Transcriber’s Note:
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THE
ENGLISH AND SCOTTISH
POPULAR BALLADS
This Dover edition, first published in 1965, is anunabridged and unaltered republication of thework originally published by Houghton, Mifflin andCompany, as follows:
This edition also contains as an appendix toPart X an essay by Walter Morris Hart entitled“Professor Child and the Ballad,” reprinted intoto from Vol. XXI, No. 4, 1906 [New Series Vol.XIV, No. 4] of the Publications of the ModernLanguage Association of America.
ADVERTISEMENT TO PART V
NUMBERS 114–155
Rev. Professor Skeat has done me the great service of collating Wynken de Worde’stext of The Gest of Robin Hood, the manuscript of Robin Hood and the Monk and of RobinHood and the Potter, and all the Robin Hood broadsides in the Pepys collection. Mr Macmathhas collated the fragments of the earlier copy of The Gest which are preserved in theAdvocates’ Library, and, as always, has been most ready to respond to every call for aid. Iwould also gratefully acknowledge assistance received from Mr W. Aldis Wright, of TrinityCollege, Cambridge; the Rev. Edmund Venables, Precentor of Lincoln; Dr Furnivall;and, in America, from Mr W. W. Newell, Miss Perine and Mrs Dulany.
ADVERTISEMENT TO PART VI
NUMBERS 156–188
Mr Macmath has helped me in many ways in the preparation of this Sixth Part, and,as before, has been prodigal of time and pains. I am under particular obligations to MrRobert Bruce Armstrong, of Edinburgh, for his communications concerning the ballad-folkof the Scottish border, and to Dr Wilhelm Wollner, of the University of Leipsic,and Mr George Lyman Kittredge, my colleague in Harvard College, for contributions (indicatedby the initials of their names) which will be found in