Ballads of Romance and Chivalry: Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - First SeriesSidgwick, Frank
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Ballads of Romance and Chivalry: Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - First Series
Sidgwick, Frank
Ballads, English -- Texts
The king but an’ his nobles a’ 158
The king he hath been a prisoner 104
The young lords o’ the north country 70
There was a knight, in a summer’s night 25
There was three ladies play’d at the ba’ 77
There were twa sisters sat in a bour 141
When we were silly sisters seven 202
‘Why dois your brand sae drap wi’ bluid 190
‘Ye maun gang to your father, Janet 94
Young Bekie was as brave a knight 7
Printed by T. and A. Constable, Printers to His Majesty
at the Edinburgh University Press
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Errata:
Introduction:
[Footnote 3: _Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard_ (see p. 19, etc.).]
_footnote marker missing from text_
[Footnote 5: For the most recent discussions, see Bibliography,
p. lii.]
_footnote marker missing or invisible_
carefully balanced antitheses, and all the mechanical devices
_text reads “aud”_
Coleridge’s _annus mirabilis_ was 1797
_“Cole/ridge’s” printed at line break without visible hyphen_
his friend Humphrey Pitt of Shifnal, in Shropshire,
_text has extra close quote after “Shropshire,”_
1794. _Joseph Ritson._ Scotish Song. 2 vols. London.
_spelling unchanged_
Ballads:
The Douglas Tragedy
[Stanza 5.]
‘Light down, light down, Lady Margret,’ he said,
_close quote after “Lady Margret,” not visible_
[Annotation to 8.3]
‘dighted,’ dressed.
_reference “8.3” missing in text_
Lord Lovel
[Introduction]
Of the former the commonest is _Der Ritter und die Maid_
_spelling unchanged_
Fair Annie of Rough Royal
[Introduction]
‘Lochryan,’ says Scott, ‘lies in Galloway;
_text has extra close quote after “Galloway”_
Lord Randal
[Stanza 2.]
‘Where gat ye your dinner, Lord Randal, my son?
Where gat ye your dinner, my handsome young man?’
_text has empty line where “man?’” is expected_
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