The book of British ballads . s ballad we copy fromthe Reliques of Ancient English Poetry. Dr.Percy states that he found it in his folio MS.;and that he had inserted supplemental stanzas,necessary in consequence of the breaches anddefects which existed in his fragment. These, he adds, it is hoped the reader will pardon, as, indeed, the com-pletion of the story was suggested by a modern ballad ona similar subject. It is much to be lamented that themodern ballad has not been more distinctly pointedout: it does not appear in any collection; nor are we acquainted with thecopy to which reference is

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The book of British ballads . s ballad we copy fromthe Reliques of Ancient English Poetry. Dr.Percy states that he found it in his folio MS.;and that he had inserted supplemental stanzas, necessary in consequence of the breaches anddefects which existed in his fragment. These, he adds, it is hoped the reader will pardon, as, indeed, the com-pletion of the story was suggested by a modern ballad ona similar subject. It is much to be lamented that themodern ballad has not been more distinctly pointedout: it does not appear in any collection; nor are we acquainted with thecopy to which reference is made.* Dr. Percy considers that, from the Scot-tish phrases here and there, it would seem to have been originally composedbeyond the Tweed; and, he observes, the Heir of Linne seems not to havebeen a Lord of Parliament, but a laird, whose title went along with the estate.Of the Scottish origin of the ballad, there can be little doubt. Mr. R. Cham-indeed, prints three stanzas of a homely version, still current in Scotland:—.