ROBIN HOOD AND ALLIN A DALE. After Ritson. This ballad is first found in broadside copies of the latter half of the seventeenth century. _Lin._, pause. ROBIN HOOD'S DEATH AND BURIAL. After Ritson, who made his version from a collation of two copies given in a York garland. ANNIE OF LOCHROYAN. After Aytoun, who improves on Jamieson's version. This beautiful ballad is given in varying forms by Herd, Scott, Buchan, and others. Lochroyan, or Loch Ryan, is a bay on the south-west coast of Scotland. _Jimp_, slender. _Gin_, if. _Greet_, cry. _Tirl'd_, rattled. _But and_, and also. _Warlock_, wizard. _Sinsyne_, since then. _Hooly_, slowly. _Deid_, death. _Syne_, then. LORD THOMAS AND FAIR ANNET. After Aytoun, who adds to the first twenty-four stanzas of the copy given in the _Reliques_ a concluding fourteen taken from Jamieson's _Sweet Willie and Fair Annie_. The unfortunate lady elsewhere figures as _The Nut-Brown Bride_ and _Fair Ellinor_. There are Norse ballads which relate something akin to the same story. _Gif_, if. _Rede_, counsel. _Owsen_, oxen. _Billie_, an affectionate term for brother. _Byre_, cow-house. _Fadge_, clumsy woman. _Sheen_, shoes. _Tift_, whiff. _Gin_, if. _Cleiding_, clothing. _Bruik_, enjoy. _Kist_, chest. _Lee_, lonesome. _Till_, to. _Dowie_, doleful. _Sark_, shroud. _But and_, and also. _Birk_, birch. THE BANKS OF YARROW. After Allingham's collated version. There are many renderings of this ballad, which Scott declares to be a great favorite among the peasantry of the Ettrick forest, who firmly believe it founded on fact. The river Yarrow, so favored of the poets, flows through a valley in Selkirkshire and joins the Tweed above the town of Selkirk. The _Tennies_ is a farm below the Yarrow kirk. _Lawing_, reckoning. _Dawing_, dawn. _Marrow_, mate. _Dowie_, doleful. _Leafu'_, lawful. _Binna_, be not. THE DOUGLAS TRAGEDY. After Scott. This ballad is likewise known under titles of _Earl Brand, Lady Margaret_ and _The Child of Ell_. Danish, Swedish, Norwegian and Icelandic ballads relate a kindred story, and the incident of the intertwining plants that spring from the graves of hapless lovers, occurs in the folk-lore of almost all peoples. _Bugelet_, a small bugle. _Dighted_, strove to stanch. _Plat_, intertwined. FINE FLOWERS I' THE VALLEY. After Aytoun, his version, though taken down from recitation, being in reality a compound of Herd's and Jamieson's. Aytoun claims that "this is perhaps the most popular of all the Scottish ballads, being commonly recited and sung even at the present day." Different refrains are often employed, and the ballad is frequently given under title of _The Cruel Brother_. Stories similar to this are found in the balladry of both northern and southern Europe. _Marrow_, mate. _Close_, avenue leading from the door to the street. _Loutiny_, bowing. _Its lane_, alone.