The Child Ballads
The English and Scottish Popular Ballads
Edited by Francis J. Child (1825-1896)
(Five Volumes)
(First published in 1884-1898)
Child 1: Riddles Wisely Expounded
Child 2: The Elfin Knight
Child 3: The Fause Knight on the Road
Child 4: Lady Isabel and the Elf Knight
Child 5: Gil Brenton
Child 6: Willie's Lady
Child 7: Earl Brand
Child 8: Erlinton
Child 9: The Fair Flower of Northumberland
Child 10: The Twa Sisters
Child 11: The Cruel Brother
Child 12: Lord Rendal
Child 13: Edward
Child 14: Babylon or The Bonnie Banks o Fordie
Child 15: Leesom Brand
Child 16: Sheath and Knife
Child 17: Hind Horn
Child 18: Sir Lionel
Child 19: King Orfeo
Child 20: The Cruel Mother
Child 21: The Maid and the Palmer
Child 22: St. Stephen and Herod
Child 23: Judas
Child 24: Bonnie Annie
Child 25: Willie's Lyke-Wake
Child 26: The Three Ravens
Child 27: The Whummil Bore
Child 28: Burd Ellen and Young Tamlane
Child 29: The Boy and the Mantle
Child 30: King Arthur and King Cornwall
Child 31: The Marriage of Sir Gawain
Child 32: King Henry
Child 33: Kempy Kay
Child 34: Kemp Owyne
Child 35: Allison Gross
Child 36: The Laily Worm and the Machrel of the Sea
Child 37: Thomas Rymer
Child 38: The Wee Wee Man
Child 39: Tam Lin
Child 40: The Queen of Elfan's Nourice
Child 41: Hind Etin
Child 42: Clerk Colvill
Child 43: The Broomfield Hill
Child 44: The Two Magicians
Child 45: King John and the Bishop
Child 46: Captain Wedderburn's Courtship
Child 47: Proud Lady Margaret
Child 48: Young Andrew
Child 49: The Twa Brothers
Child 50: The Bonny Hind
Child 51: Lizie Wan
Child 52: The King's Dochter Lady Jean
Child 53: Young Beichan
Child 54: The Cherry-Tree Carol
Child 55: The Carnal and the Crane
Child 56: Dives and Lazarus
Child 57: Brown Robyn's Confession
Child 58: Sir Patrick Spens
Child 59: Sir Aldingar
Child 60: King Estmere
Child 61: Sir Cawline
Child 62: Fair Annie
Child 63: Child Waters
Child 64: Fair Janet
Child 65: Lady Maisry
Child 66: Lord Ingram and Chiel Wyet
Child 67: Glasgerion
Child 68: Young Hunting
Child 69: Clerk Sanders
Child 70: Willie and Lady Maisry
Child 71: The Bent Sae Brown
Child 72: The Clerk's Twa Sons o Owensford
Child 73: Lord Thomas and Annet
Child 74: Fair Margaret and Sweet William
Child 75: Lord Lovel
Child 76: The Lass of Roch Royal
Child 77: Sweet William's Ghost
Child 78: The Unquiet Grave
Child 79: The Wife of Usher's Well
Child 80: Old Robin of Portingale
Child 81: Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard
Child 82: The Bonny Birdy
Child 83: Child Maurice
Child 84: Bonny Barbara Allen
Child 85: Lady Alice
Child 86: Young Benjie
Child 87: Prince Robert
Child 88: Young Johnstone
Child 89: Fause Foodrage
Child 90: Jellon Grame
Child 91: Fair Mary of Wallington
Child 92: Bonny Bee Hom
Child 93: Lamkin
Child 94: Young Waters
Child 95: The Maid Freed From the Gallows
Child 96: The Gay Goshawk
Child 97: Brown Robin
Child 98: Brown Adam
Child 99: Johnie Scott
Child 100: Willie o Winesberry
Child 101: Willie o Couglas Dale
Child 102: Willie and Earl Richard's Daughter
Child 103: Rose the Red and White Lily
Child 104: Prince Heathen
Child 105: The Bailiff's Daughter of Islington
Child 106: The Famous Flower of Serving Men
Child 107: Will Steward and John
Child 108: Christopher White
Child 109: Tom Potts
Child 110: The Knight and the Shepherd's Daughter
Child 111: Crow and Pie
