



Produced by Les Bowler





A BUNDLE OF BALLADS

Edited By Henry Morley




CONTENTS.

     INTRODUCTION
     CHEVY CHASE
     CHEVY CHASE (the later version)
     THE NUT-BROWN MAID
     ADAM BELL, CLYM OF THE CLOUGH, AND WILLIAM OF CLOUDESLIE
     BINNORIE
     KING COPHETUA AND THE BEGGAR MAID
     TAKE THY OLD CLOAK ABOUT THEE
     WILLOW, WILLOW, WILLOW
     THE LITTLE WEE MAN
     THE SPANISH LADY'S LOVE
     EDWARD, EDWARD
     ROBIN HOOD
     KING EDWARD IV. AND THE TANNER OF TAMWORTH
     SIR PATRICK SPENS
     EDOM O' GORDON
     THE CHILDREN IN THE WOOD
     THE BEGGAR'S DAUGHTER OF BETHNAL GREEN
     THE BAILIFF'S DAUGHTER OF ISLINGTON
     BARBARA ALLEN'S CRUELTY
     SWEET WILLIAM'S GHOST
     THE BRAES O' YARROW
     KEMP OWYNE
     O'ER THE WATER TO CHARLIE
     ADMIRAL HOSIER'S GHOST
     JEMMY DAWSON
     WILLIAM AND MARGARET
     ELFINLAND WOOD
     CASABIANCA
     AULD ROBIN GRAY
     GLOSSARY




INTRODUCTION BY THE EDITOR.


Recitation with dramatic energy by men whose business it was to travel
from one great house to another and delight the people by the way,
was usual among us from the first. The scop invented and the glee-man
recited heroic legends and other tales to our Anglo-Saxon forefathers.
These were