[1] A smaller edition of ‘Child’, excellently planned, by Helen Child Sargent and George Lyman Kittridge, is published in England by Mr. Nutt. [2] 1864. [3] This does not hold of small transpositions, elisions of superfluous words, or corrections of spelling. In these matters I have allowed myself a free hand. [4] _On the History of the Ballads, 1100-1500_, by W. P. Ker, Proceedings of the British Academy, vol. iv. CONTENTS PART I BOOK I NO. PAGE 1. Thomas the Rhymer 1 2. Tam Lin 4 3. Sir Cawline 14 4. Sir Aldingar 20 5. Cospatrick 29 6. Willy’s Lady 36 7. The Queen of Elfland’s Nourice 41 8. Lady Isabel and the Elf-Knight 43 9. The Riddling Knight 46 10. May Colvin 47 11. The Wee Wee Man 51 12. Alison Gross 52 13. Kemp Owyne 55 14. The Laily Worm 59 15. King Orfeo 62 16. King Henry 64 17. The Boy and the Mantle 68 18. King Arthur and King Cornwall 75 19. The Marriage of Sir Gawain 88 20. Bonnie Annie 98 21. Brown Robyn’s Confession 100 22. The Cruel Mother 102 23. Binnorie 104 24. The Broomfield Hill 107 25. Earl Mar’s Daughter 110 26. Proud Lady Margaret 116 27. Clerk Saunders 118 28. The Daemon Lover 123 29. Clerk Colven 126 30. Young Hunting 129 31. The Great Silkie of Sule Skerrie 135 32. The Wife of Usher’s Well 136 33. A Lyke-Wake Dirge 138 34.