While correcting the errors of former editors, I may have
overlooked some of my own. I am already indebted to the careful
proofreaders of the University Press for the detection of
occasional slips in quotations or references; and I shall be very
grateful to my readers for a memorandum of any others that they
may discover.

Cambridge, June 23, 1883..



Argument.



The scene of the following Poem is laid chiefly in the vicinity
of Loch Katrine, in the Western Highlands of Perthshire. The time
of Action includes Six Days, and the transactions of each Day
occupy a Canto.




THE LADY OF THE LAKE.




CANTO FIRST.