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Title: Ballads of Romance and Chivalry
Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - First Series

Author: Frank Sidgwick

Release Date: January 28, 2007 [EBook #20469]

Language: English

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POPULAR BALLADS
OF THE OLDEN TIME

SELECTED AND EDITED
BY FRANK SIDGWICK

First Series. Ballads of
Romance and Chivalry

'What hast here? Ballads?
'Pray now, buy some.'

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

'La rime n'est pas riche, et le style en est vieux:
Mais ne voyez-vous pas que cela vaut bien mieux
Que ces colifichets dont le bon sens murmure,
Et que la passion parle la toute pure?'

Moliere, _Le Misanthrope_, I. 2.

CONTENTS
Page

Preface ix
Introduction xvii
Ballads in the First Series xliii
Glossary of Ballad Commonplaces xlvi
List of