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The English and Scottish Popular Ballads

Edited by Francis James Child.

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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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6 WILLIE'S LADY

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9 THE FAIR FLOWER OF NORTHUMBERLAND

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10 THE TWA SISTERS

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11 THE CRUEL BROTHER

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EDWARD—C

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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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EDWARD—C

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MS. of Alexander Laing, 1829, p. 25.

‘O what did the fray begin about?
My son, come tell to me:’
‘It began about the breaking o the bonny hazel wand,
And a penny wad hae bought the tree.’