Part 12
Version from an old copy in the _Golden Garland,_ black-letter, entitled _A lamentable Song of the Death of King Lear and his Three Daughters._
THE GABERLUNZIE MAN
This ballad is said to have been written by King James V of Scotland.
_From "Percy's Reliques"--Volume II._
THE KNIGHT AND SHEPHERD'S DAUGHTER
Printed from an old black-letter copy, with some corrections.
KING JOHN AND THE ABBOT OF CANTERBURY
This ballad was abridged and modernized in the time of James I from one much older, entitled _King John and the Bishop of Canterbury._ The version given here is from an ancient black-letter copy.
BARBARA ALLEN'S CRUELTY
Given, with some corrections, from an old black-letter copy, entitled _Barbara Alien's Cruelty, or the Young Man's Tragedy._
FAIR ROSAMOND
The version of this ballad given here is from four ancient copies in black-letter: two of them in the Pepys' Library. It is by Thomas Delone. First printed in 1612.
THE BOY AND THE MANTLE
This is a revised and modernized version of a very old ballad.
THE HEIR OF LINNE
Given from the Percy folio manuscript, with several additional stanzas supplied by Thomas Percy.
SIR ANDREW BARTON
This ballad is from the Percy folio manuscript with additions and amendments from an ancient black-letter copy in the Pepys' Collection. It was written probably at the end of the sixteenth century.
THE BEGGAR'S DAUGHTER OF BEDNALL GREEN
Given from the Percy folio manuscript, with a few additions and alterations from two ancient printed copies.
BRAVE LORD WILLOUGHBEY
Given from an old black-letter copy.
THE SPANISH LADY'S LOVE
The version of an ancient black-letter copy, edited in part from the Percy folio manuscript.
GIL MORRICE
The version of this ballad given here was printed at Glasgow in 1755. Since this date sixteen additional verses have been discovered and added to the original ballad.
CHILD WATERS
From the Percy folio manuscript, with corrections.
THE BAILIFF'S DAUGHTER OF ISLINGTON
From an ancient black-letter copy in the Pepys' Collection.
THE LYE
By Sir Walter Raleigh. This poem is from a scarce miscellany entitled _Davison's Poems, or a poeticall Rapsodie divided into sixe books ... the 4th impression newly corrected and augmented and put into a forme more pleasing to the reader._ Lond. 1621.
_From "English and Scottish Ballads."_
MAY COLLIN
From a manuscript at Abbotsford in the Sir Walter Scott Collection, _Scotch Ballads, Materials for Border Minstrelsy._
THOMAS THE RHYMER
_Scotch Ballads, Materials for Border Minstrelsy,_ No. 97, Abbotsford. From the Sir Walter Scott Collection. Communicated to Sir Walter by Mrs. Christiana Greenwood, London, May 27th, 1806.
YOUNG BEICHAN
Taken from the Jamieson-Brown manuscript, 1783.
CLERK COLVILL
From a transcript of No. 13 of William Tytler's Brown manuscript.
THE EARL OF MAR'S DAUGHTER
From Buchan's _Ballads of the North of Scotland,_ 1828.
HYND HORN
From Motherwell's manuscript, 1825 and after.
THE THREE RAVENS
_Melismate. Musicall Phansies. Fitting the Court, Cittie and Country Humours._ London, 1611. (T. Ravenscroft.)
THE WIFE OF USHER'S WELL
Printed from _Ministrelsy of the Scottish Border_, 1802.
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MANDALAY
By Rudyard Kipling.
JOHN BROWN'S BODY
IT'S A LONG WAY TO TIPPERARY
By Jack Judge and Harry Williams.
THE BALLAD OF READING GAOL
By Oscar Wilde.