INTRODUCTORY
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INTRODUCTORY
THE FAIR MAID OF PERTH
or
St. Valentine‘s Day
by Sir Walter Scott, Bart.
The ashes here of murder‘d kings Beneath my footsteps sleep； And yonder lies the scene of death, Where Mary learn‘d to weep.
CAPTAIN MARJORIBANKS.
Every quarter of Edinburgh has its own peculiar boast, so that the city together combines within its precincts, if you take the word of the inhabitants on the subject, as much of historical interest as of natural beauty. Our claims in behalf of the Canongate are not the slightest. The Castle may excel us in extent of prospect and sublimity of site； the Calton had always the superiority of its unrivalled panorama, and has of late added that of its towers, and triumphal arches, and the pillars of its Parthenon. The High Street, we acknowledge, had the distinguished honour of being defended by fortifications, of which we can show no vestiges. We will not descend to notice the claims of more upstart districts, called Old New T

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