Transcriber's Notes This book contains material in multiple languages, and numerous examples of archaic, non-standard and dialect forms of English. Therefore no attempts to standardize spelling would be appropriate. The only changes made to the text are to correct typographical errors etc. which are listed at the end of the book. Minor corrections to format or punctuation have been made without comment. This Plain Text version of the e-book has been prepared using the UTF-8 character set. The unicode symbols used are listed below: ā macron Ć ć ń ś ý acute accent Č ě š caron/hacek ḍ dot under ĕ breve Œ oe-ligature ş cedilla † dagger/obelisk (used for cross symbol) αβγδεζ Greek script The following substitutions have been made to represent other characters and diacritics: [***] an asterism (triangle) of 3 stars ['s] denotes an editorial insertion of a contracted form, not an "s" with a diacritic. _underscore symbols_ represent italic typeface ~tilde symbols~ represent roman typeface within italics ALL CAPS represent small caps typeface #number signs# represent bold typeface ^x or ^{x, y} represents superscript text _x or _{xyz} represents subscript text Bold mark-up is widely used to denote the distinctive font used by the author for ballad version references. Footnotes have been numbered sequentially [1] to [187] throughout this volume but are presented at the end of each section or ballad to which they refer. A line of 7 spaced dots indicates a missing line of poetry. A line of 7 spaced asterisks indicates missing poetry material of one or more stanzas; this is distinct from a "thought break" or sub-section separator of 5 widely spaced asterisks such as follow these notes. * * * * * THE ENGLISH AND SCOTTISH POPULAR BALLADS EDITED BY FRANCIS JAMES CHILD IN FIVE VOLUMES VOLUME II NEW YORK DOVER PUBLICATIONS, INC. This Dover edition, first published in 1965, is an unabridged and unaltered republication of the work originally published by Houghton, Mifflin and Company, as follows: Vol. I--Part I, 1882; Part II, 1884 Vol. II--Part III, 1885; Part IV, 1886 Vol. III--Part V, 1888; Part VI, 1889 Vol. IV-Part VII, 1890; Part VIII, 1892 Vol. V--Part IX, 1894; Part X, 1898.