FOOTNOTES:

[1] A smaller edition of ‘Child’, excellently planned, by Helen Child Sargent and George Lyman Kittridge, is published in England by Mr. Nutt.

[2] 1864.

[3] This does not hold of small transpositions, elisions of superfluous words, or corrections of spelling. In these matters I have allowed myself a free hand.

[4] On the History of the Ballads, 1100-1500, by W. P. Ker, Proceedings of the British Academy, vol. iv.

[CONTENTS]

	[PART I]
	[BOOK I]
NO.	PAGE
1.	[Thomas the Rhymer]	1
2.	[Tam Lin]	4
3.	[Sir Cawline]	14
4.	[Sir Aldingar]	20
5.	[Cospatrick]	29
6.	[Willy’s Lady]	36
7.	[The Queen of Elfland’s Nourice]	41
8.	[Lady Isabel and the Elf-Knight]	43
9.	[The Riddling Knight]	46
10.	[May Colvin]	47
11.	[The Wee Wee Man]	51
12.	[Alison Gross]	52
13.	[Kemp Owyne]	55
14.	[The Laily Worm]	59
15.	[King Orfeo]	62
16.	[King Henry]	64
17.	[The Boy and the Mantle]	68
18.	[King Arthur and King Cornwall]	75
19.	[The Marriage of Sir Gawain]	88
20.	[Bonnie Annie]	98
21.	[Brown Robyn’s Confession]	100
22.	[The Cruel Mother]	102
23.	[Binnorie]	104
24.	[The Broomfield Hill]	107
25.	[Earl Mar’s Daughter]	110
26.	[Proud Lady Margaret]	116
27.	[Clerk Saunders]	118
28.	[The Daemon Lover]	123
29.	[Clerk Colven]	126
30.	[Young Hunting]	129
31.	[The Great Silkie of Sule Skerrie]	135
32.	[The Wife of Usher’s Well]	136
33.	[A Lyke-Wake Dirge]	138
34.	[The Unquiet Grave]	140
	[BOOK II]
35.	[Hynd Horn]	142
36.	[Hynd Etin]	145
37.	[Erlinton]	153
38.	[Earl Brand]	157
39.	[The Douglas Tragedy]	160
40.	[Glasgerion]	163
41.	[King Estmere]	167
42.	[Fair Annie]	179
43.	[The Lass of Lochroyan]	184
44.	[Young Bekie]	193
45.	[Young Beichan]	199
46.	[Childe Waters]	205
47.	[Childe Maurice]	214
48.	[Brown Adam]	221
49.	[Jellon Grame]	223
50.	[Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard]	227
51.	[Lord Ingram and Childe Vyet]	232
52.	[Fair Janet]	237
53.	[Old Robin of Portingale]	242
54.	[Lord Thomas and Fair Annet]	247
55.	[Rose the Red and White Lily]	253
56.	[Leesome Brand]	262
57.	[Babylon]	265
58.	[Prince Robert]	267
59.	[Young Andrew]	270
60.	[The Gay Goshawk]	275
61.	[Willie’s Lyke-Wake]	280
62.	[Fair Margaret and Sweet William]	281
63.	[The Twa Brothers]	284
64.	[The Cruel Brother]	287
65.	[Edward, Edward]	290
66.	[Lord Randal]	292
67.	[The Twa Corbies]	293
68.	[The Three Ravens]	294
	[BOOK III]
69.	[The Nut-Brown Maid]	295
70.	[Fause Foodrage]	308
71.	[The Fair Flower of Northumberland]	314
72.	[Young John]	318
73.	[Lady Maisry]	320
74.	[Bonny Bee Ho’m]	326
75.	[Sir Patrick Spens]	328
76.	[The Lord of Lorn]	332
77.	[Edom o’ Gordon]	342
78.	[Lamkin]	348
79.	[Hugh of Lincoln]	353
80.	[The Heir of Linne]	356
81.	[Fair Mary of Wallington]	361
82.	[Young Waters]	367
83.	[The Queen’s Marie]	369
84.	[The Outlaw Murray]	374
85.	[Glenlogie]	386
86.	[Lady Elspat]	388
87.	[Jamie Douglas]	390
88.	[Katharine Johnstone]	395
89.	[Johnie Armstrong]	398
90.	[Clyde Water]	404
91.	[Young Benjie]	409
92.	[Annan Water]	413
93.	[Rare Willie Drowned in Yarrow]	416
