Excerpt from Tragic Dramas From History, Vol. 1: With Legendary and Other Poems This Drama formed originally part of another, that which follows it in the present volume, the Tragedy of Wallace. Of that Tragedy it constituted the first or opening act. But as it extended the play to an inconvenient length, and as besides it possesses an independent unity of its own, while the event to which it relates has no direct bearing on the catastrophe of the tragedy of which it formed a part, it has been judged advisable to detach it from its original connexion altogether, and to present it as a separate Drama of Two Acts. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.