Ballads of Romance and Chivalry

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Title: Ballads of Romance and Chivalry
Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - First Series
Author: Frank Sidgwick
Release Date: January 28, 2007 [EBook #20469]
Language: English
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POPULAR BALLADS?OF THE OLDEN TIME
SELECTED AND EDITED?BY FRANK SIDGWICK
First Series. Ballads of?Romance and Chivalry
'What hast here? Ballads??'Pray now, buy some.'
1. H. BULLEN 47 Great Russell Street London. MCMIII
'La rime n'est pas riche, et le style en est vieux:?Mais ne voyez-vous pas que cela vaut bien mieux?Que ces colifichets dont le bon sens murmure,?Et que la passion parle là toute pure?'
Molière, _Le Misanthrope_, I. 2.
CONTENTS
Page
Preface ix
Introduction xvii
Ballads in the First Series xliii
Glossary of Ballad Commonplaces xlvi
List of Books for Ballad Study lii
Note on the Illustrations lv

Glasgerion 1
Young Bekie 6
Old Robin of Portingale 13
Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard 19
The Bonny Birdy 25
Fair Annie 29
The Cruel Mother 35
Child Waters 37
Earl Brand