English and Scottish Ballads, Volume VIII

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[INDEX.]

The titles by which ballads are designated in this collection are here printed in Roman letters; other titles, whether of ballads included in this collection, or not, and in general, all other references, in Italic.

In looking for a title, the articles, both the definite and the indefinite, are to be dropped. "O. B." denotes the often-referred-to Collection of 1723: "P. S." Percy Society Publications: = signifies that two pieces are equivalent.

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• Aage og Else, Danish bal. 2, 145.
• Adam Bel, Clym of the Cloughe, and Wyllyam of Cloudeslé. 5, 124, 1.
• Adam Gordon (the freebooter). 6, 149: 5, xix.
• Adventures of Faravla, &c., Irish Fairy tale. 3, 284.
• Agnete og Havmanden, Danish ballad. 1, 179.
• Alison Gross. 1, 168.
• Allerlei-Rauh, German tale. 8, [172].
• Alphonso and Ganselo (or, Faithful Friendship), Garl. G. Will, p. 60, P. S. xxx: O. B. 2, 145: Evans, 1, 354.
• Als y yod on ay Mounday. 1, 273, 126.
• Amadis. 1, 5, 6.
• Andrew Lammie. 2, 190.
• Annan Water. 2, 186.
• Apuleius, Metam. 1, 162.
• Arabian Nights. 1, 5; 8, [54].
• Archie of Ca'field. 6, 88, 81.
• Arden of Feversham. Evans, 3, 217.
• Armenian Lady's Love, Wordsworth's. 4, 202.
• Armstrong's Good-Night. 6, 40.
• Armstrong and Musgrave. 8, [243].
• Artèmire, Voltaire's. 3, 242.
• As I came from Walsingham. 4, 191.
• As I was walking under a grove. 1, 128.
• As You Like It. 5, xxv: 8, [144].
• Aschenputtel, German tale. 8, [172].
• Audam and Doorkhaunee, Afghan tale. 2, 120.
• Auld Maitland. 6, 217.
• Ausgleichung, German ballad. 1, 5.

