English and Scottish Ballads, Volume VI — John Shaqi
English and Scottish Ballads, Volume VI
General
English and Scottish Ballads, Volume VI
Ballads, English -- England -- Texts; Ballads, Scots -- Scotland -- Texts
9 b. Billie Archie 94
10. Hobie Noble 97
11. Jamie Telfer of the Fair Dodhead 105
12. The Fray of Suport 115
13. Rookhope Ryde 121
14. The Raid of the Reidswire 129
15. The Death of Parcy Reed 139
16 a. Captain Car 147
16 b. Edom o' Gordon 154
17. Willie Mackintosh 159
18. Lord Maxwell's Goodnight 162
19. The Lads of Wamphray 168
20. The Fire of Frendraught 173
21 a. The Bonnie House o' Airly [Finlay] 183
21 b. The Bonnie House of Airly [Sharpe] 186
22 a. The Baron of Brackley [Jamieson] 188
22 b. The Baron of Braikley [Buchan] 192
23. Gilderoy 196
24. Bob Roy 202
BOOK VII.
1 a. Queen Eleanor's Confession 209
1 b. Queen Eleanor's Confession [Kinloch] 213
2 Auld Maitland 217
3 a. Willie Wallace 231
3 b. Sir William Wallace 237
APPENDIX.
Johnny Cock 243
The Life and Death of Sir Hugh of the Grime 247
Johnie Armstrang 251
Loudoun Castle 254
Rob Roy 257
Eppie Morrie 260
Macpherson's Rant 263
The Flemish Insurrection 269
The Execution of Sir Simon Fraser 274
GLOSSARY 285
BOOK VI.
THE LOCHMABEN HARPER.
This fine old ballad was first printed in the _Musical Museum_ (_O heard
ye e'er of a silly blind Harper_, p. 598). Scott inserted a different
copy, equally good, in the _Border Minstrelsy_, i. 422, and there is
another, of very ordinary merits, in _Scottish Traditional Versions of
Ancient Ballads_ (_The Jolly Harper_), p. 37. In this the theft is done
on a wager, and the booty duly restored. On account of the excellence of
the ballad, we give two versions, though they differ but slightly.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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