LAY

OR

THE LAST MINSTREL,

A POEM;

BY

WALTER SCOTT, Esq.

Dum relego, scripsisse pudet, quia plurima cerno,

Me quoque, qui feci, judice, digna lini.

THE FIFTH EDITION.

LONDON:
PRINTED FOR LONGMAN, HURST, REES, AND ORME,
PATERNOSTER-ROW, AND A. CONSTABLE AND CO, EDINBURGH;
By James Ballantyne Co. Edinburgh.

1806.

121 3 an

TO THE

RIGHT HONOURABLE

CHARLES

EARL OF DALKEITH,

THIS

POEM IS INSCRIBED

BY

THE AUTHOR.