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THE
ENGLISH AND SCOTTISH
POPULAR BALLADS
EDITED BY
FRANCIS JAMES CHILD
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COPYRIGHT, 1898, BY ELIZABETH SEDGWICK CHILD
ALL BIGHTS RESERVED
CONTENTS
ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS 283
GLOSSARY 309
SOURCES OF THE TEXTS 397
INDEX OF PUBLISHED AIRS 405
BALLAD AIRS FROM MANUSCRIPT:
3. The Fause Knight upon the Road 411
9. The Fair Flower of Northumberland 411
10. The Twa Sisters +^ 411
11. The Cruel Brother 412
12. Lord Randal 412
17. Hind Horn 413
20. The Cruel Mother 413
40. The Queen of Elfan's Nourice 413
42. Clerk Colvill 414
46. Captain Wedderburn's Courtship 414
47. Proud Lady Margaret 414
53. Young Beichan ............. 415
58. Sir Patrick Spens ............. 415
61. Sir Colin 415
. 63. Child Waters 415
68. Young Hunting 416
75. Lord Lovel 416
77. Sweet William's Ghost 416
84. Bonny Barbara Allan ............. 416
89. Fause Foodrage 416
95. The Maid freed from the Gallows .417
97. Brown Robin 417
98. Brown Adam ......'..... 417
99. Johnie Scot 418
100. Willie o Winsbury 418
106. The Famous Flower of Serving-Men 418
144. Johnie Cock 419
157. Gude Wallace 419
161. The Battle of Otterburn 419
163. The Battle of Harlaw 419
164. King Henry Fifth's Conquest of France 420
169. Johnie Armstrong 420
173. Mary Hamilton 421
^ CONTENTS
182. The Laird o Logie
222. Bonny Baby Livingston . .
226. Lizie Lindsay . ..... 421
228. Glasgow Peggie '
235. The Earl of Aboyne .. . .... 422
247. Lady Elspat .....
250. Andrew Bartin . .423
256. Alison and Willie . ; V . . ...
258. BroughtyWa's .
278. The Farmer's Curst Wife . ... .
281. The Keach i the Creel .
286. The Sweet Trinity ."*
299. Trooper and Maid
INDEX OF BALLAD TITLES 425
TITLES OF COLLECTIONS OF BALLADS, OB BOOKS CONTAINING BALLADS, WHICH ARE VERY BRIEFLY
CITED IN THIS WORK . ....
INDEX OF MATTERS AND LITERATURE ... .......
BIBLIOGRAPHY . . . ... ....
CORRECTIONS TO BE MADE IN THE PRINT 567
ADVERTISEMENT TO PART X
FOR texts, information, or correction of errors, I have the pleasure of expressing my
indebtedness to the following gentlemen in Europe : Mr ANDREW LANG ; Mr J. K. HUD
SON of Manchester; Professsor J. ESTLIN CARPENTER of Oxford; Messrs W. MACMATH
and DAVID MAcRiTCHiE of Edinburgh ; Mr W. WALKER of Aberdeen ; Dr AXEL OLRIK
of Copenhagen ; and in America to the following ladies and gentlemen : Miss MARY C.
BURLEIGH of Massachusetts ; Miss LOUISE PORTER HASKELL of South Carolina ; Professor
KITTREDGE, Dr W. H. SCHOFIELD, Dr W. P. FEW and Mr E. E. GRIFFITH of Harvard Col
lege ; Professor W. U. RICHARDSON of the Harvard Medical School ; Dr F. A. MORRISON
of Indiana, and Mr W. W. NEWELL, editor of the Journal of American Folk-Lore. The
services of Mr LEO WIENER of Harvard College have been at my full command in Slavic
matters, and had time been at my disposal would have been employed for a much wider
examination of the very numerous collections of Slavic popular songs. Mr G. F. ARNOLD,
late of Harvard College Library, obligingly undertook the general bibliographical index at
the end of this volume ; but the labor proving too great for his delicate health, this index
was completed by my friend Miss CATHARINE INNES IRELAND, who besides has generously
devoted a great deal of time to the compilation or correction of all the other indexes and
the preparation of them for the press. Still further favors are acknowledged elsewhere.
In conclusion I would recognize with thanks and admiration the patience, liberality and
consideration shown me by my publishers from beginning to end.
F. J. C.
[The manuscript of this Tenth and final Part of the English and Scottish Ballads
(including the Advertisement), was left by Professor Child substantially complete, with the
exception of the Bibliography, and nearly ready for the press. The Bibliography, which
Miss Ireland had in hand at the time of Professor Child's death, has been completed by
her, with some assistance. In accordance with Professor Child's desire, and at the request
of his family, I have seen the present Part through the press. My own notes, except in the
Indexes and Bibliography, are enclosed within brackets, and have been confined, in the main,
to entries in the Additions and Corrections. Acknowledgments are due to Mr MACMATH,
Professor LANMAN, and Dr F. N. ROBINSON for various contributions, and to Mr W. R.
SPALDING for reading the proof-sheets of the music. Mr LEO WIENER, Instructor in Slavic
Languages in Harvard University, has had the great kindness to revise the Slavic titles in the
List of Ballads, the List of Collections of Ballads, and the Bibliography. To Miss IRELAND
I am especially indebted for material assistance of various kinds, especially in the proof
reading.
G. L. K.]
JANUARY, 1898.
ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS*
VOL. I.
1. Riddles Wisely Expounded.
P. 1. Rawlinson MS. D. 328, fol. 174 b., Bodleian
Library.
I was unaware of the existence of this very impor
tant copy until it was pointed out to me by my friend
Professor Theodor Vetter, of Zurich, to whom I have
been in other ways greatly indebted. It is from a book
acquired by Walter Pollard, of Plymouth, in the 23d
year of Henry VI, 1444-5, and the handwriting is
thought to authorize the conclusion that the verses were
copied into the book not long after. The parties are
the fiend and a maid, as in C, D, which are hereby
evinced to be earlier than A, B. The " good ending"
of A, B, is manifestly a modern perversion, and the
reply to the last question in A, D, ' The Devil is worse
than eer woman was,' gains greatly in point when we
understand who the so-called knight really is. We ob
serve that in the fifteenth century version, 12, the fiend
threatens rather than promises that the maid shall be
his : and so in E, V, 205.
Inter diabolus et virgo.
1 Wol je here a wonder thynge
Betwyxt a mayd and fe fovle fende?
2 Thys spake fe fend to fe mayd :
' Beleue on me, mayd, to day.
3 ' Mayd, mote y thi leman be,
Wyssedom y wolle teche the :
4 'All fe wyssedom off the world,
Hyf f ou wolt be true and forward holde.
5 'What ys hyer fan ys [fe] tre?
What ys dypper fan ys the see ?
* All the ballads in Scott's Minstrelsy, excepting a few
pieces, of which only ' Cospatrick ' and ' The Bonny Hind'
require mention, were translated in Historische und roman-
tische Balladen der Schottischen Grenzlande, Zwickau,
1826-7, 7 small vols, by Elise von Hohenhausen, Willibald
Alexis, and Wilhelm von Liidemann, a work now rare,
which has just come to hand. Registering these translations
here, in 53 entries, would require an unwarrantable space.
6 ' What ys scharpper fan ys fe forne?
What ys loder fan ys }>e home ?
7 'What [ys] longger fan ys fe way?
What is rader fan ys fe day?
8 What [ys] bether than is fe bred?
What ys scharpper than ys fe dede?
9 'What ys grenner fan ys fe wode?
What ys swetter fan ys fe note?
10 'What ys swifter fan ys the wynd?
What ys recher fan ys fe kynge?
11 'What ys jeluer fan ys fe wex?
What [ys] softer fan ys fe flex?
12 'But fou now answery me,
Thu schalt for sofe my leman be.'
13 'Ihesu, for fy myld myjth,
As thu art kynge and knyjt,
14 ' Lene me wisdome to answere here ryjth,
And schylde me fram the fovle wyjlh 1
15 ' Hewene ys heyer than ys the tre,
Helle ys dypper fan ys the see.
16 ' Hongyr ys scharpper than [ys] f e thorne,
Jonder ys lodder than ys f e borne.
17 'Loukynge ys longer than ys fe way,
Syn ys rader fan ys the day.
18 ' Godys flesse ys betwr fan ys the brede,
Payne ys stronger fan ys fe dede.
19 ' Gras ys grenner fan ys fe wode.
Loue ys swetter fan ys the notte.
20 ']?owt ys swifter fan ys the wynde,
Ihesus ys recher fan ys the kynge.
21 ' Safer is jeluer than ys the wexs,
Selke ys softer fan ys the flex.
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ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS
22 ' Now, thu fende, styl thu be ;
Nelle ich speke no more wuA the !
2 2 . Be leue. 3 1 . the leman. 3 2 . theche. 13 2 . knyjt
seems to be altered to knyt. 14 2 . fold : cf. l a . 19 2 . lowe.
Pollarde is written in the left margin of 22 1 . and
W ALTER VS POLLARD below the last line of the
piece.
[' Inter Diabolus et Virgo ' is printed by Dr Furni-
vall in Englische Studien, XXIII, 444, 445, March,
1897.]
P. 2 f., 484 a, IT, 495 a, IV, 439 a. Slavic riddle-
ballads. Add : Romanov, I, 420, No 163 (White Rus
sian).
2. The Elfin Knight.
P. 7. Of the custom of a maid's making a shirt for
her betrothed, see L. Pineau in Revue des Traditions
Populaires, XI, 68. A man's asking a maid to sew him
a shirt is equivalent to asking for her love, and her con
sent to sew the shirt to an acceptance of the suitor. See,
for examples, Grundtvig, III, 918. When the Elf in
'Elveskud,' D 9, Grundtvig, II, 116, offers to give
Ole a shirt of silk, it is meant as a love-token ; Ole re
plies that his true love had already given him one. The
shirt demanded by the Elfin Knight may be fairly un
derstood to have this significance, as Grundtvig has sug
gested. So, possibly, in ' Clerk Colvill,' No 42, A 5, I,
387, considering the relation of 'Clerk Colvill' and
' Elveskud.' We have silken sarks sewn by a lady's
hand in several other ballads which pass as simple cre
dentials ; as in ' Johnie Scot,' No 99, A 12, 13, D 6,
E 2, H 4, 5, II, 379, 385, 389; etc. Here they may
have been given originally in troth-plight : but not in
Child Maurice,' No 83, D 7, F 9, II, 269, 272.
7, 8, 484 a, II, 495 a, III, 496 a, IV, 439 a, V, 205 b.
Add : ' Les Conditions impossibles,' Beauquier, Chan
sons p. recueillies en Franche-Comte", p. 133.
"White Russian. Sejn, Materialy, I, i, 494, No 608
(shirt, etc.). Croatian, Marjanovi6, ' Dar i uzdarje,'
p. 200, No 46.
8 ff. Questions and tasks offset by other questions
and requisitions in the Babylonian Talmud. See Singer,
Sagengeschichtliche Parallelen aus dem babylonischen
Talmud, Zeitschrift des Vereins fiir Volkskunde, II,
296.
11, note *, 12. The story of the two mares is No 48
of R. Schmidt's translation of the C/ukasaptati, p. 68 ff.;
that of the staff of which the two ends were to be dis
tinguished, No 49, p. 70 f. The Clever Wench (daugh
ter of a minister) appears in No 52, p. 73 ff., with
some diversities from the tale noted at p. 12 b, 2d para
graph. More as to the Clever Wench in R. Kohler's
notes to L. Gonzenbach's Sicilianische Marchen, now
published by J. Bolte in Zeitschrift des Vereins fiir
Volkskunde, VI, 59. [See also Radloff, Proben der
Volkslitteratur der nordlichen tiirkischen St'amme, VI,
191-202.]
17 f., 484 f., II, 495 f., IV, 439 f., V, 206. The Jour
nal of American Folk-Lore, VII, 228 f., gives the fol
lowing version, contributed by Miss Gertrude Decrow
of Boston, in whose family the song has been tradi
tional.
1 As I walked out in yonder dell,
Let ev'ry rose grow merry in time
I met a fair damsel, her name it was Nell,
I said, ' Will you be a true lover of mine?
2 ' I want you to make me a cambric shirt
Without any seam or needlework,
And then you shall be, etc.
3 ' I want you to wash it on yonder hill,
Where dew never was nor rain never fell.
4 ' I want you to dry it on yonder thorn,
Where tree never blossomed since Adam was
born.'
5 ' And since you have asked three questions of me,
Let ev'ry rose grow merry in time
Now and I will ask as many of thee,
And then I will be a true lover of thine.
6 ' I want you to buy me an acre of land
Between the salt sea and the sea-sand,
And then, etc.
7 ' I want you to plough it with an ox's horn,
And plant it all over with one kernel of corn.
8 'I want you to hoe it with a peacock's feather,
And thrash it all out with the sting of an adder,
And then,' etc.
19 J. At p. 229 of the same are these stanzas from
a version contributed by Mrs. Sarah Bridge Farmer,
as learned from an elderly lady born in Beverly, Mas
sachusetts.
Can't you show me the way to Cape Ann ?
Parsley and sage, rosemary and thyme
Remember me to a young woman that's there,
In token she's been a true lover of mine.
(" The requirements which follow are identical with
those of the previous version. There is an additional
stanza: " )
And when he has done, and finished his work,
If he'll come unto me, he shall have his shirt,
And then he shall be, etc.
ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS
285
The copy in The Denham Tracts, II, 358, from D. D.
Dixon's tractate on The Vale of Whittingham, Newcas-
tle-upon-Tyne, 1887, has been given from elsewhere at
II, 495.
4. Lady Isabel and the Elf-Knight.
P. 25, B. Een Liedeken van den Heere van Haele-
wyn, with trifling verbal differences from Hoffmann's
text, in Oude Liedekens in Bladeren, L. van Paemel,
No 25. The copy in Nederlandsch Liederboek, Gent,
1892, II, 1, No 44, 'Van Heer Halewijn,' is Willems's.
27 a, 32 a, 37 b, 487 b. Lausen des Kopfes durch das
Madchen : notes by R. Kb'hler to L. Gonzenbach's Sici-
lianische Marchen, now published by J. Bolte, Zeit-
schrift des Vereins fur Volkskunde, VI, 62. [Cf.
Georgeakis et Pineau, Folk-lore de Lesbos, p. 257.]
29-37, 486 a, III, 497 a, IV, 441 a, V, 206 f. GG,
HH, ' Der Ritter im Walde,' Herrmann u. Pogatschnigg,
Deutsche V.-L. aus Karnten, Salon- Ausgabe, p. 33 ;
4 Es ritt ein Rauber wohl iiber den Rhein,' Wolfram,
Nassauische Volkslieder, p. 61, No 33, resemble N-R :
Liedlein von dreierlei Stimmen ; eleven (two) warning
doves, three cries, to father, mother, brother; huntsman-
brother rescues sister and disposes of the knight or
robber.
Bohme, in his edition of Erk's Deutscher Liederhort,
I, 118-146, 1893, prints twenty German versions under
numbers 41, 42. Of these 41', 42 k , 42' are of oral deri
vation, and 42 h is from Erk's papers. Bohme notes
two other copies taken down from singing, and one in
MS., which he does not give. Judging by what has
been given, what has been withheld must be of trifling
value.
486 a, V, 207 a, DD. So ' Als die wunderschone
Anna auf dem Brautstuhle sass,' Wolfram, p. 66 f., No
89 a ; and No 39 b, which is even worse preserved.
Again, ' Die wunderschone Anna auf dem Rheinsteine,'
K. Becker, Rheinischer Volksliederborn, p. 20, No 17.
37 f., A. Add : 'Der Reiter u. die Kaiserstochter,'
K. Becker, Rheinischer Volksliederborn, p. 15, No 12.
41-44, III, 497 b, V, 207 a. Pair (or one of a pair)
riding a long way without speaking. Add : ' Los dos
hermanos,' Mild, Romancerillo Catalan, 2d ed., p. 234, No
250: " Siete leguas caminaron, palabra no se decian."
Add also: Afzeliiis (1880), I, 21, st. 22.
42 a, 488 a. Six Ruthenian copies (in two of which
the girl is a Jewess), Kolberg, Pokucie, II, 20-25, Nos
21-26. White Russian versions of the ballad of the
Jewess in ejn, I, i, 490 f., Nos 604, 605 ; Romanov,
I, n, 199, No 46.
P. 50, note || ; IV, 441 b. Leprosy cured by (chil
dren's) blood. See G. Rua, Novelle del " Mambriano,"
pp. 84, 88 ff. The story about Constantine's leprosy
(Reali di Francia, lib. 1, c. 1) occurs also in Higden's
Poly chron icon, Lumby, V, 122 ff., and in Gower, Con-
fessio Amantis, bk. u, Pauli, I, 266 ff. See also Ben
Jonson, Discoveries, ed. Schelling, p. 35 (G. L. K. and
W. P. Few). [See Prym u. Socin, Kurdische Samm-
lungen, pp. 35, 36. H. von Wlislocki, M. u. S. der
Bukowinaer u. Siebenbiirger Armenier, pp. 60, 61.
The latter gives a number of references for the story
about Constantine. Cf. also Dames, Balochi Tales, No
2, in Folk-Lore, III, 518.]
IV, 441 b, 3d paragraph. Another ballad (White
Russian) in which the girl is burned, Sejn, Materialy,
I, I, 492, No 606.
57. D a was derived " from the housekeeper at Meth-
ven." Sharpe's Ballad Book, ed. 1880, p. 130.
IV, 442 a, 1st paragraph. Both hands are of the
18th century.
5. Gil Brenton.
P. 6 7. What is said of the bilwiz must be understood
of the original conception. Grimm notes that this sprite,
and others, lose their friendly character in later days
and come to be regarded as purely malicious. See also
E. Mogk in Paul's Grundriss der germ. Philologie, I,
1019.
72. Splendid ships. See also Richard Coer de Lion,
60-72, Weber's Metrical Romances, II, 5 f. ; Melusine,
II, 438 f.
Some of the French ships prepared for the invasion
of England in 1386 had the masts from foot to cap cov
ered with leaves of fine gold : Froissart, ed. Buchon, X,
169. King Henry the Eighth in 1544 passed the seas
in a ship with sails of cloth of gold : Lord Herbert of
Cherbury, Life and Raigne of King Henry the Eighth,
1649, p. 513. When Thomas Cavendish went up the
Thames in 1589, his seamen and soldiers were clothed
in silk, his sails were of damask, " his top-masts cloth of
gold." Birch, Memoirs of the Reign of Q. Elizabeth,
1754, I, 57.
6. Willie's Lady.
P. 82 ff. Hindering childbirth. Notes by R. Kohler
to Laura Gonzenbach's Sicilianische Marchen, now pub
lished by J. Bolte, Zeitschrift des Vereins fiir Volks
kunde, VI, 63.
7. Earl Brand.
[P. 95 f, 489 b, III, 498 a, IV, 443 a. Death-naming,
etc. See also W. R. Paton, Holy Names of the Eleusin-
ian Priests, International Folk-lore Congress, 1891, Pa
pers and Transactions, p. 202 ff.]
96 f., 489 f, II, 498, III, 498, IV, 443, V, 207.
Swedish. Cf. Kristensen, Jyske Folkeminder, XI,
293.
Romaic. See Ztaypcupf'tos 'Ayv, p. 170, No 321.
[Georgeakis et Piueau, Folk-lore de Lesbos, pp. 208,
221.]
Italo-Albanian. De Grazia, Canti pop. albanesi,
p. 102, No 11.
[Turkish. Sora Chenim went down into the grave
286
ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS
of Taji Pascha, which opened to receive her. The
" black heathen " ordered one of his slaves to slay him
and bury him between the two. " Da wuchs Taji Pascha
als eine Pappel aus dem Boden hervor, Sora Chenim
wuchs als ein Rosenstrauch hervor. Zwischen diesen
Beiden wuchs der schwarze Heide als ein Dornbusch
hervor," etc. Radloff, Proben der Volkslitteratur der
nordlichen tiirkischen Stamme, VI, 246.]
100. Looking over the left shoulder. 1, 100 f., A 21,
B 4; 103, E 1 ; 464, 21; 490, 14 (left collar-bane);
492, 3 ; III, 259, 20 ; 263, 20 ; 264, 24 ; 339, 7; 368,
11 ; 369, 13 ; 413, 37; 465, 35 ; 488, 32; 18, 13; 15,
18 ; 17, 8 ; 18, 4 ; 20, 6 ; 52, 5 ; 135, 24 ; 445, 11 ; 518,
9 ; 519, 10 ; 520, 9. [In IV, 11, 21, it is the right
shoulder.]
At I, 464, III, 259, 263 f., 339, 368 f, 413, IV, 135, the
person looking over the left shoulder is angry, vexed, or
grieved ; in the other cases, no particular state of feel
ing is to be remarked. Undoubtedly the look over the
left shoulder had originally more significance, since,
under certain conditions, it gave the power of seeing
spectres, or future events (but looking over the right
shoulder had much the same effect). See A. Kuhn,
Sagen, u. a. w., aus Westfalen, I, 187, No 206, and his
references; and especially Bolte, in Zeitschrift des
Vereins fur Volkskunde, VI, 205-07 (using R. Kohler's
notes). After sowing hemp-seed in the Hallowe'en rite,
you look over your left shoulder to see your destined
lass or lad. See note to Burns's Hallowe'en, st. 16.
10. The Twa Sisters.
P. 124 a, 4th paragraph. The ballad in Schlegel's
Reisen is simply a threnody in Esthonian marriage cer
emonies over the carrying away of the bride to her hus
band's house, and is not to the point.
125, 493 b, II, 498 b, III, 499 a, IV, 447 b, V, 208 b.
' L'os qui chante : ' M. Eugene Monseur has continued
his study of this tale in Bulletin de Folklore, I, 39-51,
89-149, II, 219-41, 245-51. See also Bugiel in Wista,
VII, 339-61, 557-80, 665-85.
[See also ' Die Geschichte von zwei Freunden,'
Socin u. Stumme, Dialekt der Houwara des Wad Sus
in Marokko, pp. 53, 115, Abhandlungen der Phil.-hist.
Classe der K. Sachs. Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften,
XV.]
[On disclosure by musical instruments see Revue
Celtique, II, 199; Hartland, Legend of Perseus, I, 193.
F. N. Robinson.]
1 26 a. [For a parallel to the South African tale see
Jacottet, Contes pop. des Bassoutos, p. 52.]
126 b. C is also translated by H. Schubart in Arnim's
Trb'st Einsamkeit, 1808, p. 146.
11. The Cruel Brother.
P. 144 a. For ' Frau von Weissenburg,' Frau von
der Lbwenburg, 1 ' Junker Hans Steutlinger,' see Erk,
ed. Bohme, Nos. 102, 103, 1, 360 ff.
144 b, 2d paragraph, V, 208 b. Add : < Le Tes
tament du Chien,' Be"dier, Les Fabliaux, 2d ed., p.
473 ; 'Testament de la vieille Jument,' 'de la vieille
Truie,' 'de la Chevre,' Luzel, Chansons pop. de la
Basse-Bretagne, II, 88-97. The Robin's Last Will,'
Miss M. H. Mason's Nursery Rhymes and Country
Songs, p. 41.
12. Lord Randal.
P. 153 a. German. Two other copies in Bohme's
Erk, No 190 b, I, 582.
[154 a ; IV, 449 b. Danish. < Den forgivne Dat-
ter,' Grundtvig-Olrik, No 341, Ridderviser, I, 146 ff.,
two versions: A = Kristensen, Jyske Folkeminder, No
92, X, 358; B, that communicated to Professor Child by
Professor Grundtvig and mentioned in I, 154. Olrik
mentions 7 Swedish copies, 5 of them unprinted.]
156 a, III, 499 b, V, 208 b. ' Donna Lombarda.' See
Archivio, X, 380. [See also ' Utro Faestem0 vil for
give sin Faestemand,' in the Grundtvig-Olrik collection,
No 345, Ridderviser I, 165 ff., 3 versions A-C (A, B,
from MS. sources going back in part to the 16th cen
tury; C, from oral tradition, printed by Kristensen,
Jyske Folkeminder, No 19, 1, 49, No 56, X, 234). Olrik,
in an elaborate introduction, studies the relations of the
Danish ballad (which is found also in Norse, Bugge's
MS. collections, No. 221) to 'Donna Lombarda ' and to
the history of the sixth century Lombard queen Rose-
munda. He opposes the views of Gaston Paris, Jour
nal des Savants, 1889, pp. 616 ff., and holds that 'Donna
Lombarda,' ' Utro Fsesteme,' (his No 345), ' Giftblan-
dersken ' (his No 344), ' Fru Gundela' (see above I,
156 b), and the Slavic ballads of the sister who poisons
her brother at the instigation of her lover, are all de
rived from the saga of Rosemunda. He even regards
' Old Robin of Portingale,' No 80, II, 240, as related to
the ' Utro Faesteme.' See below, p. 295.]
156 b, 499 a, II, 499 a, III, 499. The ballad of the
maid who poisons her brother and is rejected by the
man she expects to win in Lithuanian, Bartsch, Dainu
Balsai, I, 172 ff., No 123 a, b. More ballads of poison
ing, sister poisoning brother at the instance of her lover,
girl poisoning her lover, and at col. 306 one resembling
Lord Randal, Herrmann, Ethnologische Mitteilungen
aus Ungarn, I, cols 292-308 (with an extensive biblio
graphy). Herrmann's collections upon this theme are
continued from cols 89-95, 203-11. [Cf. the Danish
ballad ' Tule Slet, Ove Knar og Fru Magnild,' Grundt
vig-Olrik, No. 350, Ridderviser, I, 186, where, how
ever, the murderess uses a knife.]
157. Compare, for dialogue and repetition, the Cata
lan ballad ' El Conde Arnau,' Mild, Romancerillo, No
78, p. 67 ; where, however, the first half of the third
line is also regularly repeated in the fourth.
' ^Tota sola feu la vetlla, muller lleyal?
^Tota sola feu la vetlla, viudeta igual? '
ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS
287
' No la faig yo tota sola, Comte 1'Arnau,
No la faig yo tota sola, valga 'm Deu, val ! '
157 b. A is translated by Professor Emilio Teza.
' L'Avvelenatrice, Canzone Boema,' Padova, 1891, p.
12. [Atti e Memorie della R. Accademia di Scienze,
Lettere ed Arti in Padova, Nuova Serie, VII, 234.]
13. Edward.
P. 167, 501 b, III, 499 b, V, 209 b. ' Svend i Rosens-
gaard ' is No 340 in the Grundtvig-Olrik collection of
Danish ballads, Ridderviser, I, 142. Danish versions
are limited to three, of which the second is a fragment
and the third a copy from Norway in all but pure Danish.
Of Swedish versions eleven are enumerated, besides a
half-comic copy from a manuscript of 1640, or older,
which is spun out to 33 stanzas. As before remarked,
a palpable tendency to parody is visible in some of the
Scandinavian specimens.
14. Babylon, or, The Bonnie Banks o
Fordie.
P. 170, 501 b, II, 499 a, III, 499 f., IV, 450 a, V,
209 b. ' Hr. Truelses Detre ' is No 338 of the Danish
ballads in the continuation of Grundtvig's collection by
Dr. Axel Olrik, Danske Ridderviser, 1895, 1, 114, where
the ballad is subjected to a minute study. The exist
ence of a ballad is mentioned in 1624, and indicated as
early as 1598. There are Danish, Swedish, and Ice
landic versions of the 1 7th century, and numerous later
copies, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, and Faroe : Dan
ish, in all, 10, one of the 17th century; Swedish 12, 4
of the 17th century; Norwegian 6; Faroe 4. Five
of the Norwegian copies take the direction of the Ice
landic and Faroe in the treatment of the story. Two
varieties of the ballad may be specially distinguished :
one in which we have the miracle of a light burning or
a fountain (fountains) springing over the place where
the maids were murdered (called by Olrik the legend
ary form), the other in which the career and fate of
the sons are made prominent. The " legendary " ver
sions are the older. In these the maids are regarded
as martyrs, and popular religious observances in con
nection with the miraculous fountains and in com
memoration of the murdered maids have been kept up
into the present century. The story is localized in
not less than thirteen Danish accounts and others in
Sweden.
II, 499 a, HI, 500, V, 209 b. Add to the French
ballads a copy, which has lost still more of the charac
teristic traits, obtained by M. Couraye du Pare in Basse-
Normandie : fitudes romanes de'die'es a Gaston Paris,
1891, p. 47, No 10.
II, 499 a. A Ruthenian story like that of the Great
Russian ballad in Kolberg, Pokucie, II, 30, No 33.
15. Leesome Brand.
Pp. 181, 502 a. German. Add : Bbhme, Erk's Lie-
derhort, I, 592 f., < Der Reiter und seine Geliebte,' No
194 b, from Erk's papers, c, from oral tradition (frag
ments). Bockel, 'Das Begrabniss im Walde,' p. 33,
No 4 7. 'Es gingen zwei Liebchen durch einen griinen
Wald,' Wolfram, p. 89, No 63.
