POETICAL WORKS

OF

WALTER SCOTT, Esq.

IN TWELVE VOLUMES.

VOL. XI.

EDINBURGH:
PRINTED FOR ARCH. CONSTABLE AND CO. EDINBURGH :
LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, AND BROWN;

AND JOHN MURRAY, LONDON.

1820..

FRAGMENTS, WHICH ORIGINALLY APPEARED IN THE

EDINBURGH ANNUAL REGISTER, FOR 1809.

CONTENTS,

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PAGE

BALLADS FROM THE GERMAN.

PAGE.

William and Helen . . . . . . . . . . 187

The Battle of Sempach . . . . . . . . . 212

The Noble Moringer . . . . . . . . . 227

THE

BRIDAL OF TRIERMAIN;

OR,

THE VALE OF ST JOHN.

A LOVER'S TALE.

An dlf-quene wol I love ywis,
For in this world no woman is

Worthy to be my make in toun:
All other women I forsake,
And to an elf-quene I me take
By dale and eke by doun.

RIME OF SIR THOPAS.