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Lord Thomas and Fair Annet is an English folk ballad.
The Gay Goshawk is Child ballad number 96.
Jellon Grame is Child ballad number 90 and a murder ballad.
"The Fair Flower of Northumberland" is a folk ballad.
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The Bent Sae Brown is Child ballad 71.
Lord Lovel is number 75 of the ballads anthologized by Francis James Child during the second half of the 19th century, and exists in several variants. This ballad is originally from England, originating in the Late Middle Ages, with the oldest known versions being found in the regions of Gloucestershire, Somerset, Worcestershire, Warwickshire, and Wiltshire.
Willie o Couglas Dale or Willie O Douglas Dale is Child ballad 101.
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Erlinton is #8 of the Child Ballads, the collection of 305 ballads from England and Scotland, and their American variants, collected by Francis James Child in the late nineteenth century. The collection was published as The English and Scottish Popular Ballads between 1882 and 1898 by Houghton Mifflin in ten volumes and later reissued in a five volume edition.
"Earl Brand" is a pseudo-historical English ballad.
"Young Andrew" is a folk song catalogued as Child ballad 48.
Sweet William's Ghost is an English Ballad and folk song which exists in many lyrical variations and musical arrangements. Early known printings of the song include Allan Ramsay's The Tea-Table Miscellany in 1740 and Thomas Percy's Reliques of Ancient English Poetry in 1765. Percy believed that the last two stanzas of the version he published were later additions, but that the details of the story they recounted were original.
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".
Willie's Fatal Visit is Child ballad 255.
Lady Maisry is Child ballad 65, existing in many variants.
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References
- ↑ Francis James Child, English and Scottish Popular Ballads, "Fair Janet"
- ↑ Francis James Child, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, v 2, p 101, Dover Publications, New York 1965
