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[Annotations: 5.1: 'ha'd' = _haud_, hold. 9.2: 'mailison,' curse. 11.1: 'is aught,' owns. 15.4: 'forlorn,' forfeit. 20.2: _i.e._ in driving wind and rain. 21: A stock ballad-sta...
11. Chapter 11[Annotations: 3.1: 'kaivles,' lots. 13.4: 'gallows-pin,' the projecting beam of the gallows. 16.1: 'birled,' plied. 16.4: 'wallwood,' wild wood: a conventional ballad-phrase. 25...
6. Chapter 612. They lighted down to tak' a drink Of the spring that ran sae clear: And down the stream ran his gude heart's blood, And sair she gan to fear.
5. Chapter 515. Then out the knight has drawn his sword, An' straiked it o'er a strae, An' thro' and thro' the fa'se knight's waste He gard cauld iron gae: An' I hope ilk ane sal sae be ser...
4. Chapter 419. 'O then it was your little foot-page Falsely hath beguiled me': And then she pull'd forth a little pen-knife That hanged by her knee, Says, 'There shall never no churles blo...
8. Chapter 8+The Text+ is given from the Jamieson-Brown MS. It was first printed by Scott, with the omission of the second stanza--perhaps justifiable--and a few minor changes. He notes tha...
10. Chapter 10[Annotations: 1.2: 'round tables,' an unknown game. 4.1: 'graith'd,' harnessed, usually; here perhaps shod. 6.1: 'laird,' a landholder, below the degree of knight.--+Jamieson+....
9. Chapter 928. When shee had tane the mantle, & cast itt her about, Vpp att her great toe itt began to crinkle & crowt; Shee said, 'Bowe downe, mantle, & shame me not for nought.
3. Chapter 3In speaking of manuscripts, we must not omit to mention the Scottish collectors. Most of them went to work in the right way, seeking out aged men and women in out-of-the-way cor...
2. Chapter 2Percy's opening remarks, attributing the ballads to the minstrels, are as well known as the scoffs of the hard-hitting Joseph Ritson, who contemptuously dismissed Percy's theori...
1. Chapter 1The printed text used small capitals for emphasis. These have been replaced with +marks+ where appopriate. Missing lines were shown by rows of widely spaced dots (single lines)...
12. Chapter 12[Annotations: 6.1: 'limmer,' wretch, rascal. 7.3: 'shot-window': see special section of the Introduction. 12.2: 'gaire'; _i.e._ by his knee: see special section of the Introduct...