154. Lady Alice 795 155. Lord Lovel 796 156. The Trees so High 798 157. The Brown Girl 800 158. Barbara Allen’s Cruelty 802 159. The Gardener 804 160. The Lowlands o’ Holland 806 161. The Spanish Lady’s Love 807 162. The Bailiff’s Daughter of Islington 811 163. The Blind Beggar’s Daughter of Bednall-Green 813 164. The Loving Ballad of Lord Bateman 825 165. Mary Ambree 829 166. The Lady turned Serving-Man 832 167. The Simple Ploughboy 837 168. Cawsand Bay 839 169. The Greenland Fishery 841 170. The Old Cloak 843 171. Widdicombe Fair 845 172. Get Up and Bar the Door 847 173. King John and the Abbot of Canterbury 849 174. The Children in the Wood 854 175. The Suffolk Miracle 860 176. Bessie Bell and Mary Gray 865 INDEX OF FIRST LINES 867 _Certainly, I must confesse my own barbarousnes, I neuer heard the olde song of_ Percy _and_ Duglas _that I found not my heart mooued more then with a Trumpet._ SIR PHILIP SIDNEY. BOOK I _1. Thomas the Rhymer_ I True Thomas lay on Huntlie bank; A ferlie[5] he spied wi’ his e’e; And there he saw a ladye bright Come riding down by the Eildon Tree. II Her skirt was o’ the grass-green silk, Her mantle o’ the velvet fyne; At ilka tett[6] o’ her horse’s mane Hung fifty siller bells and nine. III True Thomas he pu’d aff his cap, And louted low down on his knee: ‘Hail to thee, Mary, Queen of Heaven! For thy peer on earth could never be.’ IV ‘O no, O no, Thomas,’ she said, ‘That name does not belang to me; I’m but the Queen o’ fair Elfland, That am hither come to visit thee. V ‘Harp and carp[7], Thomas,’ she said; ‘Harp and carp along wi’ me; And if ye dare to kiss my lips, Sure of your bodie I will be.’ VI