Ballads, English -- England -- Texts; Ballads, Scots -- Scotland -- Texts
Willow, Willow, Willow. 4, 234.
_Willy's drowned in Yarrow._ 8, 228.
_Wind hath blown my plaid away._ 1, 277.
Winning of Cales. 7, 123.
_Wolfdietrich._ 2, 346.
Woman Warrior. 7, 257.
_Wood o' Warslin._ 2, 220.
_Worm of Lambton, Worm of Linton._ 1, 281;
8, 128.
_Wylie Wife of the hie Town hie._ Struthers's British Minstrel, 1, xxv.
_Xailoun_, tale of. 8, 54.
_Young Airly._ 6, 184.
Young Akin. 1, 179.
_Young Allan_ (taken from Sir Patrick Spens). Buchan, 2, 11.
Young Bearwell. 4, 302.
Young Beichan and Susie Pye. 4, 1, 253;
1, 282.
Young Bekie. 4, 10.
Young Benjie. 2, 298.
_Young Bondwell._ 4, 2.
Young Child Dyring, Danish bal. 4, 265.
_Young Cloudeslee._ 5, 124.
Young Hastings the Groom. 1, 189;
2, 271.
Young Hunting. 3, 295, 3.
Young Johnstone. 2, 291.
_Young Laird of Ochiltrie._ 4, 109.
_Young Prince James._ 2, 78.
_Young Ratcliffe._ 7, 165.
Young Redin. 3, 13.
Young Tamlane. 1, 114.
Young Waters. 3, 88, 301;
1, 282;
7, 120.
Youth of Rosengord, Swedish bal. 2, 347, 219.
_Zauberbecher, Sage vom._ 1, 4.
_Zeyn Alasman and the King of the Genii_, tale of. 1, 5.
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Transcriber's Notes
[Asterism] represents an asterism (three stars).
[gh] represents letter "yogh".
[Pointing hand] denotes the symbol of a right pointing hand.
Minor changes to regularise ballad line numbering and indentation have
been made without comment.
The following changes have been made to the text where typographical
errors have been corrected.
Page iv (Index): corrected "Gentleman" to "Gentlewoman" (The Wandering
young Gentlewoman)
Page 123 note to line 13: changed "12" to "13" (13. request.)
Page 123 Line 30: changed single to double close quotation mark ("Now
lets go to't, my own dear honey:")
Page 133 Line 121: added missing close quotation mark ("Your words,"
quoth the dragon, "I don't understand";)
Page 144: added closing quotation mark (p. 250 of the same
publication.)")
Page 153 Line 11: changed single to double opening qoutation mark ("I am
the Wife of Bath," she said,)
Page 157 Line 112: deleted extraneous closing single quotation mark (As
thou thyself hast done.")
Page 167 Line 2: changed "Whitttington" to "Whittington" (Of worthy
Whittington,)
Page 196: deleted unmatched open quotation marks before "in" (This
ballad is found in _The Melancholie Knight_)
Page 261 Line 28: changed single to double closing quotation mark (For
you shall find enough o' ane.")
Page 264 Line 100: changed single to double closing quotation mark (He's
cure thy wounds right speedily.")
Page 270 Line 32: changed "Que'" to "Quo'" (Quo' the wee boy, &c.)
Page 279 Line 50: added opening quotation mark ("We'll cross the raging
ocean wide,)
Page 301: changed "confidentyl" to "confidently" (trestly, _truly_,
_confidently_.)
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