The English and Scottish popular ballads, volume 2 (of 5)

Ballads, English -- England -- Texts; Ballads, Scots -- Scotland -- Texts

100. WILLIE O WINSBURY                                               398
         (Additions and Corrections: II, 514; III, 517; IV, 491;
            V, 296.)

  101. WILLIE O DOUGLAS DALE                                           406
         (Additions and Corrections: III, 517; V, 235.)

  102. WILLIE AND EARL RICHARD'S DAUGHTER                              412
         (Additions and Corrections: III, 518.)

  103. ROSE THE RED AND WHITE LILY                                     415

  104. PRINCE HEATHEN                                                  424
         (Additions and Corrections: V, 296.)

  105. THE BAILIFF'S DAUGHTER OF ISLINGTON                             426
         (Additions and Corrections: III, 518; V, 237.)

  106. THE FAMOUS FLOWER OF SERVING-MEN                                428
         (Additions and Corrections: III, 518; IV, 492.)

  107. WILL STEWART AND JOHN                                           432
         (Additions and Corrections: V, 237.)

  108. CHRISTOPHER WHITE                                               439

  109. TOM POTTS                                                       441
         (Additions and Corrections: III, 518.)

  110. THE KNIGHT AND SHEPHERD'S DAUGHTER                              457
         (Additions and Corrections: IV, 492; V, 237.)

  111. CROW AND PIE                                                    478

  112. THE BAFFLED KNIGHT                                              479
         (Additions and Corrections: III, 518; IV, 495;
            V, 239, 296.)

  113. THE GREAT SILKIE OF SULE SKERRY                                 494
         (Additions and Corrections: III, 518; IV, 495.)

  ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS                                            495




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THE CHERRY-TREE CAROL

        #A. a.# 'Joseph was an old man,' Sandys, Christmas
        Carols, p. 123. #b.# Sandys, Christmastide, p. 241.

        #B. a.# 'The Cherry-Tree Carol,' Husk, Songs of the
        Nativity, p. 59. #b.# Hone's Ancient Mysteries, p. 90.
        #c.# 'The Cherry-Tree Carol,' Sylvester, A Garland
        of Christmas Carols, p. 45. #d.# 'The Cherry-Tree,'
        Birmingham chap-book, of about 1843, in B. Harris
        Cowper's Apocryphal Gospels, p. xxxviii.

        #C.# 'The Cherry-Tree Carol,' Bramley and Stainer,
        Christmas Carols, p. 60.

        #D.# Notes and Queries, Fourth Series, XII, 461.


The proper story of this highly popular carol is derived from the
Pseudo-Matthew's gospel, chapter XX; Tischendorf, Evangelia Apocrypha,
p. 82; Thilo, Codex Apocryphus Novi Testamenti, Historia de Nativitate
Mariæ et de Infantia Salvatoris, p. 395. What succeeds, after #A# 9,
#B# 8, #C# 7, #D# 6, is probably founded on the angel's words to the
shepherds in Luke ii, and on Jesus's predictions in the authentic
gospels. This latter portion is sometimes printed as an independent
carol, under the title of 'Joseph and the Angel.'[1]

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The English and Scottish popular ballads, volume 2 (of 5)

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