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The English and Scottish popular ballads, volume 4 (of 5)

Name: The English and Scottish popular ballads, volume 4 (of 5)
Author: Child, Francis James, 1825-1896 [Editor]

作者：Child, Francis James, 1825-1896 [Editor]
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ADVERTISEMENT TO PART VII
NUMBERS 189–225
F. J. C.
OCTOBER, 1890.
ADVERTISEMENT TO PART VIII
NUMBERS 226–265
F. J. C.
FEBRUARY, 1892.
CONTENTS OF VOLUME IV
194. THE LAIRD OF WARISTON 28
202. THE BATTLE OF PHILIPHAUGH 77
204. JAMIE DOUGLAS 90
205. LOUDON HILL, OR, DRUMCLOG 105
206. BOTHWELL BRIDGE 108
207. LORD DELAMERE 110
209. GEORDIE 123
210. BONNIE JAMES CAMPBELL 142
212. THE DUKE OF ATHOLE’S NURSE 150
213. SIR JAMES THE ROSE 155
218. THE FALSE LOVER WON BACK 209
220. THE BONNY LASS OF ANGLESEY 214
224. THE LADY OF ARNGOSK 241
230. THE SLAUGHTER OF THE LAIRD OF MELLERSTAIN 281
233. ANDREW LAMMIE 300
242. THE COBLE O CARGILL 358
244. JAMES HATLEY 370
247. LADY ELSPAT 387
249. AULD MATRONS 391
253. THOMAS O YONDERDALE 409
254. LORD WILLIAM, OR, LORD LUNDY 411
255. WILLIE’S FATAL VISIT 415
256. ALISON AND WILLIE 416
258. BROUGHTY WA’S 423
260. LORD THOMAS AND LADY MARGARET 426
261. LADY ISABEL 429
262. LORD LIVINGSTON 431
264. THE WHITE FISHER 435
265. THE KNIGHT’S GHOST 437
ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS 439
HOBIE NOBLE
9^4. brother is dead: _cf._ #b.# (Dead _is_ death.)
2^{1,2} _wanting._
2^{3,4}. _1^{5,6} in the MS._
11^4 _wanting._
12^{3,4} _wanting._
30^1. _wanting._
JAMIE TELFER OF THE FAIR DODHEAD
October, 1582.[2]
HUGHIE GRAME
THE LOCHMABEN HARPER
4, 5, _wanting._
5. _The burden is here_: Sing, Fadle fidle, etc.
THE DEATH OF PARCY REED
THE LAIRD OF WARISTON
4. _The MS indicates that this is the nurse’s speech._
8. has _struck out_, ‘s _substituted_.
LORD MAXWELL’S LAST GOODNIGHT
5^2. Fair well the Lanríke faires. (?)
9^4. struet. (?)
THE FIRE OF FRENDRAUGHT
26^1. _One_ alas _wanting._
16. “This is another stanza which I afterwards received.”
APPENDIX
YOUNG TOLQUHON
JAMES GRANT
BONNY JOHN SETON
THE BONNIE HOUSE O AIRLIE
9. _Wanting._
6. _Wanting._
9. _Wanting._
9. _Wanting._
9. _Wanting._
5–7. _Wanting._
9. _Wanting._
4. _Two stanzas, much as in #A b#, #f#._
7, 8. _Wanting: found only in #a#._
9. _Nearly #e#, #f#, 8._
1, 2. _Nearly #A g# 1, 2._
3. _Nearly #c# 3._
4^{1,2}. _Nearly #A g# 4^{1,2}._
4^{3,4}. _Nearly #c# 4^{3,4}._
6. _Cf. #b# 4 (5 above), #c# 7._
7. _Nearly #c# 8._
8. _#b# 6 altered_.
THE GYPSY LADDIE
7^2. _And wanting._
5 (_as 2_).
6 (_as 3_).
7. _Wanting._
Lal dee dumpy dinky diddle dah day
BESSY BELL AND MARY GRAY
A squib on the birth of the Chevalier St George, beginning
1^1. O _wanting._
2. _Wanting._
4. _Wanting._
THE BATTLE OF PHILIPHAUGH
1. Harehead wood is at the western end of the plain of Philiphaugh.
THE BARON OF BRACKLEY
32^2==40^2, #B# 18^2.
28==#B# 16.
JAMIE DOUGLAS
WALY, WALY, GIN LOVE BE BONY.
4. _Already given._
5^2, 6^4. Orange, _not_ orange, _in the MS._
1==#H# 1^{1–3}, #G# 1^4.
2, 3==#J# 2, 3.
4==#F# 2.
6==#F# 3.