17. Hind Horn.
[P. 188 b. Horn Child.' See the edition by J.
Caro, in Englische Studien, XII, 323 ff.]
190 a. Hereward will not drink unless the princess
presents the cup : very like Horn here. Michel, Chro-
niques Anglo-Normandes, II, 18 f.
191, note *. Blonde of Oxford (Jehan et Blonde).
See Suchier's edition, (Euvres poetiques de Philippe de
Remi, Sire de Beaumanoir, II, 89, 99, 103.
193 a. That Horn Child, though much more modern
in its present form than the Gest, " would seem to have
been formed on a still older model " was suggested by
T. Wright in 1835, and was the opinion of J. Grimm
and of Ferdinand Wolf. Wolf maintains that Horn
Child was the work of a popular jongleur, or vagrant
minstrel, and that for this reason Chaucer put it among
the " romances of prys," which are mentioned in Sir
Thopas. Anyway, this must have been the form of the
story which was known to Chaucer. Wolf, Ueber die
Lais, p. 217 f.
195 a (8). Oude Liedekens in Bladeren, L. van
Paemel, No 28 = Hoffmann, No 2.
199 a. Albanian. De Grazie, Canti p. albanesi,
p. 118.
199 a, note *. Ring in betrothal. So in Twelfth
Night, iv, 3, as Prior remarks, II, 277, apropos of
4 Axel and Walborg ', st. 44.
201, note. These talismans also in India : Tawney's
Katha-Sarit-Sagara, II, 161.
502 b, 5th paragraph, III, 501 b, IV, 450 b. Add :
Kolberg, Lud, IV, 23, No 146 ; VI, 166 f., No 832 ; XII,
115-118, Nos 221-224 (jumps seven tables and touches
the eighth) ; XVI, 271, No 438 ; XVI, 272, No 440 ;
Valjavec, p. 300, No 17; Kolberg, Mazowsze, II, 109,
No 251. A soldier comes back after seven years' ab
sence to his " widow ; " drops ring into cup, and is rec
ognized as her husband. Lud, XXI, 61, No 123.
20. The Cruel Mother.
P. 219 b, 504 a, II, 500 a, IV, 451 a, V, 212 a. Add :
T, Wolfram, p. 90, No 64, ' Es hiitet ein Schafer an
jenem Rain,' ' Die Rabenmutter ; ' Bb'hme's edition of
Erk's Liederhort, I, 636, No 212 e ; and to the litera
ture several items at p. 637.
219 b, III, 502 b. Similar Slavic ballads : Polish,
Kolberg, Lud, IV, 52, No 220 ; XII, 308 f., Nos 611,
612 ; XVII, 9, No 17 ; XVIII, 188, No 346 ; XXI,
288
ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS
85, No 179 ; XXII, 160, No 284 ; Kolberg, Mazowsze,
II, 160, No 352 ; IV, 366, No 436.
P. 220. C, sts 9, 10, 11 are in Motherwell's MS., p.
183, written in pencil.
Fish flying out of the pan. See Wesselofsky, Archiv
f. slavische Philologie, VI, 574.
241 b. Herod's questions. Compare Bergstrom and
Nordlander, 98, 3 ; Pidal, p. 128.
21. The Maid and the Palmer.
P. 228 b, 2d paragraph. The Finnish ballad was first
printed by C. A. Gottlund, Otava, 1832, II, 9 (Holland,
Chansons Populaires, VI, 47-50, with a translation).
230 f., Ill, 502 b, IV, 451 b. White Russian ver
sions, Sejn, II, 607 ff., Nos 12-16, ' Pesn' o grgsnoj
deve, Song of the sinful girl,' five copies, the third im
perfect. Jesus sends the girl to church, in the first the
earth comes up seven cubits, the lights go out, etc. ; she
shrives herself, and things are as before. In the other
copies she crumbles to dust. Polish (with variations),
Kolberg, Lud; XII, 309, No 613; XIX, 187, No 658 ;
XX, 101, No 37; XXI, 86, No 180; XXII, 161 f., Nos
285, 286 ; Kolberg, Mazowsze, 1, 142, No 46; IV, 367, No
437 ; Siarkowski, in Zbidr wiadomosci, IV, 94, No 18.
231 a. Legend of the Magdalen unmixed. Italian,
Archivio, XIV, 211 f., 'Maria Maddalena,' two copies,
fragmentary. In the second, Maria asks the master of
a vessel to take her in ; a tempest arises ; the dona
pecatrice, lest the vessel should founder on her account,
with many people aboard, throws herself into the sea,
is swallowed by a whale, and not disgorged for three-
and-thirty years.
22. St. Stephen and Herod.
P. 236 a, last paragraph. Here, and in other places
in volumes I, II, Catalan is treated as if it were a dia
lect of Spanish. The corrections required are as fol
lows : I, 236 a, last paragraph, 384 a, 2d par., 505 a,
2d par.; II, 174 a, 2d par., 347 a, 2d par., 512 a, No
72, read Catalan for Spanish, and I, 384 a, 2d par.,
drop K. I, 462 a, 3d par., read Catalan for C. II, 69 a,
7th line, 113 b, llth line, 158, 2d par., read Spanish
and Catalan^ and at the last place insert Catalan be
fore the 3d and 4th citations and transfer them to the
end.
237, III, 502 b. The Breton story with the miracu
lous sustentation of the maid (but without the marvel
of the capon): Bohme's Erk, I, 637 ff., No 213 a, ' Die
Weismutter,' b, 'Die unschuldig gehangene und ge-
rettete Dienstmagd,' and note to b ; Wolfram, p. 38,
No 10, ' Zu Frankfurt steht ein Wirtshaus.'
240 f., 505 f., II, 501 b, IV, 451 f. Joie des Bestes.
Add : Marin, Cantos Populares, I, 61, No 124 ; Iglesia,
El Idioma Gallego (' a maldicion d' a ovella '), cf. II, 8,
note f, III, 174, both cited by Munthe.
240, 241, 505 b, II, 501 b, III, 502 b, IV, 452 a, V,
212 a. A roast pheasant gets feathers and flies away
in attestation of a tale : M. Wardrop, Georgian Folk
tales, p. 10 f., No 2. G. L. K.
23. Judas.
[P. 243 b. Trinity College MS. B, 14, 39, has been
recovered, and Professor Skeat has had the kindness
to furnish a copy of the ballad. Wright's text proves
to be in all essentials accurate ; but, on account of the
age and great interest of the poem, Professor Skeat's
copy is here reproduced. The ballad has no title in
the MS.
Hit wes upon a scereforsday J>at vre louerd aros.
ful milde were J>e wordes he spec to iudas.
iudas lp ou most to iurselem oure mete for to bugge.
fritti platen of seluer J>ou bere up ofi rugge.
J>ou comest fer if e brode stret fer if e brode strete. 5
suwzme of fine tunesmen J>er J>ou meist i mete,
imette wid is soster fe swikele wimon.
iudas f ou were wrfe me stende the wid ston. .ff.
for the false prophete fat tou bileuest upon.
Be stille leue soster fin herte f e to breke. 10
'wiste min louerd erist ful wel he wolde be wreke.
Iudas go fou on fe roc heie up on f e ston.
lei fin heued i my barm slep fou J>e anon.
Sone so iudas of slepe was awake.
f ritti platen of seluer from hym weren itake. ' 15
He drou hym selue bi f e cop fat al it lauede ablode.
f e iewes out of iurselem awenden he were wode.
Foret hym com f e riche ieu fat heiste pilatus.
wolte sulle f i louerd fat hette iesus.
I nul sulle my louerd for nones cunnes eiste. 20
bote hit be for fe f ritti platen, fat he me bi taiste.
Wolte sulle f i lord cn'st for enes cunnes golde.
Nay bote hit be for fe platen, fat he habben
wolde.
In him com ur lord * gon as is postles seten at mete.
Wou sitte ye postles ant wi nule ye etc. .ff. 25
ic am iboust ant isold to day for oure mete.
Vp stod him iudas lord am i fat
I nas neuer ofe stude fer me fe euel spec.
Vp him stod peter ant spec wid al is miste.
f au pilatus him come wid ten hundred cnistes. .ff. 30
yet ic wolde louerd for f i loue fiste.
Still f ou be peter, wel i f e i cnowe.
f ou wolt fur sake me f rien. ar f e coc him crowe. 33
V. 24, *. The word c'st has here been erased, and
should not be inserted. Skeat.
V. 27. Blank space. Read 'frek ' (= man). Skeat.
The MS. has ff at end of 11. 8, 25, 30. This means
that there are here two second lines, i. e., that three
lines rime together. Skeat. The long f's of the MS.
are printed s.]
ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS
289
25. Willie's Lyke-Wake.
P. 250, 506 a, II, 502 a, III, 503 a. Add the Cro
atian ballad, ' Ive uinira za Marom,' Hrvatske Narodne
Pjesme iz "Nase Sloge," II. Diel, 15, No 11.
29. The Boy and the Mantle.
[P. 261 f. On the Gaelic ballad in the Dean of Lis-
more's Book see the elaborate article by Professor
Ludw. Chr. Stern, Die galische Ballade vom Mantel
in Macgregors Liederbuche, Zeitschrift fur celtische
Philologie, I, 294 ff. The text is given according to
the edition of Alexander Cameron, Reliquiae Celticae,
I, 76, with another copy from a 1628 MS. in the Fran
ciscan Convent at Dublin. Stern's translation clears up
some points, and brings out one striking similarity be
tween the Gaelic and the English ballad. When Mac-
Reith's wife tried on the mantle, " er passte ihr, beides
an Fuss und Hand, bis auf die Gabel ihrer kleinen
Finger und Zehen." She explains this failure of the
mantel to cover her completely : " ' Einen Kuss bekam
ich verstohlen von O'Duibhnes Sohne Diarmaid ; der
Mantel wiirde bis auf den Boden reichen, wenn es nicht
der allein ware.' " Compare sts 28-30 of ' The Boy
and the Mantle.' This similarity, in a feature unknown
to other versions of the story, coupled with the form
' Craddocke ' in the English ballad (a form which " nur
aus dem welschen Caradawc entstanden sein kann ")
convinces Stern that ' The Boy and the Mantle,' and
probably also the Gaelic ballad, are derived directly
from Welsh tradition, independently of the Old French
versions, which, however, he thinks also go back ulti
mately to Wales (p. 310). I am indebted to Dr F. N.
Robinson for calling my attention to Stern's article.
G. L. K.]
268 ff., 507 a, II, 502 a, III, 503, IV, 454 a, V,
212 f. Tests of chastity. " The jacinth stone will not
be worne on the finger of an adulterer, nor the olive
grow if planted by one that leadeth his life in unlawful
lusts." Greene, Never too late, Pt. II, 1590, Works, ed.
Grosart, VIII, 141. A note on the general subject in
G. Rua, Novelle del " Mambriano," pp. 66 f., 73-83.
G. L. K. [See also Zupitza, Herrig's Archiv f. das
Studiutn der neueren Sprachen, LXXXII, 201 ; Nyrop,
Dania, I, 13, n. 2 ; Feilberg, Dania, I, 154; 'La Mensu
ration du Cou,' Perdrizet and Gaidoz, Melusine, VI,
225 ff.]
270 a, 1st paragraph. The Shukasaptati story at
p. 29 f. of R. Schmidt's translation.
30. King Arthur and King Cornwall.
P. 284. Sts 17, 18. Compare Carle of Carlile, w.
143 ff., Percy MS., Hales and Furnivall, III, 282.
VOL. v. 37
31. The Marriage of Sir Gawain.
P. 288 ff., II, 289 b, III, 454 a. Mr. Whitley Stokes
has pointed out that the incident of a hag turning into
a beautiful woman after a man has bedded with her oc
curs in the Book of Bally mote, an Irish MS. of about
1400, and elsewhere and earlier in Irish story, as in the
Book of Leinster, a MS. of the middle of the twelfth cen
tury. The Academy, XLI, 399 (1892). It is singular
that the sovereignty in the first tale is the sovereignty of
Erin, with which the disenchanted hag rewards her de
liverer, and not the sovereignty over woman's will which
is the solution of the riddle in the ballad. See also the
remarks of Mr. Alfred Nutt in the same volume, p. 425
(and, again, Academy, October 19, 1889, p. 255), who,
while denying the necessity for any continental deri
vation of the hideous woman, suggests that Rosette in
Gautier's Conte du Graal, vv. 25380-744, furnishes a
more likely origin for her than Chretien's damoisele,
since it does not appear that the latter is under spells,
and spells which are loosed by the action of a hero.
[See also O'Grady, Silva Gadelica, p.-328 ff.; transla
tion, p. 370 ff. F. N. Robinson.]
289 b. Gromere Gromorson (Grummore Gumraur-
sum) and Gromore somyr loure, in Malory's Morte
Darthur, ed. Sommer, 256, 258, 799.
32. King Henry.
P. 290, note f, IV, 454 a. "La nuit si jolie fille, le
jour si jolie biche:" Pineau, Le Folk-lore du Poitou,
p. 391. [A raven by day, a woman by night: von Wlis-
locki, M. u. S. der Bukowinaer u. Siebenbiirger Arme-
nier, p. 75. On transformations of all kinds, see S.
Prato, Bulletin de Folklore, 1892, p. 316 ff.]
298, II, 502 b, IV, 454 a. A man marries a snake.
At midnight it becomes a woman, and it keeps that
form thereafter : J. Krainz, Mythen u. Sagen aus dem
steirischen Hochlande. No. 147, p. 194. A snake
(enchanted man) marries a girl, and is thereby freed :
Briider Zingerle, Tirols Volksdichtungen, II, 1 73 ff. ; cf.
11,317. G. L. K.
33. Kempy Kay.
P. 300. I have serious doubts whether this offensive
ballad has not been made too important; whether, not
withstanding the points noted at p. 301, it is anything
more than a variety of ' The Queen of all Sluts.'
305 b. A 10 1 . lauchty in Sharpe with a line drawn
in ink through 1 (probably by the editor, as this is a
presentation copy).
V, 213 a. Since we have Pitcairn's copy only in
Sharpe's handwriting, we cannot determine which of
the two made the changes.
290
ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS
34. Kemp Owyne.
P. 307 f, II, 502 b, III, 504 a. Disenchantment ;
kissing a serpent. A remarkable case alleged to have
occurred at Cesena in 1464 : [Angelo de Tummulillis,
Notabilia Temporum, ed. Corvisieri, 1890, p. 124 ff. ;]
Giornale Storico della Letteratura Italiana, XVII, 161.
G. L. K. On the whole subject see R. Kohler's notes
in Mennung, Der Bel Inconnu, p. 20 ; S. Prato's notes,
Bulletin deFolklore, 1892, p. 333 f. [W. H. Schofield,
Studies on the Libeaus Desconus, in Studies and Notes
in Philology and Literature published under the direc
tion of the Modern Language Departments of Harvard
University, IV, 199 ff.]
36. The Laily Worm and the Maokrel
of the Sea.
P. 316 a. Naktergalsvisan, Bohlin, in Nyare Bidrag
till Kannedom om de Svenska Landsmalen, II, 10, Folk-
toner fran Jamtland, pp. 5, 6.
37. Thomas Rymer.
P. 319, note t. Dr. W. H. Schofield has furnished
me with an abstract of the Visions d'Oger le Dannoys
au royaulme de Fairie (which book after all is in the
Paris library). There is nothing in the Visions which
throws further light on the relation of the stories of
Thomas Rhymer and of Ogier.
320, note J. Bells. See R. Kbhler, Zeitschr. des
Vereins f. Volkskunde, VI, 60.
321, note f. The duration of paradisiac bliss ex
ceeds three hundred years in some accounts. Three
hundred years seem but three days in the Italian
legend of three monks, Graf, Miti, Leggende, etc., 1892,
I, 87 f., and in that of the young prince who invites
an angel to his wedding, Graf, 90 ff., after the Latin
text published by Schwarzer, Zeitschrift fiir deutsche
Philologie, XIII, 338-51, 1881. (R. Kohler pointed
out in the same journal, XIV, 96 ff., that an abstract
of the story had been given in Vulpius's Curiositaten,
I, 179 ff., as early as 1811.) In the lai of Guingamor,
printed by M. Gaston Paris in Romania, VIII, 50 ff.,
1879, three hundred years pass as three days. In both
the last, the eating of earthly food brings an immedi
ate decrepitude, followed by speedy death in the case
of the prince. [See also W. Hertz, Spielmannsbuch,
p. 318 f.]
39. Tarn Lin.
[P. 339 b, n, 505 b, III, 505 b. Fairy salve. Kirk's
Invisible Commonwealth, ed. Lang, pp. 13, 34; Den-
ham Tracts, II, 188 f.]
340 a, II, 505 b, III, 505 b, IV, 455 b. Sleeping
under trees: ympe tree. Bugge, Arkiv for nordisk
Filologi, VII, 104, refers to Liebrecht, Gervasius von
Tilbury, p. 117, and to W. Hertz, Spielmannsbuch,
p. 322.
40. The Queen of Elfan's Nourice.
P. 358 b, II, 505 f., Ill, 505 f., IV, 459 a, V, 215 b.
Mortal midwives for fairies, etc. : Wucke, Sagen der
mittleren Werra, II, 25 ; Gebhart, Oesterreichisches
Sagenbuch, p. 208 ; Baader, Neugesammelte Volks-
sagen, No 95, p. 68. G. L. K.
[Kirk's Secret Commonwealth, ed. Lang, p. 13; Den-
ham Tracts, II, 138.]
42. Clerk ColviUe.
[P. 372 b. Der Ritter von Staufenberg. See the
edition by Edward Schroder : Zwei altdeutsche Ritter-
maren, Moriz von Craon, Peter von Staufenberg. Ber
lin, 1894. Schroder dates the composition of the poem
about 1310 (p. LI). He shows that Schott's edition,
which Culemann followed, was a reprint of one printed
by Priiss in 1483 at the earliest, but thinks that it fol
lowed that of Priiss at no long interval (p. XXXIV).
Cf. also Schorbach, Zeitschr. f. deutsches Altertum,
XL, 123ff.]
374-78. The mother's attempt to conceal the death
of her son from his wife occurs also in ' Ebbe Tyges0ns
D0dsridt ' and ' Hr. Magnuses D0dsridt,' Olrik, Danske
Ridderviser, Nos 320, 321, and Swedish copies of the
former ; borrowed no doubt from ' Elveskud.'
380, II, 506 a, III, 506 a, IV, 459 a, V, 216 a. Add :
XX, ' La Mort de Jean Renaud,' Beauquier, Chansons
p. recueillies en Franche-comte, p. 152.
43. The Broomfield Hill.
[P. 393 a, III, 506 b, IV, 459 b. With the Italian
ballad cf. ' Quarante ans j'ai travailleV Georgeakis et
Pineau, Folk-lore de Lesbos, p. 246.]
393 f., 506. Jager-Romanze in Bohme, Altdeutsches
Liederbuch, No 437, from Melchior Franck, Fasciculus
Quodlibeticus, Niirnberg, 1611, No 6: slightly different,
no disposition to kill the maid. Three copies of this all
but inevitable ballad in Blatter fiir Pommersche Volks
kunde, II. Jahrgang, p. 77 f., ' Jagerslied ; ' and more
might be added.
44. The Twa Magicians.
[P. 400. Greek. Cf. ' Les Transformations,' George
akis et Pineau, Folk-lore de Lesbos, p. 210 ff. (no men
tion of the Turk's transforming himself).]
401. Polish. Add : Kolberg, Lud, XXT, 27, No 50;
XXII, 102, No 157; Kolberg, Mazowsze, II, 54 f., Nos
131, 132 ; III, 247, 321; IV, 274, No 240.
401 b, H, 506 b, III, 506 f., IV, 459 b, V, 216 a. Trans-
ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS
291
formations during flight. Add B. Kb'hler's notes to
L. Gonzenbach's Sicilianische Marchen, now published
by J. Bolte, Zeitschrift des Vereins fiir Volkskunde,
VI, 65.
The incidents of the flight of the girl and her lover,
the pursuit and the transformations, and of the Devil
outwitted by his pupil are discussed by G. Rua, No-
velle del " Mambriano " del Cieco da Ferrara, p. 95.
See also M. Wardrop, Georgian Tales, p. 4, No. 1.
G. L. K.
45. King John and the Bishop.
[P. 405 ff., II, 506 f., IV, 459 b, V, 216 a. A Chris
tian ascetic has taken up his abode in a hogshead, on
which he has written, " If thou art wise, live as I live 1 "
The sultan puts three questions to him : How far is it to
heaven ? At how much do you value me ? Which is
the best religion? The penalty for failure to solve
them is to be dragged at the tail of the sultan's horse.
The answers are : A day's journey; twenty-nine silver
pieces ; neither of the two religions is the better, for
the two are God's eyes, one of which is as dear to him
as the other. Von Wlislocki, M. u. S. der Bukowinaer
u. Siebenbiirger Armenier, ' Der weise Mann,' No 30,
p. 83 ff.]
46. Captain Wedderburn's Courtship.
[P. 417 a, II, 507 b, III, 507 a, IV, 459 b, V, 216 a.
Heads on stakes. See W. H. Schofield, in the (Har
vard) Studies and Notes in Philology and Literature,
IV, 175 ff.]
418 a, II, 507 b. See Stiefel, Ueber die Quelle der
Turandot-Dichtung Heinz des Kellners, in Zeitschr. f.
vergleichende Litteraturgeschichte, N. F., VIII, 257ff.
47. Proud Lady Margaret.
P. 426. Add : La fille damnee,' Daymard, p. 178;
' La sposa morta,' Archivio, VIII, 274 ; the " romance "
in Ballesteros, Cancionero popular gallego, III, 256;
see also the " romance " ' Bernal Francez ' from Al-
garve in Encyclopedia Eepublicana, Lisbon, 1882,
p. 156.
49. The Twa Brothers.
I.
P. 435, V, 217. Communicated by Mr J. K. Hudson
of Manchester. Sung after a St George play regularly
acted on All Souls' Day at a village a few miles from
Chester, and written down for Mr Hudson by one
of the performers, a lad of sixteen. The play was in
troduced by a song called Souling (similar to a Ste-
phening, see I, 234), and followed by two songs, of
which this is the last, the whole dramatic company
singing.
1 ' And it's where hast thou been all this night long,
my son?
Come tell it unto me.'
' I have been lying on yonder bull-rushes,
Which lies beneath yond tree.'
2 ' And it's what are the spots on this thy coat, my
son?
Come tell it unto me.'
'They are the spots of my poor brother's blood,
Which lies beneath yonder tree.'
3 * And it's what didst thou kill thy poor brother for,
my son?
Come tell it unto me.'
1 Because he killed two pretty little birds,
Which flew from tree to tree.'
4 ' And it's what will the father say when he comes,
my son?
Come tell it unto me.'
* I will dress me up in sailor's clothes,
And my face he will never see.'
5 'And it's what wilt thou do with thy pretty little
wife, my son?
Come tell it unto me.'
'I will dress her up in lad[d]ie's clothes,
And she will sail along with me.'
6 ' And it's what wilt thou do with thy children three,
my son?
Come tell it unto me.'
' I will leave them to my poor grandfather to rear,
And comfort [to] him [to be].'
7 ' And it's when shall we see thy face again, my son ?
Come tell it unto me.'
' When the sun and moon shines both at once,
And that shall never be.'
53. Young Beichan.
P. 459 a. For a late German ballad on the Moringer
story ('von dem Markgrafen Backenweil ') see Bolte,
Zeitschrift des Vereins fiir Volkskunde, III, 65-7, and
for notes of dramas upon the theme, pp. 62-4. I do
not observe that I have anywhere referred to the ad
mirably comprehensive treatment of the subject by von
Tettau, Ueber einige bis jetzt unbekannte Erfurter
Drucke des 15. Jahrhunderts, Hitter Morgeners Wall-
fahrt, pp. 75-123. The book did not come into my
hands till two years after my preface was written.
292
ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS
VOL. H.
56. Dives and Lazarus.
P. 10 b, III, 507 b, 508 a, IV, 462 b, V, 220 a. Add :
Ruthenian ballad, Kolberg, Pokucie, II, 280, No 505.
Legends not in stanzas, White Russian, ' Lazar,' Sejn,
II, 578-90, 3 copies ; Romanov, Part V, pp. 341-56, Nos
22-26, 5 copies and variants ; Great Russian, Jakus-
kin, p. 44, No 13, 2 copies. Lazarus and the rich man
are brothers.
II ricco Epulone,' the Madonna begging, Archivio,
XIV, 209 .
57. Brown Robyn's Confession.
P. 13, 510 a, IV, 463 a, V, 220 a. A serpent stops a
ship and demands a passenger : Larminie, West-Irish
Folk-Tales, p. 131. On the detention of ships by sub
marine folk, see Whitley Stokes, Revue Celtique, XV,
294 f. G. L. K. (The article attributed to R. Kohler,
II, 510 a, is by L. Laistner.) [Add Jataka, Bk. I, No
41, Co well, I, 110. A ship mysteriously detained be
cause the owner has neglected a promise : Yacoub Ar-
tin Pacha, Contes pop. de la vallee du Nil, p. 74.]
59. Sir Aldingar.
[P. 33, 511 b, III, 508 a, IV, 462 a. For parallels,
including the child champion, see R. Kbhler's account
of the Breton mystery of Sainte Tryphine, Revue Cel
tique, I, 222 ff. F. N. Robinson.]
64. Fair Janet.
P. 102 f. (Breton ballad), III (497 b, No 5), 508 b,
IV, 464 a, V, 222 a. Add to the French ballads a copy
from Basse-Normandie obtained by M. Couraye du Pare,
fitudes romanes dediees a Gaston Paris, 1891, p. 49;
'L'infidele punie,' Beauquier, Chansons p. recueillies
en Franche-Comte, p. 254. [On the similarity of the
beginning of 'La Fidanzata Infedele' to that of the
Danish ballad ' Hyrde og Ridderfrue,' see Olrik, Rid-
derviser, I, 181, No 349.]
P. 109. Something similar to what is narrated in P
7-10 is, I am assured by high authorities, familiar to
practising physicians. An eminent professor in the
Harvard Medical School informs me that in the case of
two families under his care the husband has been regu
larly troubled with " morning sickness " during the first
three or four months of the wife's pregnancy (the hus
band in neither case being of a nervous or hysterical
disposition). Mr. E. E. Griffith, late of Harvard Col
lege, tells me that a respectable and intelligent man of
his acquaintance in Indiana maintained that he always
shared the pains of his wife during parturition, and that
his labors were as intense in degree and as lono 1 in time
O
as hers. A distinguished physician of Indiana, while
testifying to the frequency of cases of the like sympa
thy, insists that such experiences occur only to hus
bands who have witnessed the pains in question, or
who have learned about them by reading or conversa
tion on the matter, and that " suggestion " affords an
explanation of the phenomenon.
65. Lady Maisry.
P. 1 1 2 f. In a Polish ballad a girl who has had a
child irregularly is burned by her two brothers. Her
paramour comes by when she is half burned, and she
begs him to save her. (How can I? he says ; your
brothers are here. The brothers say, we have done
wrong to burn her ; we have left her child an orphan.)
Kolberg, Lud, XVI, 291, No 476.
P. 114, st. 17.
O whare is a' my merry young men,
Whom I gi meat and fee ?
With this common-place compare :
Hvor ere nu de Ka?mper, min Fader giver Brad
(Len), Grundtvig, D. g. F., No 184, G, 8, 9.
Aqui, aqui, los mis doscientos,
Los que comeis el mi pan.
Wolf and Hofmann, Primavera, I, 39, 41 f., and Conde
Claros, the same, II, 374.
66. Lord Ingram and Child Wyet.
Pp. 127, 511, III, 509 a. Naked sword as emblem
of chastity. More notes by R. Kohler to Laura Gon-
zenbach's Sicilianische Marchen, Nos 39, 40, now pub
lished by J. Bolte in Zeitschrift des Vereins fiir Volks-
kunde, VI, 76.
[Mame Ala, in the Kurdish story ' Mam and Sin,'
lays a dagger (Dolchmesser) between himself and Sine,
" so dass der Griff desselben gegen ihre, die Spitze gegen
seine eigene Brust gerichtet war." Prym u. Socin,
Kurdische Sammlungen, Petersburg Academy, transla
tion, p. 101.]
127, note *, III, 509 a. Italian ballad (sword reduced
to a straw). Bernoni, Trad. pop. veneziane, p. 36 ;
Ferraro, Canti pop. di Ferrara, pp. 56, 103; Villario,
in Archivio, XI, 35; Menghini, Canzoni pop. romane,
in Sabatini, II Volgo di Roma, I, 75 ff.
[127 f., 511 b, III, 509 a. Table- jumping.
Et chil Robert d'Artois n'i fist arestement,
La table tressali tost et apertement ;
Au conte Salebrin ala premierement.
