(The ). The frontier of England and Scotland, which,
from the eleventh to the fifteenth century, was the field of constant
forays, and a most fertile source of ill blood between North and South
March, march, Ettrick and Teviotdale;
Why the deil dinna-ye march forward in order?
March, march, Eskdale and Liddesdale-
All the Blue Bonnets are bound for the border.
Sir Walter Scott: The Monastery.
Sir Walter Scott, because he sang of the border. (1771-1832.)
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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