7==#I# 14.
8–10==#F# 4–6.
11==#F# 7^{1,2,4}, #H# 4^3.
13==#F# 8.
14==#I# 5^{1–3}, #O#^4.
15==#I# 6.
16==#H# 7.
17==#J# 7.
18==#F# 11^2, #I# 3^{1,3,4}.
19, 20==#I# 4, 8.
22==#J# 9.
23==#F# 12.
24==#J# 10.
25==#I# 10.
26==#I# 7^{1–3}, #G# 4^4.
27==#G# 13, #I# 11^{3,4}.
28==#F# 15, #G# 14.
29==#F# 16.
30, 31==#I# 15, 16.
APPENDIX
ARTHUR’S SEAT SHALL BE MY BED, ETC., OR, LOVE IN DESPAIR
LOUDON HILL, OR, DRUMCLOG
BOTHWELL BRIDGE
LORD DELAMERE
4^1. Dutch _for_ French, _according to some reciters._
LORD DERWENTWATER
GEORDIE
14^3. O _has been altered from_ If, _and is not very distinct._
26. _Or_,
18^{3–6}. _Written in two lines._
10^3. breeks _is a corruption, for_ bouks, _#A# 14^3._
4^4. _Wanting._
12–20. _Wanting._
22–26. _Wanting._
APPENDIX
1. _Burden to st. 1_: honny _in the second line_.
BONNIE JAMES CAMPBELL
BEWICK AND GRAHAM
7^4. #b#, #d#, #e#, #f#. good _wanting._
10^{1,2}. _Wanting._
11^{3,4}. #d.# _Wanting._
5^{3,4}. _Wanting._
10^{1,2}. _Wanting._
THE DUKE OF ATHOLE’S NURSE
1. _Preceded by these two lines, taken from_ #D#:
SIR JAMES THE ROSE
8^2. _Wanting._
13 _as_ 14.
14 _as_ 13.
19^{1,2}. _Wanting._
24. _Wanting._
3. _Wanting._
13^2. Neither man you
18, 19. _Wanting._
24. _Wanting._
6. _Wanting._
13, 14. _Wanting._
24. _Wanting._
THE BRAES O YARROW
10^4. Wi my true love, on Yarrow. (_Cf._ #O# 1^4.)
11^3. ten slain men. (_Cf._ #F# 9^3.)
13^2. For a’ this breeds but sorrow. (_Cf._ #F# 13^2.)
RARE WILLIE DROWNED IN YARROW, OR, THE WATER O GAMRIE
APPENDIX
ANNAN WATER
THE MOTHER’S MALISON, OR, CLYDE’S WATER
15^3. For _is written after_ call _in the preceding line._
16^3. But ay _is written after_ agen _in the preceding line._
16^4. He _is written after_ crayed _in the preceding line._
18^2. Till _is written after_ in _in the preceding line._
THE BROOM OF COWDENKNOWS
6 _should probably come before_ 5.
1. Oh.
APPENDIX
THE LOVELY NORTHERNE LASSE
THE LOVELY NORTHERNE LASSE.
7. _Wanting._
THE FALSE LOVER WON BACK
11, 12. _Omitted._
THE GARDENER
Buchan’s Ballads of the North of Scotland, II, 187
4. “She continues, after the same style.”
THE BONNY LASS OF ANGLESEY
KATHARINE JAFFRAY
12^1. It’s _is of later insertion, perhaps editorial._
BONNY BABY LIVINGSTON
4^2. Intill #a.#
20. _Wanting._
22, 23. _Wanting._
25, 26. _Wanting._
34. _Wanting._
3^4. ewes. _Indistinctly written._
EPPIE MORRIE
THE LADY OF ARNGOSK
JN MASTERSON.
I remain your most Obed^t H^{le} Serv^t,
J. M.
ROB ROY
15, 16. _Each written in two lines in the MS._
13. “Tune changes to Haud awa fra me, Donald.”
LIZIE LINDSAY
16^1, 22^1. _The_ Sir _is an anticipation._
BONNY LIZIE BAILLIE
22. _Wanting._
24 (_or_, 23^4 24^{1–3}). _Wanting._
20. _Nearly as in_ #d#. Spanish leather.
14 stanzas.
GLASGOW PEGGIE
12^2. Feather beds and bowsters many. (A, 10.^2)
2^1. O I.
