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The English and Scottish Popular Ballads

Edited by Francis James Child.

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Part I.
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1 RIDDLES WISELY EXPOUNDED
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2 THE ELFIN KNIGHT
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3 THE FAUSE KNIGHT UPON THE ROAD
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4 LADY ISABEL AND THE ELF-KNIGHT
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5 GIL BRENTON
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6 WILLIE'S LADY
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7 EARL BRAND
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8 ERLINTON
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9 THE FAIR FLOWER OF NORTHUMBERLAND
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10 THE TWA SISTERS
  
The Miller and the King's Daughter; or, The Miller and the King's Daughters
  
The Twa Sisters; or, The Cruel Sister
  
The Cruel Sister
  
The Bonnie Milldams of Binnorie
  
The Twa Sisters
  
The Bonny Bows o London
  
THE TWA SISTERS—G
  
THE TWA SISTERS—H
  
Bonnie Milldams o Binnorie
  
The Miller's Melody
  
Binnorie
  
The Miller's Melody; or, The Drowned Lady
  
Binorie, O an Binorie
  
Binnorie
  
The Bonny Bows o London
  
The Twa Sisters; or, The Swan swims bonnie O
  
The Twa Sisters
  
The Three Sisters; or, Bodown; or, The Barkshire Tragedy
  
THE TWA SISTERS—S
  
Sister, dear Sister
  
THE TWA SISTERS—U
  
Benorie
  
Norham, down by Norham
  
Binnorie
  
THE TWA SISTERS—Y
  
THE TWA SISTERS—Z
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11 THE CRUEL BROTHER
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12 LORD RANDAL
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13 EDWARD
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14 BABYLON; OR, THE BONNIE BANKS O FORDIE
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15 LEESOME BRAND
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16 SHEATH AND KNIFE
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17 HIND HORN
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18 SIR LIONEL.
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19 KING ORFEO
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20 THE CRUEL MOTHER.
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21 THE MAID AND THE PALMER
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22 ST STEPHEN AND HEROD
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23 JUDAS
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24 BONNIE ANNIE
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25 WILLIE'S LYKE-WAKE
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26 THE THREE RAVENS
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27 THE WHUMMIL BORE
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28 BURD ELLEN AND YOUNG TAMLANE
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Part II.
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Part III.
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Part IV.
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Part V.
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Part VI.
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Part VII.
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Part VIII.
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Part IX.

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20

THE ELFIN KNIGHT—L

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Notes and Queries, 1st S., vii, 8. Signed D.

1

My father gave me an acre of land,
Sing ivy, sing ivy
My father gave me an acre of land.
Sing green bush, holly and ivy

2

I ploughd it with a ram's horn.

3

I harrowd it with a bramble.

4

I sowd it with a pepper corn.

5

I reapd it with my penknife.

6

I carried it to the mill upon the cat's back.
[OMITTED]

7

I made a cake for all the king's men.
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