The English and Scottish popular ballads, volume 4 (of 5) — John Shaqi
The English and Scottish popular ballads, volume 4 (of 5)
General
The English and Scottish popular ballads, volume 4 (of 5)
Ballads, English -- England -- Texts; Ballads, Scots -- Scotland -- Texts
251. LANG JOHNNY MORE 396
(Additions and Corrections: IV, 524.)
252. THE KITCHIE-BOY 400
(Additions and Corrections: V, 277.)
253. THOMAS O YONDERDALE 409
254. LORD WILLIAM, OR, LORD LUNDY 411
255. WILLIE’S FATAL VISIT 415
256. ALISON AND WILLIE 416
257. BURD ISABEL AND EARL PATRICK 417
(Additions and Corrections: V, 278.)
258. BROUGHTY WA’S 423
259. LORD THOMAS STUART 425
(Additions and Corrections: V, 279.)
260. LORD THOMAS AND LADY MARGARET 426
261. LADY ISABEL 429
262. LORD LIVINGSTON 431
263. THE NEW-SLAIN KNIGHT 434
(Additions and Corrections: V, 279.)
264. THE WHITE FISHER 435
265. THE KNIGHT’S GHOST 437
ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS 439
189
HOBIE NOBLE
#a.# Caw’s Poetical Museum, p. 193.
#b.# ‘Hobie Noble,’ Percy Papers.
Scott’s Minstrelsy, I, 164, 1802, II, 90, 1833. The source is not
mentioned, but was undoubtedly Caw’s Museum, though there are variations
of text, attributable to the editor. A copy in the Campbell MSS, I, 230,
is again from the Museum, with several corrections, two of which are
also found in Scott. Caw received the ballad, says Sir Walter, from John
Elliot of Reidheugh. #b# seems to have been sent Percy (with ‘Dick o the
Cow’) by Roger Halt, in 1775.
Hobie Noble, though banished from Bewcastle for his irregularities, will
always command the hearty liking of those who live too late to suffer
from them, on account of his gallant bearing in the rescue of Jock o the
Side. See especially No 187, #A#, of which Hobie is the hero. All that
we know of him is so much as we are told in that ballad and in this. He
attached himself, after his expulsion from England, to the laird of
Mangerton, who gives him the praise ‘Thy coat is blue, thou has been
true.’
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