Child 112: Blow Away the Morning Dew
Child 113: The Great Silkie of Sule Skerry
Child 114: Johnie Cock
Child 115: Robyn and Gandeleyn
Child 116: Adam Bell, Clim of the Clough and William of Cloudesly
Child 117: The Gest of Robyn Hode
Child 118: Robin Hood and Guy of Gisborne
Child 119: Robin Hood and the Monk
Child 120: Robin Hood's Death
Child 121: Robin Hood and the Potter
Child 122: Robin Hood and the Butcher
Child 123: Robin Hood and the Curtal Friar
Child 124: The Jolly Pindar of Wakefield
Child 125: Robin Hood and Little John
Child 126: Robin Hood and the Tanner
Child 127: Robin Hood and the Tinker
Child 128: Robin Hood and the Newly Revived
Child 129: Robin Hood and the Prince of Aragon
Child 130: Robin Hood and the Scotchman
Child 131: Robin Hood and the Ranger
Child 132: The Bold Pedlar and Robin Hood
Child 133: Robin Hood and the Beggar, I
Child 134: Robin Hood and the Beggar, II
Child 135: Robin Hood and the Shepherd
Child 136: Robin Hood's Delight
Child 137: Robin Hood and the Pedlars
Child 138: Robin Hood and Allen a Dale
Child 139: Robin Hood's Progress to Nottingham
Child 140: Robin Hood Rescuing Three Squires
Child 141: Robin Hood Rescuing Will Stutly
Child 142: Little John a Begging
Child 143: Robin Hood and the Bishop
Child 144: Robin Hood and the Bishop of Hereford
Child 145: Robin Hood and Queen Katherine
Child 146: Robin Hood's Chase
Child 147: Robin Hood's Golden Prize
Child 148: The Noble Fisherman or Robin Hood's Preferment
Child 149: Robin Hood's Birth, Breeding, Valor and Marriage
Child 150: Robin Hood and Maid Marian
Child 151: The King's Disguise, and Friendship with Robin Hood
Child 152: Robin Hood and the Golden Arrow
Child 153: Robin Hood and the Valiant Knight
Child 154: A True Tale of Robin Hood
Child 155: Sir Hugh, or the Jew's Daughter
Child 156: Queen Eleanor's Confession
Child 157: Gude Wallace
Child 158: High Spencer's Feats in France
Child 159: Durham Field
Child 160: The Knight of Liddesdale
Child 161: The Battle of Otterburn
Child 162: The Hunting of the Cheviot
Child 163: The Battle of Harlaw
Child 164: King Henry Fifth's Conquest of France
Child 165: Sir John Butler
Child 166: The Rose of England
Child 167: Andrew Bartin
Child 168: Flodden Field
Child 169: Johnie Armstrong
Child 170: The Death of Queen Jane
Child 171: Thomas Cromwell
Child 172: Musselburgh Field
Child 173: Mary Hamilton
Child 174: Earl Bothwell
Child 175: The Rising in the North
Child 176: Northumberland Betrayed by Douglas
Child 177: The Earl of Westmoreland
Child 178: Captain Car, or, Edom o Gordon
Child 179: Rookhope Ryde
Child 180: King James and Brown
Child 181: The Bonnie Earl o' Moray
Child 182: The Laird of Logie
Child 183: Willie Macintosh
Child 184: The Lads of Wamphray
Child 185: Dick o the Cow
Child 186: Kinmont Willie
Child 187: Jock o the Side
Child 188: Archie o Cawfield
Child 189: Hobie Noble
Child 190: Jamie Telfer of the Fair Dodhead
Child 191: Hughie Graham
Child 192: The Lochmaben Harper
Child 193: The Death of Parcy Reed
Child 194: The Laird of Wariston
Child 195: Lord Maxwell's Last Goodnight
Child 196: The Fire of Frendruahgt
Child 197: James Grant
Child 198: Bonny John Seton
Child 199: Bonnie House o' Airlie
Child 200: The Gypsy Laddie
Child 201: Bessy Bell and Mary Gray
Child 202: The Battle of Philiphaugh
Child 203: The Baron of Brackley
