THE E DIN BU R G H ENTERTAINER: CONTAINING HISTORICAL and POETICAL COLLECTIONS. For the Use of Taken from the best AUTHORS, E DIN BURGH: MDCCL. CONTENT S. 12 13 17 PROSE. Page. THE history and character of David I. 1 King of Scotland. From Buchanan I The chara&ter of this most excellent Prince; by another hand History of a bloody combat fought by two Highland Clans in the month of September 1396, in the reign of Robert III. King of Scotland, on the North Inch of Perth, in presence of the King and court, and a - vast crowd of SpeEtators Description of Babel History of the fiege of Tyre, by Alexander the Great A description of the city of Jerusalem, its antient and modern state The history of Joseph, his being sold into Egypt, bis imprisonment there, and of his brethren, &c. Of the siege of Babylon, by Cyrus The history of the frege of Troy The character of the Lacedemoniansi бI The history of Lycurgus The laws of Solon the Athenian lawgiver of profane bistory 48 52 62 64 74 Page. An account of the famous retreat of ten. thousand Greeks, under the conduet of the great Xenophon, commonly styled Xeno- . A succinɛt account of the dreadful perfe- cution the Jews underwent at Alexan- dria, and Philo's embasy to the Emperor A succinet history of James I. K. of Scotland 199 The universal prayer. "From Mr Pope 313 A Lady's last farewell to her husband. : Wrote a few days before her death 316 A memorable fong on the unhappy hunting of Chevy-chace, between Earl Douglas of · Scotland and Earl Piercy of England 317 The dying Christian to his soul. From Pope 324 The History and Character of DAVID I. King of Scotland. From the Scottish history. AVID succeeded his brother Alexan- successively, one after another, in · Scotland, he staid with his fister Maud in Eng. land. There he married his cousin Maud, a woman of great beauty, wealth, and nobility; for Voldiosu's Earl of Northumberland was her father; and her mother was Judith, niece. to William the Norman. He had a son by her, named Henry, in whom both his father's and mother's disposition did presently appear. Upon this marriage, his révenues were muchí increased, by the accession of Northumberland and Huntingtonshire to the lands he enjoyed before |