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Ballads of Mystery and Miracle and Fyttes of Mirth Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Second Series
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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.
The “First Series” is available from Project Gutenberg as e-text 20469. All references to “First Series” are to this volume. The “Third Series” (not listed here) is “Ballads of Scottish Tradition and Romance”, e-text 20624. The Fourth Series, “Ballads of Robin Hood and other Outlaws”, is in preparation.
POPULAR BALLADS
OF THE OLDEN TIME
SELECTED AND EDITED
BY FRANK SIDGWICK
Second Series. Ballads of
Mystery and Miracle and
Fyttes of Mirth
‘Gar print me ballants weel, she said,
Gar print me ballants many.’
A. H. BULLEN
47 Great Russell Street
London. MCMIV
‘What man of taste and feeling can endure rifacimenti, harmonies, abridgments, expurgated editions?’ —Macaulay.
CONTENTS
| PAGE | |
| Preface | ix |
| Ballads in the Second Series | x |
| Additional Note on Ballad Commonplaces | xvi |
| THOMAS RYMER | 1 |
| THE QUEEN OF ELFAN’S NOURICE | 6 |
| ALLISON GROSS | 9 |
| THE LAILY WORM AND THE MACHREL OF THE SEA | 12 |
| KEMP OWYNE | 16 |
| WILLIE’S LADY | 19 |
| THE WEE WEE MAN | 24 |
| COSPATRICK | 26 |
| YOUNG AKIN | 32 |
| THE UNQUIET GRAVE | 41 |
| CLERK COLVEN | 43 |
| TAM LIN | 47 |
| THE CLERK’S TWA SONS O’ OWSENFORD | 56 |
| The Wife of Usher’s Well | 60 |
| THE GREAT SILKIE OF SULE SKERRIE | 63 |
| CLERK SANDERS | 66 |
| YOUNG HUNTING | 74 |
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