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THE BOOK

OF

BRAVE OLD BALLADS.

Illustrated with Sixteen  Engravings,

FROM DRAWINGS BY JOHN GILBERT.


"_I never heard the old song of Percie and Douglas, that I found not
my heart moved more than with a trumpet._"--SIR PHILIP SIDNEY.


LONDON: WARD, LOCK, AND TYLER, WARWICK HOUSE, PATERNOSTER ROW.




LONDON: PRINTED BY J. OGDEN AND CO., 172, ST. JOHN STREET, E.C.




[Illustration: THE FROLICSOME DUKE, OR THE TINKER'S GOOD FORTUNE.]




CONTENTS.


                                                                  PAGE

    ROBIN HOOD AND GUY OF GISBORNE                                   1

    THE CHILDE OF ELLE                                              17

    ADAM BELL, CLYM OF THE CLOUGH, AND WILLIAM OF CLOUDESLY--

      Part the First                                                30
      Part the Second                                               43
      Part the Third                                                55

    SIR LANCELOT DU LAKE                                            74

    THE FROLICKSOME DUKE; OR, THE TINKER'S GOOD FORTUNE             82

    THE MORE MODERN BALLAD OF CHEVY CHASE                           89

    KING EDWARD IV. AND THE TANNER OF TAMWORTH                     106

    THE HEIR OF LINNE--

      Part the First                                               118
      Part the Second                                              124

    SIR ANDREW BARTON--

      Part the First                                               133
      Part the Second                                              142

    BRAVE LORD WILLOUGHBEY                                         155

    KING JOHN AND THE ABBOT OF CANTERBURY                          162

    ROBIN HOOD AND THE CURTAL FRIAR                                170

    ROBIN HOOD AND ALLEN-A-DALE                                    181

    VALENTINE AND URSINE--

      Part the First                                               188
      Part the Second                                              198

    THE KING AND THE MILLER OF MANSFIELD--

      Part the First                                               214
      Part the Second                                              222




ILLUSTRATIONS.


                                                                  PAGE

    1. SIR GUY OF GISBORNE.

        _He took Sir Guy's head by the hair,
        And stuck it upon his bow's end_                            11

    2. THE CHILDE OF ELLE.

        _Pardon, my lord and father dear,
        This fair young knight and me_                              28

    3. ADAM BELL, CLYM OF THE CLOUGH, &C.

        _Cloudesly bent a right good bow,
        That was of a trusty tree_                                  36

    4.  _They kneeled down without hindrance,
        And each held up his hand_                                  60

    5. SIR LANCELOT DU LAKE.

        _She brought him to a river side
        And also to a tree_                                         76

    6. THE FROLICKSOME DUKE. (_Frontispiece._)

        _Now he lay something late, in his rich bed of state,
        Till at last knights and squires, they on him did wait_     84

    7. CHEVY CHASE.

        _Then leaving life, Earl Percy took
        The dead man by the hand_                                   99

    8. KING EDWARD AND THE TANNER.

        _The tanner he pull'd, the tanner he sweat,
        And held by the pummel fast_                               114

    9. THE HEIR OF LINNE.

        _And he pull'd forth three bags of gold,
        And laid them down upon the board_                         130

    10. SIR ANDREW BARTON.

        _They boarded then his noble ship,
        They boarded it with might and main_                       150

    11. THE BRAVE LORD WILLOUGHBEY.

        _They kneeled on the ground,
        And praised God devoutly_                                  157

    12. THE ABBOT OF CANTERBURY.

        _Then home rode the abbot of comfort so cold,
        And he met his shepherd a going to fold_                   165

    13. ROBIN HOOD AND THE CURTAL FRIAR.

        _The friar took Robin Hood on his back,
        Deep water he did bestride_                                174

    14. THE MARRIAGE OF ALLEN-A-DALE.

        _He ask'd