WAVERLEY; OR, TIS SIXTY YEARS SINCE. Under which king, Bezonian? speak, or die! Henry II. Part II. IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL. I. PARIS: PUBLISHED BY A. AND W. GALIGNANI, AT THE ENGLISH, FRENCH, ITALIAN, GERMAN, AND SPANISH LIBRARY, No 18, RUE VIVIENNE. MDCCCXXV. PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION. To this slight attempt at a sketch of ancient Scottish manners, the public have been more attentive than the Author durst have hoped or expected. He has heard, with a mixture of satisfaction and humility, his work ascribed to more than one respectable name. Considerations, which seem weighty in his particular situation, prevent his releasing these gentlemen from suspicion by placing his own name in the title-page; so that, for the present at least, it must remain uncertain, whether WAVERLEY be the work of a poet or a critic, a lawyer or a clergyman, or whether the writer, to use Mrs Heidelberg's phrase, be «like Cerberus-three VOL. I. i |