Popular British Ballads, Ancient and Modern, Volume 1Dent, 1894 - Ballads, English |
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Page 150
... mankind I love but you alone . ' " It standeth so : a deed is do Whereof much harm shall grow . My destiny is for to die A shameful death , I trow , Or else to flee , —the one must be : None other way I know , But to withdraw as an ...
... mankind I love but you alone . ' " It standeth so : a deed is do Whereof much harm shall grow . My destiny is for to die A shameful death , I trow , Or else to flee , —the one must be : None other way I know , But to withdraw as an ...
Page 151
... Like as ye shall me find : Sith it is so that ye will go , I will not leave behind ; Shall never be said the Nutbrown Maid Was to her love unkind . Make you ready , for so am I , Although it were anon ; For in my mind , of all mankind I ...
... Like as ye shall me find : Sith it is so that ye will go , I will not leave behind ; Shall never be said the Nutbrown Maid Was to her love unkind . Make you ready , for so am I , Although it were anon ; For in my mind , of all mankind I ...
Page 152
... man . " go Though it be sung of old and young That I should be to blame , Theirs be the charge that speak so large In ... mankind I love but you alone . " " I counsel yow remember how It is no maiden's law , Nothing to doubt , but to ...
... man . " go Though it be sung of old and young That I should be to blame , Theirs be the charge that speak so large In ... mankind I love but you alone . " " I counsel yow remember how It is no maiden's law , Nothing to doubt , but to ...
Page 153
... mankind I love but you alone . " " For an outlaw this is the law , That men him take and bind , Without pity hanged to be , And waver with the wind . If I had need , as God forbid , What rescue could ye find ? For sooth , I trow , you ...
... mankind I love but you alone . " " For an outlaw this is the law , That men him take and bind , Without pity hanged to be , And waver with the wind . If I had need , as God forbid , What rescue could ye find ? For sooth , I trow , you ...
Page 156
... mankind I love but you alone . " " Lo , yet before , ye must do more , with me , If will ye go As cut your hair up by your ear , Your kirtle by the knee ; With bow in hand , for to withstand Your enemies , if need be ; And this same ...
... mankind I love but you alone . " " Lo , yet before , ye must do more , with me , If will ye go As cut your hair up by your ear , Your kirtle by the knee ; With bow in hand , for to withstand Your enemies , if need be ; And this same ...
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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...