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The Project Gutenberg EBook of A Bundle of Ballads, by Various This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: A Bundle of Ballads Author: Various Editor: Henry Morley Posting Date: December 8, 2008 [EBook #2831] Release Date: September, 2001 Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A BUNDLE OF BALLADS *** Produced by Les Bowler A BUNDLE OF BALLADS Edited By Henry Morley CONTENTS. INTRODUCTION CHEVY CHASE CHEVY CHASE (the later version) THE NUT-BROWN MAID ADAM BELL, CLYM OF THE CLOUGH, AND WILLIAM OF CLOUDESLIE BINNORIE KING COPHETUA AND THE BEGGAR MAID TAKE THY OLD CLOAK ABOUT THEE WILLOW, WILLOW, WILLOW THE LITTLE WEE MAN THE SPANISH LADY'S LOVE EDWARD, EDWARD ROBIN HOOD KING EDWARD IV. AND THE TANNER OF TAMWORTH SIR PATRICK SPENS EDOM O' GORDON THE CHILDREN IN THE WOOD THE BEGGAR'S DAUGHTER OF BETHNAL GREEN THE BAILIFF'S DAUGHTER OF ISLINGTON BARBARA ALLEN'S CRUELTY SWEET WILLIAM'S GHOST THE BRAES O' YARROW KEMP OWYNE O'ER THE WATER TO CHARLIE ADMIRAL HOSIER'S GHOST JEMMY DAWSON WILLIAM AND MARGARET ELFINLAND WOOD CASABIANCA AULD ROBIN GRAY GLOSSARY INTRODUCTION BY THE EDITOR. Recitation with dramatic energy by men whose business it was to travel from one great house to another and delight the people by the way, was usual among us from the first. The scop invented and the glee-man recited heroic legends and other tales to our Anglo-Saxon forefathers. These were followed by the minstrels and other tellers of tales written for the people. They frequented fairs and merrymakings, spreading the knowledge not only of tales in prose or ballad form, but of appeals also to public sympathy from social reformers. As late as the year 1822, Allan Cunningham, in publishing a collection of "Traditional Tales of the English and Scottish Peasantry," spoke from his own recollection of itinerant story-tellers who were welcomed in the houses of the peasantry and earned a living by their craft. The earliest story-telling was in recitative. When th
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