94.	[The Duke of Gordon’s Daughter]	417
95.	[The Bonny Earl of Murray]	422
96.	[Bonny George Campbell]	423
	[BOOK IV]
97.	[Judas]	425
98.	[St. Stephen and King Herod]	426
99.	[The Maid and the Palmer]	428
100.	[The Falcon]	430
101.	[The Cherry-Tree Carol]	431
102.	[The Carnal and the Crane]	434
103.	[Jolly Wat]	439
104.	[I Saw Three Ships]	442
105.	[The Twelve Good Joys]	443
106.	[The Angel Gabriel]	446
107.	[The Three Kings]	448
108.	[The Innocents]	451
109.	[Dives and Lazarus]	455
110.	[The Holy Well]	458
111.	[The Seven Virgins]	460
	[PART II]
	[BOOK V]
112.	[Robyn and Gandelyn]	462
113.	[The Birth of Robin Hood]	465
114.	[Adam Bell, Clym of the Clough, and William of Clondesley]	468
115.	[A Little Geste of Robin Hood and his Meiny]	497
116.	[Robin Hood and Guy of Gisborne]	575
117.	[Robin Hood and the Monk]	585
118.	[Robin Hood and the Curtal Friar]	600
119.	[Robin Hood and the Butcher]	607
120.	[Robin Hood and the Bishop of Hereford]	612
121.	[Robin Hood and Alan a Dale]	616
122.	[Robin Hood and the Widow’s Three Sons]	621
123.	[Robin Hood’s Golden Prize]	626
124.	[The Noble Fisherman]	630
125.	[The Death of Robin Hood]	635
	[BOOK VI]
126.	[Durham Field]	640
127.	[The Battle of Otterburn]	651
128.	[Chevy Chase]	664
129.	[Northumberland Betrayed by Douglas]	675
130.	[Sir Andrew Barton]	684
131.	[The ‘George Aloe’]	697
132.	[The ‘Golden Vanity’]	701
133.	[John Dory]	703
134.	[Willie Macintosh]	704
135.	[The Bonnie House o’ Airlie]	705
136.	[Johnnie of Cockerslee]	707
137.	[Kinmont Willie]	712
138.	[Jock o’ the Side]	720
139.	[Hobbie Noble]	726
140.	[Archie of Cawfield]	732
141.	[Jamie Telfer in the Fair Dodhead]	738
142.	[Dick o’ the Cow]	746
143.	[Hughie the Graeme]	757
144.	[The Lochmaben Harper]	759
145.	[The Fire of Frendraught]	763
146.	[The Death of Parcy Reed]	767
147.	[Baby Livingston]	774
148.	[The Gypsy Countess]	781
149.	[The Baron of Brackley]	783
150.	[The Dowie Houms of Yarrow]	786
151.	[Lord Maxwell’s Last Goodnight]	789
152.	[Helen of Kirconnell]	792
153.	[The Lament of the Border Widow]	793
	[BOOK VII]
154.	[Lady Alice]	795
155.	[Lord Lovel]	796
156.	[The Trees so High]	798
157.	[The Brown Girl]	800
158.	[Barbara Allen’s Cruelty]	802
159.	[The Gardener]	804
160.	[The Lowlands o’ Holland]	806
161.	[The Spanish Lady’s Love]	807
162.	[The Bailiff’s Daughter of Islington]	811
163.	[The Blind Beggar’s Daughter of Bednall-Green]	813
164.	[The Loving Ballad of Lord Bateman]	825
165.	[Mary Ambree]	829
166.	[The Lady turned Serving-Man]	832
167.	[The Simple Ploughboy]	837
168.	[Cawsand Bay]	839
169.	[The Greenland Fishery]	841
170.	[The Old Cloak]	843
171.	[Widdicombe Fair]	845
172.	[Get Up and Bar the Door]	847
173.	[King John and the Abbot of Canterbury]	849
174.	[The Children in the Wood]	854
175.	[The Suffolk Miracle]	860
176.	[Bessie Bell and Mary Gray]	865
	[Index of First Lines]	867

Certainly, I must confesse my own barbarousnes, I neuer heard the olde song of Percy and Duglas that I found not my heart mooued more then with a Trumpet.

Sir Philip Sidney.