The Vows of the Heron (about 1340), Wright, Politi
cal Poems, I, 9 f.]
[128. 'Ebbe Skammelsen' is now No 354 in the
ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS
293
Grundtvig-Olrik collection of Danish ballads, Ridder-
viser, I, 197 ff. 8 Danish versions are printed (some
of which go back to MSS of the 17th century), with a
very elaborate introduction and critical apparatus. Dr.
Olrik regards the extant Norwegian texts as derived
from print. He enumerates 8 Swedish versions.]
67. Glasgerion.
P. 137, II, 511 f. Soporific effect of harping : cf.
Eevue celfcique, XII, 81, 109, XV, 438. G. L. K.
69. Clerk Saunders.
P. 166. Stanzas 30-37 are inserted in Buchan's first
MS. on a separate slip of paper, and at 29, where the
ballad originally ended, there is this note : " See the ad
ditional stanzas on the annexed leaf." W. Walker.
72. The Clerk's Twa Sons o Owsenford.
P. 174, note *. 'Dass Schloss in Oesterreich,' etc.:
see Bohme's Erk, No 61*' g ; Frischbier u. Sembrzychi,
Hundert Ostpreussiche Volkslieder, No 16, p. 26 ;
Becker, Rheinischer Volksliederborn, No 2, a, b, c, p.
2 ff. ; Wolfram, No 44, p. 71; Kristensen, Jyske Folke-
minder, XI, 218, No 81.
73. Lord Thomas and Pair Annet.
P. 181, III, 510 b, IV, 469 a, V, 223 b. Add to the
Southern ballads ' Le mariage tragique,' Beauquier,
Chansons p. recueillies en Franche-comte, p. 81 ; 'Las
bodas,' Mild, Romancerillo Catalan, p. 257, No 262.
(In this last, ' vert marca esperansa.')
1 There was such a man as King William, there was,
And he courted a lady fair,
He courted such a lady as Lady Margaret,
For a whole long twelve-month year.
2 Said he, ' I 'm not the man for you,
Nor you the maid for me,
But before many, many long months
My wedding you shall see.'
3 Said she, ' If I 'm not the maid for you,
Nor you the man for me,
Before many, many long days
My funeral you shall see.'
4 Lady Margaret sat in a green shady bower,
A combing her yellow, yellow hair,
When who should she see but King William and his
bride,
And to church they did repair.
5 She threw all down her ivory comb,
Threw back her yellow hair,
And to the long chamber she did go,
And for dying she did prepare.
6 King William had a dream that night,
Such dreams as scarce prove true :
He dreamed that Lady Margaret was dead,
And her ghost appeared to view.
7 'How do you like your bed?' said she,
' And how do you like your sheets?
And how do you like the fair lady
That 's in your arms and sleeps ? '
8 ' Well do I like my bed,' said he,
' And well do I like my sheets,
But better do I like the fair lady
That 's in my arms and sleeps.'
9 King William rose early the next morn,
Before the break of day,
Saying, ' Lady Margaret I will go see,
Without any more delay.'
10 He rode till he came to Lady Margaret's hall,
And rapped long and loud on the ring,
But there was no one there but Lady Margaret's
brother
To let King William in.
74. Fair Margaret and Sweet William. n
P. 199. Communicated by Miss Mary E. Burleigh,
of Worcester, Massachusetts, and derived, through a
relative, from her great-grandmother, who had heard the
ballad sung at gatherings of young people in Webster,
Massachusetts, not long after 1820.
12
' Where, O where is Lady Margaret?
Pray tell me how does she do.'
' Lady Margaret is dead in the long chamber,
She died for the love of you.'
' Fold back, fold back that winding sheet,
That I may look on the dead,
That I may kiss those clay-cold lips
That once were the cherry-red.'
13 Lady Margaret died in the middle of the night,
King William died on the morrow,
Lady Margaret died of pure true love,
King William died of sorrow.
14 Lady Margaret was buried in King William's church
yard,
All by his own desire,
And out of her grave grew a double red rose
And out of hisn a briar.
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15 They grew so high, they grew so tall,
That they could grow no higher ;
They tied themselves in a true-lover's knot,
And both fell down together.
16 Now all ye young that pass this way,
And see these two lovers asleep,
'T is enough to break the hardest heart,
And bring them here to weep.
199 f. Mallet and ' Sweet William.' Full particu
lars in W. L. Phelps, The Beginnings of the English
Romantic Movement, 1893, p. 177 ff.
75. Lord Lovel.
P. 204 f., note f, 512 b, IV, 471 a, V, 225 a. Add :
Wolfram, p. 87, No 61, ' Es spielte ein Hitter mit einer
Madam.'
205 b, note *. The Swedish ballad (p. 71 f. of the
publication mentioned) is defective at the end, and al
together amounts to very little.
[206. Romaic. Add : 'La belle Augiranouda,'
Georgeakis et Pineau, Folk-lore de Lesbos, p. 223 f.]
206 a, and note *. Add : Wolfram, No 28, p. 55, Es
war ein Jager wohlgemut,' and 'Jungfer Db'rtchen,'
Blatter fiir Pommersche Volkskunde, II. Jahrgang,
p. 12.
211, H. I have received a copy recited by a lady in
Cambridge, Massachusetts, which was evidently derived
from print, and differs but slightly from a, omitting 8 8 > 4 ,
9 L2 .
76. The Lass of Roch Royal.
P. 215. ' Germaine ' : see Daymard, p. 170 ; Revue
des Traditions populaires, III, 364 ; Beauquier, Chan
sons pop. recueillies en Franche-Comte, p. 259.
77. Sweet William's Ghost.
P. 228 f., 233, 239, HI, 514, IV, 474. Of the suc
cession of three cocks, white, red, black (reduced to two
in English ballads), see R. Kbhler, Der weisse, der rothe
und der schwarze Hahn, Germania, XI, 85-92. [So
in the tale ' L'Andromede et les Demons,' Georgeakis
et Pineau, Folk-lore de Lesbos, p. 82 f.]
228, note f. Two or three additions in Bbhme's Erk,
I, 598 ff., No 197, c, d, g.
78. The Unquiet Grave.
P. 285 a, last paragraph. Servian ballad in which a
child's shirt is wet with its mother's tears, Rajkovic",
p. 143, No 186, ' Dete Lovzar i majka mu ' (' The child
and his mother ').
[235. Tears burning the dead. Professor Lanman
furnishes the following interesting parallel from the
Mahabharata, XI, 43 ff. : Dhrtarastra is lamenting
for his fallen sons. His charioteer says ; The face
that thou wearest, covered with falling tears, is not ap
proved by the sacred books ; nor do wise men praise
it. For they [the tears], like sparks, 'tis said, do burn
those men (for whom they're shed).]
79. The Wife of Usher's Well.
[P. 238, III, 513. Communicated, 1896, by Miss
Emma M. Backus, of North Carolina, who notes that it
has long been sung by the " poor whites " in the moun
tains of Polk County in that State. It has the mother's
prayer for the return of her children, as in C, III, 513,
but is in other respects much nearer to A. In the last
stanza we should doubtless read " They wet our wind
ing sheet," or the like. In 4 8 the MS. has lonely or
lonely, perhaps meant for lovely.
1 There was a lady fair and gay,
And children she had three :
She sent them away to some northern land,
For to learn their grammeree.
2 They hadn't been gone but a very short time,
About three months to a day,
When sickness came to that land
And swept those babes away.
3 There is a king in the heavens above
That wears a golden crown :
She prayed that he would send her babies home
To-night or in the morning soon.
4 It was about one Christmas time,
When the nights was long and cool,
She dreamed of her three little lonely babes
Come running in their mother's room.
5 The table was fixed and the cloth was spread,
And on it put bread and wine :
' Come sit you down, my three little babes,
And eat and drink of mine.'
6 'We will neither eat your bread, dear mother,
Nor we'll neither drink your wine ;
For to our Saviour we must return
To-night or in the morning soon.'
7 The bed was fixed in the back room ;
On it was some clean white sheet,
And on the top was a golden cloth,
To make those little babies sleep.
8 ' Wake up ! wake up ! ' says the oldest one,
'Wake up! it's almost day.
And to our Saviour we must return
To-night or in the morning soon.'
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295
9 ' Green grass grows at our head, dear mother,
Green moss grows at our feet ;
The tears that you shed for us three babes
Won't wet our winding sheet.']
80. Old Robin of Portingale.
[P. 240. Dr. Axel Olrik thinks that this ballad is
related to the Danish ballad ' Utro Faestem0 vil forgive
sin Faestemand,' No 345 in the Grundtvig- Olrik collec
tion (Ridderviser, I, 167, note *), which he refers for
its origin to the story of the Lombard queen Rosemunda
(see note on ' Lord Randal,' No 12, p. 286, above). The
drink promised to Old Robin by his wife Dr Olrik
thinks may indicate that the English ballad was once
more similar to the Danish than it is in the version
which we possess.]
87. Prince Robert.
P. 284. A mother prepares wholesome drink for her
son, poison for his wife ; both son and wife are poi
soned. They are buried separately, one in the church,
one in the graveyard. Trees from their graves join
their tops. White Russian, Sejn, I, i, 444, No 544,
447-51, Nos 546-9 ; Hiltebrandt, p. 64, No 65 ; Kup-
canko, ' Vdova otravljaet nevgstu,' p. 255, No 300.
Ruthenian, Kolberg, Pokucie, II, 41, No 48.
90. Jellon Grame.
P. 303 b, 513 b, III, 515 b, IV, 479 b, V, 226 a.
Vol'ga, Volch, of the Russian bylinas, must have a
high place among the precocious heroes. When he was
an hour and a half old his voice was like thunder, and
at five years of age he made the earth tremble under
his tread. At seven he had learned all cunning and
wisdom, and all the languages. Dobrynya is also to be
mentioned. See Wollner, Volksepik der Grossrussen,
pp. 47 f., 91.
Simon the Foundling in the fine Servian heroic song
of that name, KaradXic, II, 63, No 14, Talvj, I, 71,
when he is a year old is like other children of three ;
when he is twelve like others of twenty, and wonder
fully learned, with no occasion to be afraid of any
scholar, not even the abbot. (Cf. ' The Lord of Lome,'
V, 54, 9, 10.)
Other cases, Revue Celtique, XII, 63 ; Wardrop,
Georgian Folk Tales, No 6, p. 26. G. L. K. [Lady
Guest's Mabinogion, III, 32, 65 ; 201, 232 ; Firdusi,
Livre des Rois, Mohl, 1838, 1, 353 ff. A. and A. Schott,
Walachische Marchen, p. 265 (cf. A. Wirth, Danae in
christlichen Legenden, p. 34). F. N. Robinson. See
also von Wlislocki, M. u. S. der Bukowinaer u. Sieben-
biirger Armenier, No 24, p. 65 ; Jacottet, Contes pop.
des Bassoutos, p. 196 f. ; Georgeakis et Pineau, Folk
lore de Lesbos, p. 168.]
93. Lamkin.
Pp. 320-42, III, 515, IV, 480 f., V, 229 f.
Denham, Tracts, II, 190, refers to a Northumbrian
version of the ballad which associated Long Lonkin with
Nafferton Castle in the parish of Ovingham. He also
gives a story, obtained from an old man in Newcastle,
according to which Long Lonkin is no mason but a
gentleman, who kills the lady and her one child be
cause the lord of Nafferton had been preferred to him.
The husband, abandoning his journey to London on
account of a misgiving that all was not right at home,
after finding his wife and child dead, hunts down the
murderer, who drops from a tree in which he had con
cealed himself into a pool, thence called Long Lonkin's
pool, and is drowned.
Communicated by Mr. W. W. Newell, with the super
scription (by the original transcriber, Miss Emma M.
Backus) " as sung in Newbern, North Carolina, seventy-
five years ago" (1895).
1 John Lankin was a good mason
As ever laid a stone ;
He built Lord Arnold's castle
And the lord he paid him none.
2 John Lankin then swore,
If the lord did not pay him,
He would break into his castle
And murder all his kinsmen.
3 Lord Arnold soon did hear
Of John Lankin's threat so dour;
He did guard all his castle
With soldiers every hour.
4 He said to his lady,
' I am going away from home,
And what should you do
If John Lankin should come ? '
5 ' I care not for John Lankin,
Or any of his kin ;
I will bar all my doors
And I '11 pin my windows in.'
6 The doors were all barrd
And the windows pinned in,
And out of the kitchen-window
The nurse she let him in.
7 He killed the good lady '
With a cowardly cruel blow,
And threw her pretty baby
To the dank moat below.
8 John Lankin was hung
On the gallows so high,
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And the nurse she was chained
In a dungeon to die.
95. The Maid freed from the Gallows.
P. 346 f., Ill, 516 a, IV, 481 a, V, 231 a. Michele
Barbi, Poesia popolare pistoiese, p. 9, found a fragment
of Scibilia Nobili at Pian dagli Ontani under the
name of Violina, and Giannini's ' Prigioniera ' (III,
516 a), otherwise 'Mosettina,' under the name * Vio
lina,' ' Brunetta,' etc.
The following copy was communicated by Mr W.
W. Newell, as derived from Miss Emma M. Backus,
North Carolina, who says : " This is an old English song,
in the Yorkshire dialect, which was brought over to
Virginia before the Revolution. It has not been writ-
O
ten for generations, for none of the family have been
able to read or write." Miss Backus adds that the pro
nunciation indicated is by no means that which is ordi
narily used by the people who sing this ballad. It will,
however, be noted that the Yorkshire dialect is not
well preserved.
THE HANGMAN'S TREE.
1 'Hangman, hangman, howd yo hand,
howd it wide and far!
For theer I see my feyther coomin,
Riding through the air.
2 'Feyther, feyther, ha yo brot me goold?
Ha yo paid my fee?
Or ha yo coom to see me hung,
Beneath tha hangman's tree?'
3 ' I ha naw brot yo goold,
1 ha naw paid yo fee,
But I ha coom to see yo hung
Beneath tha hangman's tree.'
4, 5 \ meyther )
7, 8 C as in 1, 2, substituting sister (-for feyther.
10, 11 ) sweetheart)
6, 9, as in 3.
12 Oh I ha brot yo goold,
And I ha paid yo fee,
And I ha coom to take yo froom
Beneath tha hangman's tree.'
3*. hangmens. 4 8 . mither. 5 2 . Or ha. 5 8 . hang.
5 4 , 8*, II 4 . gallows tree. 12 8 . An. 12 4 . the.
348 b. German. Bb'hme, in his edition of Erk's
Liederhort, I, 277, adds a copy, from singing, dated
1878, 'Die Losgekaufte,' No 78 e.
349 f., 514 a, III, 516 b. A young man in prison
bought out by his sweetheart, father, mother, etc., re
fusing help : Little Russian, Romanov, I, 63, No 2 ;
Croatian, Valjavec, p. 303, No 19, ' Junak vu Madjarski
vuzi ;' Great Russian, Jakuskin, p. 147 f.; Ruthenian,
Kolberg, Pokucie, II, 226 f., Nos 418, 420. Woman
rescued by lover from Tatar who was about to kill her,
the blood-relations declining : Romanov, I, 53, No 105.
514 a. In Nesselmann's Littauische Volkslieder, No
119, p. 96, and Bartsch's Dainu Balsai, I, 147, No 107,
II, 202, No 321 (from Bezzenberger, Litauische For-
schungen, p. 17, No 27), we have a ballad of a youth
who does not get release from confinement though his
blood relations lay down handsomely for him, but in the
end is freed by his sweetheart with a trifle of a ring or
a garland. In Bartsch, I, 63, No 53, a girl who has
been shut up nine years is let alone by her father and
her brother, but liberated by her lover; II, 296, Ulmann,
Lettische Volkslieder, p. 168, relations make an attempt
to buy off a conscript, without success, but his sweet
heart effects his release by selling her garland. Silly
stories all.
96. The Gay Goshawk.
P. 356, III, 517 a, IV, 482 a, V, 234 a. Chanson du
Roi Loys, ou de la Belle dans la Tour. Add ' Le Prince
qui torture sa Fille,' Beauquier, Chansons p. recueillies
en Franche-Comte', p. 147 ; copy from Normandy, copy
from Savoy, Revue des Traditions populaires, X, 641 f.
356 b, III, 517 a, IV, 482, V, 234 a. ' Les trois capi-
taines.' Add : ' Au chateau de Belfort,' Beauquier, pp.
59 f., 369 f.
Ill, 517 b. Girl feigns death to avoid a disagreea
ble suitor ; test of water, fire, and hand in bosom, which
last is the hardest to bear : ' Vojvoda Janko i mlada
Andjelija,' Hrvatske Pjesme iz " Nase Sloge," II, 65,
No 68.
100. Willie o Winsbury.
P. 399, note. The ballad need not be older than the
16th century. Drop " but it was hardly," etc.
104. Prince Heathen.
P. 424 b. It is more commonly the lady that is rolled
in silk ; the son is laid, dressed, rolled in silk, No 5,
C, 82, No 20, C, 8 of the places cited (C, 83, E, 32, are
to be dropped), and No 104, B, 14.
112. The Baffled Knight.
H, 479 a. The Complete Collection of Old and New
English and Scotch Songs, 1735, a rare book, is in the
library of the British Museum, and Mr Round, who
has kindly examined it for me, informs me that all the
ballads in it are repetitions from earlier publications ;
in the present case of B, from Pills to purge Melan
choly.
481 b, IV, 495 a. Add ' II fallait plumer la perdrix,'
Beauquier, Chansons p. recueillies en Franche-Comte,
p. 303.
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297
481 b, III, 518 a, IV, 495 a, V, 239 b. Tears : add
'L'Amant timide,' Beauquier, Chansons p. recueillies en
Franche-Comte, p. 180 ; La Tradition, 1895, p. 69.
483 b, V, 240 a. La Bateliere ruse'e in Beauquier,
Chansons populaires recueillies en Franche-Cointe, p.
40.
Slavic ballads of similar tenor (Servian), Rajkovic,
'Mudra devojka,' p. 16, No 23, 'Lukava Cobanka,' p.
129, No 173.
VOL. III.
116. Adam Bell, etc.
P. 22. Translated after the original text by Professor
Etnilio Teza : 'I tre Banditi,' Padova, 1894.
26, 87 1 . I regret having changed 'an oute-horne,'
which is the reading in all the texts which have the stanza
(b-f), to 'a noute-horne.' Oute home was originally
given, and therefore this reading was not entered in the
variations of c-f, as should have been done later, when
the reading ' a noute-horne ' was adopted.
117. A Gest of Robyn Hode.
P. 43, note . Right-hitting Brand is one of the at
tendants of Robin in A. Munday's Metropolis Coronata
(1615), Fairholt, Pageants, I, 40. J. M. Manly.
52 and note. See further on Le pret miraculeuse-
ment rembourse, M. Rene Basset, in Revue des Tradi
tions populaires, IX, 14-31.
54. Mr Macmath has sent me a transcript of an
other copy of the song in Deuteromelia which exhibits
some variations. It was found April 5, 1895, in a bun
dle of papers that had belonged to Jobn, Duke of Rox-
burghe. This copy is in a 17th century hand, and at
the end is written : " This song was esteemed an old
song before the rebellion broke out in 1641."
76, st. 412. The first two verses should be corrected
according to f, g, thus :
'Mercy,' then said Robyn to our kynge,
Vnder this.'
120. Robin Hood's Death.
P. 103, note *, V, 240. Communion-bread called God
(Lord). " For it was about Easter, at what times maidens
gadded abroade, after they had taken their Maker, as
they call it." Wilson, Arte of Logike, fol. 84 b. J. M.
Manly.
" In oure louerd fat he had ynome wel ioyful he was
f>o." St Edmund the Confessor, v. 573, Furnivall,
Early English Poems, Philol. Soc., p. 86. " Preostes
. . . fette to Jis holi maide godes flesch and his blod."
St Lucy, v. 168, ib. p. 106. G. L. K.
103, note f. The met-yard, being a necessary part
of an archer's equipment for such occasions as p. 29,
148, 158; p. 75, 397 ; p. 93, 28 ; p. 201, 18, 21, may
well enough be buried with him.
VOL. v. 38
104. Russian. Similar directions as to the grave in
Jakuskin, p. 99.
123. Robin Hood and The Curtal Friar.
P. 128 a, v. 80. The reading should be
Now am I, frere, without, and thou, Robyn, within :
otherwise there is no change in their relative plight.
125. Robin Hood and Little John.
P. 133 a. There is a black-letter copy, printed by
and for W. Onley, in Lord Crawford's collection, No
1320 ; the date put at 1680-85. A white-letter copy
in Roxburghe, III, 728. See Ebsworth's Roxburghe
Ballads, VIII, 504.
155. Sir Hugh or the Jew's Daughter.
[241 a. The Life and Miracles of St William of
Norwich have been edited by Drs Jessopp and James.]
156. Queen Eleanor's Confession.
P. 258 b, 3d paragraph. The Danish ballad is printed
in Dania, II, 275, 1893: 'Vise om Caroline Mathilde,'
derived from an old lady who in childhood had beard
it sung by a peasant girl, about 50 years before the
publication.
159. Durham Field.
P. 283 a. Knights wearing the king's armor in bat
tle. This was naturally frequently done. So John at
Poitiers had twenty in his " parements," Froissart (Bu-
chon), III, 186, and Charles VIII a good number at
Fornovo, Daniel, Histoire de France, VIII, 222.
161. The Battle of Otterburn.
Pp. 294, 520 a, IV, 499, V, 244 b. St George Our
Lady's Knight. Add: Torrent of Portyngale, v. 1677 :
E. Fliigel, Neuenglisches Lesebuch, I, 441.
162. The Hunting of the Cheviot.
P. 306 a, 38 f. Motherwell has cited an apt passage
from the romance of Alisaunder which may well be re
peated.
Ac theo deol that Alisaunder made
No may Y nought fully rede.
Darie starf in his armes two :
Lord that Alisaunder was wo 1
He wrong his hondes saun faile,
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Ofte he cried and ofte he uaile :
Y wolde Y hadde al Perce y-geve,
With that Y myghte have thy lif !
Weber, Kyng Alisaunder
vv. 4648-55.
P. 306, st. 54, IV, 502, V, 244. Hrafn fights after
Gunnlaugr has hewn off his feet : Gunnlaugs saga Orm-
stungu, ed. Mogk, p. 27. W. H. Schofield.
Note f- The Highlander is paralleled by an Indian
in The Observations of Sir Richard Hawkins, Mark-
ham, The Hawkins' Voyages, Hakluyt Society, p. 243,
and by Mordred in Malory's Morte Darthur, ed. Som-
mer, Bk 21, ch. 4. G. L. K.
168. Flodden Field.
P. 351 b (12, lapt all in leather), IV, 507 a. The
dying witch of Berkeley says to her children : Insuite
me corio cervino, deinde in sarcophago lapideo supinate,
operculum plumbo et ferro constringite. William of
Malmesbury, Gesta Regum Anglorum, ed. Stubbs, Bk
2, I, 254, 204.
169. Johnie Armstrong.
[P. 367. Johnie's plain speech to the king. So in Li
Charrois de Nymes, v. 283, in Jonkbloet, Guillaume
d' Orange, I, 80 : " Et dit Guillaumes, ' Dans rois, vos i
mentez.' "]
367, and note. The Baron of Brackley's son (No
203), set on the nurse's knee, uses nearly the same words
as Johnie Armstrong's in B, 24. M. Gaidoz, Melusine,
VII, 70, cites from Hone the passage in No 54 (B, 5, 6,
see also A, 5, 6, D, 4, 5), in which Jesus speaks from
his mother's womb. See further Melusine, IV, 447,
V, 36, 257, VI, 92.
170. The Death of Queen Jane.
P. 372-6. Appendix. 'The Duke of Bedford,'
Longman's Magazine, XVII, 217, 1890, " sent from Suf
folk," is one hdf (sts 5-8) a plagiarism from ' The
Death of Queen Jane.' Compare A, 5, 6, B, 8, C, 5, 6,
D 6 of Queen Jane with what follows. The remainder
of ' The Duke of Bedford ' is so trivial that it is not
worth the while at present to assign that piece its own
place. I have not attempted to identify this duke of
Bedford; any other duke would probably answer as
well.
THE DUKE OF BEDFORD.
1 Six lords went a-hunting down by the seaside,
And they spied a dead body washed away by the
tide.
2 Said one to the other, ' As I 've heard them say,
'T is the famous Duke of Bedford, by the tide washed
away.'
3 They took him up to Portsmouth, to the place where
he was born,
From Portsmouth up to London, to the place where
he was known.
4 They took out his bowels and laid down his feet,
And they garnished his body with roses so sweet.
5 Six lords went before him, six bare him from the
ground,
Eight dukes followed after, in their black velvet
gowns.
And the Royal Princess Mary went weeping away.
7 So black was the funeral and so white were their
fans,
And so pretty were the flamboys that they carried in
their hands.
8 The drums they did beat and the trumpets they did
sound,
And the great guns they did rattle as they put him
in the ground.
173. Mary Hamilton.
P. 382. The passages folio-wing relate to the affair
of the Frenchwoman and the apothecary. Calendar of
State Papers, Foreign Series, of the Reign of Elizabeth,
1563. (Indicated to me by Mr Andrew Lang.)
The Queen's apothecary got one of her maidens, a
Frenchwoman, with child. Thinking to have covered
his fault with medicine, the child was slain. They are
both in prison, and she is so much offended that it is
thought they shall both die. Randolph to Cecil, Edin
burgh, 21 Dec., 1563, p. 637. The apothecary and the
woman he got with child were both hanged this Friday.
Randolph to Cecil, Dec. 31, 1563, p. 650.
The heroine of this ballad is Mary Hamilton in all
copies in which she has a full name, that is, twelve out
of the twenty -four which have any name ; Mary simply,
or Mary mild,* is found in eleven copies, and Maisry in
one. Finding in the history of the court of Peter the
Great an exact counterpart of the story of the ballad
with a maid of honor named Mary Hamilton filling the
tragic role, and " no trace of an admixture of the Rus
sian story with that of the Frenchwoman and the queen's
apothecary," I felt compelled to admit that Sharpe's
* Mild Mary is an appellation which occurs elsewhere (as
in No 91 E), and Mary Hamilton and Mary mild are inter
changeable in X. It is barely worth remarking that Myle,
Moil, in C, S, are merely varieties of pronunciation, and
Miles in W, an ordinary kind of corruption.
ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS
299
suggestion of the Russian origin of the ballad was, how
ever surprising, the only tenable opinion (III, 382 f.).
Somewhat later a version of the ballad (U) was found
at Abbotsford in which there is mention of the apothe
cary and of the practices for which he suffered in 1563,
and this fact furnished ground for reopening the ques
tion (which, nevertheless, was deferred).
Mr Andrew Lang has recently subjected the matter
of the origin of the ballad to a searching review (in
Blackwood's Magazine, September, 1895, p. 381 ff.).
Against the improbability that an historical event of
1718-9 should by simple chance coincide, very minutely
and even to the inclusion of the name of the principal
actor, with what is related in a ballad ostensibly re
counting an event in the reign of Mary Stuart, he sets
the improbability that a ballad, older and superior in
style to anything which we can show to have been pro
duced in the 18th, or even the 1 7th century,* should have
been composed after 1719, a ballad in which a contem
porary occurrence in a foreign and remote country
would be transferred to Scotland and Queen Mary's
day, and so treated as to fit perfectly into the circum
stances of the time : and this while the ballad might
entirely well have been evolved from a notorious domes
tic occurrence of the date 1563, the adventure of Queen
Mary's French maid and the apothecary which has
now turned out to be introduced into one version of the
ballad.f
I wish to avow that the latter improbability, as put
by Mr Lang, has come to seem to me considerably
greater than the former.
The coincidence of the name of the heroine is indeed
at first staggering ; but it will be granted that of all the
' ' honorable houses ' ' no one might more plausibly sup
ply a forgotten maid of honor than the house of Hamil
ton. The Christian name is a matter of course for a
Queen's Mary.
384 ff., IV, 507 ff., V, 246 f.
BB.
THE QUEEN'S MABIES.
Communicated by Mr Andrew Lang as received
from Mrs Arthur Smith ; sung by a nurse. 4 is clearly
modern.
1 Yestreen the queen had four Maries,
But the nicht she '11 hae but three ;
There was Mary Beaton, and Mary Seaton,
And Mary Carmichell, and me.
* In the 18th century we have ' Derwentwater ' and ' Rob
Roy,' both of slight value; in the 17th 'The Fire of Fren-
draught ' and ' The Baron of Brackley,' both fairly good
ballads, and others of some merit ; but nothing in either to
be compared with ' Mary Hamilton.'
t As to the "ballads" about the Maries mentioned by
Knox, I conceive that these may mean nothing more than
verses of any sort to the discredit of these ladies.
2 Oh little did my mither think,
At nicht when she cradled me,
That I wad sleep in a nameless grave
And hang on the gallows-tree.