• Babe Nourice. 2, 40.
• Babylon, or, The Bonnie Banks o' Fordie. 2, 277.
• Baffled Knight. Percy, 2, 362: = Too Courteous Knight, Ritson, Anc. Songs, 2, 54: Durfey, 3, 37: = The Shepherd's Son, Herd, 2, 267: = Jock Sheep, Kinloch, Ballad Book, p. 17: = Blow the Winds, Heigh Ho, Anc. Poems, &c., p. 123, P. S. xvii. Bell, id. p. 82.
• Bailiff's Daughter of Islington. 4, 158.
• Ballad of Matrymonie. 8, [182].
• Bandello. 3, 242, 370; 6, 209.
• Barbara Allen's Cruelty. 2, 158.
• Barbara Livingston. 4, 270.
• Baron (or Laird) o' Leys. Buchan, 2, 144; Kinloch, B. B. 74.
• Baron of Brackley. 6, 188, 192.
• Baron turned Ploughman. 8, [233].
• Bateman's Tragedy. O. B. 1, 261. Ritson, Anc. Songs, 2, 95.
• Battle of Alford. 7, 238.
• Battle of Balrinnes. 7, 214.
• Battle of Bothwell Bridge. 7, 148, 149.
• Battle of Corichie. 7, 210.
• Battle of Glenlivet. 7, 214.
• Battle of Harlaw. 7, 181, 317.
• Battle of Killiecrankie. 7, 152.
• Battle of Loudon Hill. 7, 144.
• Battle of Otterbourne. 7, 3, 19, 29, 177.
• Battle of Pentland Hills. 7, 240.
• Battle of Philiphaugh. 7, 131.
• Battle of Sherramoor (Burns). 6, 157.
• Battle of Sheriff-Muir. 7, 156, 260.
• Battle of Strath-aven. 7, 214, 217.
• Battle of Tranent-Muir, or Preston-Pans. 7, 167.
• Beautiful Lady of Kent. Bal. of Peasantry, P. S. xvii. 130; Bell, id. 84.
• Bent Sae Brown. 2, 57.
• Bergkonungen, Swedish bal. 1, 179.
• Berkshire Lady's Garland. Bal. of Peasantry, P. S. xvii. 138; Moore, 456.
• Bessie Bell and Mary Gray. 3, 126.
• Betrayed Lady. 4, 180.
• Bettelman, German bal. 8, [98].
• Billie Archie. 6, 94.
• Binnorie. 2, 231.
• Birth of Robin Hood. 5, 170, 392.
• [de la] Blanca Niña, Spanish ballad. ii. 319.
• Blancheflour and Jellyflorice. 4, 295.
• Blind Beggar's Daughter of Bednall Green. 4, 161.
• Blood-Stained Son (Der blutige Sohn, translated). 2, 350.
• Blow the Winds, Heigh Ho = Baffled Knight.
• Bludy Serk. 8, [147].
• Blue Beard, 2, 272.
• Blue Bird, fairy tale. 1, 171.
• Bold Burnett's Daughter = Bonny Hynd.
• Bold Pedlar and Robin Hood. 5, 248.
• Bold Rankin. 3, 95.
• Bondsey and Maisry. 2, 379, 298.
• Bonnie Annie. 3, 47.
• Bonnie Banks o' Fordie. 2, 277.
• Bonnie George Campbell. 3, 92.
• Bonnie House o' Airly. 6, 183, 186.
• Bonnie Lass of Anglesey. Herd, 2, 190: Buchan, 2, 63.
• Bonnie Susie Cleland. 2, 78.
• Bonny Baby Livingston. 4, 38.
• Bonny Barbara Allan. 2, 155.
• Bonny Bee-Ho'm. 3, 57: 2, 215.
• Bonny Birdy. 2, 22.
• Bonny Bows o' London. 2, 360.
• Bonny Earl of Murray. 7, 119, 121: 3, 88.
• Bonny Hind Squire. 8, [11], [83].
• Bonny Hynd. Scott's Minstrelsy, 3, 307: = Lizie Wan, Herd, ed. 1776, 1, 91: = The Broom blooms bonnie, &c. Motherwell, lxxxiv. 189: = Castle Ha's Daughter, Buchan, 1, 241. Also called Lady Jean, Motherwell, Appendix, p. xxi., and Bold Burnett's Daughter, Buchan, 1, 315.
• Bonny John Seton. 7, 230.
• Bonny May. 4, 45.
• Bothwell. 1, 158, 152.
• Bothwell Lines. 7, 149.
• Boy and the Mantle. 1, 3.
• Boyne Water. 7, 253.
• Braes o' Yarrow. 3, 69: Logan's, 2, 182.
• Brave Earl Brand and the King of England's Daughter. 2, 388, 114.
• Brave Lord Willoughby. 7, 114.
• Bride's Testament = Cruel Brother.
• Broom blooms bonnie, &c. = Bonny Hynd.
• Broom of Cowdenknows. 4, 45.
• Broomfield Hill. 1, 131.
• Brown Adam. 4, 60.
• Brown Robin. 2, 9. Buchan, 2, 299.
• Brume, brume on hil. 1, 131.
• Burd Ellen. 3, 213, 205, 269.
• Burd Ellen and Young Tamlane. 1, 271.
• Burd Helen. 3, 192.
• Burning of Auchindown, see Willie Mackintosh.
• By Landsdale hey ho. 5, 431.

