From the Percy folio manuscript, amended by two or three others printed
in black-letter. Written about the time of Elizabeth.
SIR LANCELOT DU LAKE
Given from a printed copy, corrected in part by an extract from the
Percy folio manuscript.
THE CHILD OF ELLE
Partly from the Percy folio manuscript, with several additional stanzas
by Percy as the original copy was defective and mutilated.
KING EDWARD IV AND THE TANNER OF TAM WORTH
The text in this ballad is selected from two copies in black-letter. One
in the Bodleian Library, printed at London by John Danter in 1596. The
other copy, without date, is from the Pepys Collection.
SIR PATRICK SPENS
Printed from two manuscript copies transmitted from Scotland. It is
possible that this ballad is founded on historical fact.
EDWARD, EDWARD