Yestreen, etc.
3 They '11 tie a kerchief round my een,
And they '11 na let me see t' dee,
And they '11 spread my story thro a' the land,
Till it reaches my ain countrie.
4 I wish I micht sleep in the auld kirkyard,
Beneath the hazel tree,
Where aft we played in the long simmer nichts,
My brithers and sisters and me.
176. Northumberland betrayed by
Douglas.
P. 411 a. Looking through a ring. " The Dul Dauna
put a ring to his eye, and he saw his grandfather on the
deck walking." Larminie, West Irish Folk-Tales, p. 9.
G. L. K.
177. The Earl of Westmoreland.
P. 417. DrW. H. Schofield suggests that the ro
mance imitated in the second part of this ballad is,
Libeaus Desconus. There the hero, who is but a child
in years (in the ballad he has a child's voice), comes to
a fair city by a river side, the lady of which is besieged
by a giant, black as pitch. Libeaus undertakes to fight
the giant, and is received by him with disdainful lan
guage. The fight is " beside the water brim." They
break their spears at the first encounter ; then fight on
foot with swords. Libeaus strikes off the giant's head
and carries it into the town ; the people come out to
meet him" with a fair procession," and the lady invites
him to be her lord in city and castle. Compare the
ballad, etc., 54-78, and Libeaus Desconus, v. 1321 ff.
[See Dr Schofield's Studies on the Libeaus Desconus,
p. 242, in Studies and Notes in Philology and Litera
ture published under the direction of the Modern Lan
guage Departments of Harvard University, Vol. IV.]
178. Captain Car, or, Bdom o Gordon.
IV, 513 b, H 2 4 . Mr Macmath is convinced that the
missing (illegible) word is orghie (orgeis=a fish, a large
kind of ling).
182. The Laird o Logie.
P. 456. Buchan's original MS. p. 216 ff., < The
Laird o Logic.'
1 Lady Margaret carries the keys o the cellar,
I wyte she carries them carefullie;
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Nae other ane her favour coud gain
But the winsome laird o young Logic.
2 When the king gat word o that,
I wat an angry man was he ;
He 's casten him into prison strong,
And sware high hanged he shoud be.
3 Lady Margaret tore her yellow hair,
She 's torn it out locks three by three ;
Says, ' Wae to the day I eer was born,
Or knew the young laird o Logie.'
4 ' Now hold your tongue,' the queen she said,
' And ye '11 let a* your folly be ;
I hae minded me on a wyle
Will gain the life o young Logic.'
5 Then she has done her up the stairs,
And she fell low down on her knee ;
' Win up, win up, my dame the queen,
What makes ye bow sae low to me? '
6 ' O do you mind when we were wed,
Ye promisd askings three by three?
And a' the boun that I now crave
Is, Save the life o young Logie.
7 ' If ye had asked lands, my dame,
Ye might had askings three by three ;
But a' the lands in fair Scotland
Winna save the life o young Logie.'
8 Then she has done her down the stairs,
But nae gude tidings brought her wi ;
The king has sworn a solemn oath,
And broken it can never be.
9 Hold your tongue, Margaret,' said the queen,
' And ye '11 lat a' your folly be ;
1 11 mind me on another wyle
To gain the life o young Logie.'
10 She's counterfeit the king's hand write,
And she has stole his right glove tee ;
And sent the jailors strict command
To loose and set young Logie free.
11 She sent him a bag o gude red gowd,
Another bag o white monie ;
Likewise a pistol by his side,
And bade him shoot when he wan free.
12 As he passd by the queen's window,
He fell low down upon his knee ;
Says, ' Peace be wi the queen hersell,
And joy be in her companie.'
13 As he passd by the king's window,
There a proud volley then gae he ;
Says, ' Hang your dogs when ye think time,
For ye 'se neer hang him, young Logie.'
14 Out then speaks the king himsell,
I wyte a solemn oath sware he ;
1 1 '11 wad my head an my crown baith,
I hear the voice o young Logie.'
15 The king he calld his jailors all,
He called them then three by three ;
Says, ' How are the prisoners ane and a' ?
Where is the laird o young Logie ? '
16 ' Did you not send your ain hand write?
Did you not send your right glove tee?
We took the keys o the jail-house door,
And loosd and set young Logie free.'
17 Then out it speaks the king again,
I wyte an angry man was he ;
' The morn, before I eat or drink,
High hanged shall you jailors be.'
18 Then out it speaks the queen hersell,
I wyte a light laugh then gae she ;
' If ye 're to hang them ane and a',
I fear ye will begin wi me.
19 'Did I not steal your ain hand write?
Did I not steal your right glove tee?
Then sent the jailors strict command
To loose an' set young Logie free.'
190. Jamie Telfer.
P. 5 a first paragraph. However, "in the list of
Border thieves made in the year 1552, William Patrick,
the priest, and John Nelson, the curate of Bewcastle,
are both included " : Denham Tracts, 1, 1 50. This shows
that the society was homogeneous.
191. Hughie Grame.
P. 14, E. Between 12 and 13 follows in Buchan's
original MS. :
Ye '11 tell this news to Maggy my wife,
The first time ye gang oer the muir,
She is the cause I loose my life :
She bade me steal the bishop's mare.
192. The Lochmaben Harper.
P. 21. E has in Buchan's original MS. this refrain
at the end of the verse :
Hey, didentie, didentie, didentie (bis).
ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS
301
196. The Fire of Frendraught.
P. 41, note J. Read : The peerage of Aboyne was
first created in 1626, in favor of John Gordon, fifth son
of the first Marquis of Huntly (Viscount of Aboyne and
Melgum in 1627). He married Sophia Hay, a daugh
ter of Francis, Earl of Errol, The Records of Aboyne,
edited by the Marquis of Huntly, New Spalding Club ;
1894, pp. 325, 526.
V, 251 b, P. 44. In " But Rothiemay lie," may seems
to have been accidentally omitted. The "Turn" in
Scott was probably meant for Twin, the dot of i being
omitted.
200. The Gypsy Laddie.
P. 61 ff., V, 252. The three stanzas which follow are
given in H. A. Kennedy's " Professor Blackie : his Say
ings and Doings, London, 1895 " as they were sung by
Marion Stodart, Professor Blackie's aunt, to her sis
ter's children. P. 12 f. (Communicated by Mr David
MacRitchie, of Edinburgh.)
There were seven gypsies all in a row,
And they were brisk and bonny ; O
They sang till they came to the Earl o Cassilis' gate,
And there they sang sae sweetly. O
They sang sae sweet and sae complete
That doun came the fair leddy ;
And when they saw her weel-faured face
They cast the glamour ower her.
So she 's taen off her high-heeled shoes,
That are made o the Spanish leather,
And she 's put on her Highland brogues,
To skip amang the heather.
" On the discovery of which the earl ' saddled to him
his milk-white steed,' and rested not till he had hanged
the seven gypsies on a tree."
O at the end of the second and the fourth verse of each
stanza.
216. The Mother's Malison, etc.
P. 186 f. In 'Majcina kletva,' Hrvatske Pjesme iz
"Nae Sloge," II, 22, No 18, two lovers go off in a
boat, under a mother's curse, and are both drowned.
229. Earl Crawford.
P. 280 a, A, b. b was written down March 25, 1890.
234. Charlie MacPherson.
P. 310. Mr Walker of Aberdeen suggests that Billy
Beg in 3 should be Bellabeg, a small property in Strath-
don. It will be observed that two other men in the
same stanza are named by their estates.
235. The Earl of Aboyne.
P. 311 b, omit the paragraph beginning J, and say :
Charles, first Earl of Aboyne, married for his first
wife Margaret Irvine of Drum, who died in December,
1662. (The Records of Aboyne, edited by the Marquis
of Huntly, New Spalding Club, 1894, p. 552.) The
story of the ballad, so far as is known, is an absolute
fiction.
In vol. ii of Retours or Services of Heirs, No 4906
(Aberdeen), 17 June, 1665, there is the entry : Domino,
Anna Gordoun, haeres Dominae Margaret* Irving, spon-
S33 Comitis de Aboyne matris. (Mr Walker of Aber
deen.)
311, V, 270. Mr Macmath has sent me this stall-
copy, printed by J. Morren, Cowgate, Edinburgh.
PEGGY IRVINE.
1 Our lady stands in her chamber-door,
viewing the Grahams are a coming ;
She knew by the light of their livery so red
they were new come down from London.
2 She called on her chambermaid,
and Jeany her gentlewoman :
You '11 dress my body in some fine dress,
for yon is my good lord a coming.
8 Her smock was of the holland so fine,
her body round with busting ;
Her shoes were of the small corded twine,
and her stockings silk and twisting.
4 Her petticoats was of the silk so fine,
set out with the silver and scolloping ;
Her gown was of the red damask silk so fine,
trimmed with the red gold gold mounting.
5 ' You guildery maids, come trim up my gauze,
and make them silver shining ;
With strawberry flowers cover all my bowers,
and hang them round with the linen.
6 ' Ye minstrels all, be on our call
when you see his horses coming ;
With music spring, spare not your string
when you hear his bridles ringing.'
7 She called on Meg her chamber-maid,
and Jeanny her gentlewoman :
' Go bring me a bottle of the good Spanish wine,
for to drink his health that 's coming.'
8 She gently tripped down the stair,
and away to the gate to meet him :
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< You are welcome, you lord of the Boyne,
you are welcome home from London.'
9 ' If this be so, come let me know,
come kiss me for my coming ;
For tomorrow should have been my wedding-day
if I had staid in London.'
10 She gave the glass out of her hand,
she was a woeful woman :
' If the morrow should be your wedding-day,
Go back to your whores in London.'
11 He looked oer his right shoulder,
his comely court behind him :
' This is a merry welcome ' he says,
' that we have got from London.
12 ' To your horse, to your horse, my nobles all,
to your horse, let us be going ;
This night we '11 lodge in Drummond castle,
and tomorrow we '11 march to London.'
13 Now this lady has fallen sick,
and doctors we her dealing,
But at length her heart did break,
and letters sent to London.
14 He took the letter in his hand,
and loud, loud was he laughing,
But before he read it to an end,
the tears did come down rapping.
15 * To your horse, to your horse, my nobles all,
to your horse, let 's be going ;
To your horse, let us all go in black,
and mourn for Peggy Irvine.'
16 When he came to his own castle-gate,
the knight was weary weeping :
' Cheer up your heart, you lord of Boyne,
your lady is but sleeping.'
17 'Sleeping deary, sleeping dow,
I 'm afraid she 's oer sound sleeping ;
It 's I had rather lost all the lands of the Boyne
before I would have lost Peggy Irvine.'
4 s . set out out. 10 8 . If he.
238. Glenlogie, or, Jean o Bethelnie.
P. 338 b, 2d paragraph. As to the name Melville,
Mr Walker of Aberdeen remarks : If Buchan's story
(given in his notes) of the Glenlogie incident were cor
rect, the maiden's name must have been Seaton, and
not Melville, the Seatons and Urquharts being the only
two names which in historical times could be called
lairds of Meldrum or Bethelnie.
248. The Grey Cock, or, Saw you my
Father ?
P. 390. Add to the French ballads ' Le voltigeur
fidele,' Beauquier, Chansons p. recueillies en Franche-
Comte", p. 338.
250. Henry Martyn.
P. 393. 'Andrew Bartin,' communicated by Miss
Louise Porter Haskell as derived from Gen. E. P. Alex
ander of South Carolina, and derived by him from the
singing of a cadet at West Point Military Academy in
the winter of 1856-7. Two or three slight corrections
have been made by Mrs A. C. Haskell, sister of Gen.
Alexander. This copy comes nearer than the others
to the original Andrew Barton ; but sts 11-13 are de
rived from Captain Ward, No 287, 8, 10.
1 Three bold brothers of merrie Scotland,
And three bold brothers were they,
And they cast lots the one with the other,
To see who should go robbing all oer the salt sea;
And they cast lots the one with the other,
To see who should go robbing all oer the salt sea.
2 The lot it fell on Andrew Bartin,
The youngest of the three,
That he should go robbing all oer the salt sea,
To maintain his two brothers and he.
3 He had not sailed but one long summer night,
W nen daylight did appear ;
He saw a ship sailing far off and far round,
At last she came sailing quite near.
4 'Who art? who art?' says Andrew Bartin,
' Who art thee comes sailing so nigh? '
' We are the rich merchants of merrie England,
Just please for to let us pass by.'
5 'Pass by? pass by?' says Andrew Bartin,
' No, no, that never can be ;
Your ship and your cargo I will take away,
And your brave men drown in the sea.'
6 Now when this news reached merrie England
King George he wore the crown
That his ship and his cargo were taken away,
And his brave men they were all drowned.
7 ' Go build me a ship,' says Captain Charles Stewart,
' A ship both stout and sure,
And if I dont fetch this Andrew Bartin,
My life shall no longer endure.'
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303
8 He had not sailed but one long summer night,
When daylight did appear,
He saw a ship sailing far off and far round,
And then she came sailing quite near.
9 'Who art? who art? ' says Captain Charles Stewart,
'Who art comes sailing so nigh? '
' We are the bold brothers of merrie Scotland,
Just please for to let us pass by.'
10 'Pass by? pass by? ' says Captain Charles Stewart,
' No, no, that never can be ;
Your ship and your cargo I will take away,
And your brave men carry with me.'
11 ' Come on ! come on 1 ' says Andrew Bartin,
' I value you not one pin ;
And though you are lined with good brass without,
I '11 show you I 've fine steel within.'
12 Then they drew up a full broadside
And at each other let pour ;
They had not fought for four hours or more,
When Captain Charles Stewart gave oer.
13 ' Go home ! go home ! ' says Andrew Bartin,
' And tell your king for me,
That he may reign king of the merry dry land,
But that I will be king of the sea.'
2 1 , etc. Bartyn. Gen. Alexander remarks that "the
accent was on the last syllable."
' Row tu me, row tu me,' says He-ne-ry Burgin,
' Row tu me, row tu me, I prah ;
For I ha tarnd a Scotch robber across the salt seas,
Tu ma-i-ntn my tew brothers and me.'
Fragment of a Suffolk Harvest Home song, remem
bered by an old Suffolk divine. Contributed by Ed
ward Fitzgerald to Suffolk Notes and Queries in the
'Ipswich Journal,' 1877-78 ; where another stanza fol
lows which has no connection with the above. See
'Two Suffolk Friends,' by Francis Hindes Groome,
Edinburgh and London, 1895, p. 79 f.
269. Lady Diamond.
PP. 29 a. Zupitza, Die mittelenglischen Bearbeitun-
gen der Erzahlung Boccaccio's von Ghismonda u. Guis-
cardo, in Geiger's Vierteljahrsschrift f. Kultur u. Lit-
teratur der Renaissance, 1886, I, 63 ff.]
29. Italian. D. ' Ricardo e Germonda,' communi
cated by P. Mazzucchi, Castelguglielmo, July, 1894, to
Rivista delle Tradizioni pop. italiane, I, 691.
[32 ff. On these stories of the husband who gives his
wife her lover's heart to eat, see H. Patzig, Zur Ge-
schichte der Herzmare, Berlin, 1891.]
34. A is translated by Professor Emilio Teza, ' Donna
Brigida,' in Rassegna Napolitana, II, 63, 1895.
272. The Suffolk Miracle.
P. 60 ff. See Professor Schischmanov in Indc^er-
O
manische Forschungen, IV, 412-48, 1894, Der Leno-
renstoff in der bulgarischen Volkspoesie. Professor
Schischmdnov counts more than 140 versions of The
Dead Brother, ballad and tale, in Albanian, Bulgarian,
Greek, Roumanian, and Servian, 60 of these Bulgarian.
Dozon 7 is affirmed to be a mere plagiarism. The ver
sions of the Romaic ballad run up to 41. A very strong
probability is made out of the derivation of all of the
ballads of ' The Dead Brother ' from the Greek.
62. Compare La Jeune Fille et 1'ame de sa mere,
Luzel, I, 60, 61 ff. A girl who grieves for her dead mo
ther, and wishes to see her again, is directed by the
cure* to go three nights to the church, taking each time
an apron for her mother. The mother tears the apron
into 9, 6, 3 pieces successively.
La mere va alors trouver sa fille
Et lui parle de la sorte :
' Tu as eu du bonheur
Que je ne t'aie mise toi-meme en morceaux !
' Que je ne t'aie mise en pieces, toute vivante,
Comme je le faisais a mes tabliers !
' Tu augmentais mes peines, chaque jour,
Par la douleur que tu me temoignais ! '
64. A dead lover takes his mistress on his horse at
midnight and carries her to the grave in which he is to
be buried the following day. Her corpse is found there,
flattened out and disfigured. 'La fiancee du mort,'
Le Braz, La Legende de la mort en Basse-Bretagne,
pp. 359-67.
[65 a. Romaic. Add : Georgeakis et Pineau, Le
Folk-lore de Lesbos, p. 253 (in translation).]
273. King Edward the Fourth and a Tan
ner of Tamworth.
P. 74 f. Similar tales : Se*billot, Contes pop. de la
Haute-Bretagne, II, 149 f. ; Luzel, Contes pop. de la
Basse-Bretagne, I, 259.
274. Our Goodman.
P. 88 a. [A version similar to that in Smith's Scotish
Minstrel, but not absolutely identical, is mentioned in
Blatter f. literarische Unterhaltung, 1855, p. 236, as
contained, with a German translation, in " Ten Scottish
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Songs rendered into German. By W. B. Macdonald of
Rammerscales. Scottish and German. Edinburgh,
1854." Professor Child refers to this version in a MS.
note. A specimen of the translation is given in the
journal just cited, as well as enough of the Scotch to
show that the copy is not exactly like Smith's. " Vet-
ter Macintosh " and " der Furst Karl " are mentioned.
Macdonald's book is not at this moment accessible.
G. L. K.]
89 f., 281 a. ' Le Jaloux, ou Les Repliques de Marion ; '
add version from Normandy (prose), Revue des Tradi
tions populaires, X, 136 ; Hautes-Pyrenees, p. 515.
The copy in Le chroniqueur du Perigord et de Limou
sin is 'La rusade,' Poesies pop. de la France, MSS, III,
fol. 84. The copy in Le Pelerinage de Mireille (A.
Lexandre), is from Provence, and closely resembles that
in Daudet's Numa Roumestan.
Italian. Add ' Marion,' Rivista delle Tradizioni pop.
italiane, II, 34-37. ' O Violina ' is repeated, very nearly,
in a Tuscan Filastrocca, Rivista delle Tradizioni pop.
italiane, II, 474 f. ; see also Archivio, III, 43, No 18.
A Polish ballad has some little similarity : Kolberg,
Lud, XXI, 54, No 112.
275. Get up and bar the Door.
P. 96 ff., 281. Add : ' Le fumeur de hachich et sa
femme,' cited by R. Basset, Revue des Traditions Po
pulaires, VII, 189. G. L. K. [Also The First Fool's
Story,' M. Longworth Dames, Balochi Tales, Folk-
Lore, IV, 195.]
277. The Wife Wrapt in Wether's Skin.
P. 104. From the recitation of Miss Lydia R. Nich
ols, Salem, Massachusetts, as heard in the early years
of this century. Sung by a New England country fel
low on ship-board : Journal of American Folk-Lore,
VII, 253 ff., 1894.
As to "drew her table," 13, the following informa
tion is given : " I have often heard a mother tell her
daughter to draw the table. ' Forty years ago it was
not uncommon to see in farmhouses a large round table,
the body of which was made to serve as an armchair.
When the table was not in use the top was tipped back
against the wall. Under the chair-seat was a drawer
in which the table linen was kept. When meal-time
came the table was drawn away from the wall, the top
brought down on the arms of the chair, and the cloth,
which had been fished out of the drawer, spread over
it."
1 Sweet William he married a wife,
Gentle Jenny cried rosemaree
To be the sweet comfort of his life.
As the dew flies over the mulberry tree.
2 Jenny couldnt in the kitchen to go,
For fear of dirting her white-heeled shoes.
3 Jenny couldnt wash, and Jenny couldnt bake,
For fear of dirting her white apurn tape.
4 Jenny couldnt card, and Jenny couldnt spin,
For fear of hurting her gay gold ring.
5 Sweet William came whistling in from plaow,
Says, ' O my dear wife, is my dinner ready naow?'
6 She called him a dirty paltry whelp :
'If you want any dinner, go get it yourself.'
7 Sweet William went aout unto the sheep-fold,
And aout a fat wether he did pull.
8 And daown on his knees he began for to stick,
And quicklie its skin he thereof did strip.
9 He took the skin and laid on his wife's back,
And with a good stick went whikety whack.
10 ' I '11 tell my father and all my kin
How still a quarrel you 've begun.'
11 'You may tell your father and all your kin
How I have thrashed my fat wether's skin.'
12 Sweet William came whistling in from plaow,
Says, ' Oh my dear wife, is my dinner ready naow ? '
13 She drew her table and spread her board,
And, Oh my dear husband,' was every word.
14 And naow they live free from all care and strife,
And naow she makes William a very good wife.
Folk-Lore Society, County Folk-Lore, Printed Ex
tracts : No 2, Suffolk, 1893, collected and edited by the
Lady Eveline Camilla Gurdon, p. 139 f. Contributed
by " a Suffolk man " to the Suffolk Notes and Queries
column of The Ipswich Journal, 1877.
1 There wus a man lived in the West,
Limbo clashmo !
There wus a man lived in the West,
He married the wuman that he liked best.
With a ricararo, ricararo, milk in the morn,
O dary mingo.
2 He married this wuman and browt her horn,
And set her in his best parlour rom.
3 My man and I went to the fowd,
And ketcht the finest wuther that we could howd.
4 We fleed this wuther and browt him horn,
Sez I, ' Wife, now youar begun yar doon.
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5 I laid this skin on my wife's back,
And on to it I then did swack.
6 I 'inted har with ashen ile,
Limbo clashmo !
I 'inted har with ashen ile,
Till she could both brew, bake, wash and bile.
O dary mingo mingo.
278. The Farmer's Curst Wife.
P. 107 a. This has no connection with the story in
Wendenmuth, CEsterley, I, 366, p. 402; see (Esterley's
note, V, 60.
Compare the broadside ballad 'The Devil and the
Scold,' Roxburghe Collection, I, 340, 341 ; Chappell,
Roxburghe Ballads, II, i, 367 ff. ; Collier, Book of Rox
burghe Ballads, 1847, p. 35 ff.
280. The Beggar-Laddie.
P. 116. Motherwell sent a copy of C to Sharpe with
a letter from Paisley, 8th October, 1825, and printed C
in an article on " Scottish Song" in the Paisley Maga
zine, 1828, p. 621, in both cases with two or three insig
nificant variations. He mentions in the latter another
version in which the hero is called King James, in
accordance with the vulgar traditions concerning the
Gudeman o Ballengoich.
In Findlay's MSS, I, 144, there are five unimportant
stanzas, nearer to D than to the other versions, and
having, like D, the title ' The Gaberlunzie Laddie.'
286. The Sweet Trinity (The Golden
Vanity).
P. 137. B. Mr Macmath has a copy of ' The Goul-
den Vanitee ' in the handwriting of Peter Scott Fraser
which is identical with that printed by Logan except
that it has Vanitee for Vanitie in I 3 and 9 2 , Countree in
4 2 , they row'd in 6 1 , Oh I in 8 1 , and Eck iddle dee (not
du) in the burden. Mr. Macmath notes that B was
printed by Mrs. Gordon, in Christopher North, a Me
moir of John Wilson, Edinburgh, 1862, II, 317 ff., in
a form identical with that in Mr. Eraser's MS. copy
[except for one variation (they 've row'd for they row'd
in 6 1 )].
287. Captain Ward and the Rainbow.
P. 135. A copy taken down from the lips of an old
Suffolk (Monk Soham) laborer was contributed by
Archdeacon Robert Hindes Groome to Suffolk Notes
and Queries in the Ipswich Journal [1877-78], and
is repeated in Two Suffolk Friends, 1895, p. 46.
W. Macmath.
291. Child Owlet.
P. 156. Mr Macmath has called my attention to a
ballad on the story of Child Owlet by William Bennet
in The Dumfries Monthly Magazine, II, 402, 1826.
This piece, called 'Young Edward,' "is founded upon
a tradition still current in the district in which Morton
Castle is situated." Its quality is that of the old-mag
azine ballad.
294. Dugall Quin.
P. 165. Dugald Gunn, Mr Macmath suggests, may
have been a mistaken reading of Scott's difficult hand
writing on the part of the editor of the Ballad Book ;
as is certainly the case with regard to The Stirrup of
Northumberland, V, 207 b, No 9, G.
I unhappily forgot Buchan's 'Donald M'Queen's
Flight wi Lizie Menzie,' Ballads of the North of Scot
land, II, 117, which, though I think it corrupted at the
end, removes the principal verbal difficulties in the Old
Lady's copy. Mr Walker of Aberdeen has reminded
me of Buchan's ballad, and he had previously suggested
to me that Dunfermline was proprietor of Fyvie, and
this fact had disposed me to read Fyvie where the text
already given has farei, farie. Of the rightfulness of
this reading there can now be no doubt, though infor
mation is desirable as to the tempting cheese of Fyvie,
of which I have not found mention elsewhere.
Buchan, II, 319, makes the following note on his
copy :
" Donald M'Queen, the hero of this ballad, was one of the
servants of Baron Seaton of Fyvie, who, with his master,
had fled to France after the rebellion in 1715. Baron Sea-
ton having died in France, Donald, his man, returned to
Fyvie with one of his master's best horses, and procured a
love potion, alias 'the tempting cheese of Fyvie,' which had
the effect of bewitching, or, in other words, casting the gla
mour oer his mistress, Lizie Menzie, the Lady of Fyvie. Some
years afterwards this lady went through the country as a
common pauper, when, being much fatigued, and in a for
lorn condition, she fell fast asleep in the mill of Fyvie,
whither she had gone to solicit an alms (charity) : on her
awakening, she declared that she had just now slept as soun
a sleep with the meal-pock beneath her head, as ever she had
done on the best down-bed of Fyvie. This information I
had from James Rankin, an old blind man, who is well ac
quainted with the traditions of the country."
Alexander Seaton acquired Fyvie, it is said, hi 1596,
and in 1606 was created Earl of Dunfermline. Castle
and title were forfeited in 1689, and the property was
purchased of the crown in 1726 by the Earl of Aber
deen. Dunfermline had no horses for Dugald or Don
ald to take after 1689. The whole story of Lizie Men
zie, Baroness of Seaton, seems to be a fiction as sheer
as it is vulgar. Lizie Menzie's forsaking her husband
for a footman is refuted by the well-informed Rankin
himself, who tells us that the husband had died in
France before his man " returned to Fyvie with one of
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ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS
his master's best horses." The conclusion is borrowed
mostly from ' The Gypsy Laddie,' where even the drink
ing of one's own brewage is to be found ; but ' The
Gypsy Laddie ' is not to be reproached with the foolish
last stanza.
1 Donald, he 's come to this town,
And he 's been lang awa,
And he is on to Lizie's bedside,
Wi his tartan trews and a'.
2 ' How woud you like me, Lizie,' he said,
' An I ware a' your ain,
Wi tartan coat upo my back,
And single-soled sheen,
A blue bonnetie on my head,
And my twa winking een ? '
3 Weel woud I like you, Donald,' she said,
' An ye ware a' my ain,
Wi tartan coat upo your back,
And single-soled sheen,
And little blue bonnetie on your head,
And blessings on your een.
4 ' But how woud ye like me, Donald,' she said,
' An I ware a' your ain,
Wi a siller snood into my head,
A gowd fan in my hand,
And maidens clad in green satins,
To be at my command? '
5 ' Weel woud I like you, Lizie,' he said,
' And ye ware a' my ain,
Wi a siller snood into your head,
A gowd fan in your hand,
But nane o your maidens clad in green,
To be at your command.'
6 Then but it speaks her mither dear,
Says, ' Lizie, I maun cross you ;
To gang alang wi this young man,
We 'd think we had but lost you. '
7 O had your tongue, my mither dear,
And dinna think to break me ;
For I will gang wi this young man,
If it is his will to take me.'
8 Donald M'Queen rade up the green,
On ane o Dumfermline's horses,
And Lizie Menzie followed him,
Thro a' her father's forces.
9 ' O follow me, Lizie, my heart's delight,
And follow me for you please ;
Rype well the grounds o my pouches,
And ye '11 get tempting cheese.'
10 ' O wae mat worth you, Donald M'Queen 1
Alas, that ever I saw thee !
The first love-token ye gae me
Was the tempting cheese o Fyvie.
11 ' O wae be to the tempting cheese,
The tempting cheese o Fyvie,
Gart me forsake my ain gudeman
And follow a footman-laddie !
12 ' But lat me drink a hearty browst,
Just sic as I did brew !
On Seton brave I turnd my back,
A' for the sake o you.'
13 She didna wear the silken gowns
Were made into Dumbarton,
But she is to the Highlands gane,
To wear the weeds o tartan.
