Produced by Simon Gardner, Dianna Adair, Louise Davies and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Digital & Multimedia Center, Michigan State University Libraries.) Transcriber's Notes Archaic, dialect and inconsistent spellings have been retained as in the original. Other than minor changes to format or punctuation, any changes to the text have been listed at the end of the book. In this Plain Text version of the e-book, symbols from the ASCII and Latin-1 character sets only are used. Italic typeface is indicated by _underscores_. Small caps typeface is represented by UPPER CASE. Superscript characters are indicated by ^{xx}. [OE] and [oe] represent the oe-ligature (upper and lower case). A pointing hand symbol is represented as [hand]. Footnotes are numbered in sequence throughout the book and presented at the end of the section or ballad in which the footnote anchor appears. Notes with reference to ballad line numbers are presented at the end of each ballad. * * * * * ENGLISH AND SCOTTISH BALLADS. EDITED BY FRANCIS JAMES CHILD. VOLUME III. BOSTON: LITTLE, BROWN AND COMPANY. M.DCCC.LX. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1857 by LITTLE, BROWN AND COMPANY, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Massachusetts. RIVERSIDE, CAMBRIDGE: STEREOTYPED AND PRINTED BY H.O. HOUGHTON AND COMPANY. CONTENTS OF VOLUME THIRD. BOOK III. (continued.) Page