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... hand , it is being proved today that even in twentieth - century England it is still possible to find old villagers , people of the humblest and most illiterate class , who can sing certain old English ballads , having learnt them ...
... hand , it is being proved today that even in twentieth - century England it is still possible to find old villagers , people of the humblest and most illiterate class , who can sing certain old English ballads , having learnt them ...
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... hand ' to run her errand soon ' ; if she finds it necessary to stab herself or some other person , she always has a ' wee penknife ' which ' hangs low down by her gair ' ( that is , by the ' gair ' or gore of her skirt , the gore being ...
... hand ' to run her errand soon ' ; if she finds it necessary to stab herself or some other person , she always has a ' wee penknife ' which ' hangs low down by her gair ' ( that is , by the ' gair ' or gore of her skirt , the gore being ...
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... hands , it is now safe in the British Museum , where it can be seen any day ex- hibited in a case in the King's Library . Such is Percy's ' Folio Manuscript . ' There are also other valuable manuscripts made by collectors of ballads ...
... hands , it is now safe in the British Museum , where it can be seen any day ex- hibited in a case in the King's Library . Such is Percy's ' Folio Manuscript . ' There are also other valuable manuscripts made by collectors of ballads ...
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... hand in hand the steward her he took , And plight that lady his troth alone , That she should be his married wife , And he would make her the lady of Learne . 180 Thus that night it was gone , The other day was come truly ; The lady ...
... hand in hand the steward her he took , And plight that lady his troth alone , That she should be his married wife , And he would make her the lady of Learne . 180 Thus that night it was gone , The other day was come truly ; The lady ...
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... hand , In all the speed that ever might be ; She sent over into Scotland That is so far beyond the sea . 310 320 330 When the messenger came before the old lord of Learne , He kneeled low down on his knee , And he delivered the letter ...
... hand , In all the speed that ever might be ; She sent over into Scotland That is so far beyond the sea . 310 320 330 When the messenger came before the old lord of Learne , He kneeled low down on his knee , And he delivered the letter ...
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Benjie best milk-kye Bewick Binnorie bonny boy bonny mill-dams braes of Yarrow bride brother Brown Adam bully Carlisle town Castle daughter Dick Dickie Dickie's drie Earl Earl of Mar Edward fain Fair Annie false steward father dear fool frae gane gang Gay Goshawk give thee gold gone Grahame Grime hame hand hang hast heir of Linne horse John Stewart Johnie Armstrong King Estmere lady fair Laird's Jock leugh lord and master lord of Learne Lord Phenix Lord Randal LYKE-WAKE DIRGE married maun merry milk-kye To maintain mother never night o'er Patrick Spence penny Percy Folio Popular Ballads pound pray quoth ride sall says Hobby Noble shame speed sister song steal steed ta'en tanner tell There's Thomas Potts Thou art thou shalt thou'st three kye trow true-love unto verse wife Willie word Young Bekie ΙΟ
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Page 132 - Late late yestreen I saw the new moone, Wi the auld moone in hir arme, And I feir, I feir, my deir master, That we will cum to harme.
Page 72 - In behint yon auld fail dyke, I wot there lies a new-slain Knight ; And naebody kens that he lies there, But his hawk, his hound, and lady fair. ' His hound is to the hunting gane, His hawk to fetch the wild-fowl hame, His lady's ta'en another mate, So we may mak our dinner sweet. ' Ye'll sit on his white hause-bane, And I'll pick out his bonny blue een : Wi...
Page 83 - Curst be the heart that thought the thought. And curst the hand that fired the shot. When in my arms burd ' Helen dropt. And died to succour me ! O think na ye my heart was sair, When my love dropt down and spak...
Page 83 - I'll make a garland of thy hair Shall bind my heart for evermair Until the day I die. O that I were where Helen lies ! Night and day on me she cries ; Out of my bed she bids me rise, Says,
Page 132 - O wha is this has don this deid, This ill deid don to me, To send me out this time o...
Page 56 - O where hae ye been, Lord Randal, my son? O where hae ye been my handsome young man?' 'I hae been to the wild wood; mother, make my bed soon, For I'm weary wi' hunting, and fain wald lie down.
Page 55 - O dinna ye mind, young man," said she, "When ye was in the tavern a drinking, That ye made the healths gae round and round, And slighted Barbara Allan?" 20 He turned his face unto the wall, And death was with him dealing: "Adieu, adieu, my dear friends all, And be kind to Barbara Allan.
Page 56 - O where hae ye been, my handsome young man?" "I hae been to the wild wood; mother, make my bed soon. For I'm weary wi' hunting, and fain wald lie down." "Where gat ye your dinner, Lord Randal, my son? Where gat ye your dinner, my handsome young man?
Page 70 - I dought neither speak to prince or peer, Nor ask of grace from fair ladye.' 'Now hold thy peace!' the lady said, 'For as I say, so must it be.' He has gotten a coat of the even cloth, And a pair of shoes of velvet green ; And till seven years were gane and past, True Thomas on earth was never seen.
Page 91 - THERE was three ladies playd at the ba, With a hey ho and a lillie gay, There came a knight and played oer them a'.