14 She 's casten aff the high-heeld sheen,
Made o the Turkey leather,
And she 's put on the single brogues,
To skip amo the heather.
15 Well can Donald hunt the buck,
And well can Lizie sew ;
Whan ither trades begin to fail,
They can take their bowies and brew.
P. 174.
299. Trooper and Maid.
D.
'The Trooper Lad.' Communicated by Mr Mac-
math, with, this note : "Received, 21st August, 1895,
at Crossmichael, from my aunt, Miss Jane Webster.
Learned by her many years ago, at Airds of Kells,
from the singing of John Coltart."
1 The trooper lad cam to oor gate,
And oh ! but he was weary,
He rapped at and chapped at,
Syne called for his kind deary.
2 The bonnie lass being in the close,
The moon was shining clearly,
'Ye'r welcome here, my trooper lad,
Ye'r welcome, my kind deary.'
3 She's taen his horse by the bridle-reins,
And led him to the stable,
She's gien him corn and hay to eat,
As much as he was able.
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4 She's taen the knight by the milk-white hand,
And led him to her chamber,
And gied him bread and cheese to eat,
And wine to drink his pleasure.
5 'Bonnie lassie, I'll lie near ye noo,
Bonnie lassie, I'll lie near ye,
An I'll gar a' your ribbons reel
In the morning or I leave ye.'
6
And she put off her wee white smock,
Crying, ' Laddie, are ye ready? '
7 The first time that the trumpet played
Was, Up, up and awa, man !
The next time that the trumpet played
Was, The morn's the battle-day, man !
8 ' Bonnie lassie, I maun leave ye noo,
Bonnie lassie, I maun leave ye ;
But, if e'er I come this way again
I will ca in an see ye.'
9 Bread and cheese for gentlemen,
An corn and hay for horses ;
Pipes and tobacco for auld wives,
And bonnie lads for lasses.
10 'When will us twa meet again?
When will we meet and marry? '
' When cockle-shells turn silver bells,
Nae langer, love, we '11 tarry.'
11 So he's taen his auld grey cloak about him noo,
An he's ower the mountains fairly,
Crying, ' Fare ye weel, my bonnie lass,
Fare wee), my am kind deary.'
Mr Macmath adds the following stanza, "remem
bered by Miss Agnes Macmath, 2nd January, 1896,
from the singing of her mother."
'When will we twa meet again?
When will we meet and marry ? '
When peace and truth come to this land,
Nae langer, love, we'll tarry.'
305. The Outlaw Murray.
P. 186 a. Mr Macmath writes (Dec. 24, 1895) that
he has examined two boxes of MSS belonging to the
late Mr George Wilson and found not The Song of the
Outlaw Murray,' but ' The Song of the Rid Square,' in a
transcript (perhaps early rather than late) of the 1 7th
century. He thinks that by a slip of memory on Mr
Wilson's part ' The Outlaw Murray ' was mentioned in
stead of this.
Fragments.
P. 202 b, last stanza. Mr Macmath has given me
the following variation, communicated (with a story of
a wife carried off by fames) by J. C. to The Scottish
Journal, II, 275, 1848.
O Alva woods are bonnie,
Tillycoultry hills are fair,
But when I think on the braes o Menstrie
It maks my heart aye sair.
P. 210 b, to III, 500. Mr Macmath informs me that
the manuscript of Motherwell here referred to is the
same as that already printed, and correctly printed, at
III, 500 f.
GLOSSARY
NOTWITHSTANDING every effort to make this glos
sary as complete as possible, there remain not a few
words and phrases with which I can do nothing satis
factory. This is the case not only with ballads from
recent tradition, but with some that were taken down
in writing three hundred years ago or more.
At every stage of oral transmission we must suppose
that some accidental variations from what was delivered
would be introduced, and occasionally some wilful vari
ations. Memory will fail at times ; at times the lis
tener will hear amiss, or will not understand, and a
perversion of sense will ensue, or absolute nonsense,
nonsense which will be servilely repeated, and which
repetition may make more gross. Dr Davidson in
forms me that one of his female relatives rendered * an
echo shrill did make ' (in Chevy Chace, 10) 'an achish
yirl did make,' and that he took ' aching or frightened
earl ' to be the meaning until he read the piece. Happy
are we when we are sure of the nonsense ; as when, in
The Gypsy Laddie, ' they cast their glamourie owre her '
is turned into 'they called their grandmother over.'
" The combination of two words into one," says Dr
Davidson, " is not rare in Scotch, nor is the reverse pro
cess. For example, the word ' hypochondriac ' is turned
into 'keepach and dreeaeh,' and the two parts often
used separately. ' I 'm unco keepach ' and ' I 'm unco
dreeaeh' are common expressions among old people.
Imagine an etymologist, ignorant of the facts, trying to
discover the etymology of ' keepach ' or of ' dreeaeh.' "
Words of one or two syllables are long enough for the
simple ; a laboring man of my acquaintance calls rheu
matism 'the tisin': what are the other syllables to such,
who understand no one of the three ? Learned words
do not occur in ballads ; still an old native word will be
in the same danger of metamorphosis. But, though
unfainiliarity naturally ends in corruption, mishearing
may have the like effect where the original phrase is
in no way in fault ; hence, perhaps, ' with a bretther
a degs ye '11 clear up my nags,' ' a tabean briben
kame,' ' I '11 have that head of thine, to enter plea att
my iollye,' etc.
It must be borne in mind, however, that as to non
sense the burden of proof rests always upon the expos
itor. His personal inability to dispose of a reading is
not conclusive ; his convictions may be strong, but pa
tience and caution are his part and self-restraint as to
conjectures.
It is with a strong feeling of what ' a kindly Scot '
signifies that I offer my thanks to many gentlemen who
have favored me with comments on lists of words sub
mitted to them. Especial acknowledgment is due to
Dr Thomas Davidson, a native of Old Deer, who has
made his home in the United States, and to Mr Wil
liam Walker, of Aberdeen. Besides these, I have to
mention with gratitude the Rev. Robert Lippe, Rev.
Dr Walter Gregor, the late Dr William Alexander,
Principal Sir W. D. Geddes, Dr James Mori, Messrs
William Forbes, James Aiken, David Scott, W. Car-
nie, W. Cadenhead, and William Murison, all of Aber-
deenshire ; Dr James Burgess, Messrs J. Logic Rob
ertson and William Macmath, of Edinburgh ; Professor
A. F. Murison, of London, and Dr Robert Wallace,
M. P. ; Professor James Cappen, Queen's University,
Kingston, Ontario ; Rev. Professor J. Clarke Murray
and Principal Dr W. M. Barbour, of Montreal; Rev. Dr
Alexander McDonald, St Francis Xavier's College, An-
tigonish, N. S. ; Rev. Dr Waters, -of Newark, N. J.
For some difficult English words help has been given
by Dr W. Hand Browne of Johns Hopkins University,
Professor Manly of Brown University, and Professor
Kittredge of Harvard College.
It will be observed that ballads in the Skene MS
which were derived from the " Old Lady's Collection "
are not glossed, but the originals, which should be sub
stituted for Skene's more or less incorrect copies.
[References are usually to volume, page, and stanza.]
A
a', aa, aw, all.
a'= every, a' man, I, 68, 27; II, 71, 16; 75, 13; 193, 24;
IV, 46, 5, 6; 235, 10; V, 169, 6; 221, 10; 224, 22; 237,
8; 239, 36; 260 b, 5. a' body, V, 273 a.
a, abridgment of have, I, 315, ll; III, 215, 10; 440, 13;
441, 26; V, 55, 26; 79, 33; 213, 10; 224, 28; 251, 36.
a=he, III, 54, 3, 7.
a=I, in the phrase a wat (a wait, a wite, etc.), II, 159,
11, 16, 19; 160, 10-16, 19; III, 299, 9: I know, verily,
assuredly. II, 230, 6 : used by a mere trick, with
hardly a meaning, a's, V, 266, 9: I's, I shall, will.
a=of : III, 91, 2; 93, 36; 298, 59; 307, 10; 308, 12, 24;
309, 40 (a trusti tre ?) ; 349, 37, 39; 464, ll; IV, 504, 27.
a= on. a grefe, III, 69, 268. a blode (ablode), I, 244, 9;
V, 288 b, v. 16. a row, III, 117, 24.
a=one: I, 126, 4; 326, 7; 327, 24.
a= ae, one single : V, 256 b, 2; 257, 6, 15; 278, 26. a warst,
V, 215, 6. V, 239, 36 : one and the same. See ae.
a=to. abound, II, 109, 20: to go. a dee, 110, 25: to do.
So, perhaps, abee.
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GLOSSARY
a be, abe, a bee, abee, a beene (with let), I, 356,
D b 4; II, 29, 5; 108, 5; 159, 25; 185, 27; III, 455, 4,
8; V, 229, 35: be."
let abee with, IV, 96 f., D 9, 13.
let abee of, IV, 97, E 4, 5; 98, 15; 99, 14, 15.
abeen, abeene, aboon, abone, etc., I, 315, 8; II, 468,
7; IV, 326, 16, 19: above, his hose abeen his sheen,
V, 17, 35 ; 18, 14 : his stockings ungartered, falling
above, over his shoes,
abide, abyde, III, 67, 219 ; 73, 345 ; V, 82, 24, 40: stop,
wait. Ill, 97, 8; 279, 13: withstand.
pret. abode, III, 63, 143: waited.
p. p. abiden, abyden, III, 57 f., 25, 30: awaited,
able, II, 51, 4 : suitable,
ablins, aiblins, III, 467, b 2: perhaps,
aboard, V, 134, 16: alongside; and so 8, 20, 22, or, laid us
aboard may be boarded us.
abode, III, 335 a : waiting, delay,
abode, III, 430, l, burden: endured,
aboone, aboun, abown. See abune.
abound, ill a bound, II, 109, 20: ill (prepared) to go.
about, been, V, 52, 77: been engaged,
abowthe, III, 112, 52: about,
abune, aboone, aboon, abon, abone, abown, aboun,
abeen, II, 20, 8; 22, 16; 23, D 7, E 8; 24, P 10; 25,
G 13; 27, 21; 28, 25; 29, 19; 30, 12; 145, 20: above (above
them).
abyde. See abide,
abyden. See abide.
abye, III, 128, 84; V, 234 b, 3: pay, suffer consequences.
Acaron, III, 149, 32: being the oath of a Turk (36),
this may be taken as Alcoran.
acward, ackward stroke, III, 110, 17; IV, 148, 43:
described as a backhanded stroke. See aukeward.
advance, V, 147, 8: help on (?).
aduenture, III, 359, 90: hazard.
aduise, II, 436, 63: observe.
ae = one, single : I, 310, 6; 467, 33; 478, l; II, 77, 29;
IV, 257, 10; 260, 10; 261, 9; 262, 24; 445, 1; 476, 3.
ae best, I, 465, 13, 17; IV, 479, 13. ae first, I, 426, 7,
8; 494, 22. ae warst (a warst), V, 214 f., l, 6. the
ae . . . the ither, III, 500 b, 7: the one . . . the other.
ae = mere, sole, ae licht o the moon, IV, 469, 4; 470, 35.
ae = aye, always: 1, 245, 7; II, 185, 40; 208, 12; IV, 247,
B n; 265, 13.
aer, I, 16, C 12: ear, plough,
aevery, III, 465, 25: voracious, very hungry. (A. S.
gifre.)
afar, afore, affore, I, 438, A l; II, 21, 15, 16; 138, 8;
III, 405, 15; IV, 128 f., 19, 21, 23, 24: before,
aff, I, 346, 12: oft.
affronted, II, 367, 45; IV, 242 b: put to shame, morti
fied. Ill, 152, 6: confronted, opposed,
a-fit, V, 115, 7: on foot,
aft, III, 491, 8; V, 299 b, 4: oft.
after, after the way, III, 99, 57: along, on. aftere brade
waye, I, 333, l: along, over, after me, III, 74, 367:
according to me, my advice,
against, III, 344, 36: by way of preparation for the case.
agast of him, III, 99, 49: alarmed about him (the con
sequences to him).
agaste, V, 71, note f: terrified.
agayn(e), ageyn, III, 98, 29; 297, 46: against, a-geyn
euyn, III, 13, 3: towards.
agoe, V, 83, 44: gone.
agree, IV, 147, 32: bring to agreement.
a-3on, comyn a-jon, III, 13, 4: came upon, encountered.
ahind, ahint, ahin, I, 299, 14; II, 105, ll; 315, 5; III,
480, 14; 481, 30; IV, 246, 6: behind. V, 17, 32: over
and above.
aiblins, ablins, I, 439, 4: perhaps.
aileth at. See at.
air, in a drowsy air, IV, 20, ll: air seems to mean at
mosphere simply ; possibly disposition, condition.
air, aire, ayre, by air, by ay re, II, 106, l; 270, 30;
III, 162, 58; 164, b 58; V, 270, 7: early, betimes,
airn, ern, I, 342, 33; 348, 13, 19; 355, 42; III, 474, 39; 481,
35; 505, 21: iron.
airt, art, II, 23, E 5: quarter of the heavens, point of
the compass, west-airt lands, II, 73, 30: western, rade
the airt o, IV, 27, 31 : in the direction of. a' airts o
wind, II, 341, Q. been at that art, III, 163, 87.
air ted, V, 99, C 4: laid their course,
aith, oath.
a' kin, a' kin kind, II, 114, 2: all kind, every.
'al, that 'al, IV, 17, 3: 'ull, wull, will.
al, al so mote I the, III, 68, 243: absolutely.
al, will.
alaffe, III, 34, ll: aloof.
alane, I, 347, 2. mine alane, I, 332, E l, F l. See lane.
alang, along.
albergs, II, 340 b: houses, dwells.
ale an, alone.
alee, IV, 516 b, 3: on the lea, a-field, but for the pur
pose of keeping guard; cf. Ill, 487, A 15; 492, D 5;
495, B b 4.
aleene, I, 346, 4: alone.
alelladay, I, 220, A l: exclamation of grief.
algate, IV, 93, note *: anyway.
aliment. IV, 91, a: provision for maintenance; here,
apparently, alimony.
alive, I loved ye best ye were born alive, IV, 521, 19:
corrupted; the sense appears in IV, 26, A 16, / love
best that 's born alive, best of all living things.
all. all and, I, 56, 6, 7; III, 432, 16, 17; all as she stood,
1, 117, 16; all in my hand, III, 186, 20; all by the
roode, III, 188, 2; all by his side, V, 212 b, 8; all on,
IV, 393, 5; 394, B 2, 5; 395 f., B b 2, 3, 5; V, 233 f.,
2, 3, 5; all at her head, feet, V, 158, 9; all down, V,
293 b, 5; all oer, 302 b, 2.
allacing, IV, 18, 21: repeating of alace (alas),
allther, III, 57, 9; 70, 283, 284, representing the ancient
genitive plural of all, allther moste, allther best: best
of all, etc.
along of, III, 279, 8: owing to.
alongst, V, 267 a, 7, 8: along,
alow, III, 4, 1: below,
alow, aloe, George Aloe, V, 133.
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311
ala, alsua, I, 327, 27; IV, 366 D 5: also.
also, I, 328, 46: all so, just as.
althocht, III, 370, 19: although.
amain (e), III, 345, 48; 350, 51 : with vigor, strength,
force, blew, sound, cald, amain, III, 181, 27; 341, 46;
343, 17; 344, 36: with strength, loudly. II, 385, 24;
IV, 13, 2: in force, in numbers. I, 398, 4; III, 176 f.,
11, 16; 209, 9: at once, quickly.
amain, V, 134, 7, 16: (Fr. amener) lower, strike.
a-married, IV, 236, 4: married.
a-marvel, II, 386, 12: marvel (Fr. e*merveiller).
amense, III, 465, 23: amends. (Should be printed as
one word, not a mense as in the MS.)
American leather, I, 494, 14; III, 3, is; 5, C 2: has
been explained as morocco made from American
horsehides, for which a patent was obtained c. 1799.
See The Scots Magazine, 1799, LXI, 286. But the
date of the text at III, 3, is 1780.
amo, V, 306 b, 14: among.
among, II, 451, 89: between.
amoued, II, 442, 9: excited, agitated.
an, II, 75, 20; V, 214 b, 4: one.
-an, -ane, -and, -en, etc., annexed to the definite form
of the superlative of the adjective (preceded by the,
her, etc.) or to numerals, or following separately,
seems to be an=one. (The history of this usage has
not been made out.) The firstan, nextan, firsten,
nexten, passim (the seconden only at I, 507, 3); the
firstand, I, 135, O 18 ; the nextand, II, 94, 6 ; her
firsten, thirden, etc., II, 161, 9-12 ; her uexten, II,
164, 19; the firstin, the nextin, II, 380, 22; the first
an, the niest an, I, 351, 45; the warst in, the best in,
II, 98, 43, 44; the third ane, the fourth ane, etc., II,
71, 5, 6; 78, 8-ll; the third one, fourth one, etc., II, 72,
5-7; the first ae, IV, 490, 20; the first y, III, 3, 15; the
firsten ane, II, 370, 16. So, that samen, II, 475, 17.
an, I, 295, 30; 468, 6, 9; 480, 6, 7; II, 21, B 11: and, if.
ance, anse, I, 341, 9; 342, 23; 344, 21, 22; V, 9, 2, 4: once.
anchor, did on anchor rise so high, III, 344, 34 (c, g,
have ride): the ship is in full sail; no apparent sense.
ancient, ancyent, III, 286, 40; 340, 37; 341, 46; 406,
so, 31, 39; 420, 20; 422, 65, 66: ensign.
and, superfluous (as in "when that I was and a tiny
little boy," and two other songs in Shakspere), see
II, 57 b; II, 58, 7, 8; 59, 22, 27; 60, 39; 87, 31; III,
145, 6; 277, 16; 419, 8; IV, 448 a, 1, 2. The same
usage in German, Swedish, and especially Dutch bal
lads.
and, if.
-and, -end, termination of the present participle: whiss-
land, singand, cumand, seekand, etc., I, 326-329; II,
268, 17; IV, 195 f ., D 2, 7, 10, 14; V, 192 f., 35, 49.
ane=a, I, 327, n.
ane = alone, me ane, I, 333, 1.
ane, II, 191, 37= en, end.
aneath, aneth, II, 185, 29; 191, 23; V, 224, 17: beneath,
aneath the sun, III, 5, D 7: sheltering the eyes with
the hand. So, below the sun, III, 6, 6; 8, 6.
anent, I, 222, 8; II, 166, 21; 191, 24; 391, 20: over
against, in the face of.
anew, I, 305, i; III, 495, B b 3-6; IV, 249, 10; 271,
B 4: enough, enow.
angel(l), II, 444, 55; 449, 61; 453, 32; III, 156, 4; V,
101, 4: a gold coin, of value varying from 6s. 8d. to
10s.
angerly, III, 286, 55; 361, b 21: angrily.
ankir, III, 66, 198: recluse, hermit.
another, III, 138, 8, 12, is: corrupt, or verbiage.
anse, IV, 518, 3: once.
answers your quarrel, I, 411, 18: be responsible for,
take on me to settle, your difference.
answery, v., V, 283, 12: answer.
ant, I, 244; V, 288 b: and.
antine (Fr. antienne), IV, 439 b, 6: anthem.
anunder, I, 302, A 9: under.
aout, V, 304 b, 7: out.
apayd, euelle apayd, III, 322 a: ill satisfied, displeased.
ape, lead an ape in hell, penance for old maids : I,
232, 14.
apparent, III, 451, note *: heir apparent, (parand,
II, 447, 2, 4.)
applyed, p.p., V, 51, 67: plied.
appone, I, 327, 14, 28: upon.
apurn, V, 304 b, 3: apron.
ar, I, 244, 18; III, 110, 18: or, before.
ar blast, I, 311 a: cross-bow.
archborde, III, 340, 23, 29 (in 29, MS. charke-bord) :
may be a misspelling of hachebord, st. 36 (hatch-bord,
p. 342, 70). Barton grappled the ship to his archborde,
from which we should infer that the word meant the
side of the ship, as hatch-bord would naturally signify
at p. 342, 70. But archborde might of itself mean the
stern of the ship, a timber at the stern being still so
called, and German hack-bord meaning the upper part
of the stern of a ship. (It is singular that none of
the difficult words archborde, hachebord, hall (III,
340, 29) occur in the York copy, IV, 503, which, how
ever, has difficulties of its own.)
archery, III, 309, 41 : collected archers.
arches, II, 307, 29: aims, shoots.
are, I, 327, 23: before.
armorie, I, 285, 34, seems to be employed in the sense
of armament, men at arms.
armorye, III, 286, 56: armor.
arselins, V, 124, 12: backwards.
art, airt, quarter of the heavens, been at that art, III,
163, 87: in that quarter, at that place. See airt.
as, pron., I, 477, 6, 7, 13, 15; II, 4, D 4; 452, 14; V, 206 a,
1; b, 6: that, who.
as, con/., I, 477, 5, 18, 19; II, 453, 28: that.
as, V, 218 b, D l: was.
as ever, III, 281, 10: as long as.
asay, p.p., Ill, 112, 48: tried. [Read asayedf]
asembled, III, 164, b 15: met (encountered).
ask, I, 353, H n; 355, 41; II, 504, 32: newt, lizard.
(A. S. aSexe.) Cf. ass.
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GLOSSARY
askd, my father he askd me an acre o land, I, 17, D 9:
askd seems to be an erroneous repetition from 8;
aucht, owned, would be expected ; or left, gave, as
in K, L.
asking, asken, askend, askent, II, 91, D 27, 28; 92,
22-25; 192, 7, 14; 194, 23; 359, 7-10; V, 221 ., 27, 29, 30,
32; 223, 6, 7; 418, 8: boon, request,
askryede, I, 326, 4: described,
ass, I, 349, 11, 15: ask, newt,
assoyled, absolved,
aste, I, 217, i: east.
astoned, astonied, V, 76, 24; 82,35: astonished, amazed,
asurd, I, 334, 5: of azure; should probably be asur.
at. reade must rise at, II, 53, 34, 35; take councell at,
III, 405, 17, 23; take leaue att, III, 357, 42: from, ask
at, beg at, spear at, 1,497, L 5-8, M 2-5; III, 161,32;
330, 15; IV, 331, 10: of, from, ails ye at, aileth thee at,
II, 72, 3; 78,7; 80, 3; IV, 95, 12; 96, 4; 99, H 7: with
(what ail comes to you from me ?). see at me, IV,
345, 8: in. come atte, IV, 507, 81: to, to the presence
of. I was at thee, IV, 436, 1: (apud) with.
at, IV, 331 b, 8: out (?).
at, jobbing at, I, 104, A b 10: jogging off, away (?).
at, with ellipsis of the door, rappit at, clappit at, I,
105 a, 29; IV, 444, 16, 35; V, 173, 1; 306 b, l.
at, att, pron. and conj., II, 472, 24; III, 488, 19; IV,
348, l; 446, 6; 469 b, 10, 12; V, 79, 31; 118, B 12; 220 b,
5; 224, 28; 236, li 4 ; 256, 8: that, (it, V, 236, li 2 , may
be for this at.)
a ta, III, 464, l: at all.
athort, I, 305, 3: across (upon), far athort, V, 164,
D b 13: a long way.
attempt, III, 39, no: tempt,
attemptattis, III, 451 b: enterprises,
atteynt, I, 328, 34: (here) lay hands on.
attoure, III, 458 b: outowr, over and above,
atweel, I, 22, 2, 3: I wot well, assuredly.
atween, I, 466, n; II, 315, 6; V, 156, ll, 13: between.
atween hands, II, 139, 6: meanwhile,
atwyn, V, 80, 57: from one another,
aucht, aught, wha 's aucht ? = who is it owned (owns) ?
whose is (are) ? I, 22, 4; 472, l; II, 114, ll; 164, 8, 11;
IV, 32, C 6; 194, 8; 199, 21; 202, 9; 203, 17. aught
a bairn, II, 494, 4: had. where is the knight aught
me for wedding, IV, 182, F 6: who was (is) under
obligation to marry me ? (This is my ransome I ought
to him to pay, I, 294, 12.) It is not unlikely that aucht
in the phrase wha 's aucht is present in sense. Indeed
we have oughts, II, 336, Q 5. Cf. who owes ? whose
is ? IV, 205, 27.
aught, v., suld hae come and aught a bairn to me, II,
494, 4: had (a child by).
aukeward, awkwarde stroke, II, 59, 23; III, 93, 40:
backhanded. See acward.
auld son, without regard to absolute age: 1, 79, 58; 184,
8, 9; IV, 94, A 4; 97, P 4. So old sister for elder
sister, eldest of three: I, 175, 8; auld dochter, II,
462, 33. auld son, of child just born and the only one,
H, 105, 7; 107, 3-6, 17; IV, 206, 15. So at II, 95, li,
called young son immediately after. Of babe in the
cradle, II, 325, 10. See old.
aull, auld, old. I, 359, 6, 9, in four nights auld: at the
age of four days. II, 80, 9, in twall years auld.
aussy pan, I, 301, 6: ash pan.
austerne, I, 134, N 3: austere, harsh. See osterne.
ava, II, 189, 33; 323, 25; III, 7, 13, 14; IV, 257, 12; 300,
3: of all. II, 360, 10; V, 112, B b 7: at all.
avayle, II, 436, 70: put down, doff,
avow, IV, 240, 7: seems to be used as consent rather
than, own, confess ; but cf. IV, 56, A 8; V, 252 a.
avowe, n., Ill, 65, 180, 187, 190; 68, 240; 73, 346; 297, 44;
307, i: vow.
avowe, avower, III, 67, 232; 620 a, No 161: patron,
protector.
avoyd, V, 53, 102: begone,
aw, all.
await, lie at await, III, 409, note *: in wait,
awaite, awayte, III, 72, 330; 84, 330; 88, 331: lie in
wait for. awayte me scathe, III, 66, 202: lie in wait
to do me harm.
awende, I, 244, 9: weened, imagined,
awet, III, 112, 64: know. Perhaps, await, descry,
awkwarde stroke, III, 93, 40: a backhanded stroke.
See aukeward.
awsom, V, 193, 49: awful,
ay, I, 333, l, 2, 3: a.
ayenst, III, 76, 420: against, towards, about,
ayon, ayone, ayont, I, 301, i; 302, i; 428, 20; II, 133,
D 4, 6; IV, 412, e: beyond. IV, 330 a, appendix, l:
and oddly of the man, as farther from the wall. 1 1ll,
392, 20, 21: beyond, across. I, 220, A 2; IV, 8, 46:
over against, in the face of.
ayre, eare, ere: heir.
ba, IV, 354, i: a luUaby.
baas, balls.
baba, II, 339, 19: baby.
bace, V, 104 a=bash (Swed. basa): beat; pret. baist,
III, 164, b 26(7). See baist.
bacheeleere, II, 58, 13: young knight devoted to the
service of a lady.
back-spald, V, 106, 1! 4: hinder part of the shoulder,
bad, bade, V, 18, 9; 27, 41; 243, ll: ordered, offered.
(A. S. be6dan.)
bad, bade, baed, III, 267, 15: abode, stopped, waited
for. II, 115, 22; III, 312, 28; V, 236, 17: remained,
staid. (A. S. bfdan.)
badgers, III, 477, 8: pedlars,
baed, II, 115, 22: abode, stopped. See bad.
baffled, II, 479 : thwarted (perhaps, made a fool of).
IV, 146 f., ll, 31: affronted, insulted, or disgraced,
bail, life in, III, 10, 19: in power, at disposal,
bailie, III, 385, 12: municipal officer, alderman. IV,
326, 12: bailiff, steward, manager of an estate. See
baylye.
bairn, barn, bern, III, 437, 28, 36; 453, 17; IV, 309, 5;
310, 12: child.
