Given from the Percy folio manuscript, with some additional stanzas added by Thomas Percy to complete the story. EDOM O'GORDON A Scottish ballad--this version was printed at Glasgow in 1755 by Robert and Andrew Foulis. It has been enlarged with several stanzas, recovered from a fragment of the same ballad, from the Percy folio manuscript. THE BALLAD OF CHEVY CHACE From the Percy folio manuscript, amended by two or three others printed in black-letter. Written about the time of Elizabeth. SIR LANCELOT DU LAKE Given from a printed copy, corrected in part by an extract from the Percy folio manuscript. THE CHILD OF ELLE Partly from the Percy folio manuscript, with several additional stanzas by Percy as the original copy was defective and mutilated. KING EDWARD IV AND THE TANNER OF TAM WORTH The text in this ballad is selected from two copies in black-letter. One in the Bodleian Library, printed at London by John Danter in 1596. The other copy, without date, is from the Pepys Collection. SIR PATRICK SPENS Printed from two manuscript copies transmitted from Scotland. It is possible that this ballad is founded on historical fact. EDWARD, EDWARD An old Scottish ballad--from a manuscript copy transmitted from Scotland. KING LEIR AND HIS THREE DAUGHTERS Version from an old copy in the _Golden Garland,_ black-letter, entitled _A lamentable Song of the Death of King Lear and his Three Daughters._ THE GABERLUNZIE MAN This ballad is said to have been written by King James V of Scotland. _From "Percy's Reliques"--Volume II._ THE KNIGHT AND SHEPHERD'S DAUGHTER Printed from an old black-letter copy, with some corrections. KING JOHN AND THE ABBOT OF CANTERBURY This ballad was abridged and modernized in the time of James I from one much older, entitled _King John and the Bishop of Canterbury._ The version given here is from an ancient black-letter copy. BARBARA ALLEN'S CRUELTY Given, with some corrections, from an old black-letter copy, entitled _Barbara Alien's Cruelty, or the Young Man's Tragedy._ FAIR ROSAMOND The version of this ballad given here is from four ancient copies in black-letter: two of them in the Pepys' Library. It is by Thomas Delone. First printed in 1612. THE BOY AND THE MANTLE This is a revised and modernized version of a very old ballad. THE HEIR OF LINNE Given from the Percy folio manuscript, with several additional stanzas supplied by Thomas Percy. SIR ANDREW BARTON This ballad is from the Percy folio manuscript with additions and amendments from an ancient black-letter copy in the Pepys' Collection. It was written probably at the end of the sixteenth century. THE BEGGAR'S DAUGHTER OF BEDNALL GREEN Given from the Percy folio manuscript, with a few additions and alterations from two ancient printed copies. BRAVE LORD WILLOUGHBEY Given from an old black-letter copy. THE SPANISH LADY'S LOVE The version of an ancient black-letter copy, edited in part from the Percy folio manuscript.