Transcribed from the 1920 Macmillan and Co. edition of “The Bab Ballads” (also from “Fifty Bab Ballads” 1884 George Routledge and Sons edition) by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org

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The Bab Ballads

BY
W. S. GILBERT

MACMILLAN AND CO. LIMITED
ST. MARTIN’S STREET, LONDON
1920

COPYRIGHT

Transferred to Macmillan and Co. Ltd. 1904
Sixth Edition 1904
Reprinted 1906, 1910, 1912, 1914, 1917, 1919, 1920

CONTENTS

PAGE
Captain Reece [1]
The Rival Curates [8]
Only a Dancing Girl [14]
General John [18]
To a Little Maid [24]
John and Freddy [28]
Sir Guy the Crusader [34]
Haunted [39]
The Bishop and the ’Busman [44]
The Troubadour [51]
Ferdinando and Elvira; or, the Gentle Pieman [58]
Lorenzo de Lardy [64]
Disillusioned [71]
Babette’s Love [76]
To my Bride [82]
The Folly of Brown [84]
Sir Macklin [94]
The Yarn of the “Nancy Bell” [101]
The Bishop of Rum-ti-Foo [108]
The Precocious Baby [114]
To Phœbe [122]
Baines Carew, Gentleman [125]
Thomas Winterbottom Hance [131]
The Reverend Micah Sowls [467]
A Discontented Sugar Broker [138]
The Pantomime “Super” to his Mask [144]
The Force of Argument [475]
The Ghost, the Gallant, the Gael, and the Goblin [148]
The Phantom Curate [484]
The Sensation Captain [492]
Tempora Mutantur [501]
At A Pantomime [508]
King Borria Bungalee Boo [155]
The Periwinkle Girl [164]
Thomson Green and Harriet Hale [171]
Bob Polter [176]
The Story of Prince Agib [518]
Ellen M‘Jones Aberdeen [185]
Peter the Wag [193]
Ben Allah Achmet; or, the Fatal Tum [549]
The Three Kings of Chickeraboo [200]
Joe Golightly; or, the First Lord’s Daughter [528]
To the Terrestrial Globe [539]
Gentle Alice Brown [205]