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313
baist, pret ., Ill, 164, b 26 : beat, baste, p.p., Ill, 165, 92 :
beaten. (Icel. beysta ?) See bace.
baked, II, 403, 2: becked, curtsied, made obeisance,
bale, II, 45, so, 44; 58, ll; 419, 51; 466, 34; III, 92, n,
16; 99, 51: ill, trouble, mischief, harm, calamity, de
struction. See balys.
bale, I, 355, 41: fire,
bale-fire, II, 118, 9; 119, 19; 155, 36; IV, 467, 12, 14:
bonfire, large fire,
ballants, IV, 129, 30: ballads.
ballup, III, 181, 15 (ballock) : front or flap of breeches,
balow, IV, 351, l; 352, C 1: lullaby, sing a lullaby to.
balys, III, 310, 68: misfortunes, troubles. See bale,
ban, band, I, 69, 38; 73, 53; II, 376, 36; III, 491, 12:
hinge,
ban, bann, v., I, 304, E 5; 305, 6; HI, 104, 8; IV, 87,
14; V, 115, 7: curse,
ban, band, bande, bond, IV, 388, 7: band. IV, 388,
11: bond.
ban, I, 55, 12: bound (pret.).
band(e), III, 430, 8; 431, 7: bond, compact,
band-dogs, bandoggs, III, 123, 16; 125, 31; 126, B b
31; c 31: dogs that are kept chained (on account of
their fierceness).
banded, IV, 388, 7: bound, secured with bands,
bane, I, 285, 33; III, 92, 7: destruction, death,
bane, saddle of the bane (MS. bone), I, 468, 13; bouer
o bane, II, 185, 31 : meaning probably the royal bone
of I, 466, 10. See roelle bone,
bane-fire, II, 146, 23; 331, 17: bonfire,
bang, II, 438, 4: may be any implement for banging ;
it is sometimes stick, here strap (in should be wi).
bang, IV, 85, 5: emend to hang.
bangisters, IV, 37, 7; 38, 9: people violent and re
gardless of law.
banis, III, 78, 453: slayers, murderers,
banished, III, 401, 15: possibly with the meaning
banned, but the ordinary sense does well enough,
bank, sea-bank, IV, 229, 3, 7: shore (?).
bankers, I, 334, 9: carpets, tapestries for benches,
banket, III, 446 b: banquet,
banneret, II, 395, N i: banner-bearer (see B l; E l; I
1; K 1; M 1; P l).
barck, bark, II, 239, 1: birk, birch,
barelins, II, 212, 12: barely,
bargain, III, 181, 13: brawl, fight.
barker, V, 78, ll; 80, 43, 49, etc.; 82, 20: tanner,
barking, I, 109, C 10: who uses bark, as a tanner,
barm, I, 243, 7: lap.
barn-well thrashing, II, 322, 8: the well has no sense,
and has probably been caught from 9, at the far well
washing. To be dropped,
barn, barne, II, 437, 85; IV, 141, 17; V, 114, 10; 267,
3: (A. S. beam) child. Ill, 308, 14: (A. S. beorn)
man, fighting man.
baron, I, 293, 2; 294 f., 5, 9, 23, 28: simply knight, and
that, in all cases but the first, vaguely,
barras, oer the, IV, 372, 6: beyond the barriers (as
374, A b, after 5).
VOL. v. 40
barrine, bairn.
base-court, III, 470 b: lower or outer court.
bassonet, basnet, basnit, in, 298, 51, 52; 308 f., 29, 32:
a light helmet, shaped like a skull-cap.
bat, but.
batit, baited.
batts, blows, burden of, IU, 465, 20: all the blows
(beating) he can bear.
baubee, bawbee, III, 268, 6; 269, D 6; 270, 4, 5; V,
242 b, 5: halfpenny.
baube, II, 132, so: babe.
baucheld sheen, IV, 380, 26: shoes down at the heels
(ill-bukled, wrongly, V, 276, 18).
bay, by.
bay berry kame, IV, 471 f., 2, 4: a corrupt passage,
yielding no sense (so of other readings here).
bay dogs, III, 126 f., e, f si: dogs that bring to bay, or
that bay (?).
baylleful, III, 298, 58: destructive, deadly.
bay lye, III, 28, 140: bailiff, sheriff's officer (to execute
writs, etc.). Ill, 332, 15: chief magistrate, mayor.
See bailie.
bayne, perdition.
bayr, V, 110, is: byre, cowhouse.
be=by. be to and al be on, I, 242, 11: by two[s] and
all by one[s]. be, be that, III, 100, 73; 482, 26: by the
time that, sey be, V, 79, 26: about. See by.
be 's, it be 's, III, 160, 9: shall be=it s' be.
be wi, IV, 261, 23: tolerate, bear with.
beager, beggar.
beagly, V, 224, 10. See bigly.
beam, beam gold, II, 402, 10: for learning? Probably
corrupt.
beame, of the utuer beame, IV, 506, 59: utuer is per
haps utter, outer ; but what outer beam would Hors-
ley come to in climbing the mast ? Probably cor
rupt. If we read, of (=on) the utter (outer) bane
(bone), which rhymes, we have to explain the outer
bone of the buttocke.
bean, bone.
bear, I, 149, 6: move on, proceed.
bear, bier.
bear, beer.
bear, IV, 324, C l: barley.
bear-seed, IV, 323, 6: barley; bear-seed time seems
to refer to barley-harvest.
beare mercy, as the lawes will thee beare, V, 53, 98:
have for (as in, bear malice, etc.).
beare, pret., II, 266, 30: bare.
beared, buried.
bearing arrow, III, 29, 150; 202, 33; 341, 53: "an ar
row that carries well," Percy; "an arrow made to
carry especially straight," Nares; but on the first oc
casion a broad arrow is used when " an arrow that
carries well" (straight) is equally, or even more,
necessary, and on the third a bearing and a broad
arrow are used indifferently, III, 29, 153, 159; 341, 56.
Perhaps a very long arrow, such as required to be
carried in the hand. " Longe arrowes like staudarts
314:
GLOSSARY
with socetts of stell for my Lord's f outemen to here
in their hands, when they ryn with my Lorde " are
noted as berrying arrows in the preparations for the
Earl of Northumberland's expedition to Terouenne,
5 Henry VIII. Dillon's Fairholt's Costume in Eng
land, II, 8, 1885. Mr C. J. Longman, himself an
archer, remarking that a bearing arrow is used for a
range of 20 score paces, III, 29, 148, 150, and a broad
arrow for 6 score, 153, suggests that a bearing arrow
was probably what is now called a flight-arrow, a
thin, light arrow with a tapering point for long shoot
ing.
bearly, V, 219, 17: buirdly.
beat, IV, 379, 15: boot, recompense.
became, II, 422, 2: came.
became bis courtisie, III, 464, 18: that is, his cour
tesy became him (as in Shakspere's " youth becomes
the livery that it wears "). See become.
because, III, 29, 157: in order that.
beck, made a beck on her knee, II, 359, 7, 9: curtsy.
becke (A. S. bee), I, 334, 8: stream, brook.
become them well, IV, 147, 22: look well in them (i. e.,
they became him well) ; so III, 464, 18; cf. set, IV,
331, 18. place, part, does well become me, IV, 152,
D 2; 153, l: suit. See became.
becomed, pret. of become, IV, 505, 53.
bed, I, 272, 9: offered. See bede.
bed-head, 1, 184, 44, 46: the top of the box or case of a
Scottish bed. 1, 116, C 5: should be bed-stock, as the
rhyme shows.
bed-stock, I, 115, 3; IV, 94, 7; V, 208, 4: the outer
side of a bed, that farther from the wall.
bede, v., II, 499 b: offer. See bed.
bedone, I, 271, 2; II, 183, 20: worked, ornamented.
bedyls, III, 28, 140 : under-bailiffs, summoners.
bee-ba, II, 330, 11, 12: sounds to lull a child.
beeds. that beeds, I, 69, 67: string of beads.
beek, biek, IV, 69, 22; 77, 3, c 3: bask.
beenits, IV, 381, 12: bayonets.
beere, II, 445, 73: bare, bore.
beerly (bride), II, 132, 24 : large and well made ;
stately. See bierly. beerly, burly cheer, I, 298, 4;
300, 4: great, huge.
beet, bete, beik, III, 495 a; IV, 517, 15: better, help.
Of fire, II, 120, 16, 17; IV, 467, 13: kindle, keep up.
p. p. bett, II, 44, 14. See bete.
beet, II, 475, 7; III, 281, 2: behooved.
beet, v., inf., II, 151, H 2: boot, furnish with boots.
pret. bet, 4.
beets, n. pi., IV, 187, 10: boots.
beette, III, 298, 54: pret. of beat.
befa, IV, 357, C 4: may befall (he does not care what
name he gets). IV, 357 f., 6, 8, 12, 14: belong to,
suit.
befalle, I, 241, 2: may it befall !
before, taen your God before, II, 62 b, 15, representing
'minged not Christ before,' II, 59, 21: an artificial-
sounding expression, which may mean, previously
taken God for your helper.
beforne, II, 58, 15; III, 13, 12, 14: before. II, 58, 15, be
fore (morning).
beft, III, 161, 26: beat. 164, 92: beaten.
begane, bigane, IV, 366, D 4: overlaid, covered.
begeck, begack, give a, III, 162, 63; 164, b 63: play
a trick on, make a fool of. (A. S. geac, cuckoo, sim
pleton.)
begoud, begood, begud, I, 473, 11; II, 99, B b 9;
IV, 167, C 10; 194, B 5; 195, 14; 201, 21; 203, 15; 224,
13: began.
beguile, p.p., Ill, 36, 41: beguiled.
begule, beguile.
behad, II, 160, 3: behold.
behear, II, 240 f., 7, 9; III, 93, 46; 131, 3: hear, beheard
him, III, 421, 58: heard.
beheld, II, 61, 12: tarried.
beheste, III, 90 b: promise.
behind his hand, a stroke behind his hand, II, 63, 24:
seems = backhanded stroke.
behote, III, 71, 315 ; pres., promise, thou behote, III,
71, 297: didst promise.
beik, beet, bete, on, II, 121, 20: put on fuel.
being, II, 410, 26: means of living.
belinger, IV, 74, G b 3 : corruption or misprint for
(best ?) ginger.
beliue, belyfe, b(e)lyue, III, 4, 18; 28, 125; 29, 144;
35, 18; 84, 87, 300; 94, 53; 117, 13: soon, immediately.
bell, silken, III, 261, D 7: conical canopy? corrupted
from beild, shelter (screen) ? Aytoun, with great
probability, conjectures pall. Cf. A 10; E 10; P 14,
which support the emendation.
Bell (Archie), III, 491, 3, 7: billie (comrade, brother),
as in D, III, 492, 2.
belle, bere the, I, 328, 42; II, 58, l; V, 202 b: stand
foremost, take the lead.
bell-groat, I, 251, A 3, 5. Same as next word.
belling-great, I, 252, 3, 5: groat for ringing bell.
belly-, billie-blind. See Billie Blin.
below the sun, lookit below the sun, II, 78, 15; III,
6, 6; in below the sun, 8, 6. See aneath the sun.
belted plaids, IV, 84, n; 85, 3: 87, 2; V, 253, No 203,
D 2: "properly twelve yards of tartan cloth worn
round the waist, obliquely across the breast and left
shoulder, and partly depending backwards, ut in bello
gestatur."
belyfe, straightway. See beliue.
belyue. See beliue.
bemean, V, 163, 4: bemoan, compassionate.
ben. Good ben be here, III, 267, 10: God's (or good)
benison ? Probably corrupt.
ben (shoes o, sheen o), IV, 378, 7; 380, 14: bend, bend-
leather, strong ox-leather, thickened by tanning.
ben, I, 56 f., C 2, 14; III, 267, 20; 268, 17; 270, 16; 272,
20; 274, 33: towards the inner apartment of the house,
or parlor, in, within, come farer ben, I, 369, 51; he
was ben, II, 313, 16; he wood her butt, he wood her
ben, I, 56, 2. V, 216, B a 7; 219, 10; 242 b, 8.
ben, royal ben, I, 478 f., 12, 46: (emended from bend)
bone. See roelle-bone.
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315
benbow, III, 54, 6; 104, 5; 132, 5; bend bow, III, 7, 4;
8, 25; 11, 6; bende bowe, III, 309, 44; bent bow, III,
8 G 2 ; 106, 16, 17: bow, simply, the bow being in
actual use only in III, 11, 54, 104 (?), 106, 16, 309.
bend, III, 145, 5: where the way turned (?).
bend, III, 362, 71 : pret. of bend. So II, 125, Q 6:
pret. of bend (should not have been changed to bent,
p. 122).
bended, IV, 78, l: bounded,
benjed, II, 403, 2 ; beenged, bynged, made humble
obeisance, cringed.
bent the way, IV, 442, 13 : took her course over,
bent, sword bent in the middle clear, middle brown,
IV, 12, ll, 12: nonsense, or close upon nonsense,
bent, I, 3, 1; 5, D l: a coarse, reedy grass.
bent, bents, II, 58, 16, 18; 62, 11; 172, 24, 25, 27, 35, 43;
III, 295, 5; 296, 20; 297, 40; 307, 5, 8; 308, 26; 312, 28;
IV, 86, 3: field, fields covered with bent grass,
benty ground, atween the brown and benty ground,
IV, 27, 12: between heather and bent ground,
benty line, III, 7, 5: line of bent grass.
ber, pret. of bear,
berafrynd, V, 71 b: a drinking word, in response to
passilodion.
bere, V, 264 a, 2 : bigg, a sort of coarser barley (Hor-
deum hexastichum, not H. vulgare or distichum).
berl, V, 224, 26: birl, dispense,
bern, barn, bairn, IV, 456, 7-9, 12; V, 247, ll: (A. S.
bearn) child,
berne, III, 295, 5: (A. S. beorn, fighting man, brave,
etc.) man.
berry, brown berry comb, II, 224, l: the material of
this comb is elsewhere said to be haw bay berry; all
the passages describing it are corrupt,
beryde, I, 326, 2: made a bere, noise,
bescro, III, 110, 26; V, 80, 49: beshrew, curse,
bese, I, 329, 58: shalt be.
beside, besids, III, 357, 38, 41, 43, 45-7: aside from,
away from,
beside, in addition to, four and thirty stripes comen
beside the rood, II, 59, 29: referring to the scourging
before the crucifixion,
besom, hid herself in the besom of the broom, 1, 398, 9:
besom seems to be twigs (as scopae is both twigs and
broom). Wedgwood cites from a Dutch dictionary
of 1654, brem-bessen, broom-twigs, scopae spartiae.
bespeak: pret. bespa(c)ke, III, 420, 26, 30, 35; 430, 9;
431, 19, 23; bespoke, V, 149, 8-ll; bespake him, I,
286, 52-5; III, 419 f., 6, 13, 22, 24: spake,
bespeek, IV, 498, l, 3, 9: speak with,
bespoke, V, 149, 10, well-bespoke: well-spoken,
bestand, III, 105, 23: help, avail,
bested, bestead, circumstanced, ferre and frembde
bested, III, 63, 138: in the position of one from a
distance and a stranger, hard bestead, III, 161,
36.
bestial, IV, 41, note *: all the animals of a farm,
best man, IV, 342, 4: principal servant,
bet, II, 151, H 4: booted.
betaken, II, 59, 38: made over.
bete, beet, III, 310, 68: better, second, relieve. See
beet.
beth, both, III, 59, 53, 54; 79, 54: be, old plural.
bether, V, 283, 8: better.
Bethine, II, 4, 12, for rhyme: if meant for anything,
Bethany is meant, however inappropriate.
betide, II, 411 a, last line but two: nearest that ever
fall to one, an unlikely phrase. Motherwell reads
whatcer betide.
betide, I, 503 b, 4, what news do ye betide ? i. e. what
do you (does your coming) signify? or, as at I,
205, F 10 (doth thee betide), what news has befallen
you, come to your knowledge ?
betide, boots of the tangle (sea-weed) that nothing can
betide, V, 259 a, ll: should read to the effect, That 's
brought in by the tide.
betook, I, 126, 6: took (simply).
bets, pi., V, 257, 10: boots.
bett, II, 44, 14, pret. of bete, beet : kindled.
better, she stood, and better she stood (printed bitter),
I, 492, 5; they rode, and better they rode, I, 102, 10;
492, 10, 14; he rade and better rade, II, 209, D 6:
longer, farther still, better swam, V, 140, e 7. bet
ter be, I, 128, 13: still more.
beuk, book.
bewch, III, 91 b: bough.
bewrailed, V, 55, 38: berailed.
bewray, V, 86, 35: reveal.
beyt, V, 79, 25: beeth, be.
bickering, IV, 7, 34: (hail) pattering.
bide, byde, I, 430, 4, 5, 8, 9; II, 177, 14; 289, A 2; 313,
14; III, 465, 30; V, 108, B 8: stay. p.p. bidden, IV,
262 f., 32, 33; 524, 9. bide (a doulfou day), II, 159,
23: await, look for. bide anither bode, III, 268, 12;
270, 12: wait for another offer. I never bade a better
bode, III, 267, 15. your wedding to bide, III, 387, ll:
await, bide it whoso may, IV, 433, 21: await the
result ? (obscure passage), bide frae me, V, 236, 16:
stay away. In : she bade the bride gae in, II, 195,
30, it is not likely that a rival would bid a bride ; in
terpret rather, she waited for the bride to go.
bidene, by dene, bydeene, I, 105 a, 20: immediately
(or, all together). I, 273, 34: successively, one after
another. Ill, 65, 185: together. Ill, 73, 350: simul
taneously, or en masse.
biek, beek, IV, 77, 3: bask. See beek.
bier, III, 161, 32; V, 161, l; 162, D l: cry, lamenta
tion.
bierly, beerly (bride), I, 467, 29; II, 75, 19; 132, 24;
the same as buirdly bride, II, 82, 51 : portly, stately
(large and well made). See buirdly.
big, bigg, I, 15, 13; 17, 16; 108, l; II, 330, l; 331, 1;
332, i: build, pret. and p. p. biggit, bigget, IV, 202,
K 5; 203, 13. pret. bug, IV, 199, 17. p. p. buggin,
bugn, IV, 445, l; 446, 1. build a stack for corn, I,
17, 12; 428, 11 ; V, 206 a, 8.
bigane, I, 334, 5: covered, wrought.
biggeall, beguile.
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GLOSSARY
bigging, biggin, II, 115, 23, 24; 117, 10, 11; 123, 25, 26;
255, 11, 12; 257, 19, 20; IV, 128, 2-4: building, house,
"properly of a large size, as opposed to a cottage."
bigly (Icelandic, byggiligr, habitable), commodious,
pleasant to live in, I, 68, 32; 107, l, 3; II, 98, 30-32, 35,
36; 172 f., 40, 42, 45; 294, 4, 5 ; 370, 6; 417, 3; 419, 45:
frequent epithet of bower. II, 358, 26, of a bier: hand
somely wrought.
bile, v., V, 305 a, 6: boil.
bill, V, 15, 16, is: a paper, bills, IV, 422, 45, 46: (the
necessary legal) papers, sworne into my bill, III,
411, 5: sworn in writing.
bill, I, 302, B 12; 303, 10; IV, 331 b, 2: bull.
billaments, I, 433, 17: habiliments, of head-gear.
billie, billy, comrade, brother ; " a term expressive of
affection and familiarity : " I, 448, A 2, 4; III, 464, 2,
5, 6, 19; 467, 56; 489, ll; V, 128, 29. born billy, III,
495 b, 23, 24. See bully.
Billie Blin, Bellie Blind, I, 73, 35, 44; 86, 29; 466 f.,
14, 23; II, 464, 15, 16; 470, 60-63; 472, 31; V, 239, 39:
see I, 67 ; V, 285 b.
belly -blind, II, 464, 15, 16: may mean here nothing
more than an innocent warlock or wizard.
billy -pot, I, 164, L 6: pot with a semicircular handle
(bail) ?
bine, be not: V, 238, 18.
binge, IV, 462, so: bend.
binkes, I, 334, 9: benches.
binna, be not.
bint, V, 110, 12: bind, pay for.
bird (burd), I, 76, 50, 51; II, 314, 29, 30; C 10; 316, 12;
IV, 422, 2, 5, 10: maid, lady, bird her lane, II, 313,
12, 19: maid by herself, solitary. II, 272, 5: child,
boy.
birk. he was standing on the birk, II, 165, 13, seems to
be nonsense. There is no birk to stand on unless the
floor is birken, and nothing could be more inept than
a reference to that matter.
birlin, II, 28, l: drinking. See birl.
birl, berl, II, 28, 1; 92, 17; 219, 6; IV, 154, 9; 166, 1;
234, 35; 385, l: drink. II, 152, J 3; 299, 16; 368, 7:
ply with drink, birled in him, II, 144, 3, 4: poured
into. Of dispensing both bread and wine: II, 191,
34, 35; V, 224, 26. birled wi them, IV, 438, 8: should
apparently be birled them wi. ptc., birlin, II, 28, 1.
birnande, burning.
birtled, I, 273, 42: cut up.
bisette, I, 334, 8: devote (to the matter a space greater
by two miles).
bit (used with a noun instead of a diminutive), wee bit
banes, I, 225, L 7: bits of.
bit, but. bit an(d), II, 3Q, 4; 132, 26: and also.
bitailite, I, 244, 11: committed to.
bitten, V, 130, 13: taken in, cheated.
bla, III, 350, 53, 54: blow.
blabring, V, 247, 9: babbling. See blobberin.
bla 'd, II, 21, 6: bla it, blow it.
blaewort, IV, 212, 6: corn bluebottle, round-leaved
bell-flower, bluebell of Scotland.
blaise, blaisse, IV, 503, 19; 505, 49: display, show
forth, display itself.
blan, blane, blanne, II, 53, 29; 140, 23; 265, 9; III,
309, 4l; 405, 13; 406, 38; 466, 40: pret. of blin, stop,
cease.
blast, V, 82, 39: puff, breathe hard.
blate, II, 260, 2; III, 160, 10; 163, 85: dumfoundered,
abashed, silly, spake blate, II, 470, 47, 50: bashfully,
diffidently.
blavers, V, 213, 14: corn bluebottle (blaewort).
blaw, I, 15, B 2; 16 C 2: blow. pret. blow, III, 112,
65. p.p. blawin, I, 17, D l; blawn, I, 15, B l; 16,
C 1, 2. pres. p. blawn (blawing), II, 114, 20.
blee, I, 272, is, 20, 24; 293, l; II, 364, 26; 442, l, 2: color,
complexion.
bleed, blood.
bleed, I, 441, 5, 7, pret. of bleed : bled.
bleeze, III, 457, B 4: blaze.
blewe, I, 326, 7: blew on a horn (see st. 10).
blin, blind.
blin, blyn, blinne, II, 138, 3; V, 14 f., 2, 20: (belin)
cease, stop. pret. blan. See blan.
blind, blint, II, 345, 26; 382, 6; IV, 265, A b 8; 486,
10: blinded.
blink, n., IV, 136, 17; 360, 15; 384, 3, 4; look, glance.
IV, 390, 7, of the moon : gleam. IV, 389 b: (of time)
moment.
blink, to look: II, 433, 6; IV, 127, 14; 351, 7; 353, 18;
416, 2; V, 53, 107; 54, 3; 154, A ll: glance, emit,
throw a glance. Ill, 371, 27; IV, 256 f., l, 10: shine,
glitter, blinkin ee, IV, 194, (4,) 5; 201, 25; 203, 5;
211, 9: shining, twinkling, wha is this that blinks in
Willie's ee ? II, 189, 25 : sends brightness into,
whose brightness is reflected from, nor ever did
he blink his ee (at the gallows), IV, 12, B 8: wink,
shut, blench, his look was steadfast, cam blinkin
on an ee, II, 475, 17: winking as if blind, playing the
blind.
blint, II, 17 b; IV, 515, 12: blinded. See blind.
bliss : bless.
blobberin, II, 256, 13: perhaps, blubbering, crying ;
perhaps = blabring. V, 247, 9: babbling.
block, II, 216, 16: exchange. IV, 148, 54: bargain ;
lost the better block, had the worse in a bargain or
dealing.
blood, blude, II, 114, 16; 123, 13: man (disrespect
fully), fellow.
blow, pret., blew.
blowe, II, 478, 8: blossom.
bio we (wynde), II, 478, 12: give vent to.
blowe (boste), III, 59, 59: give breath to, utter.
blude, bluid, blood. See blood.
bluid is gude, IV, 433, 21: good to dream of.
bluntest, III, 492, 25: stupidest.
blutter, III, 161, 43: dirty.
blyue, belyfe, beliue, III, 29, 144 ; 71, 300 ; 74, 371:
quickly, immediately.
boad, n., V, 243, ll: offer.
boams, fire-beams (not beams), IV, 96, D 3: bombs.
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317
board-floor, II, 160, 5, 6: should probably be bower-
floor, as in 159, 6, 9; 161, 6, 8.
bocht : bought.
booking, III, 161, 33: vomiting, belching.
boddoin, bottom.
bode, n., offer: III, 267, 15; 268, 12; 270, 12; 272, 14.
bode, p. p., Ill, 67, 222: bidden, invited.
bodes, wild fowl bodes on hill, II, 410, 7: announces
day. Cf. II, 230, 5, the wild f ule boded day.
bode-words, III, 4, 19: messages.
body: faith, faikine, of my body, III, 180, 17; 199,
24; 216, 33; 296, 16; 472, 7; truth of my body, III,
180, B, 7; 181, 15, 16, 21; IV, 7, 31 : either by my per
sonal faith, or, by my body, faith in my body, III,
411, 6.
body- clothes; IV, 152, 7: clothes of my body.
bold, bauld (of fire), II, 116, 18; 117, 12; 119, 5, 6; 123,
18, 27: sharp, brisk.
boldly (understand), IV, 146, 19: freely, confidently,
fully (verbiage).
bokin, bodkin.
bolts, IV, 409, l: rods, bars (to make a petticoat stand
out).
bon, bone, boune, on the way, going. See boun.
bone, boon.
bone, sadle of the bone, V, 219, 13. See bane, roelle-
bone.
bonins, by, V, 253 a, 4: in plenty (Gypsy cant).
bonnetie, V, 306, 2, 3: dimin. of bonnet.
booting, III, 159, l: making of boot or booty.
boot, v., IV, 501, 26: matter. See bote.
bord, borde, bowrd, V, 78, l; 80, 48, 49: jest, sport,
amusement, comic tale.
bord, II, 450, 80; 451, 84: should perhaps be bore, as in
445, 77. Still, carried him out of the saddle by the
impact of the spear which bored him through is not
unlikely, and we have, p. 454, 55, out of his saddle
bore him he did.
borden, adj., IV, 506, 73: of plank; borden tree, wooden
plank.
born alive, ye were, IV, 521, 19; A, IV, 26, 16, has
' That I love best that 's born alive,' i. e. of all that are
born. The ye should be y', that, and probably was
so meant.
borough-town, borrow's toun, borrous-toun, etc.
See borrows-town, burrow-town.
borowe, borrow, n. Ill, 59, 62-64, 66; 68, 237, 250: se
curity. Ill, 405, 9: sponsor, vindicator.
borowe, borrow, v., I, 309, A3; II, 177, 27; III, 25,
50; 298, 69; 329, 6; IV, 33, 15-18, 20, 21: set free, de
liver, ransom.
borowehode, III, 68, 239: securityship.
borrows-town, borrous-toun, IV, 229, 1; V, 117, A
6, 7; 126, l: borough-town, borough, corporate town.
See borough (burrow)-town.
bosky d, III, 112, 60: busked, made ready. See busk.
bot, but. bot and : see but and.
bot, without. See but.
bot, II, 94, 3: behoved.
bote, boote, boot, II, 45, 30, 34; III, 27, 104; 94, 56;
187, 33: help, use, advantage, (boot, v., IV, 501, 26:
matter.)
both, beth, III, 59, 53, 54; 79, 54: be (old plural),
bottle (of hay), V, 114, 4: bundle,
bottle, be my bottle, V, 170, l: hold my own, bear my
full part, in drinking ? Corrupt ?
bottys, butts.
boud, V, 176, 17: behoved, were obliged,
bouerie, II, 232, l: diminutive of bower, chamber,
bought = bucht, IV, 198, i; 199, n, 23: fold, pen.
bouk, buik, buke, II, 149, 14; IV, 127, 14; 484 a:
trunk, body,
boun, bowne, bune, bound, bownd, bowynd, .,
make ready, go. buske yee, bowne yee, III, 91, 6;
431, 25: make ready, boun, bound, I, 369, 44; IV,
183, 2; V, 256, 5: go. make ye boun, I, 75, 18: go.
must bound home, V, 9, 4. get up and bound your
way, II, 405, 9: go, come, bownd away, III, 161, 30;
bowynd hym to ryde, III, 295, l; bounded for to
ride, II, 118, 7: set out, went, bound him to his
brand, III, 160, 23: went, betook himself, was boon,
boun, bound, II, 298, 5; IV, 432, 2; V, 256 a, 4: going,
on the way. how she is bune, II, 191, 30: going on.
go boun away, IV, 224, 15, 16 (tautology) : go, depart.
boun, bon, bowne, bo wen, bowyn, bun, adj.
