This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1868. Excerpt: ... persons who could repeat a "part;" or why, to exclude all doubt, did he not take down and send such fragments to his patron as he could collect? Having the means of ending all future controversy, what excuse had he for not having done so? That Scott, with all his vast knowledge of ballad literature, was sometimes deceived, is undoubted; and that admirable imitation of a border song entitled the "Death of Featherstonhaugh," which his "friend and correspondent, Robert F. Surtees, Esq. of Mainsforth," the historian of Durham, had communicated to him "as taken down from the recitation of a woman eighty years of age, mother of one of the miners in Alston-Moor, by the agent of the lead mines there," is a positive proof on the point. If so worthy and estimable a person as Surtees could deceive his friend without considering it any great moral offence, we can hardly find fault with the Ettrick shepherd for doing the same thing. That there did exist at an early period in Scotland some legendary lore or poem relative to Sir Richard Maitland, a remote ancestor of the Earls of Lauderdale, may be conceded. Better proof can hardly be given as to the "grey bearded Maitland " than what is afforded by Bishop Gawen Douglas in his " Palice of Honour," written about the year 1504, just twelve years before his translation of Virgil's./Eneis into " Scotish metre " was completed. He is placed among the popular heroes of romance in the following stanza: f--I saw Raf Coilzear with his thrawin brow, Craibit Johne the Reiff, and auld Cowkewyis sow, And how the Wran come out of Ailssay, And Feirs plewman that maid his workmen fow, Greit Gowmakmorne and ffyn Makcoull, and how. Scott's Poetical Works, vol. ii., last edition, 12mo, p. 86. t Palice of Honour, Bannatyne Club edition, p....
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