EARL CRAWFORD
THE SLAUGHTER OF THE LAIRD OF MELLERSTAIN
2^4 [James/John]Hately
THE EARL OF ERROL
26. _May have been a burden._
Ballad of Gilbert, Earl of Errol, and Lady Catherine Carnegie
23^4. _Corrupted? some malediction on the lady?_
RICHIE STORY
8^1. _Written twice._
6. _Wanting._
11^{3,4}, 12, 14, 16^{3,4}. _Wanting._
APPENDIX
THE DUKE OF ATHOL
ANDREW LAMMIE
CHARLIE MACPHERSON
THE EARL OF ABOYNE
3. _Wanting._
5^{3,4}. _Wanting._
7, 8^{2,3}, 9^{2–5}, 10, 11^{1,2}. _Wanting._
15, 16^{1,2}, 17^4, 18^2. _Wanting._
1^3. man hin | Before to, _etc._
7, 8 #are# 2, 3 _in the MS._
THE LAIRD O DRUM
Drum is ten miles west of Aberdeen.[138]
17. _This stanza looks like a spurious addition._
4. Drum: _and always_.
10^4. lake _for_ stain, _and so entered in pencil in the MS._
12, 13. _Wanting._
19. _Repeated, as in_ #a#.
20 as in #a#.
4, 5. _Wanting._
6^3. _Wanting._
11–13. _Wanting._
2. _Wanting._
3^4. I’m entirely at his will. (_Good prose_: _cf._ 5^3.)
6^{1,2}. _Wanting._
7. _Wanting._
10^{3,4}. _Wanting._
11–13. _Wanting._
APPENDIX
THE DUKE OF GORDON’S DAUGHTER
18,19. _Wanting._
30, 31. _Wanting._
8. _Wanting._
16. _As in_ #b#, #c#, #d#.
18, 19. _Wanting._
30, 31. _Wanting._
33. _As in #c#, #d#, and a concluding stanza as in #b#, #c#, #d#._
14. _Wanting._
16. _As in_ #b#, #c#, #d#.
18, 19. _Wanting._
26, 30, 31. _Wanting._
18, 19. _Wanting._
25. _Wanting._
30, 31. _Wanting._
33. _Wanting._
GLENLOGIE, OR, JEAN O BETHELNIE
LORD SALTOUN AND AUCHANACHIE
6, 7. _Wanting._
THE RANTIN LADDIE
9. _Wanting._
THE BARON O LEYS
THE COBLE O CARGILL
JAMES HARRIS (THE DÆMON LOVER)
The Rambler’s Garland, British Museum, 11621, c. 4 (57). 1785 (?)
JAMES HATLEY
9. _Wanting._
15. _Wanting._
16, 17. _The son speaks before the daughter._
16, 17. _The son speaks before the daughter._
11 _is put before 10, and 10^{1,2} omitted._
17^4. brothered _in the MS._
YOUNG ALLAN
Skene MS., p. 33; taken down in the north of Scotland, 1802–3
Buchan’s MSS, II, 182
Buchan’s Ballads of the North of Scotland, II, 11
O _is added at the end of every second line._
REDESDALE AND WISE WILLIAM
LADY ELSPAT
13. _Wanting, and probably also in W. Tytler’s copy._
THE GREY COCK, OR, SAW YOU MY FATHER?
3. _Wanting._
5. _Wanting._
AULD MATRONS
HENRY MARTYN
4. _Wanting._
9. _Wanting._
LANG JOHNNY MORE
THE KITCHIE-BOY
THOMAS O YONDERDALE
LORD WILLIAM, OR, LORD LUNDY
WILLIE’S FATAL VISIT
ALISON AND WILLIE
BURD ISABEL AND EARL PATRICK
BROUGHTY WA’S
LORD THOMAS STUART
LORD THOMAS AND LADY MARGARET
2. _Wanting._
16, 17. _Wanting._
LADY ISABEL
LORD LIVINGSTON
THE NEW-SLAIN KNIGHT
THE WHITE FISHER
THE KNIGHT’S GHOST
ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS
VOL. I.
1. Riddles Wisely Expounded.
2. The Elfin Knight.
5, 6. _Wanting._
3. The Fause Knight upon the Road.
4. Lady Isabel and the Elf-Knight.
56 ff., 488 f., II, 497 f.
8^4. ina? _indistinct._
5. Gil Brenton.
65 b. ‘Herr Peders Hustru,’ the same, p. 365,==Grundtvig, No 278.
7. Earl Brand.
8. Erlinton.
5. wake _should be_ wane _and_ wan wake, _as in #A#._
10. The Twa Sisters.
11. The Cruel Brother.
12. Lord Randal.
156 b. Vuk, I, No _302_, is translated by Bowring, p. 143.
14. Babylon, or, The Bonnie Banks o Fordie.
15. Leesome Brand.
16. Sheath and Knife.
17. Hind Horn.
10. An when he looked the ring upon, O but it was pale an wan!
18. Sir Lionel.
19. King Orfeo.
20. The Cruel Mother.
1. _Burden, second line_, by the.
