The English and Scottish Popular Ballads/Part 2

by Francis James Child

The
English and Scottish
Popular Ballads

Edited by
Francis James Child

Part II

Boston
Houghton, Mifflin and Company
New York: 11 East Seventeenth Street
The Riverside Press, Cambridge
London: Henry Stevens, 4 Trafalgar Square

One Thousand Copies Printed.

No. 233

Copyright, 1884, by F. J. Child.

The Riverside Press, Cambridge:
Printed by H. O. Houghton and Company.

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I have again to express my obligations and my gratitude to many who have aided in the collecting and editing of these Ballads.

To Sir Hugh Hume Campbell, for the use of two considerable manuscript volumes of Scottish Ballads.

To Mr. Allardyce, of Edinburgh, for a copy of the Skene Ballads, and for a generous permission to print such as I required, in advance of a possible publication on his part.

To Mr. Mansfield, of Edinburgh, for the use of the Pitcairn manuscripts.

To Mrs. Robertson, for the use of Note-Books of the late Dr. Joseph Robertson, and to Mr. Murdoch, of Glasgow, Mr. Lugton, of Kelso, Mrs. Alexander Forbes, of Edinburgh, and Messrs. G. L. Kittredge and G. M. Richardson, former students of Harvard College, for various communications.

To Dr. Reinhold Köhler's unrivalled knowledge of popular fiction, and his equal liberality, I am indebted for valuable notes, which will be found in the Additions at the end of this volume.

The help of my friend Dr. Theodor Vetter has enabled me to explore portions of the Slavic ballad-field which otherwise must have been neglected.

Professors D. Silvan Evans, John Rhys, Paul Meyer, and T. Frederick Crane have lent me a ready assistance in literary emergencies.

The interest and coöperation of Mr. Furnivall and Mr. Macmath have been continued to me without stint or weariness.

It is impossible, while recalling and acknowledging acts of courtesy, good will, and friend-ship, not to allude, with one word of deep personal grief, to the irreparable loss which all who are concerned with the study of popular tradition have experienced in the death of Svend Grundtvig.

F. J. C.

June, 1884

Contents

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		Page
29.	The Boy and the Mantle	257
30.	King Arthur and King Cornwall	274
31.	The Marriage of Sir Gawain	288
32.	King Henry	297
33.	Kempy Kay	300
34.	Kemp Owyne	306
35.	Allison Gross	313
36.	The Laily Worm and the Machrel of the Sea	315
37.	Thomas Rhymer	317
38.	The Wee Wee Man	329
39.	Tam Lin	335
40.	The Queen of Elfan's Nourice	358
41.	Hind Etin	360
42.	Clerk Colvill	371
43.	The Broomfield Hill	396
44.	The Twa Magicians	399
45.	King John and the Bishop	403
46.	Captain Wedderburn's Courtship	414
47.	Proud Lady Margaret	425
48.	Young Andrew	432
49.	The Twa Broterhs	435
50.	The Bonny Hind	444
51.	Lizie Wan	447
52.	The King's Dochter Lady Jean	450
53.	Young Beichan	454
	Additions and Corrections	484