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A Collection of Ballads

by Andrew Lang

Pages
about 176
Category
Literature & Fiction
Language
English
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PAGE INTRODUCTION ix SIR PATRICK SPENS 1 BATTLE OF OTTERBOURNE 5 TAM LIN 10 THOMAS THE RHYMER 16 “SIR HUGH; OR THE JEW’S DAUGHTER” 19 SON DAVIE! SON DAVIE! 22 THE WIFE OF USHER’S WELL 24 THE TWA CORBIES 26 THE BONNIE EARL MORAY 27 CLERK SAUNDERS 30 WALY, WALY 35 LOVE GREGOR; OR, THE LASS OF LOCHROYAN 37 THE QUEEN’S MARIE 41 KINMONT WILLIE 45 JAMIE TELFER 52 THE DOUGLAS TRAGEDY 59 THE BONNY HIND 62 YOUNG BICHAM 65 THE LOVING BALLAD OF LORD BATEMAN 69 THE BONNIE HOUSE O’ AIRLY 73 ROB ROY 75 THE BATTLE OF KILLIE-CRANKIE 77 ANNAN WATER 79 THE ELPHIN NOURRICE 81 COSPATRICK 82 JOHNNIE ARMSTRANG 87 EDOM O’ GORDON 92 LADY ANNE BOTHWELL’S LAMENT 98 JOCK O THE SIDE 101 LORD THOMAS AND FAIR ANNET 107 FAIR ANNIE 111 THE DOWIE DENS OF YARROW 116 SIR ROLAND 119 ROSE THE RED AND WHITE LILY 123 THE BATTLE OF HARLAW—EVERGREEN VERSION 131 TRADITIONARY VERSION 138 DICKIE MACPHALION 142 A LYKE-WAKE DIRGE 143 THE LAIRD OF WARISTOUN 145 MAY COLVEN 147 JOHNIE FAA 150 HOBBIE NOBLE 152 THE TWA SISTERS 157 MARY AMBREE 160 ALISON GROSS 165 THE HEIR OF LYNNE 167 GORDON OF BRACKLEY 172 EDWARD, EDWARD 175 YOUNG BENJIE 177 AULD MAITLAND 180 THE BROOMFIELD HILL 189 WILLIE’S LADYE 193 ROBIN HOOD AND THE MONK 196 ROBIN HOOD AND THE POTTER 209 ROBIN HOOD AND THE BUTCHER 221 NOTES 227

WHEN the learned first gave serious attention to popular ballads, from the time of Percy to that of Scott, they laboured under certain disabilities. The Comparative Method was scarcely understood, and was little practised. Editors were content to study the ballads of their own countryside, or, at most, of Great Britain. Teutonic and Northern parallels to our ballads were then adduced, as by Scott and Jamieson.

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