4, 5. _Wanting._
6. _Burden, second line_, Down by the, etc.
21. The Maid and the Palmer.
22. St Stephen and Herod.
240 f., 505 f., II, 501 b. Add:
24. Bonnie Annie.
25. Willie’s Lyke-Wake.
26. The Three Ravens.
29. The Boy and the Mantle.
31. The Marriage of Sir Gawain.
32. King Henry.
34. Kemp Owyne.
37. Thomas Rymer.
39. Tam Lin.
356 b. Add: #D c#, 12^2. aft.
6^4. gae _written over_ left _struck out._
8^2, 9^2. A’ _in the MS._
40. The Queen of Elfan’s Nourice.
41. Hind Etin.
42. Clerk Colvill.
386 a. #Bohemian.# #A a# also==Wenzig, Slawische V. 1., 1830, p. 47.
43. The Broomfield Hill.
44. The Twa Magicians.
401 b. Tale in Curtin’s Myths and Folk-Lore of Ireland, pp. 152–6.
45. King John and the Bishop.
46. Captain Wedderburn’s Courtship.
47. Proud Lady Margaret.
49. The Twa Brothers.
53. Young Beichan.
VOL. II.
55. The Carnal and the Crane.
56. Dives and Lazarus.
57. Brown Robyn’s Confession.
59. Sir Aldingar.
60. King Estmere.
61. Sir Cawline.
62. Fair Annie.
63. Child Waters.
64. Fair Janet.
5^1. Away _struck out, and_ on _written over._
9^1. An _at the beginning struck out._
18^4. But _struck out._
40^4. twa _struck out._
65. Lady Maisry.
9 _is written as the third and fourth lines of_ 8.
15 _and_ 16 _are written as one stanza of four long lines_.
4^3. But _at the beginning struck out._
67. Glasgerion.
68. Young Hunting.
69. Clerk Saunders.
71. The Bent Sae Brown.
72. The Clerk’s Twa Sons o Owsenford.
73. Lord Thomas and Fair Annet.
5. Whan he cam to his father’s bower, etc. _Completed from 36._
75. Lord Lovel.
76. The Lass of Roch Royal.
217. #B.# Lochvoyan everywhere, not Lochroyan.
77. Sweet William’s Ghost.
78. The Unquiet Grave.
80. Old Robin of Portingale.
81. Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard.
83. Child Maurice.
86. Young Benjie.
3^3. _thare._
4 _should probably follow 5._
89. Fause Foodrage.
90. Jellon Grame.
91. Fair Mary of Wallington.
93. Lamkin.
321 ff., 513.
95. The Maid freed from the Gallows.
Methinks I see my ain dear lover, etc.”]
96. The Gay Goshawk.
99. Johnie Scot.
379 ff.
8^3. no news _thrice:_ master _wrongly, in anticipation of 13^3._
100. Willie o Winsbury.
106. The Famous Flower of Serving-Men.
110. The Knight and the Shepherd’s
112. The Baffled Knight.
113. The Great Silkie of Sule Skerry.
VOL. III.
114. Johnie Cock.
116. Adam Bell, etc.
117. A Gest of Robyn Hode.
121. Robin Hood and the Potter.
141. Robin Hood rescuing Will Stutly.
155. Sir Hugh, or, The Jew’s Daughter.
156. Queen Eleanor’s Confession.
158. Hugh Spencer’s Feats in France.
161. The Battle of Otterburn.
162. The Hunting of the Cheviot.
167. Sir Andrew Barton.
59^4. utuer==outer? bane? _But I do not understand._
168. Flodden Field.
169. Johnie Armstrong.
172. Musselburgh Field.
173. Mary Hamilton.
3^1, 11^3. _Edge bound in._
11^{1,2}. _Added in a different hand._
AA
178. Captain Car, or, Edom o Gordon.
181. The Bonny Earl of Murray.
182. The Laird o Logie.
15. _Wanting._
183. Willie Macintosh.
186. Kinmont Willie.
188. Archie o Cawfield.
VOL. IV.
190. Jamie Telfer of the Fair Dodhead.
191. Hughie Grame.
10^2. (laid==lay it.)
193. The Death of Parcy Reed.
196. The Fire of Frendraught.
200. The Gypsy Laddie.
201. Bessy Bell and Mary Gray.
203. The Baron of Brackley.
208. Lord Derwentwater.
211. Bewick and Graham.
214. The Braes o Yarrow.
3^1. _The rest torn away._
217. The Broom of Cowdenknows.
221. Katharine Jaffray.
222. Bonny Baby Livingston.
225. Rob Roy.
226. Lizie Lindsay.
243. James Harris.
251. Lang Johnny More.
135 b, #P# 13^2. _Read_ There’s.
