The poetical works of Sir Walter Scott, . g Henrie 274 Annan Water ..... 282 The Cruel Sister .... 287 The Queens Marie .... 294 The Bonny Hynd .... 307 0 gin my Love were yon Red Rose 313 0 tell me how to woo thee . 315 The Souters of Selkirk 317 The Flowers of the Forest. Part First 333 Pirt ^rpfiTifl 338 The Laird of Muirhead 341 Ode on Visiting Flodden . 343 MINSTRELSY OF TEE SCOTTISH BOOEE: J CONSISTING OF HISTORICAL AND ROMANTIC BALLADS, COLLECTED \S THE SOUTHERN COUNTIES OF SCOTLAND; VNiTIl A FEW OF MODERN DATE, FOUNDED WON LOCAL TRADITION. The songs, to savage virtue w
The poetical works of Sir Walter Scott, . g Henrie 274 Annan Water ..... 282 The Cruel Sister .... 287 The Queens Marie .... 294 The Bonny Hynd .... 307 0 gin my Love were yon Red Rose 313 0 tell me how to woo thee . 315 The Souters of Selkirk 317 The Flowers of the Forest. Part First 333 Pirt ^rpfiTifl 338 The Laird of Muirhead 341 Ode on Visiting Flodden . 343 MINSTRELSY OF TEE SCOTTISH BOOEE: J CONSISTING OF HISTORICAL AND ROMANTIC BALLADS, COLLECTED \S THE SOUTHERN COUNTIES OF SCOTLAND; VNiTIl A FEW OF MODERN DATE, FOUNDED WON LOCAL TRADITION. The songs, to savage virtue won of yore the public ear,Ere polity, sedate and sage,Had quenchd the fires of feudal rag. Waptok. vol. m. THE DOUGLAS TRAGEDY. VOCE. ttaxo FORTE. \ ?A O Rise EEE up, rise up, Lord i : a l§ -F- <2. -st- -&r TT -P- V -{J—-*^-g—#-#— —p—p=^=^ Douglas, she says, And put on your armour so *==fc -- ei^E^: ?=F =]: Vol. hi. The Douglas Tragedy. DOUGLAS TRAGEDY, CONTINUED. : 4= ^ l e 0 0 F bright, Li t it in- \ i. daughter of (l L to a L ?b— i *=T:t=P • r n l • - =t 3 The Douglas Ti i II THE DOUGLAS TRAGEDY. The ballad of The Douglas Tragedy is one of thefew, to which popular tradition has ascribed completelocality. The farm of Blackhouse, in Selkirkshire, is said tohave been the scene of this melancholy event. Thereare the remains of a very ancient tower, adjacent tothe farmhouse, in a wild and solitary glen, upon atorrent, named Douglas burn, which joins the Yarrow,after passing a craggy rock, called the Douglas wild scene, now a part of the Traquair estate,formed one of the most ancient possessions of therenowned family of Douglas ; for Sir John Douglas,eldest son of William, the first Lord Douglas, is saidto have sat, as baronial lord of Douglas burn, duringhis fathers lifetime, in a parliament of Malcolm Can-more, held at Forfar.—Godsckoft, vol. i. p. 20. The tower appears to have been square, with a cir-cular turret at one angle, for carrying
Size: 2779px × 899px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., booka, bookcentury1800, bookdecade1880, bookidpoeticalworks03scot
