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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 LITTLE,
BROWN AND COMPANY, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of
Massachusetts.

                         RIVERSIDE, CAMBRIDGE:
                      STEREOTYPED AND PRINTED BY
                      H. O. HOUGHTON AND COMPANY.




BOOK IV.

CONTINUED.


CONTENTS OF VOLUME FOURTH.

  BOOK IV. (continued.)
                                                                    Page

   9 a. Young Beichan and Susie Pye                                    1
   9 b. Young Bekie                                                   10
  10 a. Hynd Horn, [Motherwell]                                       17
  10 b. Hynd Horn, [Buchan]                                           25
  11 a. Katharine Janfarie                                            29
  11 b. Catherine Johnstone                                           34
  12.   Bonny Baby Livingston                                         38
  13.   The Broom of Cowdenknows                                      45
  14.   Johnie Scot                                                   50
  15.   Brown Adam                                                    60
  16 a. Lizie Lindsay, [Jamieson]                                     63
  16 b. Lizzie Lindsay, [Whitelaw]                                    68
  17.   Lizae Baillie                                                 73
  18.   Glasgow Peggy                                                 76
  19.   Glenlogie                                                     80
  20.   John O'Hazelgreen                                             83
  21.   The Fause Lover                                               89
  22.   The Gardener                                                  92
  23.   The Duke of Athol                                             94
  24.   The Rantin' Laddie                                            97
  25.   The Duke of Gordon's Daughter                                102
  26.   The Laird o'Logie                                            109
  27.   The Gypsie Laddie                                            114
  28.   Laird of Drum                                                118
  29 a. Lady Anne Bothwell's Lament, [Ramsay]                        123
  29 b. Lady Anne Bothwell's Lament, [Percy]                         129
  30 a. Waly, waly, but Love be bonny                                132
  30 b. Lord Jamie Douglas                                           135
  31.   The Nutbrowne Maide                                          143
  32.   The Bailiff's Daughter of Islington                          158
  33.   The Blind Beggar's Daughter of Bednall Green                 161
  34.   The Famous Flower of Serving Men                             174
  35.   The Fair Flower of Northumberland                            180
  36.   Gentle Herdsman, Tell to me                                  187
  37.   As I came from Walsingham                                    191
  38.   King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid                            195
  39.   The Spanish Lady's Love                                      201
  40.   Patient Grissel                                              207
  41.   The King of France's Daughter                                216
  42.   Constance of Cleveland                                       225
  43.   Willow, Willow, Willow                                       234
  44.   Greensleeves                                                 240
  45.   Robene and Makyne                                            245


  APPENDIX.

  Lord Beichan and Susie Pye                                         253
  Sweet William                                                      261
  Young Child Dyring                                                 265
  Barbara Livingston                                                 270
  Lang Johnny Moir                                                   272
  Lizie Baillie                                                      280
  Johnnie Faa and the Countess o'Cassilis                            283
  Jamie Douglas                                                      287
  Laird of Blackwood                                                 290
  The Provost's Dochter                                              292
  Blancheflour and Jellyflorice                                      295
  Chil Ether                                                         299
  Young Bearwell                                                     302
  Lord Thomas of Winesberry and the King's Daughter                  305
  Lady Elspat                                                        308
  The Lovers Quarrel                                                 311
  The Merchant's Daughter of Bristow                                 328

  GLOSSARY                                                           339




YOUNG BEICHAN AND SUSIE PYE.


An inspection of the first hundred lines of Robert of Gloucester's
_Life and Martyrdom of Thomas Beket_, (edited for the Percy Society by
W. H. Black, vol. xix,) will leave no doubt that the hero of this
ancient and beautiful tale is veritably Gilbert Becket, father of the
renowned Saint Thomas of Canterbury. Robert of Gloucester's story
coincides in all essential particulars with the traditionary legend,
but Susie Pye is, unfortunately, spoken of in the chronicle by no
other name than the daughter of the Saracen Prince Admiraud.

