The English and Scottish popular ballads, volume 5 (of 5)
EDITED BY FRANCIS JAMES CHILD
IN FIVE VOLUMES VOLUME V
NEW YORK DOVER PUBLICATIONS, INC.
This Dover edition, first published in 1965, is an unabridged and unaltered republication of the work originally published by Houghton, Mifflin and Company, as follows:
Vol. I—Part I, 1882; Part II, 1884 Vol. II—Part III, 1885; Part IV, 1886 Vol. III—Part V, 1888; Part VI, 1889 Vol. IV—Part VII, 1890; Part VIII, 1892 Vol. V—Part IX, 1894; Part X, 1898.
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The delay of the publication of this Ninth Part of the English and Scottish Ballads has been occasioned partly by disturbances of health, but principally by the necessity of waiting for texts. It was notorious that there was a considerable number of ballads among the papers of Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe, and it was an important object to get possession of these, the only one of the older collections (with a slight exception) which I had not had in my hands. An unexpected opportunity occurred upon the sale of Sharpe’s manuscripts last year. All the ballads, including, besides loose sheets, several sets of pieces, were secured by Mr Macmath, and turned over to me (mostly in transcripts made by his own hand) with that entire devotion to the interests of this undertaking which I have had so frequent occasion to signalize. A particularly valuable acquisition was the “old lady’s complete set of ballads,” mentioned by Scott in his correspondence with Sharpe, which was the original of most of the pieces in the Skene MS.
This Ninth Part completes the collection of English and Scottish ballads to the extent of my knowledge of sources, saving that William Tytler’s Brown-MS. has not been recovered. Copies, from Mrs Brown’s recitation, of all the pieces in this MS. are, however, elsewhere to be found, excepting in a single instance, and that of a ballad which is probably a variety of one or another here given in several forms (No 99 or No 158).
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THE ENGLISH AND SCOTTISH POPULAR BALLADS
ADVERTISEMENT TO PART IX
ADVERTISEMENT TO PART X
CONTENTS OF VOLUME V
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FRAGMENTS
SHAKSPERE
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INDEX OF PUBLISHED AIRS OF ENGLISH AND SCOTTISH POPULAR BALLADS
ABBREVIATED INDICATIONS OF BOOKS REFERRED TO
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BALLAD AIRS FROM MANUSCRIPT
3 C. THE FAUSE KNIGHT UPON THE ROAD.
9 G. THE FAIR FLOWER OF NORTHUMBERLAND.
10 Bc. THE TWA SISTERS.
10 W. THE TWA SISTERS.
10. THE TWA SISTERS.
11 C. THE CRUEL BROTHER.
12 D. Lord Randal.
12 P. LORD RANDAL.
17 I. HIND HORN.
20 Ja. THE CRUEL MOTHER.
40. THE QUEEN OF ELFAN’S NOURICE.
42. CLERK COLVILL.
42. CLERK COLVILL. (Revised.)
46 Be. CAPTAIN WEDDERBURN’S COURTSHIP.
47 D. PROUD LADY MARGARET.
53. YOUNG BEICHAN.
58 J. SIR PATRICK SPENS.
61. SIR COLIN.
63 E. CHILD WATERS.
68 C. YOUNG HUNTING.
75. LORD LOVEL.
77. SWEET WILLIAM’S GHOST.
84 A. BONNY BARBARA ALLAN.
89 C. FAUSE FOODRAGE.
95 L. THE MAID FREED FROM THE GALLOWS.
97 Ab. BROWN ROBIN.
98 B. BROWN ADAM.
99 A. JOHNIE SCOT.
99 O. JOHNIE SCOT.
100 J. WILLIE O WINSBURY
106. THE FAMOUS FLOWER OF SERVING-MEN.
114 G. JOHNIE COCK.
157 I. GUDE WALLACE.
161 (V, 243). THE BATTLE OF OTTERBURN.
163. THE BATTLE OF HARLAW.
164. KING HENRY FIFTH’S CONQUEST OF FRANCE.
164 (V, 245). KING HENRY FIFTH’S CONQUEST OF FRANCE.
169 C. JOHNIE ARMSTRONG.
169. JOHNIE ARMSTRONG.
173 J. MARY HAMILTON.
182 D. THE LAIRD O LOGIE.
222 (V, 261). BONNY BABY LIVINGSTON.
226 H. LIZIE LINDSAY.
228 C. GLASGOW PEGGIE.
235 E. THE EARL OF ABOYNE.
247 b. LADY ELSPAT.
247 b. LADY ELSPAT. (Revised.)
250 E (V, 302). ANDREW BARTIN.
256 A. ALISON AND WILLIE.
258 B. BROUGHTY WA’S.
278 B. THE FARMER’S CURST WIFE.
281. THE KEACH I THE CREEL.
286 Ba. THE SWEET TRINITY. (The Golden Vanity.)
286 Cg. THE SWEET TRINITY. (The Golden Vanity.)
299 D (V, 306). TROOPER AND MAID.
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INDEX OF BALLAD TITLES
English and Scottish.
Albanian.
Catalan.
TITLES OF COLLECTIONS OF BALLADS, OR OF BOOKS CONTAINING BALLADS,
Albanian.
Breton.
Danish.
Dutch, Flemish and Frisian.
Esthonian.
Färöe.
Finnish.
German.
Gipsy.
Icelandic.
Italian.
Ladin.
Lettish.
Lithuanian.
Magyar.
Norwegian.
Portuguese and Galician.
Romaic (and Italian Greek).
Roumanian.
Slavic.
Spanish.
Swedish.
INDEX OF MATTERS AND LITERATURE
BIBLIOGRAPHY
TO BE CORRECTED IN THE PRINT
Trivial Corrections of Spelling.
Appendix
PROFESSOR CHILD AND THE BALLAD
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