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The English and Scottish Popular Ballads

Edited by Francis James Child.

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83 CHILD MAURICE

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84 BONNY BARBARA ALLAN

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86 YOUNG BENJIE

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87 PRINCE ROBERT

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88 YOUNG JOHNSTONE

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89 FAUSE FOODRAGE

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90 JELLON GRAME.

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91 FAIR MARY OF WALLINGTON

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92 BONNY BEE HOM

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94 YOUNG WATERS

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95 THE MAID FREED FROM THE GALLOWS

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96 THE GAY GOSHAWK

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100 WILLIE O WINSBURY

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101 WILLIE O DOUGLAS DALE

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102 WILLIE AND EARL RICHARD'S DAUGHTER

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103 ROSE THE RED AND WHITE LILY

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104 PRINCE HEATHEN

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105 THE BAILIFF'S DAUGHTER OF ISLINGTON

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106 THE FAMOUS FLOWER OF SERVING-MEN

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107 WILL STEWART AND JOHN

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108 CHRISTOPHER WHITE

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110 THE KNIGHT AND SHEPHERD'S DAUGHTER

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111 CROW AND PIE

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112 THE BAFFLED KNIGHT

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113 THE GREAT SILKIE OF SULE SKERRY

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Geordie

GEORDIE—N

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Motherwell's Note-Book, p. 20.

I have nine children in the west,
The tenth ane's in my bodie;
The eldest o them she never knew a man,
And she knows not wha's her daddy.