ENGLISH AND SCOTTISH BALLAD S. SELECTED AND EDITED BY FRANCIS JAMES CHILD. VOLUME V. BOSTON: LITTLE, BROWN AND COMPANY. SHEPARD, CLARK AND BROWN. M.DCCC.LVIII. 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. ADVERTISEMENT. THE ballads embraced in the four concluding volumes of this collection have been distributed into as many books. BOOK VI contains the Robin Hood Ballads. Book VII Border Ballads, with some kindred legends of violence and bloodshed. BOOK VIII Historical and quasi-Historical Ballads. BOOK IX Miscellaneous Ballads, including the Humorous, Satirical, Burlesque, some specimens of the Moral and Scriptural, and perhaps two or three which might better have been placed in an earlier volume, but were overlooked. A copious Index is subjoined to Volume Eighth, in which references are given not only to the ballads in this collection, in all their forms and under various titles, but also to such others, not here included, as are most likely to be inquired for. The exclusion of the "Imitations" of Mallet, Lady Wardlaw, Percy, Scott, Jamieson, Surtees, Leyden, &c. &c., may possibly excite the regret of a few. The addition of another volume to a compilation already so bulky, seemed highly objectionable. Besides, whatever may be the merit of the productions in question, they are never less likely to obtain credit for it, than when they are brought into comparison with their professed models. It was the Editor's wish and intention to insert in the concluding volume an essay on the History of Ballad Poetry. Owing to a press of occupations, and other circumstances, partly unforeseen, this purpose could not be carried out, in a manner at all satisfactory, without causing an unwarrantable delay in the completion of the work, and the execution of the original design has been therefore postponed for the present. What has been written by Percy, Ritson, Scott, Motherwell, Dauney, Chappell, and others, might afford valuable assistance in such an inquiry, but a wide and thorough examination of the topic is yet to be made. CAMBRIDGE, September, 1858. ✓ ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS. VOL. I. p. xiv, read: " Orpheus Caledonius, or a Collection of Scots Songs, Set to Musick by W. Thomson." London, 1725, fol. [1733, 2 vols. 8vo.] p. xvii, read: A Select Collection of Original Scottish Airs D. xxii, read: "The Knightly Tale of Golagrus and Gawane, p. xxxi. 1. 2. dele Announced. Add to the List: "The Hive. A Collection of the most celebrated Songs." In Four Volumes. 4th ed. London. 1732. "The British Musical Miscellany, or The Delightful Grove, being a collection of celebrated English and Scottish Songs." London. 1733-36. "The Select Melodies of Scotland, interspersed with those of Ireland and Wales," &c. By George Thomson. London. 1822-5. 6 vols. "The Universal Songster, or Museum of Mirth, forming the most complete, extensive, and valuable collection of Ancient and Modern Songs in the English language. 3 vols." London. 1834. |