First Published by Swan SonnenscheinApril1885
ReprintedAugust1891
"August1899
"December1909
"January1927

Printed by the Riverside Press Limited, Edinburgh
Great Britain

[CONTENTS OF VOLUME THE FIRST]

PAGE

Editor's Preface

[ix]
GENERAL INTRODUCTION
The Minstrels[xiii]
Ballads and Ballad Writers[xxiv]
Imitators and Forgers[xliv]
Authenticity of Certain Ballads[xlviii]
Preservers of the Ballads[lviii]
Life of Percy[lxxi]
Folio MS. and the Reliques[lxxxi]
Ballad Literature since Percy[xci]

Dedications[1]
Advertisement to the fourth edition[4]
Preface[7]
BOOK THE FIRST
1.The ancient Ballad of Chevy-chase[19]
2.The Battle of Otterbourne[35]
Illustration of the Names in the foregoing ballads[51]
3.The Jew's Daughter. A Scottish Ballad[54]
4.Sir Cauline[61]
Copy from the Folio MS.[76]
5.Edward, Edward. A Scottish Ballad[82]
6.King Estmere[85]
On the word Termagant[96]
7.Sir Patrick Spence. A Scottish Ballad[98]
8.Robin Hood and Guy of Gisborne[102]
9.An Elegy on Henry Fourth, Earl of Northumberland, by Skelton[117]
10.The Tower of Doctrine, by Stephen Hawes[127]
11.The Child of Elle[131]
Fragment from the Folio MS.[138]
12.Edom o' Gordon. A Scottish Ballad[140]
Captain Carre, from the Folio MS[148]
BOOK THE SECOND.
(Containing Ballads that illustrate Shakespeare.)
1.Adam Bell, Clym of the Clough, and William of Cloudesley[153]
2.The aged Lover renounceth Love, by Lord Vaux[179]
3.Jephthah judge of Israel[182]
4.A Robyn Jolly Robyn[185]
5.A Song to the lute in musicke, by R. Edwards[187]
6.King Cophetua and the Beggar-maid[189]
7.Take thy old cloak about thee[195]
8.Willow, Willow, Willow[199]
9.Sir Lancelot du Lake[204]
10.Corydon's Farewell to Phillis[209]
The Ballad of constant Susanna[209]
11.Gernutus the Jew of Venice[211]
12.The passionate Shepherd to his Love, by Marlowe[220]
The Nymph's Reply, by Sir W. Raleigh[223]
13.Titus Andronicus's Complaint[224]
14.Take those lips away[230]
15.King Leir and his three daughters[231]
16.Youth and Age, by Shakespeare[237]
17.The Frolicksome Duke, or the Tinker's good Fortune[238]
18.The Friar of Orders Gray, by Percy[242]
BOOK THE THIRD.
1.The more modern Ballad of Chevy-chace[249]
Illustration of the Northern Names[263]
2.Death's final Conquest, by James Shirley[264]
3.The Rising in the North[266]
Copy from the Folio MS[274]
4.Northumberland betrayed by Douglas[279]
Copy from the Folio MS[289]
5.My Mind to me a Kingdom is, by Sir Edward Dyer[294]
6.The Patient Countess, by W. Warner[298]
7.Dowsabell, by M. Drayton[304]
8.The Farewell to Love, from Beaumont and Fletcher[310]
9.Ulysses and the Syren, by S. Daniel[311]
10.Cupid's Pastime, by Davison[314]
11.The character of a happy life, by Sir H. Wotton.[317]
12.Gilderoy. A Scottish Ballad[318]
13.Winifreda[323]
14.The Witch of Wokey[325]
15.Bryan and Pereene. A West Indian Ballad, by Dr. Grainger[328]
16.Gentle River, Gentle River. Translated from the Spanish[331]
17.Alcanzor and Zayda, a Moorish Tale[338]
APPENDIX I.
An Essay on the Ancient Minstrels in England[343]
Notes and Illustrations[382]
APPENDIX II.
On the Origin of the English Stage, &c.[431]
Index to Vol. I[459]

ERRATA.

Page [27], Note [142], after Fit read "see vol. 2, p. 182."

Page [76], add ⁂ at end of Sir Cauline.