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The Ballads And Songs of Scotland: in View of Their Influence On the ...
John Clark Murray
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The desperate xpedients which the government at Edinburgh iopted in dealing with the Border chiefs, the desperate stratagems by which the contem- English government attempted to secure the ry chiefs of Ireland, the international diplomacy )pe, at the time, exhibit the practical standard fulness in circles which claimed to represent the civilization of their age ; and it would certainly *en surprising if we had found a virtue, which Lctically discarded in such circles, shining with >hed splendou...r in the semi-savage society of the I Border.
:he genial writer of the Edinburgh Essay has :ed quite deep enough. In the ballad of Kin- Villie, as we have seen, Dickie of Dryhope is r one of his party who does not try to deceive e; and the reason why he did not follow the e of his comrades was the very satisfactory one iie had nevir a word o' lear," — he had not t learning to concoct a lie ! In the English Digitized by V^OOQlC HISTORICAL BALLADS AND SONGS, 151 Border ballad, Northumberland betrayed by Douglas} an atrocious breach of faith is imputed to Hector of Harlaw.


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