e, a valuable volume
of what bids fair to be a very valuable series.' --_Academy_.

'The most serviceable edition of the ballads yet published in England.'
--_Manchester Guardian_.

[Transcriber's Note:
The First Series is available from Project Gutenberg as e-text
20469. All references to "First Series" are to this volume.
The Third Series (not listed here) is "Ballads of Scottish
Tradition and Romance", e-text 20624. The Fourth Series, "Ballads
of Robin Hood and other Outlaws", is in preparation.]

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

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

'Gar print me ballants weel, she said,
Gar print me ballants many.'

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

'What man of taste and feeling can endure
_rifacimenti_, harmonies, abridgments,
expurgated editions?'

Macaulay.

CONTENTS
Page

Preface ix
Ballads in the Second Series x
Additional Note on Ballad Commonplaces xvi

Thomas Rymer 1
The Queen of Elfan's Nourice 6
Allison Gross 9
The Laily Worm and the Machrel of the Sea 12
Kemp Owyne 16
Willie's Lady 19
The Wee Wee Man 24
Cospatrick 26
Young Akin 32
The Unquiet Grave 41
Clerk Colven 43
Tam Lin 47
The Clerk's Twa Sons o' Owsenford 56
The Wife of Usher's Well 60
The Great Silkie of Sule Skerrie 63
Clerk Sanders 66
Young Hunting 74
The Three Ravens 80
The Twa Corbies 82
Young Benjie