Early Ballads, Illustrative of History, Traditions, and Customs: Also, Ballads and Songs of the Peasantry of England, Taken Down from Oral Recitation and Transcribed from Private Manuscripts, Rare Broadsides, and Scarce PublicationsRobert Bell |
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
LONDON LACKPENNY | 9 |
DESLY | 28 |
A TALE OF ROBIN HOOD | 52 |
PATIENT GRISSELL | 73 |
THE BATTLE OF OTTERBURN | 91 |
LORD LOVEL | 134 |
THE WATER O WEARIES WELL | 142 |
BLOW THE WINDS IHO | 302 |
THE NOBLEMANS GENEROUS KINDNESS | 318 |
THE BOWES TRAGEDY | 326 |
THE WANDERING YOUNG GENTLEWOMAN OR CATSKIN | 335 |
THE BRAVE EARL BRAND AND THE KING OF ENGLANDS | 342 |
SONGS | 358 |
THE USEFUL PLOW OR THE PLOWMANS PRAISE | 365 |
WOOING SONG OF A YEOMAN OF KENTS SONNE | 373 |
KING HENRY THE FIFTHS CONQUEST | 151 |
THE JOLLY HARPER | 154 |
THE DEATH OF PARCY REED | 161 |
A FAMOUS SEAFIGHT BETWEEN CAPTAIN WARD | 167 |
INTRODUCTION | 227 |
THE SWORDDANCERS SONG AND INTERLUDE | 230 |
THE VANITIES OF LIFE | 235 |
TOBACCO | 243 |
GLOUCESTERSHIRE WASSAILERS SONG | 246 |
A DIALOGUE BETWIXT AN EXCISEMAN AND DEATH | 249 |
A DIALOGUE BETWEEN THE HUSBANDMAN AND THE SERVING | 266 |
THE OUTLANDISH KNIGHT | 281 |
LORD BATEMAN | 288 |
THE KEACH I THE CREEL | 295 |
THE BARLEYMOW SONG | 379 |
SUFFOLK HARVESTHOME SONG | 390 |
THE MUMMERS SONG | 404 |
FAIRLOP FAIR SONG | 411 |
JOANS ALE WAS | 417 |
THE LEATHERN BOTTEL | 423 |
THE KING AND THE COUNTRYMAN | 430 |
THE LINCOLNSHIRE POACHER | 436 |
THE NEWMOWN | 443 |
OLD ADAM | 451 |
THE SPANISH LADIES | 454 |
BEGONE DULL CARE | 463 |
A BEGGING WE WILL | 471 |
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