Child 204: Jamie Douglas
Child 205: Loudon Hill, or Dromclog
Child 206: Bothwell Bridge
Child 207: Lord Delamere
Child 208: Lord Dernwentwater
Child 209: Geordie
Child 210: Bonnie James Campbell
Child 211: Bewick and Graham
Child 212: The Duke of Athole's Nurse
Child 213: Sir James the Rose
Child 214: The Braes o Yarrow
Child 215: Rare Willie Drowned in Yarrow, or, The Water o Gamrie
Child 216: The Mother's Malison, or, Clyde's Water
Child 217: The Broom of Cowdenknows
Child 218: The False Lover Won Back
Child 219: The Gardener
Child 220: The Bonny Lass of Anglesley
Child 221: Katherine Jafray
Child 222: Bonny Baby Livingston
Child 223: Epie Morrie
Child 224: The Lady of Arngosk
Child 225: Rob Roy
Child 226: Lizie Lindsay
Child 227: Bonny Lizie Baillie
Child 228: Glasgow Peggie
Child 229: Earl Crawford
Child 230: The Slaughter of the Laird of Mellerstain
Child 231: The Earl of Errol
Child 232: Richie Story
Child 233: Andrew Lammie
Child 234: Charlie MacPherson
Child 235: The Earl of Aboyne
Child 236: The Laird o Drum
Child 237: The Duke of Gordon's Daughter
Child 238: Glenlogie or Jean o Bethalnie
Child 239: Lord Saltoun and Auchanachie
Child 240: The Rantin Laddie
Child 241: The Baron o Leys
Child 242: The Coble o Cargin
Child 243: James Harris, (The Daemon Lover)
Child 244: James Hatley
Child 245: Young Allan
Child 246: Redesdale and Wise William
Child 247: Lady Elspat
Child 248: The Grey Cock, or, Saw You My Father
Child 249: Auld Matrons
Child 250: Henry Martyn
Child 251: Lang Johnny More
Child 252: The Kitchie-Boy
Child 253: Thomas o Yonderdale
Child 254: Lord William, or Lord Lundy
Child 255: Willie's Fatal Visit
Child 256: Alison and Willie
Child 257: Burd Isabel and Earl Patrick
Child 258: Broughty Wa's
Child 259: Lord Thomas Stuart
Child 260: Lord Thomas and Lady Margaret
Child 261: Lady Isabel
Child 262: Lord Livingston
Child 263: The New-Slain Knight
Child 264: The White Fisher
Child 265: The Knight's Ghost
Child 266: John Thomson and the Turk
Child 267: The Heir of Linne
Child 268: The Twa Knights
Child 269: Lady Diamond
Child 270: The Earl of Mar's Daughter
Child 271: The Lord of Lorn and the False Steward
Child 272: The Suffolk Miracle
Child 273: King Edward the Fourth and a Tanner of Tamworth
Child 274: Our Goodman
Child 275: Get Up and Bar the Door
Child 276: The Friar in the Well
Child 277: The Wife Wrapt in Wether's Skin
Child 278: The Farmer's Curst Wife
Child 279: The Jolly Beggar
Child 280: The Beggar-Laddie
Child 281: The Keach i the Creel
Child 282: Jock the Leg and the Merry Merchant
Child 283: The Crafty Farmer
Child 284: John Dory
Child 285: The George Aloe and the Sweepstake
Child 286: The Sweet Trinity (The Golden Vanity)
Child 287: Captain Ward and the Rainbow
Child 288: The Young Earl of Essex's Victory Over the Emperor of Germany
Child 289: Mermaid
Child 290: The Wylie Wife of the Hie Toun Hie
Child 291: Child Owlet
Child 292: The West-Country Damosel's Complaint
Child 293: John of Hazelgreen
Child 294: Dugal Quin
Child 295: The Brown Girl
Child 296: Walter Lesly
Child 297: Earl Rothes
Child 298: Young Peggy
Child 299: Trooper and Maid
Child 300: Blancheflour and Jellyflorice
Child 301: The Queen of Scotland
Child 302: Young Bearwell
Child 303: The Holy Nunnery
Child 304: Young Ronald
Child 305: The Outlaw Murray
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