LAY

OF

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.

TO THE

RIGHT HONOURABLE

CHARLES,

EARL OF DALKEITH,

THIS

POEM IS INSCRIBED

BY

THE AUTHOR.