May Margaret sits in her bower door Sewing her silken seam; She heard a note in Elmond’s wood, And wish’d she there had been.
She loot the seam fa’ frae her side, The needle to her tae, And she is on to Elmond’s wood As fast as she could gae.
[1] A smaller edition of ‘Child’, excellently planned, by Helen Child Sargent and George Lyman Kittridge, is published in England by Mr. Nutt.
[3] This does not hold of small transpositions, elisions of superfluous words, or corrections of spelling. In these matters I have allowed myself a free hand.
[4] _On the History of the Ballads, 1100-1500_, by W. P. Ker, Proceedings of the British Academy, vol. iv.
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
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