Quiller-Couch. The Oxford Book of Ballads

Today's free book is The Oxford Book of Ballads by Arthur Quiller-Couch (1920). For the table of contents, check at the bottom of this post below the image.

The book is available at Hathi Trust (I have not checked for other online sources).


Table of Contents

1. Thomas the Rhymer
2. Tam Lin
3. Sir Cawline
4. Sir Aldingar
5. Cospatrick
6. Willy's Lady
7. The Queen of Elfland's Nourice
8. Lady Isabel and the Elf-Knight
9. The Riddling Knight
10. May Colvin
11. The Wee Wee Man
12. Alison Gross
13. Kemp Owyne
14. The Laily Worm
15. King Orfeo
16. King Henry
17. The Boy and the Mantle
18. King Arthur and King Cornwall
19. The Marriage of Sir Gawain
20. Bonnie Annie
21. Brown Robyn's Confession
22. The Cruel Mother
23. Binnorie
24. The Broomfield Hill
25. Earl Mar's Daughter
26. Proud Lady Margaret
27. Clerk Saunders
28. The Daemon Lover
29. Clerk Colven
30. Young Hunting
31. The Great Silkie of Sule Skerrie
32. The Wife of Usher's Well
33. A Lyke-Wake Dirge
34. The Unquiet Grave

BOOK II
35. Hynd Horn
36. Hynd Etin
37. Erlinton
38. Earl Brand
39. The Douglas Tragedy
40. Glasgerion
41. King Estmere
42. Fair Annie
43. The Lass of Lochroyan
44. Young Bekie
45. Young Beichan
46. Childe Waters
47. Childe Maurice
48. Brown Adam
49. Jellon Grame
50. Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard
51. Lord Ingram and Childe Vyet
52. Fair Janet
53. Old Robin of Portingale
54. Lord Thomas and Fair Annet
55. Rose the Red and White Lily
56. Leesome Brand
57. Babylon
58. Prince Robert
59. Young Andrew
60. The Gay Goshawk
61. Willie's Lyke-Wake
62. Fair Margaret and Sweet William
63. The Twa Brothers
64. The Cruel Brother
65. Edward, Edward
66. Lord Randal
67. The Twa Corbies
68. The Three Ravens

BOOK III
69. The Nut-Brown Maid
70. Fause Foodrage
71. The Fair Flower of Northumberland
72. Young John
73. Lady Maisry
74. Bonny Bee Horn
75. Sir Patrick Spens
76. The Lord of Lorn
77. Edom o' Gordon
78. Lamkin
79. Hugh of Lincoln
80. The Heir of Linne
81. Fair Mary of Wallington
82. Young Waters
83. The Queen's Marie
84. The Outlaw Murray
85. Glenlogie
86. Lady Elspat
87. Jamie Douglas
88. Katharine Johnstone
89. Johnie Armstrong
90. Clyde Water
91. Young Benjie
92. Annan Water
93. Rare Willie Drowned in Yarrow
94. The Duke of Gordon's Daughter
95. The Bonny Earl of Murray
96. Bonny George Campbell

BOOK IV
97. Judas
98. St. Stephen and King Herod
99. The Maid and the Palmer
100. The Falcon
101. The Cherry-Tree Carol
102. The Carnal and the Crane
103. Jolly Wat
104. I Saw Three Ships
105. The Twelve Good Joys
106. The Angel Gabriel
107. The Three Kings
108. The Innocents
109. Dives and Lazarus
110. The Holy Well
111. The Seven Virgins

PART II

BOOK V
112. Robyn and Gandelyn
113. The Birth of Robin Hood
114. Adam Bell, Clym of the Clough, and William of Cloudesley
115. A Little Geste of Robin Hood and his Meiny
116. Robin Hood and Guy of Gisborne
117. Robin Hood and the Monk
118. Robin Hood and the Curtal Friar
119. Robin Hood and the Butcher
120. Robin Hood and the Bishop of Hereford
121. Robin Hood and Alan a Dale
122. Robin Hood and the Widow's Three Sons
123. Robin Hood's Golden Prize
124. The Noble Fisherman
125. The Death of Robin Hood

BOOK VI
126. Durham Field
127. The Battle of Otterburn
128. Chevy Chase
128. Northumberland Betrayed by Douglas
130. Sir Andrew Barton .
131. The ' George Aloe '
132. The 'Golden Vanity'
133. John Dory
134. Willie Macintosh
135. The Bonnie House o' Airlie
136. Johnnie of Cockerslee
137. Kinmont Willie
138. Jock o' the Side
139. Hobbie Noble
140. Archie of Cawfield
141. Jamie Telfer in the Fair Dodhead
142. Dick o' the Cow
143. Hughie the Graeme
144. The Lochmaben Harper
145. The Fire of Frendraught
146. The Death of Parcy Reed
147. Baby Livingston
148. The Gypsy Countess
149. The Baron of Brackley
150. The Dowie Houms of Yarrow
151. Lord Maxwell's Last Goodnight
152. Helen of Kirconnell
153. The Lament of the Border Widow

BOOK VII
154. Lady Alice
155. Lord Lovel
156. The Trees so High
157. The Brown Girl
158. Barbara Allen's Cruelty
159. The Gardener
160. The Lowlands o' Holland
161. The Spanish Lady's Love
162. The Bailiffs Daughter of Islington
163. The Blind Beggar's Daughter of Bednall Green
164. The Loving Ballad of Lord Bateman
165. Mary Ambree
166. The Lady turrted Serving-Man
167. The Simple Ploughboy
168. Cawsand Bay
169. The Greenland Fishery
170. The Old Cloak
171. Widdicombe Fair
172. Get Up and Bar the Door
173. King John and the Abbot of Canterbury
174. The Children in the Wood
175. The Suffolk Miracle
176. Bessie Bell and Mary Gray