Chapter I: Front Matter

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_Uniform with this Volume_

POPULAR BALLADS OF THE OLDEN TIME

+First Series.+ Ballads of Romance and Chivalry.

'It forms an excellent introduction to a sadly neglected source of poetry.... We ... hope that it will receive ample encouragement.' --_Athenæum._

'It will certainly, if carried out as it is begun, constitute a boon to the lover of poetry.... We shall look with anxiety for the following volumes of what will surely be the best popular edition in existence.' --_Notes and Queries._

'There can be nothing but praise for the selection, editing, and notes, which are all excellent and adequate. It is, in fine, a valuable volume of what bids fair to be a very valuable series.' --_Academy._

'The most serviceable edition of the ballads yet published in England.' --_Manchester Guardian._

+Second Series.+ Ballads of Mystery and Miracle and Fyttes of Mirth.

'Even more interesting than the first.' --_Athenæum._

'The augmenting series will prove an inestimable boon.' --_Notes and Queries._

'It includes many beautiful and well-known ballads, and no pains have been spared by the editor in producing them, so far as may be, in their entirety.' --_World._

'The second volume ... carries out the promise of the first.... Even after Professor Kittredge's compressed edition of Child, ... Mr. Sidgwick's work abundantly justifies its existence.' --_Manchester Guardian._

[The "First Series" is available from Project Gutenberg as e-text
#20469. The "Second Series" is in preparation as of February 2007.]

POPULAR BALLADS
OF THE OLDEN TIME
SELECTED AND EDITED
BY FRANK SIDGWICK

Third Series. Ballads of
Scottish Tradition and
Romance

'I wadna gi'e ae wheeple of a whaup
for a' the nichtingales in England.'

A. H. BULLEN
47 Great Russell Street
London. MCMVI

'It is impossible that anything should be universally tasted and
approved by a Multitude, tho' they are only the Rabble of a Nation,
which hath not in it some peculiar Aptness to please and gratify the
Mind of Man.'

Addison.

CONTENTS
PAGE

Map to illustrate Border Ballads _Frontispiece_
Preface vii
Ballads in the Third Series ix

The Hunting of the Cheviot 1
The Battle of Otterburn 16
Johnie Armstrong 30
The Braes of Yarrow 34
The Twa Brothers 37
The Outlyer Bold 40
Mary Hamilton 44
Kinmont Willie 49
The Laird o' Logie 58
Captain Car 62
Sir Patrick Spence 68
Flodden Field 71
Dick o' the Cow 75
Sir Hugh in the Grime's Downfall 89
The Death of Parcy Reed 93
Bewick and Grahame 101
The Fire of Frendraught 112
Geordie 118
The Baron of Brackley 122
The Gipsy Laddie 129
Bessy Bell and Mary Gray 133
Sir James the Rose 135
Clyde's Water 140
Katharine Jaffray 145
Lizie Lindsay 148
The Gardener 153
John o' the Side 156
Jamie Douglas 164
Waly, waly gin love be bonny 168
The Heir of Linne 170
Earl Bothwell 177
Durham Field 181
The Battle of Harlaw 194
The Laird of Knottington 200
The Whummil Bore 204
Lord Maxwell's Last Goodnight 206

Appendix--
the Jolly Juggler 211
Index of Titles 217
Index of First Lines 219