The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, Volume 5, Issue 2

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Francis James Child
Houghton, Mifflin, 1898 - Ballads, English

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Page 392 - WIT AND MIRTH ; or, PILLS TO PURGE MELANCHOLY. Being a Collection of the best Merry Ballads and Songs, Old and New. Fitted to all Humours, having each their proper Tune for either Voice or Instrument ; most of the Songs being new set.
Page 466 - And they twa met, and they twa plat, And fain they wad be near; And a' the warld might ken right weel, They were twa lovers dear.
Page 394 - 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 391 - Niladwaj, the first ruler. lu the end of the 15th or beginning of the 16th century...
Page 393 - Select Scottish Songs, ancient and modern ; with critical Observations and biographical Notices, by Robert Burns.
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Page 514 - College, Oxford; with an Introduction and Glossary. Edited by JOSEPHUS STEVENSON, ESQ. SIR STEPHEN RICHARD GLYNNE, BART. 1838. The Old English Version of the Gesta Romanorum: edited for the first time from Manuscripts in the British Museum and University Library, Cambridge; with an Introduction and Notes by SIR FREDERICK MADDEN, KH PRINTED FOR THE CLUB.
Page 518 - Die Schauspiele des Herzogs Heinrich Julius von Braunschweig nach alten Drucken und Handschriften herausgegeben von Dr. Wilhelm Ludwig Holland.
Page 349 - When bells were rung, and mass was sung, And a' men bound to bed, Lord Thomas and his new-come bride To their chamber they were gaed. Annie made her bed a little forbye, To hear what they might say; "And ever alas!
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