(biiinn, p.p. of Icelandic biia, to make ready) : bound,
ready, made him boun, III, 163, 76. to batell were
not bowyn, III, 295, 4. make ye bowne, I, 75, 18, 22;
III, 296, 28. bun to bed, bon to rest, II, 191, 26; V,
35, B 3. made him boun, bound, III, 163, 76; V, 81,
2: equipped himself, your friends beene bowne, I,
210, 14: ready to come, ready boun (tautology), IV,
432, 5. See boun, v.
boun, V, 300, 6: boon.
bounties, V, 231, 14: presents, in addition to wages.
bountieth, V, 9, 12: bounty, alms.
bourde, v., Ill, 179 b: jest.
bourden, III, 179 b: staff.
bourn, III, 470 a: brook.
boustouslie, bousterously, boustresslie. bous-
trouslie : I, 108, 13; IV, 446, 13; 447, 13; 465, 19, 35:
boisterously, roughly.
bout, II, 27, 18: bolt.
bouted, I, 68, 4; 70, 4: bolted.
bow, bough.
bow, lint seed bow, 1, 305, 14: the boll or pod containing
the seeds of flax.
bow, II, 28, 16: boll, a dry measure; of salt, two bush
els; "for wheat and beans, four Winchester bushels;
for oats, etc., six bushels." Scottish, four firlots (see
firlot). bow o here, V, 264. a: boll of barley.
bower, chamber: I, 65, A l; 68, 25, 32; 73, 47; etc., etc.
bouerie, II, 232, i: diminutive of the same.
bower, house, home : I, 56, 3; 79, 3; 80, 1; 107, 1; etc.,
etc. Often indistinguishable from the above.
bower-head, II, 76, ll: top of the house. (Unless the
reading should be tower-head; cf. II, 74, D 5; 78, 1 14,
but we have an upmost ha, highest room, II, 72, C 14.)
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bower-yett, house-gate.
bowie, V, 306, 15: a kind of tub.
bown, V, 273, No 239, 4: bowed, bent.
bowne, bownd, bowyn. See boun.
bowrd, I, 264: comic tale. See bord.
bows (o London), I, 131, H l: arches of a bridge?
windings of the river?
box, V, 19, 18: a compartment partitioned off in a
drinking-room.
boyt, III, 109, 3: both.
bra, braw, I, 128, 19; V, 268, 25; 272, 3, 7, ll: brave,
fine, handsome. See braw.
bracken, braken, brachan, breckin, breaken,
breckan, brecken, breachan, IV, 257, B 7; 268, 21;
269, d 19, f 19; 272, 11, 3; 501, 28, 31, 37; V, 244, 16, 19,
20; 265 b, 19: fern, brake.
brae, bra, bray, hillside, hill : I, 324, 14; IV, 92, l;
264, 15; 274, 8 ; 448 a, 3d st. braes o Yarrow, IV,
164 f., 1-9, B 3-5: the equivalent word is sometimes,
banks, pp. 168, 169, 170, 178; otherwise houms,
p. 168, but downs, p. 166 f., and the topography
seems to indicate hills. " Conjoined with a name, it
denotes the upper part of a country, as the Braes of
Angus." Jamieson.
brae, river-bank : III, 484 a, 32 ; burn-brae, IV, 275, C
b 8. Cholar foord brae-head, III, 482, 21?
brae, brow : III, 4, 17.
braid, IV, 399, 28: breadth. See breed. Adj., broad.
braid (broad) letter, II, 20, 3; 25, 3; 26, 3; 27, 3; 251,
2; 393, 4; IV, 118, C 1; 119, D l; 120, l; 373, 2; 382, 3:
either a letter on a broad sheet or a long letter. The
king's letter, II, 21, 3; 23, B 3; 24, 3, is lang, and at 22,
3, is large. A braid letter has been interpreted to be
an open one, a patent, but in almost every case here
cited the letter is said to be sealed. The letter at II,
251, 2, is private and confidential, written by a lady.
Private folk write broad letters, IV, 320, l; 339, 13;
342, 17; 343, 7; a lady again, II, 382, 5; 395, 18; IV,
233, 20; 342, 6; 343, 2.
brain, II, 124, 39; 130, 28; 131, 20; 133, 9; 169, 25; 407,
10; III, 274, 33: mad.
brake, break, V, 166, 8; 306, 7: cause to break off,
correct, cure.
braken, III, 299, 12, 14; 300, 25, 26: fern. See bracken.
braken, I, 350, 17: p.p. of break.
bramly, III, 9, 13: brambly, thorny.
branded (bull), III, 459, 7: of a reddish brown color.
brank, n., Ill, 440, 10: caper, prance, gallop.
branken, branking, III, 299, 4; 301, D 1: galloping.
branks, III, 480, 9: a sort of bridle; a halter with two
pieces of wood, instead of a leathern strap or a cord,
over the nose, the whole resembling a muzzle.
brash, sickness: II, 364, 20; IV, 483, 16.
brast, I, 370, 14, 18; V, 76, 26; 80, 45; 82, 40: burst,
broke, broken.
branches, I, 271, 2: brooches. But perhaps branches,
the clothes embroidered with rings and sprigs.
braw, I, 491, l, 2, etc. ; II, 80, 3-7: comely. I, 127, 21 ;
467, 29; II, 23, E 5; fine, handsome, finely dressed. I,
184, 11; V, 210, ll: (of a meeting) pleasant. See bra
and braws. braw wallie, IV, 296, F l: exclamation
of admiration.
brawn, IV, 212, 5: calf of the leg.
braws, IV, 269, f, 19: fine things, finery.
bray, brae, hillside, hill.
brayd on, V, 198 b, after 52: move on, fall on.
brayde, breyde, at a brayde, III, 26, 91; of a, III, 32,
9l: in a moment, of a sudden.
breachan. See bracken.
bread, breed, bred, III, 339, 13, 16; 341, 42: breadth.
bread, broad.
breaden, I, 433, 9: braided (here, perhaps, woven).
break, brake, V, 166, 8; 306, 7: cause to break off,
correct, cure.
break, till five minutes break, II, 325, 19, 20: expire.
breaken. See bracken.
breast, smoothd his breist and swam, II, 248, 9, 15:
made it even, level with the water, set her, his
brest and sworn, II, 459, 8; V, 137, 5, 9. bent bis
breast and swam, V, 138, C 3, 5; 141 b, 6, 9; 142 a, 4.
lay on his brest and swumme, II, 247, 14.
breast, in a, IV, 11, 12, 13: in one voice (all at once,
p. 13, 4). in a breast, Scottish, sometimes = abreast,
side by side.
breast, v., II, 299, 22, breast a steed : mount, by bring
ing the breast to it.
breast-mills, II, 403, 15: mills operated by a breast-
wheel.
breastplate, II, 380, 15; 383, 14; 385, 4, etc.; IV, 486,
6, etc. : some part of a woman's attire, said here to
be of steel instead of gold. Possibly a stomacher.
"Curet, breastplate, or stomager." Huloet, 1552.
" Torace, also a placket, a stomacher, or brest plate for
the body." Florio. At II, 381, 10, we have bracelets,
which would be a plausible emendation for breast
plate, did not the latter occur quite a dozen times.
breast- wine, II, 338, T 7: milk (Irish ballad).
breathed, II, 47, unto, 21, on, 22: does not seem to be
the right word. Possibly breved, gave information
to (but the word is antique for the text, and on in 22
would not suit).
brecham, III, 480, 9: 492, 4; brechen, III, 491, 6: a
straw collar for a horse, also a pack-saddle made of
straw, so more probably here, carts not being used.
brechan, brichan, IV, 157, 7, 12, 14, 18, 19: (Gael,
breacan) plaid.
brechen. See brecham.
breckan. -en, -in. See bracken.
bred, brede, V, 283, 8, 18: bread.
bred, bread, breed, III, 347, c 44, g 38: breadth.
brede, I, 242, 7: to have the whims attributed to breed
ing women ? (Not satisfactory, as not being suffi
ciently simple. Prof. Kittredge has suggested to me
gynnyst to wede, to go mad; which seems to me quite
worth considering. The rhyme with the same sound
in a different sense, is entirely allowable.)
bree, brie, I, 129, 14; 341, 3, 8, 17; 417, 13; III, 11, K;
V, 191 f., 3, 18, 31: brow, eyebrow.
GLOSSARY
319
bree, broth. See broo.
breed, bread, bred, braid, III, 349, 38; IV, 503, 13,
16; 505, 45: breadth.
breek-thigh, III, 464, 15: thigh of his breeches.
breeme, III, 285, 19: fierce.
breist. See breast.
bren, brene, brenne, brin, II, 45, 24; 59, 32; III, 24,
29, 35; 361, b, c, 28: burn. p.p. brent, II, 44, 3, 14; 46, 47.
brent (brow), II, 191, 25 ; IV, 272, 2; 387, 1: high and
straight. Also, smooth, unwrinkled.
brents, I, 74, 76, 78: door-posts, or doors. (Icelandic
brandar, postes, Egilsson; ships' beaks used as orna
ments over the chief door of dwellings, Vigfusson.)
brest. See breast.
brest, burst.
brother, brothers, brethren, I, 104, 10; III, 478, 15.
bretheren, III, 26, 74; 478, 14. brethern, bretherne,
II, 73, 17; 160, 3, 9; III, 57, 27; 67, 217. brethren, III,
29, 148. brethen, III, 22, 4, 6; 23, 10; V, 135 b, 19.
bretther o degs, with a b. of d. ye '11 clear up my nags,
IV, 312, 3 (the reading may be bretlher . . . clean) :
corrupt, "brathay an degs would mean with old
cloth and torn rags : brathay (obsolete) worn out
brats or clothes." W. Forbes.
breyde, n., with a breyde, III, 110, 20: with a rush, in
haste.
breyde, v., Ill, 110, 9: rushed, bounded.
bride-steel, brid-stell, bride-stool, bride-styl, IV,
181, 7, 8; 182, F 2, 3; 183, 2; V, 256 a, 4, 5: seat in
church where the bridegroom and bride sat before
the beginning of the service.
brie, brow. See bree.
brig, brigue, I, 118, D 2; II, 24, 14; 177, 13, 15; 272, 13:
bridge.
bright, bryghte, I, 285, 25; 293, 2; 296, 51, 56; 327, 12,
21: sheen, beautiful.
brim, II, 274, 3: sea. In, fa oure the brim, IV, 419, 16,
26, the brim of a precipice may be meant.
brin, II, 146, 23; V, 223 a, No 68, A 22: burn.
bring hame, I, 76, 53; 367, 9; II, 97, 24; 425, 9, 10; V,
41, 17; give birth to. brought King James hame, II,
345, 29: brought into the world, (come hame, be
born, see hame.)
brirben, II, 217, 2, 4. tabean brirben (printed by Herd
birben) is corrupt. A copy mentioned by Finlay had
birchen; see IV, 471, 221.
blither, II, 163, 7, n, 16; 164, 17; 165, 3; V, 123, 4;
299, 4: brother.
Brittaine, Litle, I, 285, 24, 33, 37.
brittled, bryttled, brittened, I, 328, 51; III, 7, 7:
cut up.
broad (brode) arrow, brod arwe (aro), III, 13,
9; 29, 153, 159; 106, 16; 307, 5; 341, 56; "catapulta."
Prompt. Parv. The Catholicon explains catapulta to
be "sagitta cum ferro bipenni, quam sagittam bar-
batani vocant." Way. Cotgrave : " Rallion. An
arrow with a forked, or barbed head; a broad arrow."
broode-headed arrowe, IV, 605, 56; 506, 64; broode-
arrowe-head, 506, 59.
broad letter. See braid letter.
broad-mouthd axe, IV, 123, 14: broad axe.
broad sow, V, 91, 3: a sow that has a litter (brod=
breed).
brockit, brookit, bruckit, I, 303, 8; 304, E 8, P 8;
V, 213, 8: streaked or speckled in the face, streaked
with dirt. See broked, bruchty.
brodinge, II, 58, 14: shooting up, sprouting. (Old Eng.
brodden.)
brogues, IV, 70, G 4; 72, I 7; 269 a, d 20; V, 265,
No 227, 20; 301, No 200: coarse light shoes of horse-
hide, worn especially by Highlanders.
broke, brook, III, 69 f., 271, 274, 279; 310, 62: enjoy.
broked cow, III, 459, 7: a cow that has black spots or
streaks mixed with white in her face. See brockit.
broken, IV, 356, 12: bankrupt, ruined.
broken men, III, 473, 19, 24 ; IV, 41, note * : men
under sentence of outlawry, or who lived as vaga
bonds and public depredators, or were separated from
their clans in consequence of crimes. Jamieson.
broo, brue, bree, brie, II, 30, n: brow.
broo, brue, bree, I, 160, C 2, D 3; 161, E 3; IV, 449,
2, 3: broth. I, 499, 4; V, 98, 9, 10: water in which
something has been boiled.
brook, broke, bruik, II, 189, 33, 34; 420, 7; III, 212,8;
IV, 435, 14: enjoy.
broom-cow, I, 394, 5: twig of broom.
brose-cap, II, 463, 25: pottage-, porridge-bowl.
brot, p.p., V, 296, 2, 3, etc.: brought.
brothered, IV, 373, 17: broidered? (He is to have a
change of clothes every month, and those embroid
ered ?)
brough, V, 128, 29, 30: borough, town.
brought hame. See bring hame.
broun, brown, IV, 169, F 2; G l (browns, brouns, in
the MSS.). Might be thought a corruption of brand,
but brand occurs in each case immediately after.
Brown for brown blade would be extraordinary.
browen, III, 9, 4 : brewed, (brown corrected from
earlier MS.)
browjt, browt, browthe, brought.
brown ground, IV, 27, 12: brown with heather.
brown sword, I, 70, 22; 294, 24; III, 71, 305. Brtln
as an epithet of sword in Anglo-Saxon has been in
terpreted literally, as denoting that the weapon was
wholly or in part of bronze; also as gleaming, which
may at first seem forced. Gleaming is the meaning
given to brown sword by Matzner, who cites three
cases from romances. We have bright brown sword,
II, 139, 22; 241, 24; 266, 26, 27; and, blades both browne
and bright, III, 93, 36. The late Mr. Edward Bangs,
remarking upon these passages, suggests that the
blades may have been artificially browned with acid
and then polished, as gun-barrels still are, and he re
fers to P. Lacombe's description of the magnificent
sword of Charles V, Armes et Armures, p. 221 : "la
lame est d'acier bruni presque noir." We have
browne tempered blade, III, 35, 13, meaning, prob
ably, a blade tempered to that color.
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GLOSSARY
browt, browthe, brought.
browst, V, 306, 12: brewage.
bruchty, bracket, brockit, 1, 301 f., A 5, 9; V, 213 a,
No 33, 5: spotted or streaked with dirt ; of a sheep,
streaked or speckled in the face. See brockit.
brae, V, 209 a: broo, broth, soup.
brue, I, 334, 3: brow.
bruik, II, 422, 2; IV, 385, 27; V, 179, 12, 13: enjoy,
possess. See brook.
bruue, III, 9, H 8: error for brume (which is the read
ing in an earlier MS.).
brang, pret., p.p. of bring, IV, 191, B, after 7; 466, 11.
brunt, IV, 211, 2; 392, 17; 468, 17: burnt.
brusted, brusten, II, 186, 15; IV, 2, 6: burst.
bryde, II, 442, 3; 478, l: young woman.
bryk, III, 13, 13: breeches, hose.
bryn, I, 136, R 4: should probably be brim, as in R,
b, c. brin, brow, from the Icelandic, is unlikely.
bryng yow on your way, III, 99, 45: take, accompany.
bryste, I, 327, 12: burst.
brytlyng, bryttlynge, III, 307, 8; 308, 13: (breaking)
cutting up. See brittled.
bucht, bught, bought, ra., IV, 193, l, 2, 5; 194, 6, 9;
195 f., l, 3, 4; 198 f., l, 3, 6; etc.: a small pen, usually
put up in the corner of the field, into which it was
customary to drive the ewes when they were to be
milked. Jamieson.
bucht, bught, v., IV, 200, 1, 18; 201, 10; 205, 22: go
into the bucht, or pen. pret. buchted, IV, 201, 24:
drove into the pen; p.p., 201, ll: built a pen for (cf.
198, 8; 200, 19).
buckle, crisp, curl (of hair). Curling Buckle, IV, 357,
C 6, 7: one with hair crisped or curled.
buckled up our lap, II, 473, 17: fastened up apron or
gown so as to make a bag for carrying away meal.
bucklings, V, 183, 21: encounters ?
bud, I, 72 f., 7, 62: behooved. See buse.
bug, IV, 199, 17, pret. of big : built.
bugge, I, 243, l: buy.
buggin, \yagn,p. p. of big, IV, 445 b, l ; 446 b, l: built.
bulk, bouk, IV, 485, 12, 14: body.
bulk, buke, IV, 411, 2; V, 122, 9: book.
bulk, II, 71, 10: pret. of bake (A. S. bdc).
builded, pret., Ill, 123, 4 ; sheltered, hid. (A. S. byl-
dan, Scot, bield.)
buird, V, 138, ll, 12, 14: board.
buirdly, buirlie (bride), II, 82, 51 ; 130, 8 : portly,
stately, large and well made, buirdlie men, II, 315,
E 6. See bierly.
buke, II, 165, 14: bouk, body. The verse is suspicious;
more sense could be had by reading Maist fair, etc.,
and making the line the beginning of the speech of
the fourth brother. See bouk, bulk.
buke, bulk, book.
bukeld, V, 276, 18. See baucheld.
buld, build, built.
bull-baits, I, 103, E 4: represents strokes, blows (cf.
other versions), and must have some such sense. Pos
sibly a corruption of buffets, though I see not how.
A compounding of Old English bollen, to strike, and
of beat would be unlikely. Bull-baits, for violent
assaults, no doubt seemed good enough to the reciter.
bully, billy, IV, 146 f., 5, 12, 18-21, etc.: brother, fellow,
mate. See billie.
bully ship, IV, 147, 29, 33: comradeship.
bun, II, 191, 26; IV, 45, 6: boun(d), ready to go.
bun, V, 267 a, 9: bound, tied up.
bune (how she is), II, 191, 30: going on, faring.
burd, bird, I, 69 f., 70, 72; 71, 57; II, 282, 6; HI, 393,
14; 394, K 3; IV, 418, 2, 3, 5, etc.; 420, 2, 4, 5, etc.;
424, l, 2, 4; V, 228 f., 12, 22, 34, 35: damsel, maid, lady.
V, 229, 32: perhaps offspring.
burd-alone, he lay burd-alone, I, 298, 2: solitary, by
himself ; cf. maid alone, II, 149, 2.
Burd Alone, II, 95, 1, 3, 4, 5: desolate, forlorn one;
corruption of Burd Helen, 96, J 2 : cf. bird her lane.
bure, I, 108, 8: bore (pret.).
Burgesse (?), IV, 503, 4; 504, 24: Bordeaux. Should
probably be Burdesse.
burgh, IV, 53, 15-17: town.
burken, II, 133, 8: birken, birchen.
Burlow-beanie, I, 287, 60, 65, 70, 74: = Billy Blin, which
see (I, 67).
burly, I, 300, 4. See beerly.
burn, bourn, I, 438, A 3, 4; III, 440, 16; 460, 27: brook.
burn-brae, IV, 76, l: hillside with a brook at the bot
tom.
burnyssht, III, 63, 136: shining, made bright.
burrow-town, burrows-town, IV, 288, E 3; 299, d
13: properly, chartered town, corporate town ; perhaps
nothing more than a town of some size, larger than a
village. See borrows-town.
bursen, IV, 4 b 6 : burst, bursen day, IV, 481, 20 :
overpoweringly fatiguing.
buse, J>e buse agayne, 1, 328, 54: it behoves thee (other
texts, thou most), pret. (personal) bot, II, 94, 3;
beet, III, 281, 2; bud, boud, I, 73, 62; V, 176, 17.
busk, buss (Icel. Mask, old reflexive of biia, make
ready, from the participle of which comes boun, so
that busk and boun are of the same origin and equiva
lent). 1. make ready, buske you, III, 73, 340. busk
and boune, II, 24, 5; III, 434, 22. buske yee, bowne
yee, III, 91, 5. the[y] buske them bowne, he buskes
him bowne, III, 285, 26, 38. they busked and made
them bowne, III, 284, 2. 2. dress, deck, busk and
mak yow braw, II, 23, E 5. busk the bride, II, 104,
16, 18; 105, 10, ll; 106, ll. p. p. busket, III, 433, 3.
weel -busked hat, IV, 199, 9: decorated, buskit wi
rings, V, 203 a. busk on you the flowers, II, 465, 3:
put on as ornaments, buskit fire wi leaves, II, 411,
10: set about, busk your ship roon (with feather
beds), IV, 381, 8, cf. 10: wrap, sheathe. 3. betake
oneself, go. I wol me buske ouer the salte see: III,
59, 56. See buskit.
buske, III, 97, 12: bush.
busker, III, 252, 16 : corrupt; testament in other copies.
buskit, -et, III, 433, 3: dressed, buskit his bow in her
hair, 1, 131, 15: furnished, strung. See busk.
GLOSSARY
buss, I, 130, 16; II, 133, 8; III, 3, 6; 5, D 7; 6, 6: bush.
buss, IV, 510, 4; 513 a, 1: busk, make ready, dress.
See busk.
busshement, III, 71, 301: ambuscade.
busting, n., V, 301 b, 3: padding or the like used to
improve the figure.
but, prep., without: I, 16, 6; 420, 9, 10; 430, 3; III, 161,
30; IV, 41 b; 326, 16; 329, A, b after 12.
but, III, 267, 20 ; 268, 17; 270, 16 ; 272, 20 ; 274, 33 :
towards the outer apartment or kitchen, without,
out. gae butt the house and bid her come ben, V,
115, 6. he wood her butt, he wood her ben, I, 56 f.,
C 2, 14; cf. V, 219, 10. but it speaks, V, 306, 6: out
speaks.
but, if ye be a maiden but, I, 72, 25 : corrupt ; read,
binna maiden yet ?
but and, bot and, but an, bat an = and also: 1, 18,
P 7; 69, 49; 72, 5; 345, C 8, 9, 10; 464, 8; 474, 36; IV,
418, 5; V, 246 b, 4, 6, 8.
but nor hed, II, 191, 27: but and had not.
but than = but and, IV, 465, 23.
by (cf. also be), II, 56 a; 433, 2; III, 22, 2; 91, 2; IV,
420, 2, 4; 422, 2: about, concerning (as, by a knight
I say my song). V, 272 b, 3, 7, 11; 277, 4; 278, 20
(spelled bay), 31 : in comparison with, on comparing
(by 272 b, 3 4 , should perhaps be but ; cf. ll 4 ). kend
thy freind by thy foe, III, 420, 18: in distinction
from, by than, III, 77, 435: by the time that, by
weeke, spend forty pounds by weeke, II, 442, 7: dis-
tributively, a week. So, by yere, III, 61, 92. he
maun do them by, V, 169, 12: do without, no far by,
V, 123, 10: not far off. called young Brichen by, I,
465, 5: called on, to. ca'd by Andrew Lammie, IV,
302, i: called by the name of.
by and bye, the keys hang at that lady by and bye, I,
471, 4: one next to the other (?).
by and by, IV, 196 f., l, 14: nigh.
by and by, I, 287 f., 60, 71, 75, 77; V, 122, l; 123, l:
directly, immediately.
by=aby, pay for, atone for: III, 97, 15.
byckarte, pret. of bicker, III, 307, 5: (fought) at
tacked (the deer).
byd, must, am under necessity.
byddys, III, 308, 26: abides.
byde, III, 297, 37: wait. p.p. byddin, V, 202 a : staid.
pret. byde, there was naething byde him wi, IV, 428,
ll: nothing which did remain.
bydene. See bideiie.
bye fell, III, 440, 8: a rocky hill or piece of high land
lying off or aside of the way.
bye-yett, IV, 21, 10: side-gate (subsidiary, not princi-
pal).
bygane, gone by.
byggande, ptc., I, 327, 33: building.
byrde, I, 327, 22: woman (wife or maid). See burd.
byre, II, 182, 8; 184, 13; 188, 13; IV, 293, 9; 297, 9: cow
house.
bystode, hard bystode, III, 98, 33: hard pressed.
bytecke, commit to: I, 327, 29.
VOL. v. 41
ca, caw, call = drive, strike, ca a nail, 1, 403, 13; III,
495, B b, after 7. ca a pin, IV, 381, 9, ll. ca in the
stake, II, 123, 14, 27. caw shoon on a steed, IV, 470,
18. ca up a gallows, II, 253, 8. ca'd holes, V, 141 b,
8. ca hogs, II, 258, 32. ca the mare, IV, 17 f., 5, 13.
ca horse, IV, 109, l. call sheep, II, 255, 17. caw ky,
IV, 193, 13 ; 194, 17. ca the pleugh, V, 105, A 10.
waft (emend from wraft) was neer ca'd throw, I,
424 a, 12, is; 425, 12, 13. ca'd the table wi her foot,
II, 313, 20. ca'd out the sheriff's een, IV, 392, 19.
ca'd by, ca'd by Andrew Lammie, IV, 302, l: called
by the name of.
caddie. See cadie.
cadger, cauger, an itinerant huckster, corn-caugers,
III, 479, 8 ( = corn-buyers, 491, 6; corn-dealers, 492, 4).
cadgily, V, 115, 1: merrily.
cadie, caddie, IV, 351, 4, 5; 353, 6, 7, 9, 10, etc.: a young
fellow who does errands, or any inferior kind of work.
caft, IV, 330 a, appendix, 2: calved.
cairdman, II, 474, 9, 10: tinker, beggar.
cald, III, 455, 10: could.
cale, call, calle, V, 221, 20; 228, 19; 247, l (MS. calld) ;
248, 21; 257, 15: cold.
call, a call opon, V, 221, 14, 19: a call out, (simply)
call.
call, v., Ill, 62, 113; 111, 38: address.
calland, II, 267, 9: lad.
called their grandmother over, IV, 70, Q 2: cor
rupted from cast their glamour oer her.
caller, cauler, IV, 484, after 23; 485, 19: (of air), fresh.
cam, pret. of come: III, 61, 91; 69, 259.
came home, hame, of child-birth, IV, 405, 54; 420, 5.
See bring hame.
cammer, II, 131, 6: (conjecture for cannell) cambric
(Scottish cammeraige, camroche).
camovine, IV, 212, 4; 213, 12: camomile.
campioun, II, 386, 18: champion.
campy, I, 304, 1 : having the quality or make of a
champion, or (name) champion (like kempy).
camric, cambric.
can, II, 445, 62 ; 450, 67; III, 66, 210 ; 67, 227; 162, 66:
knows.
can, in/., will never can steer ye, IV, 69, 16.
can, cann, an auxiliary of the present tense, can bee=
is: II, 442, 14; 443, 30; 444, 51; 446, 93. Cf. do be
(are), I, 184, 47. (may be, II, 448, 33; 451, 100; might
be, III, 452, 10, show a misunderstanding of this.)
auxiliary of the past tense, =did: 11,446, 81, 84; III,
65, 184; 67, 223; 298, 56. (Probably a corruption of
gan.) cold, colde, could, cowde,=did : I, 294, 23, 24;
III, 298, 56, 59; 440, 10; IV, 3, 19; V, 278, 37. cold be,
II, 443, 34; III, 413, 34: were, was. cold see, III,
413, 32: saw, have seen. (An extension of the use of
can = gan.)
canker dly, III, 160, 13; 267, 10: crossly.
cankred, III, 189, A 9: ill-humored, complaining,
crabbed (Scottish canker, to fret), with reference to
the behavior in c. But as John shows no crooked
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GLOSSARY
temper to the palmers, possibly cankred is to be
taken literally as crooked (see B 10), having in mind
Icel. keugr, a crook of metal, English kink, etc.
cannas, cannis, canies, V, 239, 35; 276, 14, 15: canvas,
coarse cloth.
cannel, II, 147, 3, 4: candle,
canny, adj., IV, 303, 16; 304, 4: gentle. IV, 305, 25:
cautious. IV, 306, 17: clever, expert. V, 121 a: wily.
IV, 132, G 4: canny (Cannygate) seems to be for jin
gle, but may be a terra of general commendation,
canny, cannie, cannilie, adv., IV, 154, 4; 304, 14;
306, 29 : cautiously. IV, 133, 3, 4; 306, 18; 354, 2, 3:
attentively. I, 245 f., 11-14: carefully, expertly. I,
245, 8, 9: expertly, or gently. II, 161, 18: slowly, or
softly.
cantie, canty, IV, 261, 3; 317, P 6; V, 115, 2: merry,
cap, caup, II, 344, i: cup.
cap, cape, V, 230 a, 10, 11: catch, pret., p.p. caped, II,
317, B b 20; V, 219, 23; 271, 14: struck. See kep.
cape, V, 79, 32: cloak.
capuU-hyde, III, 92, 7; 93, 44; 94, 48: horse-hide,
care, car, cart.
care, v., II, 370, 16: mind, object,
care-bed, H, 58, 4; 433, 3; 434, 28; 435, 47; 436 f., 58,
79 (of a hopeless lover): almost, or quite, sick-bed;
(of a mother) III, 3, 2; so, bed of care, V, 227, 11.
"care-bed lair, a disconsolate situation; a sick-bed."
