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A Bundle of Ballads A Bundle of Ballads Henry Morley A Bundle of Ballads Table of Contents A Bundle of Ballads............................................................................................................................................1 Henry Morley...........................................................................................................................................1 INTRODUCTION BY THE EDITOR....................................................................................................2 CHEVY CHASE......................................................................................................................................6 SECOND FYTTE....................................................................................................................................7 CHEVY CHASE (the later version.).....................................................................................................10 THE NUT−BROWN MAID..................................................................................................................19 ADAM BELL, CLYM OF THE CLOUGH, AND WILLIAM OF CLOUDESLIE.........................................28 THE FIRST FYTTE..............................................................................................................................28 THE SECOND FYTTE.........................................................................................................................34 THE THIRD FYTTE.............................................................................................................................39 BINNORIE............................................................................................................................................47 KING COPHETUA AND THE BEGGAR−MAID..............................................................................50 TAKE THY OLD CLOAK ABOUT THEE..........................................................................................54 WILLOW, WILLOW, WILLOW..........................................................................................................56 PART THE SECOND...........................................................................................................................58 THE LITTLE WEE MAN.....................................................................................................................60 THE SPANISH LADY'S LOVE. AFTER THE TAKING OF CADIZ...............................................61 EDWARD, EDWARD..........................................................................................................................64 ROBIN HOOD.......................................................................................................................................66 THE SECONDE FYTTE.......................................................................................................................75 THE THYRDE FYTTE.........................................................................................................................83 THE FOURTH FYTTE.........................................................................................................................90 THE FIFTH FYTTE..............................................................................................................................99 THE SIXTH FYTTE............................................................................................................................103 THE SEVENTH FYTTE.....................................................................................................................107 THE EIGHTH FYTTE........................................................................................................................113 KING EDWARD IV. AND THE TANNER OF TAMWORTH.......................................................118 SIR PATRICK SPENS........................................................................................................................124 EDOM O' GORDON...........................................................................................................................128 THE CHILDREN IN THE WOOD.....................................................................................................133 THE BEGGAR'S DAUGHTER OF BETHNAL GREEN...............................................................................137 PART THE FIRST...............................................................................................................................137 THE SECOND FYTTE.......................................................................................................................142 THE BAILIFF'S DAUGHTER OF ISLINGTON...............................................................................147 BARBARA ALLEN'S CRUELTY......................................................................................................149 SWEET WILLIAM'S GHOST............................................................................................................151 THE BRAES O' YARROW................................................................................................................154 KEMP OWYNE...................................................................................................................................156 O'ER THE WATER TO CHARLIE....................................................................................................158 ADMIRAL HOSIER'S GHOST..........................................................................................................159 JEMMY DAWSON.............................................................................................................................162 WILLIAM AND MARGARET...........................................................................................................165 ELFINLAND WOOD..........................................................................................................................168 CASABIANCA...................................................................................................................................172 AULD ROBIN GRAY......................................................................................................................................173 FIRST PART.......................................................................................................................................173 i A Bundle of Ballads Table of Contents SECOND PART..................................................................................................................................175 GLOSSARY........................................................................................................................................178 ii A Bundle of Ballads Henry Morley This page copyright © 2002 Blackmask Online. http://www.blackmask.com • INTRODUCTION BY THE EDITOR. • CHEVY CHASE • SECOND FYTTE. • CHEVY CHASE (the later version.) • THE NUT−BROWN MAID • ADAM BELL, CLYM OF THE CLOUGH, AND WILLIAM OF CLOUDESLIE. • THE FIRST FYTTE. • THE SECOND FYTTE. • THE THIRD FYTTE. • BINNORIE. • KING COPHETUA AND THE BEGGAR−MAID. • TAKE THY OLD CLOAK ABOUT THEE. • WILLOW, WILLOW, WILLOW. • PART THE SECOND. • THE LITTLE WEE MAN. • THE SPANISH LADY'S LOVE. AFTER THE TAKING OF CADIZ. • EDWARD, EDWARD. • ROBIN HOOD. • THE SECONDE FYTTE. • THE THYRDE FYTTE. • THE FOURTH FYTTE. • THE FIFTH FYTTE. • THE SIXTH FYTTE. • THE SEVENTH FYTTE. • THE EIGHTH FYTTE. • KING EDWARD IV. AND THE TANNER OF TAMWORTH. • SIR PATRICK SPENS. • EDOM O' GORDON. • THE CHILDREN IN THE WOOD. • THE BEGGAR'S DAUGHTER OF BETHNAL GREEN. • PART THE FIRST. • THE SECOND FYTTE. • THE BAILIFF'S DAUGHTER OF ISLINGTON. • BARBARA ALLEN'S CRUELTY. • SWEET WILLIAM'S GHOST. • THE BRAES O' YARROW. • KEMP OWYNE. • O'ER THE WATER TO CHARLIE. • ADMIRAL HOSIER'S GHOST. • JEMMY DAWSON. • WILLIAM AND MARGARET. A Bundle of Ballads 1 A Bundle of Ballads • ELFINLAND WOOD. • CASABIANCA. • AULD ROBIN GRAY. • FIRST PART. • SECOND PART. • GLOSSARY. This etext was prepared from the 1891 George Routledge Sons edition by Les Bowler, St. Ives, Dorset. INTRODUCTION BY THE EDITOR. Recitation with dramatic energy by men whose business it was to travel from one great house to another and delight the people by the way, was usual among us from the first. The scop invented and the glee−man recited heroic legends and other tales to our Anglo−Saxon forefathers. These were followed by the minstrels and other tellers of tales written for the people. They frequented fairs and merrymakings, spreading the knowledge not only of tales in prose or ballad form, but of appeals also to public sympathy from social reformers. As late as the year 1822, Allan Cunningham, in publishing a collection of "Traditional Tales of the English and Scottish Peasantry," spoke from his own recollection of itinerant story−tellers who were welcomed in the houses of the peasantry and earned a living by their craft. The earliest story−telling was in recitative. When the old alliteration passed on into rhyme, and the crowd or rustic fiddle took the place of the old "gleebeam" for accentuation of the measure and the meaning of the song, we come to the ballad−singer as Philip Sidney knew him. Sidney said, in his "Defence of Poesy," that he never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas, that he found not his heart moved more than with a trumpet; and yet, he said, "it is sung but by some blind crowder, with no rougher voice than rude style; which being so evil apparelled in the dust and cobweb of that
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