Transcriber's Notes
This book contains material in multiple languages, and numerousexamples of archaic, non-standard and dialect forms of English.Therefore no attempts to standardize spelling would be appropriate. Theonly changes made to the text are to correct typographical errors etc.which are listed at the end of the book. Minor corrections to format orpunctuation have been made without comment.
Footnotes have been numbered sequentially throughout the book but arepresented at the end of each section or ballad to which they refer.
Special characters:
[asterism] represents an asterism of 3 stars
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                       THE ENGLISH AND SCOTTISH
                            POPULAR BALLADS
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                                  THE
                         ENGLISH AND SCOTTISH
                            POPULAR BALLADS
                               EDITED BY
                          FRANCIS JAMES CHILD
                           IN FIVE VOLUMES
                               VOLUME II
                               NEW YORK
                       DOVER PUBLICATIONS, INC.
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This Dover edition, first published in 1965, is anunabridged and unaltered republication of thework originally published by Houghton, Mifflin andCompany, as follows:
  • Vol. I—Part I, 1882; Part II, 1884
  • Vol. II—Part III, 1885; Part IV, 1886
  • Vol. III—Part V, 1888; Part VI, 1889
  • Vol. IV—Part VII, 1890; Part VIII, 1892
  • Vol. V—Part IX, 1894; Part X, 1898.
This edition also contains as an appendix toPart X an essay by Walter Morris Hart entitled"Professor Child and the Ballad," reprinted intoto from Vol. XXI, No. 4, 1906 [New Series Vol.XIV, No. 4] of the Publications of the ModernLanguage Association of America.
 Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 65-24347
             Manufactured in the United States of America
                       Dover Publications, Inc.                           180 Varick Street                         New York, N.Y. 10014
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NUMBERS 83-113
Upon concluding this Fourth Part, I have to express warm thanks to Mr JamesBarclay Murdoch for a punctilious recollation of Motherwell's manuscript, and to MrMalcolm Colquhoun Thomson for again granting the use of the volume. Miss MaryFraser Tytler, to remove a doubt about a few readings, has generously taken the troubleto make a fac-simile copy of Alexander Fraser Tytler's Brown manuscript. MrMacmath, whose accuracy is not surpassed by photographic reproduction, has done me favorsof a like kind, and of many kinds. Rev. Professor Skeat, with all his engagements, hasbeen prompt to render his peculiarly valuable help at the libraries of Cambridge; and MrF. H. Stoddard, late of Oxford, now of the University of California, has allowed me to callupon him freely for copies and collations at the Bodleian Library. The notes which DrReinhold Köhler, Pr                        
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