Arthur Quiller-Couch

PREFACE

CONTENTS

PART I BOOK I 1. Thomas the Rhymer

2. Tam Lin

3. Sir Cawline

4. Sir Aldingar

5. Cospatrick

6. Willy's Lady

7. The Queen of Elfland's Nourice

8. Lady Isabel and the Elf-Knight

9. The Riddling Knight

10. May Colvin

11. The Wee Wee Man

12. Alison Gross

13. Kemp Owyne

14. The Laily Worm and the Machrel of the Sea

15. King Orfeo A Shetland Ballad.

16. King Henry

17. The Boy and the Mantle A Ballad of King Arthur's Court.

18. King Arthur and King Cornwall A Fragment

19. The Marriage of Sir Gawain [ A Fragment ]

20. Bonnie Annie

21. Brown Robyn's Confession

22. The Cruel Mother

23. Binnorie

24. The Broomfield Hill

25. Earl Mar's Daughter

26. Proud Lady Margaret

27. Clerk Saunders

28. The Daemon Lover

29. Clerk Colven

30. Young Hunting

31. The Great Silkie of Sule Skerrie

32. The Wife of Usher's Well

33. A Lyke-Wake Dirge

34. The Unquiet Grave

BOOK II 35. Hynd Horn

36. Hynd Etin

37. Erlinton

38. Earl Brand

39. The Douglas Tragedy

40. Glasgerion

41. King Estmere

42. Fair Annie

43. The Lass of Lochroyan

44. Young Bekie

45. Young Beichan ( Another version of the foregoing )

46. Childe Waters

47. Childe Maurice

48. Brown Adam

49. Jellon Grame

50. Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard

51. Lord Ingram and Childe Vyet

52. Fair Janet

53. Old Robin of Portingale

54. Lord Thomas and Fair Annet

55. Rose the Red and White Lily

56. Leesome Brand or, The Sheath and the Knife

57. Babylon or, The Bonnie Banks o' Fordie

58. Prince Robert

59. Young Andrew

60. The Gay Goshawk

61. Willie's Lyke-Wake

62. Fair Margaret and Sweet William

63. The Twa Brothers

64. The Cruel Brother

65. Edward, Edward

66. Lord Randal

67. The Twa Corbies (SCOTTISH VERSION)

68. The Three Ravens

BOOK III 69. The Nut-Brown Maid

70. Fause Foodrage

71. The Fair Flower of Northumberland

72. Young John

73. Lady Maisry

74. Bonny Bee Ho'm

75. Sir Patrick Spens

76. The Lord of Lorn

77. Edom o' Gordon

78. Lamkin

79. Hugh of Lincoln and The Jew's Daughter

80. The Heir of Linne

81. Fair Mary of Wallington

82. Young Waters

83. The Queen's Marie

84. The Outlaw Murray

85. Glenlogie

86. Lady Elspat

87. Jamie Douglas

88. Katharine Johnstone

89. Johnie Armstrong

90. Clyde Water

91. Young Benjie

92. Annan Water

93. Rare Willy drowned in Yarrow

94. The Duke of Gordon's Daughter

95. The Bonny Earl of Murray

96. Bonny George Campbell

BOOK IV 97. Judas

98. St. Stephen and King Herod

99. The Maid and the Palmer

100. The Falcon

101. The Cherry-Tree Carol

102. The Carnal [614] and the Crane

103. Jolly Wat

104. I Saw Three Ships

105. The Twelve Good Joys

106. The Angel Gabriel

107. The Three Kings

108. The Innocents

109. Dives and Lazarus

110. The Holy Well

111. The Seven Virgins

PART II BOOK V 112. Robyn and Gandelyn

113. The Birth of Robin Hood

114. Adam Bell, Clym of the Clough, and William of Cloudesley

115. A Little Geste of Robin Hood and his Meiny [707] The First Fytte

116. Robin Hood and Guy of Gisborne

117. Robin Hood and the Monk

118. Robin Hood and the Curtal Friar

119. Robin Hood and the Butcher

120. Robin Hood and the Bishop of Hereford

121. Robin Hood and Alan a Dale

122. Robin Hood and the Widow's Three Sons

123. Robin Hood's Golden Prize

124. The Noble Fisherman or Robin Hood's Preferment

125. The Death of Robin Hood

BOOK VI 126. Durham Field

127. The Battle of Otterburn

128. Chevy Chase

129. Northumberland Betrayed by Douglas

130. Sir Andrew Barton

131. The 'George-Aloe'

132. The 'Golden Vanity'

133. John Dory

134. Willie Macintosh

135. The Bonnie House o' Airlie

136. Johnnie of Cockerslee

137. Kinmont Willie

138. Jock o' the Side

139. Hobbie Noble

140. Archie of Cawfield

141. Jamie Telfer in the Fair Dodhead

142. Dick o' the Cow

143. Hughie the Graeme

144. The Lochmaben Harper

145. The Fire of Frendraught

146. The Death of Parcy Reed

147. Baby Livingston

148. The Gypsy Countess

149. The Baron of Brackley

150. The Dowie Houms of Yarrow

151. Lord Maxwell's Last Goodnight

152. Helen of Kirconnell

153. The Lament of the Border Widow

BOOK VII 154. Lady Alice

155. Lord Lovel

156. The Trees So High

157. The Brown Girl

158. Barbara Allan's Cruelty

159. The Gardener

160. The Lowlands o' Holland

161. The Spanish Lady's Love

162. The Bailiff's Daughter of Islington

163. The Blind Beggar's Daughter of Bednall-Green

164. The Loving Ballad of Lord Bateman A Broadside Version of 'Young Beichan'

165. Mary Ambree

166. The Lady turned Serving-Man

167. The Simple Ploughboy

168. Cawsand Bay

169. The Greenland Fishery

170. The Old Cloak

171. Widdicombe Fair

172. Get up and Bar the Door

173. King John and the Abbot of Canterbury

174. The Children in the Wood

175. The Suffolk Miracle

176. Bessie Bell and Mary Gray

INDEX OF FIRST LINES

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The Oxford Book of Ballads

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The
Oxford Book of
Ballads

Chosen & Edited by
Arthur Quiller-Couch

Oxford
At the Clarendon Press

PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN

TO
THE ONE SURVIVOR
OF THREE MEN
TO WHOM ALL LOVERS OF THE BALLAD
OWE MOST IN THESE TIMES
FRANCIS JAMES CHILD
FREDERICK JAMES FURNIVALL
AND
JOHN WESLEY HALES

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