Percy (Thomas) [Part of Vol 2 of His 21) هند made by by bening as the propination for the Aik ed. J to 1774 Perry 55 117 185 The baron he ftroakt his dark-brown cheeke, And turnde his heade afyde To whipe awaye the starting teare, He proudly ftrave to hyde. In deepe revolving thought he stoode, And mufde a little space: Then raifde faire Emmeline from the grounde, With many a fond embrace. And as thou love her, and hold her deare, Heaven profper thee and thine: And nowe my bleffing wend wi' thee, My lovelye Emmeline. 195 200 XII, I 3 53 XII. EDOM O' GORDON, A SCOTTISH BALLAD, -was printed at Glasgow, by Robert and Andrew Foulis, MDCCLV. 8vo. 12 pages. We are indebted for its publication (with many other valuable things in these volumes) to Sir David Dalrymple, Bart. who gave it as it was preferved in the memory of a lady, that is now dead. The reader will here find it improved, and enlarged with Several fine ftanzas, recovered from a fragment of the fame ballad, in the Editor's folio MS. It is remarkable that the latter is intitled CAPTAIN ADAM CARRE, and is in the English idiom. But whither the author was English or Scotch, the difference originally was not great. The English Ballads are generally of the North of England, the Scottish are of the South of Scotland, and of confequence the country of Ballad-fingers was fometimes fubject to one crown, and Sometimes to the other, and most frequently to neither. Moft of the finest old Scotch Jongs have the fcene laid within 20 miles of England; which is indeed all poetic ground, green bills, remains of woods, clear brooks. The paftoral Scenes remain: Of the rude chivalry of former ages happily nothing remains but the ruins of the caftles, where the more daring and fuccefsful robbers refided. The Houfe, or Caftle of the RODES, flood about a measured mile fouth from Duns in Berwickshire: fome of the ruins of it may be seen to this day. The GORDONS were anciently feated in the Jame county: the two villages of East and West Gordon lie about |