A Bundle of Ballads. Various

tion>

       Various

      A Bundle of Ballads

      Published by Good Press, 2019

       [email protected]

      EAN 4057664566171

Table of Contents

       INTRODUCTION BY THE EDITOR.

       CHEVY CHASE

       CHEVY CHASE (the later version.)

       THE NUT-BROWN MAID

       ADAM BELL, CLYM OF THE CLOUGH, AND WILLIAM OF CLOUDESLIE.

       THE SECOND FYTTE.

       THE THIRD FYTTE.

       BINNORIE.

       KING COPHETUA AND THE BEGGAR-MAID.

       TAKE THY OLD CLOAK ABOUT THEE.

       WILLOW, WILLOW, WILLOW.

       PART THE SECOND.

       THE LITTLE WEE MAN.

       THE SPANISH LADY'S LOVE. AFTER THE TAKING OF CADIZ.

       EDWARD, EDWARD.

       ROBIN HOOD.

       THE SECONDE FYTTE.

       THE THYRDE FYTTE.

       THE FOURTH FYTTE.

       THE FIFTH FYTTE.

       THE SIXTH FYTTE.

       THE SEVENTH FYTTE.

       THE EIGHTH FYTTE.

       KING EDWARD IV. AND THE TANNER OF TAMWORTH.

       SIR PATRICK SPENS.

       EDOM O' GORDON.

       THE CHILDREN IN THE WOOD.

       THE BEGGAR'S DAUGHTER OF BETHNAL GREEN.

       THE SECOND FYTTE.

       THE BAILIFF'S DAUGHTER OF ISLINGTON.

       BARBARA ALLEN'S CRUELTY.

       SWEET WILLIAM'S GHOST.

       THE BRAES O' YARROW.

       KEMP OWYNE.

       O'ER THE WATER TO CHARLIE.

       ADMIRAL HOSIER'S GHOST.

       JEMMY DAWSON.

       WILLIAM AND MARGARET.

       ELFINLAND WOOD.

       CASABIANCA.

       AULD ROBIN GRAY.

       SECOND PART.

       GLOSSARY.

INTRODUCTION BY THE EDITOR.

       Table of Contents

      Recitation with dramatic energy by men whose business it was to travel from one great house to another and delight the people by the way, was usual among us from the first. The scop invented and the glee-man recited heroic legends and other tales to our Anglo-Saxon forefathers. These were followed by the minstrels and other tellers of tales written for the people. They frequented fairs and merrymakings, spreading the knowledge not only of tales in prose or ballad form, but of appeals also to public sympathy from social reformers.

      As late as the year 1822, Allan Cunningham, in publishing a collection of "Traditional Tales of the English and Scottish Peasantry," spoke from his own recollection of itinerant story-tellers who were welcomed in the houses of the peasantry and earned a living by their craft.

      The earliest story-telling was in recitative. When the old alliteration passed on into rhyme, and the crowd or rustic fiddle took the place of the old "gleebeam" for accentuation of the measure and the meaning of the song, we come to the ballad-singer as Philip Sidney knew him. Sidney said, in his "Defence of Poesy," that he never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas, that he found not his heart moved more than with a trumpet; and yet, he said, "it is sung but by some blind crowder, with no rougher voice than rude style;