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Page ii
... preservation princi- pally to oral tradition . With the exception of a very few pieces , which , more through ... preserved in Scotland , and of which there is fortunately extant a copy in an English MS . , apparently coeval with ...
... preservation princi- pally to oral tradition . With the exception of a very few pieces , which , more through ... preserved in Scotland , and of which there is fortunately extant a copy in an English MS . , apparently coeval with ...
Page vi
... preserved by oral transmission from one age to another , are entitled to be considered as of equal authenticity , and coeval production , one with the other , although among them , wide and irreconcileable discrepancies exist . Indeed ...
... preserved by oral transmission from one age to another , are entitled to be considered as of equal authenticity , and coeval production , one with the other , although among them , wide and irreconcileable discrepancies exist . Indeed ...
Page ix
... preserved among the patriotick children of an ancient and heroick race , for a period of time to which imagination can assign no definite limits , but whose origin seems as remote and involved in as much darkness as the early history of ...
... preserved among the patriotick children of an ancient and heroick race , for a period of time to which imagination can assign no definite limits , but whose origin seems as remote and involved in as much darkness as the early history of ...
Page x
... preserve the character of the piece precisely as at first pourtrayed , yet it alters the language so completely , that not a word may be pre- served which originally ... preserved by tradition among the country people . It must , however X.
... preserve the character of the piece precisely as at first pourtrayed , yet it alters the language so completely , that not a word may be pre- served which originally ... preserved by tradition among the country people . It must , however X.
Page xvi
... preservation of these relics : and it is to such materials handed down in this manner from one to another , that we are indebted for the historical labours of " Adam of Bremen , Snorro Storleson Saxo , and Bishop Absalon , " see foot ...
... preservation of these relics : and it is to such materials handed down in this manner from one to another , that we are indebted for the historical labours of " Adam of Bremen , Snorro Storleson Saxo , and Bishop Absalon , " see foot ...
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amang ancient ballads Andrew Lammie Annie auld baith ballad birk blude bonny Annie Border Minstrelsy bower brother brume blooms bonnie Childe Maurice Clerk Saunders collection copy daughter dear doun Earl Earl Marshall Edinburgh edition Editor Fair Janet fair Scotland father fause Fause Foodrage Finlay Fordie frae Fyvie gane gang Gil Morice given gowd green gude hame hand hey lillelu Hynd Horn Jamieson John Johnie Johnie Scot King king's knight Lady Maisry ladye laird land Lord mair Margaret maun Minstrel mother ne'er never o'er old ballads owre poetry Popular Ballads printed Queen rade recitation Reliques Ritson Romance says Scot Scottish Ballads shee Sir Patrick Spens sister spak stanza steed Syr Cauline ta'en thee thou Tiftie's traditionary TWA BROTHERS volume weel ye'll young Benjie Young Johnstone young Logie
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Page liii - For Wetharryngton my harte was wo, That ever he slayne shulde be ; For when both his leggis wear hewyne in to, Yet he knyled and fought on hys kne.
Page 122 - Blow up the fire, my maidens! Bring water from the well! For a' my house shall feast this night, Since my three sons are well.
Page 121 - THERE lived a wife at Usher's Well, And a wealthy wife was she ; She had three stout and stalwart sons, And sent them oer the sea. They hadna...
Page 45 - Hame cam his gude horse, But never cam he! Out cam his auld mither Greeting fu' sair, And out cam his bonnie bride Rivin' her hair. Saddled and bridled And booted rade he; Toom hame cam the saddle But never cam he! "My meadow lies green, And my corn is unshorn, My barn is to bigg, And my babie's unborn.
Page 374 - Lie you there, dove Isabel, And all my sorrows lie with thee ; Till Kemp Owyne come ower the sea, And borrow you with kisses three, Let all the warld do what they will, Oh borrowed shall you never be !
Page 7 - As I was walking all alane, I heard twa corbies making a mane ; The tane unto the t'other say, " Where sall we gang and dine to-day...
Page 184 - O mak' my bed, Lady Mother," he says, " O mak' it braid and deep ! And lay Lady Marg'ret close at my back, And the sounder I will sleep." Lord William was dead lang ere midnight, Lady Marg'ret lang ere day — And all true lovers that go thegither, May they have mair luck than they ! Lord William was buried in St.
Page 98 - O what hills are yon, yon pleasant hills, That the sun shines sweetly on ? ' ' O yon are the hills of heaven,' he said, ' Where you will never win.' ' 0 whaten a mountain is yon, she said, ' All so dreary wi' frost and snow ? ' ' O yon is the mountain of hell,' he cried,
Page 21 - The starling flew to his mother's window stane, It whistled and it sang ; And aye the ower word o' the tune Was — " Johnie tarries lang !
Page 183 - They lighted down to tak a drink Of the spring that ran sae clear; And down the stream ran his gude heart's blood, And sair she gan to fear. "Hold up, hold up, Lord William," she says "For I fear that you are slain!