An old Scottish ballad--from a manuscript copy transmitted from
Scotland.
KING LEIR AND HIS THREE DAUGHTERS
Version from an old copy in the Golden Garland, black-letter,
entitled A lamentable Song of the Death of King Lear and his Three
Daughters.
THE GABERLUNZIE MAN
This ballad is said to have been written by King James V of Scotland.
From "Percy's Reliques"--Volume II.
THE KNIGHT AND SHEPHERD'S DAUGHTER
Printed from an old black-letter copy, with some corrections.
KING JOHN AND THE ABBOT OF CANTERBURY
This ballad was abridged and modernized in the time of James I from one
much older, entitled King John and the Bishop of Canterbury. The
version given here is from an ancient black-letter copy.