INTRODUCTION
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INTRODUCTION
THE ANTIQUARY
BY SIR WALTER SCOTT, BART.
VOLUME ONE
I knew Anselmo. He was shrewd and prudent,
Wisdom and cunning had their shares of him；
But he was shrewish as a wayward child,
And pleased again by toys which childhood please；
As---book of fables, graced with print of wood,
Or else the jingling of a rusty medal,
Or the rare melody of some old ditty,
That first was sung to please King Pepin‘s cradle
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The present work completes a series of fictitious narratives, intended to illustrate the manners of Scotland at three different periods. _Waverley_ embraced the age of our fathers, _Guy Mannering_ that of our own youth, and the _Antiquary_ refers to the last ten years of the eighteenth century. I have, in the two last narratives especially, sought my principal personages in the class of society who are the last to feel the influence of that general polish which assimilates to each other the manners of different n

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