Transcriber's Notes
This book contains material in multiple languages, and numerousexamples of archaic, non-standard and dialect forms of English.Therefore no attempts to standardize spelling would be appropriate.The only changes made to the text are to correct typographical errors etc.which are listed at the end of the book.Minor corrections to format or punctuation have been made without comment.
Footnotes have been numbered sequentially throughout the book but arepresented at the end of each section or ballad to which they refer.
Unicode characters have been usedfor special symbols and diacritics in the text. These should appear inthe following table:
| ā | macron |
| ă ĭ | breve |
| ć ń ś ẃ | acute accent |
| Č č ĕ Ř ř š Š ž | caron/hacek |
| ȝ | yogh |
| ł | l with stroke (in Polish etc.) |
| Œ œ | oe-ligature |
| ş | s with cedilla |
| † | dagger used to represent upright cross symbol |
Greek symbols are also rendered with Unicode characters, but a Latin transliteration is provided in the "hover-text".
Note that [a'] and ['s] denote editorial insertions of contractedforms: e.g. on page 299 [a'] is an editorialinsertion of "a'" (for "all"); on page 309 ['s] is an editorialinsertion of "'s" (for "has"?).
[Pg i]THE ENGLISH AND SCOTTISH
POPULAR BALLADS
THE
ENGLISH AND SCOTTISH
POPULAR BALLADS
EDITED BY
FRANCIS JAMES CHILD
IN FIVE VOLUMES
VOLUME I
NEW YORK
DOVER PUBLICATIONS, INC.
This Dover edition, first published in 1965, is an unabridgedand unaltered republication of the work originally published byHoughton, Mifflin and Company, as follows:
- Vol. I—Part I, 1882; Part II, 1884
- Vol. II—Part III, 1885; Part IV, 1886
- Vol. III—Part V, 1888; Part VI, 1889
- Vol. IV—Part VII, 1890; Part VIII, 1892
- Vol. V—Part IX, 1894; Part X, 1898.