Produced by Louise Hope, Paul Murray and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.ne [Transcriber’s Note: The printed text used small capitals for emphasis. These have been replaced with +marks+ where appopriate. Missing lines were shown by rows of widely spaced dots (single lines) or asterisks (longer sections). They are shown here in groups of three: ... ... ... or *** *** *** Variant forms such as “Maisry” : “Maisery” or “+Text(s)+” : “+The Text+” are unchanged. Brackets are in the original, except when enclosing footnotes or illustration markers. Errors are listed at the end of the text.] * * * * * * * * * * * * * * [Illustration: Facsimile of the Percy Folio MS. (_British Museum_, Addit. MS. 27, 879, f. 46 _verso_). +Glasgerion+, first three verses (see p. 2), annotated by Percy. The full page is 15¼ x 6 inches.] POPULAR BALLADS OF THE OLDEN TIME SELECTED AND EDITED BY FRANK SIDGWICK First Series. Ballads of Romance and Chivalry ‘What hast here? Ballads? ‘Pray now, buy some.’ A. H. BULLEN 47 Great Russell Street London. MCMIII ‘La rime n’est pas riche, et le style en est vieux: Mais ne voyez-vous pas que cela vaut bien mieux Que ces colifichets dont le bon sens murmure, Et que la passion parle là toute pure?’ Molière, _Le Misanthrope_, I. 2. CONTENTS Page Preface ix Introduction xvii Ballads in the First Series xliii Glossary of Ballad Commonplaces xlvi List of Books for Ballad Study lii Note on the Illustrations lv