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"The Bonny Hind" is Child ballad number 50 (Roud 205). [1]
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"The Bonny Hind" is Child ballad number 50 (Roud 205). [1]
A squire persuades a maiden to lie with him. Afterward, she asks his name, and he reveals that he is a lord's son. She calls him a liar: she is that lord's daughter. The horror-struck son reveals that he was long at sea. She stabs herself to death, and he buries her. He goes home and grieves for a "bonny hind" whatever his father can do to distract him.
Other ballads on this theme include "Sheath and Knife", "The King's Dochter Lady Jean", and "Lizie Wan". [2]
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"Young Beichan" is a ballad, which with a number of variants and names such as "Lord Baker", "Lord Bateman", and "Young Bekie", was collected by Francis James Child in the late 19th century, and is included in the Child ballad as number 53.
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Fair Annie is Child ballad number 62, existing in several variants.
Lord Thomas and Fair Annet is an English folk ballad.
Child Waters is Child ballad number 63, existing in several variants.
Leesome Brand is Child Ballad number 15 and Roud #3301.
"Sheath and Knife" is a folk ballad.
The Bonny Birdy is Child ballad 82.
"Gil Brenton" is Child ballad 5, Roud 22, existing in several variants.
"Earl Brand" is a pseudo-historical English ballad.
Bonny Bee Hom is Child ballad 92.
"The Cruel Brother" is Child ballad 11 and Roud #26.
"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.
"Lizie Wan" is Child ballad 51 and a murder ballad. It also known as "Fair Lizzie".
Fair Mary of Wallington or Fair Lady of Wallington is Child ballad 91. 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 Bonny Lass of Anglesey is Child ballad 220.
"The King's Dochter Lady Jean" is Child ballad No. 52.
Tom Potts is #109 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.
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