INDEX OF FIRST LINES

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Adam lay i-bowndyn[123]
An ancient story Ile tell you anon[174]
An eartly nourris sits and sings[64]
As I pass’d by a river side[134]
As it fell out upon a day[140]
As I was wa’king all alone (Wee Wee Man)[24]
As I was walking all alane (Twa Corbies)[82]
By Arthur’s Dale as late I went[100]
Clark Colven and his gay ladie[44]
Clark Sanders and May Margret[66]
Cospatrick has sent o’er the faem[26]
Der lived a king inta da aste[209]
Fair lady Isabel sits in her bower sewing[157]
Four and twenty bonny boys[109]
Four and twenty nobles sits in the king’s ha’[205]
Hame came our goodman[215]
Her mother died when she was young[16]
Hie upon Hielands[95]
Hit wes upon a Scere-thorsday[146]
I have a yong suster[163]
I heard a cow low, a bonnie cow low[6]
In Norway Lands there lived a maid[235]
It fell about the Martinmas time[231]
It fell upon a Wodensday[143]
It was the worthy lord of Learne[184]
It was upon a Scere-Thursday (paraphrase)[147]
I wish I were where Helen lies[105]
‘I was but seven year auld[12]
Joseph was an old man[129]
Lady Margaret sits in her bower door[32]
My love has built a bony ship, and set her on the sea[102]
My love he built me a bonny bower[98]
O Allison Gross, that lives in yon tow’r[9]
Of a’ the maids o’ fair Scotland[84]
O hearken and hear, and I will you tell[221]
O I forbid you, maidens a’[49]
O I will sing to you a sang[56]
‘O lady, rock never your young son young[75]
‘O whare are ye gaun?[180]
‘O whare hae ye been, my dearest dear[113]
Seynt Stevene was a clerk[126]
The elphin knight sits on yon hill[170]
The Lord of Rosslyn’s daughter gaed through the wud her lane[164]
The maid shee went to the well to washe[153]
‘The wind doth blow to-day, my love[41]
There lived a wife at Usher’s Well[60]
There was a knight and a lady bright[116]
There was a lady of the North Country[159]
There was a shepherd’s dochter[225]
There was a youth, and a well-belov’d youth[202]
There were three rauens sat on a tree[80]
This ean night, this ean night[90]
True Thomas lay o’er yond grassy bank[2]
’Twas on an evening fair I went to take the air[119]
Willie has taen him o’er the fame[20]
Ye Highlands and ye Lawlands[93]
Yonder comes a courteous knight[212]

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