce. B p e isco in Scotland from which it never erfec to p pacy , p t I t hasfi 'e nentl ha ene that the virtuesofthe ih q y pp d, dividual at least heir ex s if i be , t oes , ( . ndeed, there ean an exceas in ir have been l the rin e No v tueJ fi ta to p c . vcr was this more fnlly u emPIified than in the history while the do nr e f l shelves y hono to the man , were th ata u on whi Im atien t to p ch the monarchy was wrecked. p ’ accom lish the total revolution which hisfather s eau p , ions timidit had left incarn lete Charles en deavour t y p , ° c d at on ce to in troduc e into Scotlan d the church- go mn ent an renew in En land the tem oral do ver , d to , g , p T HE SCOTT 1811 BOW ER . ‘ ‘ Borders. At the hsu l ot their deih sive torees they Ale n er Lesl who wi man of his best placed xa d y, , th y r ha been n-ained to wsr r the reat s office s, d amie g v l The so bled arm of ta us Ado phus. y on assem an y men whose cam u on Dnnse- Law is thnsde 1640. , p, p , ibed b an e e- wi ess. r Baillie acknowled es scr y y tn M g , tha i was an a reeable feast to his e es to surve t t g y , y the lace it is a roun d hill about a Scots milc in p ; , c ircle ri in wi ver little declivit to the hei ht , s g, th y y, g of a - h ewha lain and near bow shot, and the ead som t p , a qnarter of a mile in length and breadth ; on the top d n ear fort field- ieces ointed it was garnishe with y p , p towards the east an d south .