A TALE

OF FLODDEN FIELD.

BY

SIR WALTER SCOTT, BART.

TENTH EDITION.

Alas! that Scottish Maid should sing
The combat where her lover fell!

That Scottish Bard should wake the string,
The triumph of our focs to tell!—Leyden.

EDINBURGH:

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

AND JOHN MURRAY, LONDON.

Printed by James Ballantyne and Co. Edinburgh.

CONTENTS.

PAGE.

Introduction to Canto I... TO WILLIAM STEWART ROSE, Esq. 7

CANTO I. THE CASTLE,

27

Introduction to Canto II. . To the Rev. JOHN MARRIOT, A. M. 63

II. THE CONVENT,

.

81

Introduction to Canto III. . TO WILLIAM ERSKINE, Esq. 121

III. THE HOSTEL, OR INN,

137

Introduction to Canto IV. . TO JAMES SKENE, Esq.