• Camille, ou la Manière de filer le parfait Amour. 1, 5.
• Captain Car. 6, 147.
• Captain Wedderburn's Courtship. 8, [11], [5].
• Carl of Kellyburn Braes. 8, [257].
• Carle of Carlile. 8, [140].
• Carnal and the Crane. 1, 315.
• Castle Ha's Daughter = Bonny Hynd.
• Catherine Johnstone. 4, 34.
• Catskin's Garland, (or, The Wandering Young Gentlewoman.) 8, [172].
• Ce qui plaît aux Dames, Voltaire's. 1, 29.
• Cendrillon, Cennerentola. 8, [172].
• [du] Chevalier qui fist sa Fame confesse, fabliau. 6, 209.
• Chevy-Chace. 7, 43, 25.
• Chil Ether. 4, 299.
• Child Brenton. 1, 152.
• Child Noryce. 2, 40.
• Child of Elle. 3, 224, 220;
• 2, 114.
• Child Rowland and Burd Ellen. 1, 245.
• Child Waters. 3, 205, 269.
• Childe Maurice, Chield Morice. 2, 313, 30.
• Childe Vyet. 2, 72.
• Children in the Wood. 3, 128.
• Child's Last Will. 2, 366.
• Cinthio's Heccatomithi. 8, [60].
• Clerk Colvill. 1, 192;
• 2, 271.
• Clerk of Oxenford's Tale, Chaucer's. 4, 207.
• Clerk Saunders. 2, 45, 318, 53, 57, 82.
• Clerk's Twa Sons o' Owsenford. 2, 63;
• 1, 214.
• Clerk Tamas. 3, 349.
• Cokwolds Daunce. 1, 17.
• Conde de Barcelona y la Emperatriz de Alemania. 3, 242.
• Constance of Cleveland. 4, 225.
• Constancy of Susanna. 8, [198].
• Constant Penelope. 8, [207].
• Constantine and Areté. 1, 304, 307, 217.
• Contes à rire. 8, [3].
• Corn, lai du. 1, 3.
• Cospatrick. 1, 152.
• Countess of Errol, see Errol.
• Coupe Enchantée. 1, 4.
• Court Mantel. 1, 4.
• Courteous King Jamie. 1, 147.
• Courteous Knight. 8, [272], [11].
• Covering Blue = Keach in the Creel.
• Crafty Lover, or, The Lawyer outwitted. Bell, Ball. of Peasantry, 110.
• Crafty Ploughboy, or, The Highwayman outwitted. 8, [265].
• Croodlin Doo. 2, 363.
• Cruel Black. 3, 370.
• Cruel Brother, or, The Bride's Testament. 2, 251, 257, 265.
• Cruel Brother, Swedish bal. 2, 46.
• Cruel Jew's Garland. 8, [46].
• Cruel Knight. 2, 291.
• Cruel Mother. 2, 267, 269, 372, 257.
• Cruel Sister. 2, 231.
• Cunning Clerk = Keach in the Creel.
• Cymbeline. 8, [277].

• Dæmon Lover. 1, 201, 302.
• David and Bathsheba. 8, [198].
• Dead Man's Song of Heaven and Hell. Evans, 1, 297;
• Ritson, Anc. Songs, old ed., p. 286;
• Brit. Bibliog. 2, 136, &c.
• Death of John Seton. 7, 230.
• Death of Keeldar. 6, 140.
• Death of Parcy Reed. 6, 179.
• Death of Queen Jane. 7, 77.
• Decameron. 2, 382;
• 4, 207;
• 6, 209.
• Demaundes Joyous. 8, [3].
• Devil and the Scold. 8, [257].
• Dialogue between Will Lick-Ladle and Tom Clean-Cogue. 7, 260, 157.
• Dick o' the Cow. 6, 67.
• Dolopathos. 8, [45].
• Donald of the Isles. 4, 68, 76.
• Doralice. 8, [172].
• Douglas, Home's. 2, 28.
• Douglas Tragedy. 2, 114;
• 3, 220, 223;
• 5, 334.
• Dowie Den. 3, 65.
• Dowie Dens of Yarrow. 3, 63.
• Dragon of Wantley. 8, [128].
• Dronken Hansje. 8, [55].
• Drowned Lovers. 2, 175.
• Drunkard's Legacy. 8, [60].
• Duchess of Suffolk's Calamity. 7, 298, 115.
• Duel of Wharton and Stuart. 8, [259].
• Duke Hamilton. Smith's Scot. Mins., 2, 58.
• Duke of Argyle's Courtship. Buchan, 2, 148.
• Duke of Athol. 4, 94.
• Duke of Athol's Nurse. 8, [228], [231].
• Duke of Gordon's Daughter. 4, 102.
• Duke of Perth's Three Daughters. 2, 281.
• Dumb Wife of Aberdour. Aytoun, 2, 185.
• Durham Garland. Ritson, Bish. Gar. p. 1.
• Dysmal. 2, 382.

