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The Oxford Book of Ballads

by Arthur Quiller-Couch

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  1. 1Preface
  2. 2Part I
  3. 32 — Tam Lin
  4. 43 — Sir Cawline
  5. 54 — Sir Aldingar
  6. 65 — Cospatrick
  7. 76 — Willy’s Lady
  8. 87 — The Queen of Elfland’s Nourice
  9. 98 — Lady Isabel and the Elf-Knight
  10. 109 — The Riddling Knight
  11. 1110 — May Colvin
  12. 1211 — The Wee Wee Man
  13. 1312 — Alison Gross
  14. 1413 — Kemp Owyne
  15. 1514 — The Laily Worm and the Machrel of the Sea
  16. 1615 — King Orfeo — A Shetland Ballad
  17. 1716 — King Henry
  18. 1817 — The Boy and the Mantle — A Ballad of King Arthur’s Court
  19. 1918 — King Arthur and King Cornwall — A Fragment
  20. 2019 — The Marriage of Sir Gawain [A Fragment]
  21. 2120 — Bonnie Annie
  22. 2221 — Brown Robyn’s Confession
  23. 2322 — The Cruel Mother
  24. 2423 — Binnorie
  25. 2524 — The Broomfield Hill
  26. 2625 — Earl Mar’s Daughter
  27. 2726 — Proud Lady Margaret
  28. 28Part I
  29. 2928 — The Daemon Lover
  30. 3029 — Clerk Colven
  31. 3130 — Young Hunting
  32. 3231 — The Great Silkie of Sule Skerrie
  33. 3332 — The Wife of Usher’s Well
  34. 3433 — A Lyke-Wake Dirge
  35. 3534 — The Unquiet Grave
  36. 36Book II — 35. Hynd Horn
  37. 3736 — Hynd Etin
  38. 3837 — Erlinton
  39. 3938 — Earl Brand
  40. 4039 — The Douglas Tragedy
  41. 4140 — Glasgerion
  42. 4241 — King Estmere
  43. 4342 — Fair Annie
  44. 4443 — The Lass of Lochroyan
  45. 4544 — Young Bekie
  46. 4645 — Young Beichan (Another Version of the Foregoing)
  47. 4746 — Childe Waters
  48. 4847 — Childe Maurice
  49. 4948 — Brown Adam
  50. 5049 — Jellon Grame
  51. 5150 — Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard
  52. 5251 — Lord Ingram and Childe Vyet
  53. 5352 — Fair Janet
  54. 5453 — Old Robin of Portingale
  55. 5554 — Lord Thomas and Fair Annet
  56. 5655 — Rose the Red and White Lily
  57. 5756 — Leesome Brand or, the Sheath and the Knife
  58. 5857 — Babylon or, the Bonnie Banks o’ Fordie
  59. 5958 — Prince Robert
  60. 6059 — Young Andrew
  61. 6160 — The Gay Goshawk
  62. 6261 — Willie’s Lyke-Wake
  63. 6362 — Fair Margaret and Sweet William
  64. 6463 — The Twa Brothers
  65. 6564 — The Cruel Brother
  66. 6665 — Edward, Edward
  67. 6766 — Lord Randal
  68. 6867 — The Twa Corbies — (Scottish Version)
  69. 6968 — The Three Ravens
  70. 70Book III — 69. The Nut-Brown Maid
  71. 7170 — Fause Foodrage
  72. 7271 — The Fair Flower of Northumberland
  73. 7372 — Young John
  74. 7473 — Lady Maisry
  75. 7574 — Bonny Bee Ho’m
  76. 7675 — Sir Patrick Spens
  77. 7776 — The Lord of Lorn
  78. 7877 — Edom o’ Gordon
  79. 7978 — Lamkin
  80. 8079 — Hugh of Lincoln and the Jew’s Daughter
  81. 8180 — The Heir of Linne
  82. 8281 — Fair Mary of Wallington
  83. 8382 — Young Waters
  84. 8483 — The Queen’s Marie
  85. 8584 — The Outlaw Murray
  86. 8685 — Glenlogie
  87. 8786 — Lady Elspat
  88. 8887 — Jamie Douglas
  89. 8988 — Katharine Johnstone
  90. 9089 — Johnie Armstrong
  91. 9190 — Clyde Water
  92. 9291 — Young Benjie
  93. 9392 — Annan Water
  94. 9493 — Rare Willy Drowned in Yarrow
  95. 9594 — The Duke of Gordon’s Daughter
