GIL MORRICE The version of this ballad given here was printed at Glasgow in 1755. Since this date sixteen additional verses have been discovered and added to the original ballad. CHILD WATERS From the Percy folio manuscript, with corrections. THE BAILIFF'S DAUGHTER OF ISLINGTON From an ancient black-letter copy in the Pepys' Collection. THE LYE By Sir Walter Raleigh. This poem is from a scarce miscellany entitled _Davison's Poems, or a poeticall Rapsodie divided into sixe books ... the 4th impression newly corrected and augmented and put into a forme more pleasing to the reader._ Lond. 1621. _From "English and Scottish Ballads."_ MAY COLLIN From a manuscript at Abbotsford in the Sir Walter Scott Collection, _Scotch Ballads, Materials for Border Minstrelsy._ THOMAS THE RHYMER _Scotch Ballads, Materials for Border Minstrelsy,_ No. 97, Abbotsford. From the Sir Walter Scott Collection. Communicated to Sir Walter by Mrs. Christiana Greenwood, London, May 27th, 1806. YOUNG BEICHAN Taken from the Jamieson-Brown manuscript, 1783. CLERK COLVILL From a transcript of No. 13 of William Tytler's Brown manuscript. THE EARL OF MAR'S DAUGHTER From Buchan's _Ballads of the North of Scotland,_ 1828. HYND HORN From Motherwell's manuscript, 1825 and after. THE THREE RAVENS _Melismate. Musicall Phansies. Fitting the Court, Cittie and Country Humours._ London, 1611. (T. Ravenscroft.) THE WIFE OF USHER'S WELL Printed from _Ministrelsy of the Scottish Border_, 1802. * * * * * MANDALAY By Rudyard Kipling. JOHN BROWN'S BODY IT'S A LONG WAY TO TIPPERARY By Jack Judge and Harry Williams. THE BALLAD OF READING GAOL By Oscar Wilde. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Book of Old Ballads, by Various