f the ballads yet published in England.'
--_Manchester Guardian._

+Second Series.+ Ballads of Mystery and Miracle and Fyttes of Mirth.

'Even more interesting than the first.' --_Athenaeum._

'The augmenting series will prove an inestimable boon.' --_Notes and
Queries._

'It includes many beautiful and well-known ballads, and no pains have
been spared by the editor in producing them, so far as may be, in their
entirety.' --_World._

'The second volume ... carries out the promise of the first.... Even
after Professor Kittredge's compressed edition of Child, ... Mr.
Sidgwick's work abundantly justifies its existence.' --_Manchester
Guardian._

[The "First Series" is available from Project Gutenberg as e-text
#20469. The "Second Series" is in preparation as of February 2007.]

POPULAR BALLADS
OF THE OLDEN TIME
SELECTED AND EDITED
BY FRANK SIDGWICK

Third Series. Ballads of
Scottish Tradition and
Romance

'I wadna gi'e ae wheeple of a whaup
for a' the nichtingales in England.'

A. H. BULLEN
47 Great Russell Street
London. MCMVI

'It is impossible that anything should be universally tasted and
approved by a Multitude, tho' they are only the Rabble of a Nation,
which hath not in it some peculiar Aptness to please and gratify the
Mind of Man.'

Addison.

CONTENTS
PAGE

Map to illustrate Border Ballads _Frontispiece_
Preface vii
Ballads in the Third Series ix

The Hunting of the Cheviot 1
The Battle of Otterburn 16
Johnie Armstrong 30
The Braes of Yarrow 34
The Twa Brothers 37
The Outlyer Bold 40
Mary Hamilton 44
Kinmont Willie 49
The Laird o' Logie 58
Captain Car 62
Sir Patrick Spence 68
Flodden Field 71
Dick o' the Cow 75
Sir Hugh in t