———————In a triumphal car,
Round the Town-house of Berwick,
The Genius of Tweed
Drove the Genius of Scotland,
From Berwick to town, on a mouthful of porter
She begg'd at a door of a generous ostler.
The Editor has now completed this arduous undertaking, in which his sole object has been to rescue from oblivion these remarkable relics; and although so many years have been sacrificed without the prospect of a corresponding return for the laborious exertion bestowed—severer than was at first anticipated—he has steadfastly brought the work to a conclusion under circumstances of considerable difficulty and discouragement. In conclusion, he has only to observe, that it has all along been his anxious study to furnish, in a scrupulously faithful and accurate manner, an exact copy of the text, without using even the slightest liberty with the masculine phraseology of the original.
December, 1833.
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