The remainder of the ballads in this book, with the exception of "John
Brown's Body", are from Percy's Reliques, Volumes I and II.
CONTENTS
The source of these ballads will be found in the Appendix at the end
of this book.
LIST OF COLOUR PLATES
[KING ESTMERE]
[BARBARA ALLEN'S CRUELTY]
[FAIR ROSAMOND]
[THE BOY AND THE MANTLE]
[KING COPHETUA AND THE BEGGAR MAID]
[MAY COLLIN]
[THOMAS THE RHYMER]
[YOUNG BEICHAN]
[CLERK COLVILL]
[GIL MORRICE]
[CHILD WATERS]
[THE EARL OF MAR'S DAUGHTER]
[HYND HORN]
[THE BAILIFF'S DAUGHTER OF ISLINGTON]
[THE THREE RAVENS]
[THE WIFE OF USHER'S WELL]
[FOREWORD]
By
Beverley Nichols
These poems are the very essence of the British spirit. They are, to
literature, what the bloom of the heather is to the Scot, and the
smell of the sea to the Englishman. All that is beautiful in the old
word "patriotism" ... a word which, of late, has been twisted to such
ignoble purposes ... is latent in these gay and full-blooded measures.