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The English and Scottish Popular Ballads

Edited by Francis James Child.

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29.

29 THE BOY AND THE MANTLE

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30 KING ARTHUR AND KING CORNWALL

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31 THE MARRIAGE OF SIR GAWAIN

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35 ALLISON GROSS

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36 THE LAILY WORM AND THE MACHREL OF THE SEA

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37 THOMAS RYMER

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38 THE WEE WEE MAN

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40 THE QUEEN OF ELFAN'S NOURICE

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42 CLERK COLVILL

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43 THE BROOMFIELD HILL

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44 THE TWA MAGICIANS

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45 KING JOHN AND THE BISHOP

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46 CAPTAIN WEDDERBURN'S COURTSHIP

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47 PROUD LADY MARGARET

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48 YOUNG ANDREW

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49 THE TWA BROTHERS

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50 THE BONNY HIND

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52 THE KING'S DOCHTER LADY JEAN

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53 YOUNG BEICHAN

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JOHNIE COCK—K

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Finlay's Scottish Ballads, I, xxxi.

‘There's no a bird in a' this foreste
Will do as meikle for me
As dip its wing in the wan water
An straik it on my ee-bree.’