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Title: Ballads of Scottish Tradition and Romance
Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Third Series
Author: Various
Editor: Frank Sidgwick
Release Date: February 19, 2007 [EBook #20624]
Language: English
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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.'
0. 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