A very meagre gathering of fragments from other sources follows those which have been gleaned from the dramatists, but it must be once more said that there is not an absolute certainty that all of these belong to ballads.
Some popular tales are interspersed with verses of a ballad character, and one or two cases have been incidentally noted already. Examples are ‘The Paddo,’ Chambers’s Popular Rhymes of Scotland, 1870, p. 87;[118] ‘The Red Etin,’ ib. p. 89; ‘The Black Bull of Norroway,’ ib. p. 95; ‘Child Rowland and Burd Ellen,’ Illustrations of Northern Antiquities, p. 397;[119] ‘The Golden Ball,’ see No 95, H, II, 353-55.
SHAKSPERE
From King Lear, Act iii, sc. 4, printed 1608.
Child Rowland to the darke tower came.
His word was still, Fy, fo, and fumme!
I smell the bloud of a British man.
1. So 1623: both quartos, darke towne come.
Act iii, sc. 6.
Sleepest or wakest thou, jolly shepheard?