• Earl Crawford. Buchan, 1, 61.
• Earl Lithgow. 3, 260.
• Earl Marshal. 6, 209.
• Earl of Errol, see Errol.
• Earl of Mar's Daughter. 1, 171.
• Earl Richard (A). 3, 3, 10, 293.
• Earl Richard (B). 3, 266, 395.
• Earl Robert. 3, 26.
• Edda. 1, 213;
• 8, [139].
• Edom o' Gordon. 6, 147, 154;
• 7, 216.
• Edward. 2, 225, 219, 251.
• Edwin and Emma, Goldsmith's. 4, 189.
• Eitle Dinge, German ballads. 1, 128.
• Elfer Hill. 1, 298.
• Elfin Knight. 1, 128, 277.
• Elfrida and Sir James of Perth. 3, 73.
• Elf-Woman and Sir Olof, Swedish bal. 1, 298.
• Ellen Irwin, Wordsworth's. 2, 208.
• Elveskud, Danish bal. 1, 298.
• Enchanted Ring. 3, 53.
• Eppie Morie. 6, 260, 203.
• Erle of Tolous. 3, 242.
• Erlinton. 3, 220;
• 2, 114.
• Errol, Earl of Errol, &c. Sharpe, B. B., p. 89: = Kinloch, B. B., p. 31: = Countess of Errol, Buchan, 2, 176, and Gleanings, p. 158: = Errol's Place, Maidment's N. C. G., p. 31.
• Eulenspiegel. 8, [3], [4].
• Execution of Sir Simeon Fraser. 6, 274.

• Facezie of Arlotto. 8, [167].
• Factor's Garland. O. B. 3, 221: = Sheldon, p. 274.
• F[oe]stemanden i Graven, Danish ballad. 2, 145.
• Fair Annie. 3, 191, 198.
• Fair Annie of Lochroyan. 2, 98.
• Fair Flower of Northumberland. 4, 180.
• Fair Helen of Kirconnell. 2, 207.
• Fair Janet. 2, 86, 80, 120.
• Fair Mabel of Wallington (= The Mild Mary): Ritson, Northumb. Garl. p. 38.
• Fair Margaret and Sweet William. 2, 140, 162.
• Fair Margaret of Craignargat. 8, [249].
• Fair Midel and Kirsten Lyle, Danish bal. 2, 342.
• Fair Rosamond. 7, 283.
• Fairy Queen. 1, 5.
• Faithful Friendship, see Alphonso and Ganselo.
• False Sir John. 2, 271.
• [den] Falske Riddaren, Swedish bal. 2, 272.
• Famous Flower of Serving-Men. 4, 174;
• 3, 86.
• Farmer's Old Wife. 8, [257].
• Fause Foodrage. 3, 40, 159.
• Fause Knight upon the Road. 8, [269].
• Fause Lover. 4, 89.
• Felon Sowe of Rokeby. Ev. 3, 270;
• Moore, 187;
• Scott, Notes to Rokeby;
• Robson, Metr. Romances, p. 105, Camden Soc., No. 18, etc.
• Fine Flowers i' the Valley. 2, 257.
• Fine Flowers in the Valley. 2, 265.
• Finette Cendron. 8, [172].
• Fire of Frendraught. 6, 173.
• Fischer, Goethe's. 1, 298.
• Fitchers Vogel, German tale., 2, 272.
• Flemish Insurrection. 6, 269.
• Flodden Field. 7, 71.
• Florent and the King of Sicily's Daughter, Gower's tale., 1, 29.
• Florice and Blancheflour. 4, 295.
• Flourence de Romme, Le Dit de. 3, 159.
• Fray of Suport. 6, 115.
• Frennet Hall. 6, 177.
• Frère de Lait, Breton bal. 1, 217.
• Friar in the Well. 8, [122].
• Frolicksome Courtier and Jovial Tinker. 8, [55].
• Frolicksome Duke, or, The Tinker's Good Fortune. 8, [54].
• From Bogie Side, or, The Marquis's Raide. 7, 267, 156.
• Fryer and the Maid. 8, [122].