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Burd Isabel and Earl Patrick or Burd Bell (Child ballad # 257; Roud # 107) is a traditional folk song, [1] framed with explicit warnings about loving above your station.
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Burd Isabel and Earl Patrick or Burd Bell (Child ballad # 257; Roud # 107) is a traditional folk song, [1] framed with explicit warnings about loving above your station.
Burd Isabel, a servant, becomes pregnant. When she bears a son, Earl Patrick, the boy's father, resolves to marry her, but is persuaded not to, by his family. Soon, he marries a duke's daughter. He resolves to bring his son to his home, but first he sends his aunt (or great-aunt) and then goes himself, to the same effect: Burd Isabel refuses to give her son up.
"Lady Isabel and the Elf Knight" is the English common name representative of a very large class of European ballads.
The Famous Flower of Serving-Men or The Lady turned Serving-Man is a traditional English language folk song and murder ballad. Child considered it as closely related to the ballad "The Lament of the Border Widow" or "The Border Widow's Lament".
"Unusually, it is possible to give a precise date and authorship to this ballad. It was written by the prolific balladeer, Laurence Price, and published in July 1656, under the title of The famous Flower of Serving-Men. Or, The Lady turn'd Serving-Man. It lasted in the mouths of ordinary people for three hundred years: what a tribute to the work of any writer, leave alone the obscure Laurence Price. Oral tradition, however, has made changes. The original has twenty-eight verses and a fairy-tale ending: “And then for fear of further strife, / he took Sweet William to be his Wife: / The like before was never seen, / A Serving-man to be a Queen”. - Roy Palmer, A Book of British Ballads
"Young Beichan", also known as "Lord Bateman", "Lord Bakeman", "Lord Baker", "Young Bicham" and "Young Bekie", is a traditional folk ballad categorised as Child ballad 53 and Roud 40. The earliest versions date from the late 18th century, but it is probably older, with clear parallels in ballads and folktales across Europe. The song was popular as a broadside ballad in the nineteenth century, and survived well into the twentieth century in the oral tradition in rural areas of most English speaking parts of the world, particularly in England, Scotland and Appalachia.
"Prince Robert", also known as "Lord Abore and Mary Flynn", is Child ballad number 87, existing in several variants, and a murder ballad.
"Lord Thomas and Fair Annet", also known as "Lord Thomas and Fair Eleanor", is an English folk ballad.
"The Lass of Roch Royal" is Child ballad number 76, existing in several variants.
"The Fair Flower of Northumberland" is a folk ballad.
"The Kitchie-Boy" is Child ballad number 252; Roud number 105.
"Young Ronald" is an old song catalogued as Child Ballad 304.
"The Knight and the Shepherd’s Daughter" is an English ballad, collected by Francis James Child as Child Ballad 110 and listed as number 67 in the Roud Folk Song Index.
"The Cruel Brother" is a folk song.
"Babylon" or "The Bonnie Banks o Fordie" is Child ballad 14, Roud 27.
Mr. Motherwell gives a version under the title of Babylon; or, the Bonny Banks o' Fordie; and Mr. Kinloch gives another under the title of The Duke of Perth's Three Daughters. Previous editors have attempted to find a local habitation for this tradition, and have associated it with the family of Drummond, of Perth. As a legend exactly similar is current in Denmark. this appears a bootless quest.
Fair Mary of Wallington or Fair Lady of Wallington is Child ballad 91 and number 59 in the Roud Folk Song Index. Child lists at least seven variants of the ballad. The first variant is titled "Fair Mary of Wallington", while another variant is titled "The Bonny Early of Livingston".
The Wylie Wife of the Hie Toun Hie is Child ballad 290, existing in several variants, some of them fragmentary.
The Earl of Errol is Child ballad 231, existing in several variants. Sometimes the ballad is called Lady Errol.
Lord Thomas and Lady Margaret or Clerk Tamas (and Fair Annie) (Child ballad # 260; Roud # 109) is a traditional folk song.
"Lady Isabel" is an English ballad known as Child Ballad 261 and Roud #3884.
Broughty Wa's or (Burd) Helen is a traditional folk song.
"Blancheflour and Jollyflorice" is a traditional ballad from Great Britain; it is included in a collection published as The English and Scottish Popular Ballads between 1882 and 1898 by Francis James Child. "Blancheflour and Jollyflorice" is included in the collection as Child ballad 300. Its Roud number is 3904.
Thomas o Yonderdale is Child ballad number 253; Roud number 3890. Child assessed that this "apocryphal" ballad seemed like a recent fabrication from a pastiche of other ballads.
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