[CONTENTS]

[PART I]

[BOOK I]
NO. PAGE
1. [Thomas the Rhymer]1
2. [Tam Lin]4
3. [Sir Cawline]14
4. [Sir Aldingar]20
5. [Cospatrick]29
6. [Willy’s Lady]36
7. [The Queen of Elfland’s Nourice]41
8. [Lady Isabel and the Elf-Knight]43
9. [The Riddling Knight]46
10. [May Colvin]47
11. [The Wee Wee Man]51
12. [Alison Gross]52
13. [Kemp Owyne]55
14. [The Laily Worm]59
15. [King Orfeo]62
16. [King Henry]64
17. [The Boy and the Mantle]68
18. [King Arthur and King Cornwall]75
19. [The Marriage of Sir Gawain]88
20. [Bonnie Annie]98
21. [Brown Robyn’s Confession]100
22. [The Cruel Mother]102
23. [Binnorie]104
24. [The Broomfield Hill]107
25. [Earl Mar’s Daughter]110
26. [Proud Lady Margaret]116
27. [Clerk Saunders]118
28. [The Daemon Lover]123
29. [Clerk Colven]126
30. [Young Hunting]129
31. [The Great Silkie of Sule Skerrie]135
32. [The Wife of Usher’s Well]136
33. [A Lyke-Wake Dirge]138
34. [The Unquiet Grave]140

[BOOK II]
35. [Hynd Horn]142
36. [Hynd Etin]145
37. [Erlinton]153
38. [Earl Brand]157
39. [The Douglas Tragedy]160
40. [Glasgerion]163
41. [King Estmere]167
42. [Fair Annie]179
43. [The Lass of Lochroyan]184
44. [Young Bekie]193
45. [Young Beichan]199
46. [Childe Waters]205
47. [Childe Maurice]214
48. [Brown Adam]221
49. [Jellon Grame]223
50. [Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard]227
51. [Lord Ingram and Childe Vyet]232
52. [Fair Janet]237
53. [Old Robin of Portingale]242
54. [Lord Thomas and Fair Annet]247
55. [Rose the Red and White Lily]253
56. [Leesome Brand]262
57. [Babylon]265
58. [Prince Robert]267
59. [Young Andrew]270
60. [The Gay Goshawk]275
61. [Willie’s Lyke-Wake]280
62. [Fair Margaret and Sweet William]281
63. [The Twa Brothers]284
64. [The Cruel Brother]287
65. [Edward, Edward]290
66. [Lord Randal]292
67. [The Twa Corbies]293
68. [The Three Ravens]294

[BOOK III]
69. [The Nut-Brown Maid]295
70. [Fause Foodrage]308
71. [The Fair Flower of Northumberland]314
72. [Young John]318
73. [Lady Maisry]320
74. [Bonny Bee Ho’m]326
75. [Sir Patrick Spens]328
76. [The Lord of Lorn]332
77. [Edom o’ Gordon]342
78. [Lamkin]348
79. [Hugh of Lincoln]353
80. [The Heir of Linne]356
81. [Fair Mary of Wallington]361
82. [Young Waters]367
83. [The Queen’s Marie]369
84. [The Outlaw Murray]374
85. [Glenlogie]386
86. [Lady Elspat]388
87. [Jamie Douglas]390
88. [Katharine Johnstone]395
89. [Johnie Armstrong]398
90. [Clyde Water]404
91. [Young Benjie]409
92. [Annan Water]413
93. [Rare Willie Drowned in Yarrow]416
94. [The Duke of Gordon’s Daughter]417
95. [The Bonny Earl of Murray]422
96. [Bonny George Campbell]423

[BOOK IV]
97. [Judas]425
98. [St. Stephen and King Herod]426
99. [The Maid and the Palmer]428
100. [The Falcon]430
101. [The Cherry-Tree Carol]431
102. [The Carnal and the Crane]434
103. [Jolly Wat]439
104. [I Saw Three Ships]442
105. [The Twelve Good Joys]443
106. [The Angel Gabriel]446
107. [The Three Kings]448
108. [The Innocents]451
109. [Dives and Lazarus]455
110. [The Holy Well]458
111. [The Seven Virgins]460

[PART II]

[BOOK V]
112. [Robyn and Gandelyn]462
113. [The Birth of Robin Hood]465
114. [Adam Bell, Clym of the Clough, and William of Clondesley]468
115. [A Little Geste of Robin Hood and his Meiny]497
116. [Robin Hood and Guy of Gisborne]575
117. [Robin Hood and the Monk]585
118. [Robin Hood and the Curtal Friar]600
119. [Robin Hood and the Butcher]607
120. [Robin Hood and the Bishop of Hereford]612
121. [Robin Hood and Alan a Dale]616
122. [Robin Hood and the Widow’s Three Sons]621
123. [Robin Hood’s Golden Prize]626
124. [The Noble Fisherman]630
125. [The Death of Robin Hood]635

[BOOK VI]
126. [Durham Field]640
127. [The Battle of Otterburn]651
128. [Chevy Chase]664
129. [Northumberland Betrayed by Douglas]675
130. [Sir Andrew Barton]684
131. [The ‘George Aloe’]697
132. [The ‘Golden Vanity’]701
133. [John Dory]703
134. [Willie Macintosh]704
135. [The Bonnie House o’ Airlie]705
136. [Johnnie of Cockerslee]707
137. [Kinmont Willie]712
138. [Jock o’ the Side]720
139. [Hobbie Noble]726
140. [Archie of Cawfield]732
141. [Jamie Telfer in the Fair Dodhead]738
142. [Dick o’ the Cow]746
143. [Hughie the Graeme]757
144. [The Lochmaben Harper]759
145. [The Fire of Frendraught]763
146. [The Death of Parcy Reed]767
147. [Baby Livingston]774
148. [The Gypsy Countess]781
149. [The Baron of Brackley]783
150. [The Dowie Houms of Yarrow]786
151. [Lord Maxwell’s Last Goodnight]789
152. [Helen of Kirconnell]792
153. [The Lament of the Border Widow]793

[BOOK VII]
154. [Lady Alice]795
155. [Lord Lovel]796
156. [The Trees so High]798
157. [The Brown Girl]800
158. [Barbara Allen’s Cruelty]802
159. [The Gardener]804
160. [The Lowlands o’ Holland]806
161. [The Spanish Lady’s Love]807
162. [The Bailiff’s Daughter of Islington]811
163. [The Blind Beggar’s Daughter of Bednall-Green]813
164. [The Loving Ballad of Lord Bateman]825
165. [Mary Ambree]829
166. [The Lady turned Serving-Man]832
167. [The Simple Ploughboy]837
168. [Cawsand Bay]839
169. [The Greenland Fishery]841
170. [The Old Cloak]843
171. [Widdicombe Fair]845
172. [Get Up and Bar the Door]847
173. [King John and the Abbot of Canterbury]849
174. [The Children in the Wood]854
175. [The Suffolk Miracle]860
176. [Bessie Bell and Mary Gray]865
[Index of First Lines]867

Certainly, I must confesse my own barbarousnes, I neuer heard the olde song of Percy and Duglas that I found not my heart mooued more then with a Trumpet.

Sir Philip Sidney.

[PART I]