Cried pray

Sir step in "but I wish I'd

Published by R. Heatherton, Wigton/1808.

BALLADS 189

IN THE

CUMBERLAND DIALECT,

CHIEFLY BY

R. ANDERSON,

WITH

Rotes and a Glossary:

THE REMAINDER

BY VARIOUS AUTHORS,

Several of which have been

NEVER BEFORE PUBLISHED.

SECOND EDITION.

The Song beguiles dull Care, at Night's black hour;
Now calls a starting tear from Sorrow's eye;
Then grant me, Fate, awhile the soothing pow'r,
To charm the rustic with wild minstrelsy:

If, midst coarse weeds, he find a simple flow'r,
The learned critic's frown I'll proud defy!

WIGTON:

PRINTED BY E. ROOK,

1815.

R. A.