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A BOOK OF OLD BALLADS


Selected and with an Introduction

by

BEVERLEY NICHOLS




ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The thanks and acknowledgments of the publishers are due to the
following: to Messrs. B. Feldman & Co., 125 Shaftesbury Avenue, W.C. 2,
for "It's a Long Way to Tipperary"; to Mr. Rudyard Kipling and Messrs.
Methuen & Co. for "Mandalay" from _Barrack Room Ballads_; and to
the Executors of the late Oscar Wilde for "The Ballad of Reading Gaol."

"The Earl of Mar's Daughter", "The Wife of Usher's Well", "The Three
Ravens", "Thomas the Rhymer", "Clerk Colvill", "Young Beichen", "May
Collin", and "Hynd Horn" have been reprinted from _English and
Scottish Ballads_, edited by Mr. G. L. Kittredge and the late Mr. F.
J. Child, and published by the Houghton Mifflin Company.

The remainder of the ballads in this book, with the exception of "John
Brown's Body", are from _Percy's Reliques_, Volumes I and II.




CONTENTS


FOREWORD
MANDALAY
THE FROLICKSOME DUKE
THE KNIGHT AND SHEPHERD'S DAUGHTER
KING ESTMERE
KING JOHN AND THE ABBOT OF CANTERBURY
BARBARA ALLEN'S CRUELTY
FAIR ROSAMOND
ROBIN HOOD AND GUY OF GISBORNE
THE BOY AND THE MANTLE
THE HEIR OF LINNE
KING COPHETUA AND THE BEGGAR MAID
SIR ANDREW BARTON
MAY COLLIN
THE BLIND BEGGAR'S DAUGHTER OF BEDNALL GREEN
THOMAS THE RHYMER
YOUNG BEICHAN
BRAVE LORD WILLOUGHBEY
THE SPANISH LADY'S LOVE
THE FRIAR OF ORDERS GRAY
CLERK COLVILL
SIR ALDINGAR
EDOM O' GORDON
CHEVY CHACE
SIR LANCELOT DU LAKE
GIL MORRICE
THE CHILD OF ELLE
CHILD WATERS
KING EDWARD IV AND THE TANNER OF TAMWORTH
SIR PATRICK SPENS
THE EARL OF MAR'S DAUGHTER
EDWARD, EDWARD
KING LEIR AND HIS THREE DAUGHTERS
HYND HORN
JOHN BROWN'S BODY
TIPPERARY
THE BAILIFF'S DAUGHTER OF ISLINGTON
THE THREE RAVENS
THE GABERLUNZIE MAN
THE WIFE OF USHER'S WELL
THE LYE
THE BALLAD OF READING GAOL


_The source of these ballads will be found in the Appendix at the end
of this book._




LIST OF COLOUR PLATES


HYND HORN
KING ESTMERE
BARBARA ALLEN'S CRUELTY
FAIR ROSAMOND
THE BOY AND THE MANTLE
KING COPHETUA AND THE BEGGAR MAID