BARBARA ALLEN'S CRUELTY
Given, with some corrections, from an old black-letter copy, entitled
Barbara Alien's Cruelty, or the Young Man's Tragedy.
FAIR ROSAMOND
The version of this ballad given here is from four ancient copies in
black-letter: two of them in the Pepys' Library. It is by Thomas Delone.
First printed in 1612.
THE BOY AND THE MANTLE
This is a revised and modernized version of a very old ballad.
THE HEIR OF LINNE
Given from the Percy folio manuscript, with several additional stanzas
supplied by Thomas Percy.
SIR ANDREW BARTON
This ballad is from the Percy folio manuscript with additions and
amendments from an ancient black-letter copy in the Pepys' Collection.
It was written probably at the end of the sixteenth century.