188 b, line 15. _Read_ 207.
200 b, line 6. _Read_ Vidyádharí.
401 b, fourth paragraph, line 3 f. _Read_ No 68, III, 117.
10 a, eighth line from below. _Read_ #B# _for_ #C#.
26 b 13^1. _Read_ moon.
84 b, last line of third paragraph. _Read_ #G# 21.
428 b, #e#. _Read 3^4 for 3^1._
482 b, third paragraph, last line. _Read_ V, 101.
41 b, third paragraph, second line. _Read_ MS. _for_ Mr.
276 a, line 7. _Read_ queen’s own son.
281 a, 5^2. _Read_ new.
306 a, note *, fourth line. _Read_ Minstrelsy, II, 325, ed. 1802.
348 b, [#A# 12^1]. _Read_ sais. 15^2. _Read_ mirrie.
376 b, #G# 2^1. _Read_ g_rea_t.
379 a, 173, #A a#, first line. _Read_ Sharpe’s.
383 a, line 32. _Read_ pavlovsk.
384 a, 5^1. _Read_ was never.
435 a, #E# 5^2. _Read_ loon.
448 a, #A#, heading. _Read_ 1750.
459 a, 7^1. _Read_ Buss. 10^2. _Read_ o the Dun.
463 a, first line of citation from Maitland. _Read_ spuilzie.
473 b, 24^4. _Read_ never.
475 b, citation from Maitland, line 5. _Read_ ane guyd.
477 b, third paragraph, line 2. _Read_ moss-trooper.
485 b, first paragraph, line 9 from the end. _Read_ would.
489 b, #B# 9^1. _Read_, There (==There are) six.
499 a, #9#, line 8 f. _Read_ Vuk, II, 376, No 64.
504 a, third line from the bottom. _Read #O# for #J#._
504 b, third line. _Read_ Rae.
505 a, 13^4. _Read_ And aye. 18^1. _Read_ o the.
510 b. The note to p. 215 belongs under No 76.
7 b, 41^1. _Read_ thy kye.
8 a, 46^3. _Read_ dare.
21 b, 17^3. _Read_ grey.
23 a, #A a#, fourth line. _Read_ former [#B#].
38 a, 11^2. _Read, perhaps,_ fathers’: cf. their, in line 3.
45 b, #B# 7^1. _Read_ he’s.
47 b, 18^1. _Read_ Lady.
54 a, No 199, #B#. _Insert the title_: ‘Bonny House of Airly.’
66 a, #B# 5^1. _Read_ Gar . . . manteel.
68 a, #D#, third line. _Read_ Corse _for_ Cragievar.
69 a, 6^3. _Read_ Stincher. 8^3. _Read_ kill.
75 a, ninth line of preface. _Read_ in his Poems.
76 a, fifth line. _Read_ Beauchie.
81 b, seventeenth and twenty-fourth lines. _Read_ Abergeldy.
82 b, note, first line. _Read_ Brachally in Dee Water Side.
92 a, second line. _Read_ #A#, #C#.
93 b, #A# 2^1. _Read_ cam.
94 a, #B# 1^4. _Read_ wont.
96 a, #D# 3^3. _Read_ fire-boams.
105 a, sixth line of Appendix. _Read_ Broadside.
110 b, No 207, #D#, third line. _Read_ p. 135.
123 b, #I b#. _Strike out_ (Lord?) #K.# _Read_ p. 370.
124 b, fifth paragraph, last line but four. _Read_ Pitbagnet’s.
138 b, #C b# 12^{1,2}. _Read Wanting, for_ A man spoke loud.
139 a, #I b# 3^4, 4^1. _Read_ Pitbagnet’s.
152 b, 10^3. _Read_ showd.
153 b, 9^2. _Read_ was.
155 a, second line after title. _After_ library, _insert_ P. 6.
157 a, 2^2. _Read_ nourice.
168 a, 7^2. _Read_ doon.
201 b, 26^3. _Read_ kye.
202 a, #K# 2^2. _Read_ It is.
207 a, 20^2. _Read_ them a’ out.
212 a, 4^3. _Read_ sallads.
221 b, 13^2. _Read_ grey.
224 b, 22^1. _Read_ hes he.
226 a, 6^3. _Read_ Lammington.
248 a, 2^2. _Read_ ladie.
Gilmour’s Decisions, 1701, p. 43. (Macmath.)
TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES
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