English and Scottish Ballads, 1. köideFrancis James Child Little, Brown, 1860 |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
ain true love Ancient Ballads bairn Ballads Ballads and Songs bespake bird bonny bower Burd Ellen Carterhaugh castle Child Rowland cokwoldes Collection court Danish Danmarks Gamle Folkeviser daughter dear dragon Edinburgh edition Elfin knight fair Janet Fairy fast father Ffor frae gane gang Garland gowans grow gay gowd green grene Grundtvig gude hadna hame horn Janet Kemp Owyne Kempion King Arthur kiss knee knight kyng ladye land London lord Lord Dingwall maid maiden mair mantle maun Minstrelsy Mordred mother Motherwell ne'er never o'er Percy Society Poems printed pu'd queen quoth romance sall sayd saye Scho Scotland Scottish Ballads shee Sir Gawaine Sir Kay Sir Oluf soth steed sword ta'en tell thee Thomas thou tree unto vols weel Whan ye maun Ye'll yone young καὶ νὰ τὰ τὴν τὸ
Popular passages
Page 212 - THERE lived a wife at Usher's Well, And a wealthy wife was she ; She had three stout and stalwart sons, And sent them oer the sea...
Page xxi - Some ancient Christmas Carols, with the tunes to which they were formerly sung in the West of England; together with two ancient Ballads, a Dialogue, &c.
Page 109 - And see not ye that bonny road, That winds about the fernie brae? That is the road to fair Elfland, Where thou and I this night maun gae. " But, Thomas, ye maun hold your tongue, Whatever ye may hear or see ; For, if you speak word in Elflyn land, Ye'll ne'er get back to your ain countrie.
Page 199 - O I'm come to seek my former vows Ye granted me before." — " O hold your tongue of your former vows, For they will breed sad strife ; 0 hold your tongue of your former vows, For I am become a wife.
Page 107 - Her shirt was o' the grass-green silk, Her mantle o' the velvet fyne ; At ilka tett of her horse's mane, Hung fifty siller bells and nine. True Thomas, he pull'd aff his cap, And louted low down to his knee, " All hail, thou mighty queen of heaven ! For thy peer on earth I never did see." —
Page xxxi - BELL'S Edition, revised. With Preliminary Essay by the Rev. WW SKEAT, MA 4 vols. y. 6d. each. EARLY BALLADS AND SONGS OF THE PEASANTRY OF ENGLAND.
Page 110 - Rins through the springs o' that countrie. Syne they came on to a garden green, And she pu'd an apple frae a tree — * ' Take this for thy wages, true Thomas ; It will give thee the tongue that can never lie.' 'My tongue is mine ain,' true Thomas said; 'A gudely gift ye wad gie to me!
Page 40 - To parley with the foe in field, And make with him agreement faire. The king he charged all his hoste, In readinesse there for to bee ; » But noe man sholde noe weapon sturre, Unlesse a sword drawne they shold see. And Mordred, on the other parte, Twelve of his knights did likewise bringe, The beste of all his companye, & To holde the parley with the kinge.
Page 107 - TRUE THOMAS lay on Huntlie bank ; A ferlie he spied wi' his ee ; And there he saw a ladye bright, Come riding down by the Eildon Tree. Her shirt was o' the grass-green silk, Her mantle o' the velvet fyne ; At ilka tett of her horse's mane, Hung fifty siller bells and nine.
Page 111 - He has gotten a coat of the even cloth, And a pair of shoes of velvet green ; And till seven years were gane and past, True Thomas on earth was never seen.