  96. 9695 — The Bonny Earl of Murray
  97. 9796 — Bonny George Campbell
  98. 98Book IV — 97. Judas
  99. 9998 — St. Stephen and King Herod
  100. 10099 — The Maid and the Palmer
  101. 101100 — The Falcon
  102. 102101 — The Cherry-Tree Carol
  103. 103102 — The Carnal and the Crane
  104. 104103 — Jolly Wat
  105. 105104 — I Saw Three Ships
  106. 106105 — The Twelve Good Joys
  107. 107106 — The Angel Gabriel
  108. 108107 — The Three Kings
  109. 109108 — The Innocents
  110. 110109 — Dives and Lazarus
  111. 111110 — The Holy Well
  112. 112111 — The Seven Virgins
  113. 113Part II
  114. 114113 — The Birth of Robin Hood
  115. 115114 — Adam Bell, Clym of the Clough, and William of Cloudesley
  116. 116115 — A Little Geste of Robin Hood and His Meiny
  117. 117116 — Robin Hood and Guy of Gisborne
  118. 118117 — Robin Hood and the Monk
  119. 119118 — Robin Hood and the Curtal Friar
  120. 120119 — Robin Hood and the Butcher
  121. 121120 — Robin Hood and the Bishop of Hereford
  122. 122121 — Robin Hood and Alan a Dale
  123. 123122 — Robin Hood and the Widow’s Three Sons
  124. 124123 — Robin Hood’s Golden Prize
  125. 125124 — The Noble Fisherman or Robin Hood’s Preferment
  126. 126125 — The Death of Robin Hood
  127. 127Book VI — 126. Durham Field
  128. 128127 — The Battle of Otterburn
  129. 129128 — Chevy Chase
  130. 130129 — Northumberland Betrayed by Douglas
  131. 131130 — Sir Andrew Barton
  132. 132131 — The ‘George-Aloe’
  133. 133132 — The ‘Golden Vanity’
  134. 134133 — John Dory
  135. 135134 — Willie Macintosh
  136. 136135 — The Bonnie House o’ Airlie
  137. 137136 — Johnnie of Cockerslee
  138. 138137 — Kinmont Willie
  139. 139138 — Jock o’ the Side
  140. 140139 — Hobbie Noble
  141. 141140 — Archie of Cawfield
  142. 142141 — Jamie Telfer in the Fair Dodhead
  143. 143142 — Dick o’ the Cow
  144. 144143 — Hughie the Graeme
  145. 145144 — The Lochmaben Harper
  146. 146145 — The Fire of Frendraught
  147. 147146 — The Death of Parcy Reed
  148. 148147 — Baby Livingston
  149. 149148 — The Gypsy Countess
  150. 150149 — The Baron of Brackley
  151. 151150 — The Dowie Houms of Yarrow
  152. 152151 — Lord Maxwell’s Last Goodnight
  153. 153152 — Helen of Kirconnell
  154. 154153 — The Lament of the Border Widow
  155. 155Book VII — 154. Lady Alice
  156. 156155 — Lord Lovel
  157. 157156 — The Trees So High
  158. 158157 — The Brown Girl
  159. 159158 — Barbara Allan’s Cruelty
  160. 160159 — The Gardener
  161. 161160 — The Lowlands o’ Holland
  162. 162161 — The Spanish Lady’s Love
  163. 163162 — The Bailiff’s Daughter of Islington
  164. 164163 — The Blind Beggar’s Daughter of Bednall-Green
  165. 165164 — The Loving Ballad of Lord Bateman — A Broadside Version of ‘Y…
  166. 166165 — Mary Ambree
  167. 167166 — The Lady Turned Serving-Man
  168. 168167 — The Simple Ploughboy
  169. 169168 — Cawsand Bay
  170. 170169 — The Greenland Fishery
  171. 171170 — The Old Cloak
  172. 172171 — Widdicombe Fair
  173. 173172 — Get Up and Bar the Door
  174. 174173 — King John and the Abbot of Canterbury
  175. 175174 — The Children in the Wood
  176. 176175 — The Suffolk Miracle
  177. 177176 — Bessie Bell and Mary Gray

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