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Transcriber's Notes

Archaic, dialect and inconsistent spellings have been retained as they
appear in the original. With the exception of minor changes to format or
punctuation, any changes to the text have been listed at the end of the
book.

In this Plain Text version of the e-book, symbols from the ASCII
character set only are used. The following substitutions are made for
other symbols, accents and diacritics in the text:

  [ae]          = ae-ligature
  [:a]          = a-umlaut
  ['e]          = e-acute
  [a'], [e']    = a-grave, e-grave
  [OE] and [oe] = oe-ligature (upper and lower case).
  [hand]        = a right pointing hand symbol.

Other conventions used to represent the original text are as follows:

  Italic typeface is indicated by _underscores_.
  Small caps typeface is represented by UPPER CASE.

Footnotes are numbered in sequence throughout the book and presented at
the end of the section or ballad in which the footnote anchor appears.
Notes with reference to ballad line numbers are presented at the end of
each ballad and are indicated in the form [Lnn] at line number nn.

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                         ENGLISH AND SCOTTISH
                               BALLADS.

                              EDITED BY
                         FRANCIS JAMES CHILD.

                              VOLUME IV.

                               BOSTON:
                      LITTLE, BROWN AND COMPANY.
                              M.DCCC.LX.


Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1857 by L