[ CONTENTS]
| PAGE | |
| Preface | [ix] |
| Ballads in the Second Series | [x] |
| Additional Note on Ballad Commonplaces | [xvi] |
| THOMAS RYMER | [1] |
| THE QUEEN OF ELFAN’S NOURICE | [6] |
| ALLISON GROSS | [9] |
| THE LAILY WORM AND THE MACHREL OF THE SEA | [12] |
| KEMP OWYNE | [16] |
| WILLIE’S LADY | [19] |
| THE WEE WEE MAN | [24] |
| COSPATRICK | [26] |
| YOUNG AKIN | [32] |
| THE UNQUIET GRAVE | [41] |
| CLERK COLVEN | [43] |
| TAM LIN | [47] |
| THE CLERK’S TWA SONS O’ OWSENFORD | [56] |
| The Wife of Usher’s Well | [60] |
| THE GREAT SILKIE OF SULE SKERRIE | [63] |
| CLERK SANDERS | [66] |
| YOUNG HUNTING | [74] |
| THE THREE RAVENS | [80] |
| The Twa Corbies | [82] |
| YOUNG BENJIE | [83] |
| THE LYKE-WAKE DIRGE | [88] |
| THE BONNY EARL OF MURRAY | [92] |
| BONNIE GEORGE CAMPBELL | [95] |
| THE LAMENT OF THE BORDER WIDOW | [97] |
| BONNY BEE HO’M | [100] |
| The Lowlands of Holland | [102] |
| FAIR HELEN OF KIRCONNELL | [104] |
| SIR HUGH, OR THE JEW’S DAUGHTER | [107] |
| THE DÆMON LOVER | [112] |
| THE BROOMFIELD HILL | [115] |
| WILLIE’S FATAL VISIT | [119] |
| ADAM | [123] |
| SAINT STEPHEN AND KING HEROD | [125] |
| THE CHERRY-TREE CAROL | [129] |
| THE CARNAL AND THE CRANE | [133] |
| DIVES AND LAZARUS | [139] |
| BROWN ROBYN’S CONFESSION | [143] |
| JUDAS | [145] |
| THE MAID AND THE PALMER | [152] |
| LADY ISABEL AND THE ELF-KNIGHT | [155] |
| A NOBLE RIDDLE WISELY EXPOUNDED | [159] |
| CAPTAIN WEDDERBURN | [162] |
| THE ELPHIN KNIGHT | [170] |
| KING JOHN AND THE ABBOT | [173] |
| THE FAUSE KNIGHT UPON THE ROAD | [180] |
| THE LORD OF LEARNE | [182] |
| THE BAILIFF’S DAUGHTER OF ISLINGTON | [202] |
| GLENLOGIE | [205] |
| KING ORFEO | [208] |
| THE BAFFLED KNIGHT | [212] |
| OUR GOODMAN | [215] |
| THE FRIAR IN THE WELL | [221] |
| THE KNIGHT AND THE SHEPHERD’S DAUGHTER | [224] |
| GET UP AND BAR THE DOOR | [231] |
| Appendix | [235] |
| The Grey Selchie of Shool Skerry | [235] |
| The Lyke-wake Dirge | [238] |
| Index of Titles | [245] |
| Index of First Lines | [247] |
[ PREFACE]
The issue of this second volume of Popular Ballads of the Olden Time has been delayed chiefly by the care given to the texts, in most instances the whole requiring to be copied by hand.
I consider myself fortunate to be enabled, by the kind service of my friend Mr. A. Francis Steuart, to print for the first time in a collection of ballads the version of the Grey Selchie of Shool Skerry given in the Appendix. It is a feather in the cap of any ballad-editor after Professor Child to discover a ballad that escaped his eye.
My thanks are also due to the Rev. Professor W. W. Skeat for assistance generously given in connection with the ballad of Judas; and, as before, to Mr. A. H. Bullen.
F. S.