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The English and Scottish Popular Ballads

Edited by Francis James Child.

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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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6 WILLIE'S LADY

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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

The Miller's Melody; or, The Drowned Lady

Binorie, O an Binorie

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

Norham, down by Norham

THE TWA SISTERS—Y

THE TWA SISTERS—Z

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11 THE CRUEL BROTHER

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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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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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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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Sister, dear Sister

THE TWA SISTERS—T

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Allingham's Ballad Book, p. xxxiii. From Ireland.

‘Sister, dear sister, where shall we go play?’
Cold blows the wind, and the wind blows low
‘We shall go to the salt sea's brim.’
And the wind blows cheerily around us, high ho