Lady Alice 163 Lady Maisry 70 Lamkin 196 Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard 19 Lord Ingram and Chiel Wyet 135 Lord Lovel 67 Lord Randal 193 Lord Thomas and Fair Annet 54 Old Robin of Portingale 13 The Bonny Birdy 25 The Boy and the Mantle 119 The Brown Girl 60 The Child of Ell 52 The Cruel Brother 76 The Cruel Mother 35 The Douglas Tragedy 49 The Gay Goshawk 153 The Marriage of Sir Gawaine 107 The Nutbrown Maid 80 The Twa Sisters o’ Binnorie 141 Willie o’ Winsbury 104 Young Bekie 6 Young Waters 146 INDEX OF FIRST LINES Page About Yule, when the wind blew cule 147 As it fell one holy-day 19 As it fell out on a long summer’s day 63 Be it right, or wrong, these men among 81 Child Maurice hunted ithe siluer wood 166 Childe Watters in his stable stoode 37 Glasgerion was a king’s own son 2 God! let neuer soe old a man 13 ‘I am as brown as brown can be 60 In Scotland there was a babie born 186 In the third day of May 120 It’s Lamkin was a mason good 196 ‘It’s narrow, narrow, make your bed 30 It was in and about the Martinmas time 150 Kinge Arthur liues in merry Carleile 109 King Easter has courted her for her gowd 173 Lady Alice was sitting in her bower-window 163 Lord Ingram and Chiel Wyet 135 Lord Lovel he stood at his castle-gate 68 Lord Thomas and Fair Annet 54 O Johney was as brave a knight 129 ‘O well’s me o’ my gay goss-hawk 153 ‘O wha will shoe my fu’ fair foot? 180 O wha woud wish the win’ to blaw 101 ‘O where hae ye been, Lord Randal, my son? 194 ‘Oh did ye ever hear o’ brave Earl Bran’? 46 ‘Rise up, rise up now, Lord Douglas,’ she says 49 Sayes, ‘Christ thee saue, good child of Ell 52 She leaned her back unto a thorn 35