Popular British Ballads, Ancient and Modern, Volume 1Dent, 1894 - Ballads, English |
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Common terms and phrases
Adam Bel arrow auld ballad Bednall Green beggar blood bonny bower brother Captain Car Carterhaugh Cheviot Child Waters Clym dead dear doughty Douglas Earl fair Annet Fair Janet fair lady fast father frae gane Glasgerion gold hame hand haste HEADPIECE heart Hobie Noble king knee knight Laird's Jock Lamkin little aboon Little John little Musgrave lord Howard lord Persè maid maiden mair mankind I love maun merry Messrs milk-white mother ne'er never noble nourice nut-brown bride o'er Otterbourne Percy Percy Folio pretty Bessee quoth ride Robin Hood says ship Sir Andrew Barton sister slain song spak spake steed sweet William sword ta'en TAILPIECE Tam Lin tane thee Thou shalt town tree true love twa sisters unto weel wife wood yeomen yonder young Col'nel Young Johnstone young Tam Lin
Popular passages
Page 206 - O that I were where Helen lies ! Night and day on me she cries ; Out of my bed she bids me rise, Says,
Page 187 - Ye lie, ye lie, ye liar loud ! Sae loud I hear ye lie : For Percy had not men yestreen To dight my men and me. " But I have dream'da dreary dream, Beyond the Isle of Skye ; I saw a dead man win a fight, And I think that man was I.
Page 206 - Curst be the heart that thought the thought. And curst the hand that fired the shot. When in my arms burd ' Helen dropt. And died to succour me ! O think na ye my heart was sair, When my love dropt down and spak...
Page 67 - Love did lichtly me. O waly waly, but love be bonny A little time while it is new; But when 'tis auld, it waxeth cauld, And fades awa
Page 87 - The parents being dead and gone, The children home he takes, And brings them straight into his house, Where much of them he makes. He had not kept these pretty babes A twelvemonth and a day, But, for their wealth, he did devise To make them both away.
Page 86 - You must be father and mother both, And uncle all in one; God knows what will become of them, When I am dead and gone.
Page 156 - He. Nay, nay, not so ; ye shall not go, And I shall tell you why, — Your appetite is to be light Of love, I well espy. For...
Page 227 - Gloomy, gloomy was the night, And eerie was the way, As fair Jenny in her green mantle To Miles Cross she did gae. About the middle o the night She heard the bridles ring; This lady was as glad at that As any earthly thing.
Page 84 - In time brought forth to light. A gentleman of" good account In Norfolk dwelt of late, Who did in honour far surmount Most men of his estate.
Page 89 - He pawned and mortgaged all his land Ere seven years came about; And now at length this wicked act Did by this means come out...