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Sir James the rose, an old Scottish tragic song
A tragic love song about the romance between a highland chieftain, Sir James the Rose, and the fair Matilda, the daughter of the Lord Buchan. When Matilda’s father discovers her love for Sir James, he does not approve of the match and instead bids…
The Wife of Beith: With a Description of Her Journey to Heaven
Inspired by Chaucer’s Wife of Bath, this tale describes the Wife’s journey after death. As the Wife travels first to hell and then to heaven, she is rejected by the Devil – who does not wish to be harried by her scornful tongue – and then a long…
The Wife of Beith; With a description of her Journey to Heaven.
"The Wife of Bath's Tale (Middle English: the Tale of the Wyf of Bathe) is among the best-known of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. " Wikipedia
The life of Mansie Wauch, tailor in Dalkeith
Written in the first person, this chapbook briefly tells the story of Mansie Waunch’s life in Dalkeith. Brief vignettes offer amusing anecdotes from Mansie’s life, including his first festival, his first love, meeting and marrying his wife, attending…
Rob Roy, the Celebrated Highland Freebooter; or, Memoirs of the Osbaldistone Family.
This is a condensed version of Sir Walter Scott's historical novel (part of the Waverly novel series) Rob Roy, which was originally published in 1817. It appears to have been set in 1715, the year of the first Jacobite Rising.
A Wedding-Ring, fit for the finger: Laid open in a sermon, Preached at a Wedding in St. Edmond's. By William Secker, Late preacher of the gospel.
A sermon on Genesis ii. 18: And the Lord God said, it is not good that the man should be alone: I will make him a help-meet for him. The preacher breaks up the passage into smaller phrases and deals with them individually, extolling the many virtues…
