Marmion

Marmion, by Sir Walter Scott

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Title: Marmion

Author: Sir Walter Scott

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MARMION:

A TALE OF FLODDEN FIELD

IN SIX CANTOS

BY

SIR WALTER SCOTT

EDITED

WITH INTRODUCTION AND NOTES

BY THOMAS BAYNE

EDITOR’S PREFACE.

I. SCOTT AT ASHESTIEL.

Sir Walter Scott’s love of the country induced him, after his marriage in 1797, to settle in a cottage at the pretty village of Lasswade, near Edinburgh. Four years after leaving this district he took Mr. Morritt of Rokeby to see the little dwelling, telling him that, though not worth looking at, ‘it was our first house when newly married, and...