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Excerpt from The Scottish Ballads: Collected and Illustrated
Plan should be adopted - that Of purifying them as much as possible, and giving them the ut most literary value Of which they may be sus ceptible. By adopting what the antiquarians would call the more faithful plan, I should have produced the same matter in thrice its present extent, and SO much decussated into fragments, and so frequently repeated, that it would have been almost unfit for the general reader. By: adopting the plan which taste and various other considerations forced upon me, I am hopeful that the reader will find, within the compass Of a single volume, and at a very moderate price, nearly all that he could wish to see. TO allay; in some measure, the fervour Of the antiquary, let me remind him, that the ballads still exist, ' in their original shape, in the publications where they first appeared. All that I have attempted, is to combine, as in the Ossianic poems, certain compositions formerly fugitive and various, and which seemed capable of a more extensive ap plication in the reading world if SO combined, but which, in their native condition, could ne ver have been much regarded, except by men devoted to the study Of that species Of litera ture.
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