Transcriber's Notes
This book contains material in multiple languages, and numerous examples of archaic, non-standard and dialect forms of English. Therefore no attempts to standardize spelling would be appropriate. The only changes made to the text are to correct typographical errors etc. which are listed at [the end of the book]. Minor corrections to format or punctuation have been made without comment.
Footnotes have been numbered sequentially throughout the book but are presented at the end of each section or ballad to which they refer.
Special characters:
[asterism] represents an asterism of 3 stars
THE ENGLISH AND SCOTTISH
POPULAR BALLADS