Jamieson.
carefull, III, 57, 28; 343, 18: full of care, sorrowful,
carket, carknet, I, 69, 56; 71, 46: necklace,
carl, carle, carel, carril, cerl, II, 466 f., 35, 36, 45, 46;
III, 189, B 10, 11; IV, 493 f., 7, ll, 30; V, 237, 6, 7;
238, 12, 13, etc.: fellow, man of low condition, peasant,
carlin, car line, old woman, V, 26, 24; of a gentleman's
mother, I, 71, 31; of a wealthy woman, II, 238, l, 2.
low-born woman, peasant woman : II, 467, 40, 47;
469 f., 42, 51, 56-58; V, 26, 24.
carlish, churlish, uncivilized,
carrlis, careless.
carnal, II, 8, l, 2, 4: (cornicula, corneille) crow,
carp, carpe, III, 127, play, 31 ; 310, 58 : talk. In,
harp and (or) carp, I, 324, 5; 325, 5; 329, 2; IV,
18, 9, 10 ; 19, B 5, 6, 12 ; 20 f., C 7, D 7, 8 ; 21, E 8 ;
23, A c 22 ; 454 b ; 455, 8, carp seems to mean tell
tales, probably sing or chant tales (ballads) to the
harp. See I, 329, 2, 3.
carping, III, 13, l; IV, 21, n: talk, tale,
carry, IV, 247, C u; 253, 15: pass, allow to pass, make
effective, hold good,
case, in case that, I, 351, 38; II, 103, l, 8; 171, 22; IV,
205, 17: against the chance that, lest,
case, cassed, V, 274, 4, 5: cause, caused,
casey, cassie, IV, 354, 4; V, 16, 2, 3, 5, 6: causeway,
cast, n., Ill, 68, 248: venture. (Possibly cost, outlay.)
cast : pret., coost, koost, cust, cuist, keist, kiest, kyst,
kest. p. p. casten, castin, coosten, custan, cuisten.
cast, III, 308, 17: project, intend, cast on sleepe, III,
401, 10: thrown into a sleep, fallen asleep.
cast, pret., Ill, 344, 34: struck, (upcast, III, 349, 34.)
casten, castin, p.p. of cast, I, 245, 7; 463, 3; II, 115,
29; V, 300, 2; 306, 14.
cat o clay, III, 11, L: a roll of straw and clay wrought
together, used in building mud walls. Perhaps only
a bit of clay.
caterans, V, 253 b, l: robbers, Highland or Irish irreg
ular soldiers. (Gaelic ceatharnach, soldier.)
canger. See cadger,
caul, kell, IV, 483, 20: a woman's cap.
cauler, IV, 26, 6; 485, 19: cool, fresh. See caller,
caup, II, 472, 27: cup. See cap.
cause, in that cause to flee, II, 421, 34: exigency (such
exigency that you had to flee),
caution, III, 447 b; 451, note *: surety.
cavil, kavil, kaivle, kevel (Dutch kavel), I, 69, 46,
48: lot.
caw, cawd. See ca'.
cawte, III, 296, 26: wary,
ceppet, kepit, II, 410, 6; 407, 13: received, caught,
when falling. See cap, cape,
cerl. See carl,
cerstyn, III, 111, 44: Christian,
certyl, III, 14, 15: kirtle (man's garment).
ce"serera, sassaray, II, 207, A 5; 209, E 5: intended
for an imitation of the sound of bells,
chaffare, III, 111, 33; 113, 68; V, 79, 21, 25: ware, mer
chandise.
chaffe, III, 34, 11: chuff, clown, loon, simpleton,
chaft-blade, III, 269, 9; V, 243, 12: jaw-bone,
chafts, III, 267, 16: chaps, jaws,
chalmer, chamer, chaumer, chamber. , .
chamber thy words, II, 435, 45: restrain, suppress,
be chary of.
changehouse, IV, 153, E 3: tavern, ale-house.
charmer in. II, 239, 11: fretting, petulant,
chap, knock, rap, tap: I, 107, 3, 4; 465, ll; 481, 29; II,
140, 15; 177, 14, 16; 272, 14; 313, 14; IV, 445 f., 3, 4;
V, 228, 16; 306 b, 1. of the striking of the hour, II,
371, 7.
chaperine, III, 514, 10, would make some sense as
chapel, but the form is unaccountable except as a
popular diminutive,
chare, III, 250, J 7, 8: turn,
charge, IV, 457, 1, must be understood as charge not,
forbid.
charter (simply) : III, 358, 82. See next word,
chartre of peace, III, 27, 108: grant of pardon, paper
condoning past offences,
chase, III, 26, 74: follow up, hunt down, chase the
wine, III, 169, 24: follow, keep up, like follow strong
drink. (But a rhyme-end.)
chaunler-chaftit, I, 303, 6: having chafts (chops) like
a chandler (candlestick, lantern), lantern-jawed, with
a long, thin face,
chaunter, I, 438, B 6: usually, tube of the bagpipe,
which would not be expected here. A book of chants
would suit. Cf. Sir Hugh, III, 247, 20; 248, 14; 249,
H 7, 1 5, etc.
chays, hunting-ground.
GLOSSARY
323
che, I, 415 b: she.
chear, II, 193, 27: sounds expressing a state of feeling
(here sad). IV, 18, 19: referring to the evening's
entertainment, or, simply doing and saying. See
chere.
chear well to, III, 160, ll: have good cheer at.
check, tether's check, V, 213, 10: spike of a tether.
cheel, IV, 69, 12: child, fellow.
cheepe, better cheepe, V, 15, 26: (price) cheaper.
cheeped, IV, 516, 15: chipped, broken.
cheik, II, 336, P 2, close to the cheik and chin: cheik
is door-post, chin of ten = gin, the contrivance for fas
tening, but gin would not come in well here, and it is
likely that chin is meaningless, coming in because of
its frequent association with cheek (kissed her cheek
and chin, etc.), see door-cheik.
chelvellrye, IV, 503, l: corrupt. Read, chevauchie,
excursion on horseback ? (would a progress ride, III,
343, 2.)
chepe, cheepe, n., bargain, better chepe, III, 69, 259:
more cheaply, gret chepe ! Ill, 111, 34: great bar
gain !
chepe, v., Ill, 110, 26; 111, 33: cheapen, bargain for,
or buy.
chere, cheer, cheir, chier, chear. carefull, sorry
chere, III, 57, 28; 68, 239: face, countenance. 1, 109,
14; 117, 6; 330, B 7; II, 189, 37; III, 441, 37; IV, 20,
15: of state of mind, bearing, or behavior. Ill, 66,
197; 67,215; 75,394; IV, 18, 19: entertainment, merry
making, here is a symple chere, III, 59, 61. made
gode chere, III, 100, 67: repast.
cherish, v., I, 76, 19; IV, 96, C n; 437, 25: cheer.
cherry, V, 264, 4: sherry.
chess, I, 86, 15: jess, strap; properly, leather strap for
a hawk's leg (explained by R. Jamieson, hawk's bell).
chess, IV, 457, L 8, dancin in a chess : chace ? forest ?
Probably corrupt, since A 10, B 10, I, 341, 343, have
playing at the chess.
chess, chiss of farie, V, 165 f., 6, 9, 10: corrupt ; read,
cheese o Fyvie (see V, 305 f.).
chest, kist, IV, 342, 12: coffin.
cheue, v., Ill, 73, 349: end. See chewys.
cheverons, III, 374, 8: gloves.
chewys, I, 327, 20 : endest, comest off. (French
chevir.) See cheue.
cheys, III, 112, 48: choose.
child, chiel, chil, cheel, child, young fellow: I, 72, 8;
367, 3; IV, 69, 12; 432, 15; V, 278, 33. as an appel
lation, II, 85 f., l, 2, 6, etc.; 128 f., l, 5, 8, etc.; 264 f.,
1, 7, etc.; V, 157, l, 6, etc. auld chiel, V, 125, 6, 8:
devil, pi. chylderin, III, 13, 2, 3.
childer, III, 478, 24; IV, 99, ll: children.
chill, V, 287, 16: child.
chimly, II, 71, 9; IV, 481, 22; V, 122, 5: chimney.
chin, chappit at the chin, II, 140, 15, 24; stecked doors
close to the chin, II, 336, P 2: gin, that is, pin. See
gin, pin.
chine, IV, 188, 18: chin.
chip-hole, 1, 305, 3: a hole chipped or cracked, a chink.
chiss, chess, V, 165 f., 6, 9, 10: cheese. See V, 305 f.
chive, II, 362, 34=schive, slice.
chiven, play the, III, 145, 8: "run away precipitately,"
Nares; chiven, chivin=zchub, or any shy fish, chivie
= fearful,
choice, choise, II, 463, 17; 469, 34; 473, 12; V, 269, 15:
choose.
choised, chosen,
choose, chose, I, 103, 7; 329, 2 ; IV, 211, notes, 6:
choice.
choosed, p.p., Ill, 440, 23.
chossen, p.p., chosen.
Christendom, christendame, christendoun, -doom,
I, 341, 21; 344, 20; 346, ll; 350, 24; 369, 48; 370, 15, 19:
christening (as in Old English),
christentie, cristendie, I, 286, 46; II, 53, 41; V, 192,
22, 33; 194, 65: Christendom.
chry stall, II, 52, 17: rock-crystal, a variety of quartz,
church-style, IV, 412, 14: the gate of the enclosure
round a church.
churlish, I, 102, 2: of vulgar derivation,
chylderin. See child,
cirsned, p.p., V, 224, 19: christened,
clade, dead, deed, clad,
claes, claise, I, 488, 17; II, 90, 25; IV, 18, 16; 262, 22;
V, 118, 6, 7, 14: clothes.
claidiug, cleadin, etc., IV, 424, 12: clothing,
claith, II, 131, 8: garment,
clam, pret. of climb, II, 166, 35; V, 249, 4.
clap, in a clap, IV, 41 b: moment,
clap, II, 269, 25; IV, 278, 4; 303, 18; 403, 12; 414, 25, 14;
V, 125, 4; 277, 7: pat, fondle, embrace,
clappit at, V, 173, l: knocked at (with ellipsis of the
door).
clarry, claret.
clatter, IV, 21, 14: to be loquacious,
dead, deed, cleid, died, I, 220, B 6; 224, J 6, 7; 225,
L 2, 4; 504 b, 2; IV, 451 a, 2; V, 211 b, 4: clothe.
pret. cled, IV, 492 a, l. p. p. dead, IV, 456, l.
cleadin, deeding, cleiding, clieden, eliding, n., II,
92, 7; 108, 6; 183, 19; 273, 24; IV, 445, 12; 457, 2, 7;
515, 4: clothing, one of thy deeding, II, 271, 18:
dresses.
cleare, III, 307, 5 ; IV, 166, C 7; 477, 21 ; 506, 22 :
bright.
cleathe, I, 222, P ll, 12; V, 128, 27, 28: clothe,
decked, clekit, pret.,p.p., 1, 254 a; II, 261, 7: hatched,
cleek, n. and v., I, 494, 13; V, 106 B 4; 122, 5: hook,
clef, pret. of cleave, III, 13 f., 5, 15.
cleffe, III, 109, 6; 112, 52: cleave,
cleiding, clieden, clothing. See cleadin.
clekit, decked, I, 254 a: hatched,
cleugh, clough, III, 22, l; IV, 6, 13; 7, 26; V, 182, 1;
250, 12: a hollow between steep banks, narrow glen
or valley, high rocky bank,
cleynt, pret., V, 80, 43: clung,
died. See dead,
clift, I, 137, Ace: cliff,
clifting, IV, 179, 4: clift, cleft, fissure.
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GLOSSARY
cliitt, III, 179, 5: read clutt, clouted, patched.
cling, V, 154, 15: shrink.
clintin, IV, 179, B l: crevice, fissure,=clifting, A 4.
cloathe, III, 93, 43; 174, 24: garment.
clock, IV, 3, 20, 22: limper, hobbler (Fr. clocher, Picard
cloquer).
clocken-hen, V, 92, 15, 16: sitting hen.
clod, got the clod that wiuna cling, V, 154, 15: the loaf
of bread (?) that will not shrink (but will rise ?), re
ferring to the impending increase of her size.
cloks, II, 166, 36: beetles.
Clootie, I, 5, 18: a name for the Devil, from cloot, the
half-hoof of a cloven-footed beast.
close, closs, enclosure, yard, and, before a house, court
yard: I, 145, 15; 146, 10, 19, 21; 147, 14; 148, G 10; 149,
I 7; V, 173, l; 279, No 257, 11; 306 b, 2. castle-yard:
IV, 84, 22; 86, C 10; 87, 7; 89, 10. lady standing in
the close pinning her gown, III, 436, 3. close parler,
III, 431, 22 : securely enclosed, or fastened ? 23, you
are in close : one (not trustworthy) transcript has to
chose, which would make easier sense. Saint Evron's
closs, I, 146, 19, 21: cloister?
closely, III, 470 a: covertly, without attracting ob
servation.
closs. See close.
cloth and fee, III, 433, 7: clothing and wage, holde
with cloth and fee, III, 61, 107: retained by presents
of clothes and money.
clot-, clout-lether, V, 79, 27: mending-leather.
cloudy, II, 31, N 1, cloudy stone: (A. S. cliidig) rocky.
(Read, cloud and stone = reef and rock ?)
clout, n., V, 116, 10: patch. See clouts.
clout-leather, clouting-leather, V, 77, 39; b 39; 83,
55: leather for mending, patching.
clouts, II, 463, 24, 470, 54 : pieces of cloth for bed-
coverings, or sheets (linsey clouts, canvas clouts). II,
470, 53: duds, clothes. See clout.
clouty, I, 206, 35; 207, 33; V, 110, 2; 116, 4, 5: patched.
clud, IV, 174, 12, clud o night: cloud.
clunkers, clunkerts, I, 305, 13; V, 213, 9: clots of
dirt.
clutt, III, 179, 5: clouted (given wrongly cliitt).
clyffe, III, 91 a (play) : rive, sunder, be split.
co, V, 250, 17, 19: quo, quoth.
coad, II, 132, 27. See cod.
coardie, V, 244, 7: cowardice.
coat-neuk, II, 107, 3, 5: corner of his coat.
coate-armor, III, 284, ll, 13: surcoat or tabard, em
broidered with armorial bearings, worn over the
armor as a personal distinction, and for identifica
tion, the face being concealed.
coble, IV, 128, 7; 359, 2, 5, etc.: boat (yawl, flat-bot
tomed boat).
cock, II, 472, 20, 28; V, 269, 14: knots, or other arrange
ments, of ribbon for the hair. (French coque.)
cockward, I, 285, 24, 26: old cock, fool (French co-
quard).
cod, coad, I, 68, 29; II, 132, 27; 270, 27: pillow.
coffer, trunk or box, for clothes and valuables: I, 69,
60; 71, 49; II, 375 f., 23, 26, 29; IV, 258, 19. In a com
monplace with mantle: I, 350, 16; III, 244, 11; IV,
385, 26; V, 175, 2; absurdly introduced in the first two
instances; ridiculously corrupted, I, 348 f., F 1,3, 13;
II, 475, 5.
coft, I, 356, 56; 394, 9; 397, D 8, 10, 12; III, 11, 6; V,
118, 9; 162, C 7; 163, 13: bought.
cog, coug, II, 30, 6; IV, 378 f., 2, 3, 20; 379 f., 2, 4, 17-
19; V, 275, 2, 3, 9: boat, vessel.
cog, cogie, II, 273 a; IV, 199, 15; 200, 17; 206, 9; V,
273 a: milk-pail.
coif, quoif, II, 280, B 3; III, 514 b, 3; 515 a, 1, 4: cap.
coil (of hay), II, 233, 7: cock.
coilyear, V, 70 b: collier, charcoal-burner.
cold, could, coud, understood, cold of wisdome, of
curtesye, I, 271, l, 3. cold of his curtesie, I, 286, 49;
V, 132, 3. cold, could, coud his curtesye, II, 433, 10;
435, 35; III, 75, 385; V, 132, 3.
cold, could, coud, did. See can.
cole, III, 74, 372; 76, 421 : cowl, monk's hood, also frock,
which last is intended here, for the king wears a
broad hat and puts on a green garment when he casts
off his cowl.
coled (high coled). See colld.
coll, v. See cow.
coll, cold.
collaine, collayne, collen, swords of, III, 298, 50: of
Cologne steel, collaine, collen brand, I, 286, 45, 42, 43.
colld, coled, cut, shaped, fashioned, high-colld hose,
I, 69, 52; 71, 42. high coled stockings, 1, 72, 9: made to
go to the knee or above (perhaps in contradistinction
to short hose, worn by common people), high-coled
shoon, I, 73, 64. laigh-colld shoon, I, 69, 52; 71, 42;
72, 9: low-cut shoes, high-colld hat, IV, 204, 12: hat
peaked before and behind.
colleen, II, 497 f., 4, 13, 16: (Ir. and Sc. Gaelic cailin,
diminutive of caile, simple country maid) girl.
collen, of Cologne. See collaine.
com, come, pret. of come, I, 244, 10, 13; 328, 46.
comand, V, 80, 56: commanded. (Read, comanded ?)
comd, pret. of come, III, 430, 6; 467, 61. p. p., I, 324,
4; III, 464, 3, 7.
come, pret. cam, com, come, coom, comd. pret.pl. come.
ptc. pres. coomin. p.p. comen, commen, coom, comd.
come, pret. pi. of come, III, 216, 34.
come by (life), IV, 515, 7: get, obtain, gain.
comen, commen, p.p. of come, II, 52, 19; 54, 46; HE,
35,32.
comentye, comyntie, III, 361, b, c 58: commonalty.
comfort, p. p. of comfort, II, 370, 22.
commant, p. p. of command, III, 9, 1.
commaunded theym agayne, III, 77, 430: come has
perhaps dropped out; later editions, them to come.
compare, made him no compare, V, 260, No 221, 1:
made no comparison (of others) with him.
compass, I, 346 f., 17, 25; 351, 32, 44: circle.
compear, compeir, III, 364 b; IV, 81 b; 164 a: ap
pear.
comt, count.
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325
complete, sang sae sweet and sae complete, V, 301,
No 200: excellently, skilfully.
compted, III, 77, 437: emendation for commytted of
80 and 81, 437. (85, 88, commended for.)
comunye, I, 285, 31 : communing.
comyn-bell, III, 100, 73 : town bell, a clerc the
commun belle rong. Robert of Gloucester, p. 541,
Hearne.
condescend upon, IV, 41 b, note : particularize.
conduction, III, 403 a: direction, charge.
cone, liftet up the cone, IV, 484, a, last stanza: ap
parently the face-cloth, which may have been gath
ered into a conical form the better to fit the face.
J. Aiken.
conferred, III, 336, note f: made the subject of con
ference.
conform, IV, 63 b: conformably.
confound, II, 443, 38; 449, 44: be the destruction of.
conqueas, V, 191 f., 9, 13, 23, 35: conquer.
convay. See convoy.
conve, V, 117, 13; 268, 27, 28: convoy, escort.
convened, III, 409 a, note: agreed.
convenient, IV, 78, 4: suitable.
convention, made a, III, 364 a: had a meeting.
convey. See convoy.
convoy, convay, n., I, 252, 16; IV, 37, 15; 38, 15;
267, 14: escort. IV, 453, 6: of attendance upon the
dead.
convoy, convey, v., II, 27, 4: convey. IV, 267, 3, 10;
269 f., f 2, 3, g 3; 317, 7; 318, 12; V, 119, 12: escort,
accompany part of the way homeward, or on a jour
ney, see a friend off, a young woman home.
coom, p.p., V, 296 a: come.
coomin, ptc., V, 296 a: coming.
coops, IV, 461, 4: carts (tip-carts).
coost, koost, pret. of cast, I, 73, 69; 102, 18; IV, 477,
6; V, 173, 3, 4. I, 74, 70; 78, 48: threw things about.
p.p. coosten, I, 77, 5; 324, B 6; 371, 3.
coot, queet, IV, 212, 5: ankle.
cop, coppe, I, 244, 9; III, 123, 6: head.
coped, overset. See couped.
cor, Corehead, Corhead, V, 192, 37; 195 f., 35 (MS.,
Carhead) ; 196, 52: (Gaelic coire, cauldron, dell) corrie,
a hollow in a hill. Jamieson. Penman's Core, 193, 51,
55, 58, described as a hollow on the top of a high ridge
of hills, might possibly be Penman score (score, a
deep, narrow, ragged indentation on the side of a
hill, South of Scotland. Jamieson). poor man's core,
V, 196, 52, corruption.
corbie, I, 253, l; 254, b l, c 1; III, 473, 23: raven.
cordain, cordan, cordevine, II, 435, 50; IV, 312, 7;
317, P 3: Cordovan leather.
cordin, shoon laced with cordin, IV, 435, 8: cording,
cord (and not with whangs of leather).
cordiuant, adj., V, 49, 23 : of Spanish, Cordovan
leather.
cored, II, 217 f., 5, 10: covered.
coresed (hors), III, 61, loo: bodied (?) (later texts,
corese, corse).
corn, II, 88, 17, 18, etc.: in Scotland, unground oats.
(Here distinguished from white meal, which is usu
ally oat-meal.)
corn-caugers, III, 479, 8: cadgers, hucksters, in corn.
corp, II, 218, 25; 229, 11: a vulgar singular of a sup
posed plural; corps, II, 217, 30; these corps, 31; cf.
IV, 483, 23; 484 a, after 31. corpes, HI, 231, 97, may
be corpse.
cors, curse.
corse, corss, 1, 117, 7; 351, 31, 32, 44; IV, 53, 8; 512 a,
9; V, 161, 4: cross.
corser, III, 68, 256: should probably be forser= coffer
(text g has coffer).
cosh, coush, II, 363, 13: quiet (snug).
cote a pye, coate a pie, cote of pie, III, 65, 194; 80,
194; 86, 194: corruption of courtepi, short cloak or
gown. (Dutch kort, short, and pij, coat of warm
woolen stuff.)
cots, coats, III, 481, 2, 6: petticoats.
couchd, V, 9, 12: lay, leaned.
coug, cog, V, 275 b, 2, 3, 9: boat.
could, did. See can.
couls, V, 228, 19: cools, chills.
couiicell, counsell, II, 58, 3; III, 68, 45; V, 52, 78:
secret.
cound, IV, 467, 13: count.
counsell, II, 246, C 9-11 ; III, 217, 53: secret. See
councell.
counterfeit, j.^?., V, 300, 10: counterfeited.
country-keeper, V, 196, 41 : "one employed in a
particular district to apprehend delinquents." Ja
mieson.
coup, cupe, cup.
couped, koupd, coped, I, 469, 23; II, 313, 20; IV,
315, 14: overturned.
couper, cowper, IV, 259, 7; 260, 7: buyer and seller,
dealer.
couple-root, I, 302, 13: rafter-end (the end resting on
the wall).
courting, III, 146, 20: demonstration of affection, em
bracing.
courtnolls, V, 85, 14: courtiers.
courtrie, V, 191, 5; 198 b, after 52: belonging to a
court, courtiers.
coush, cosh, IV, 483 b: quiet.
coustome, IV, 507, 78: duty (the king will remit).
cout, cowte, IV, 18, 20, 21; 21, 16: colt.
couth, II, 357, 2: sound, word, Jamieson (the sense re
quired, but the suggested derivation from Icel. kviSr,
A. S. cwide, is not easy).
couent, III, 60, 86; 357, 55: convent.
coving-tree, II, 193, H 4: meeting- tree. " A large tree
in the front of an old Scottish mansion-house, where
the laird met his visitors." Similar to trysting-tree.
Jamieson. In Roxburghshire, covin ; in the north
of England, covan, coban, and even capon. Denham
Tracts, II, 226 ff.
cow, twig. See broom-cow, heather-cow, kow.
cow, coll (locks), II, 423, 4, 7: clip, (brume), III, 9,
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H 8: browse. (Norwegian kolla (Aasen), dock, take
off the top.)
cowing, eating.
cowper. See couper.
cowte, colt. See cout.
coxcomb, III, 35, 19: pate.
crabby (crabbed), III, 488, 23: provoking.
crack, crak, II, 271, 18; 488, 6, 10; III, 161, 28; IV,
261, 3; V, 106, E 3: talk. Ill, 487, 6, 14, 16: brag,
crackd (the Border-side), IV, 146, 4: defied, chal
lenged. (In Scott's printed copy, bragged, defied.)
crack, crak, a moment of time, in a crack, within
a crack, IV, 314, 16; 315, 13; 317, E 6; V, 271, 13:
instantly.
crack fingers, in grief or perplexity, II, 26, G- 16. See
knack.
crae, preL, V, 253 a, No 200, B a 8: crew.
crak. See crack.
cramoisie, cramasie, IV, 93, 8, 2, 3; 410, 17, 20; 472,
9: crimson.
crap, II, 261, 10; 286, 16: crop, top.
crap, pret. of creep, II, 323, 3; 330, H 3; 336, P 2; 337, 3.
crapotee, I, 326, 6: toad-stone, supposed to be gener
ated in the head of toads; "in fact, a petrifaction of
the teeth of extinct fishes." Matzner. Sometimes
defined, smaragdus, emerald.
cravin, II, 335, N 2: asking for, demanding.
crawen, crawn, p.p. of craw, crow, II, 139 f., 7, 12,
22; 222, 17; IV, 473, 36.
cray, cry.
credence, III, 449 b: credit.
creed, n., IV, 262, 13, 14: blame.
creel, V, 122, 5, ll, 12; 123, 5, 11; 124, 4, 12: basket.
creep, pret. crap. See crap.
cries, n., II, 73, 22: calls, demands.
Cristiante, Cristinty, Cristendie : Christendom.
croche, I, 413, 36: crouch.
croft, IV, 142 a : a piece of land adjoining a house.
crooden, croodin, croodlin, croudlin, I, 163 f., J
l, 2, etc.; 165, M i, N l, etc.; 166, K c l: cooing.
cropped (knee), III, 280, 26: crooked (Icel. krop-
pinn).
Cross, v., V, 306, 6 (correct V, 166, 7 2 , in accordance
with this reading): oppose, p. p., the sheriff was
crost, III, 157, so: balked.
croudlin. See crooden.
crouds, cruds, IV, 260, 5: curds.
crouse, crouselie, crously, II, 169, 9; III, 161, 28;
IV, 261, 3; V, 17, 33: briskly, merrily, jubilantly. HI,
493, 16: (perhaps) bumptiously. See crowse.
crow, craw, crow, ar the coc him crowe, I, 244, 18;
V, 288 b, v. 33. p.p. crowen, crawen, crawn.
crowen, p.p. of crow, II, 138, 7.
cr owner, I, 141 b: coroner.
crowse, III, 457, B 5 : audacious. See crouse.
crowt, I, 273, 28: draw together, pucker up.
cruds, n., IV, 260, 7, 18, 19; 262, 30; 265, A b l, ll:
curds,
cry, crye, proclaim, proclamation, cry in, III, 320,
A b 7: call in. cry on, upo, 1, 127, 6; II, 150, 13; III,
318, 7; IV, 7, 24: call upon, summon, cryed out on
Robyn Hode, III, 70,296: cried out against, or, sim
ply, cried out R. H."
cryance, II, 58 f., 18, 20, 21: cowardice, fainthearted
ness (disposition to succumb).
cud, V, 104 a: cudgel.
cuddy, IV, 69, 6: ass.
cuirt, pret., I, 439, C ll: covered.
cuist, oust, pret. of cast, II, 248, l, 2; IV, 68, E 2; 182,
G 5; 394, C l; V, 116, 5. keist, kiest, I, 69, 46; 75,
36; 80, 4.
cuisten, p. p. of cast, I, 495, 11. See custan.
cum, V, 191, 8: become.
cum, pret. of come, III, 386, 22.
cumand, ptc., V, 192 f., 35, 49: coming.
cumber, V, 53, 104: oppress, torment. See cumre.
cumbruk, cambric.
cummers, V, 106, E 2: gossips (commeres).
cumre, n., IV, 316, 19: cumber, trouble. See cum
ber.
cun thanke, III, 68, 242: am, feel, grateful.
cunues. nones cunnes, I, 244, ll: of no kind, enes
cunnes, 1, 244, 12: of any kind.
cunning, V, 82, 21: craft (mystery, trade).
curch, curche, II, 131, 6; III, 472, 10: kerchief, wo
man's head covering.
cure, III, 262, 7: pains. McNaughtoun's cure, II, 386,
25: "McNaughtoun's cure to ye is, Devil relieve ye."
Motherwell.
curn, III, 160, 19; IV, 85, 3: quantity, parcel, paek.
curst turne, III, 93, 34: malignant, spiteful, ferocious
job, piece of work, feat.
curstlye, V, 53, 104: fiercely, savagely.
curtal (frier), III, 124 ff., 6, 7, ll, 13, etc.: (Lat. curti-
larius) having charge of, attached to, the vegetable
garden of a monastery, curtal dogs, 125, 34.
oust, pret. of cast, V, 116, 5. See cuist.
custan, p.p. of cast, III, 4, 2.
cut, V, 202 a: horse.
cut, V, 112, 7; 124, 6; 125, 5: bite, gnaw.
cutted (friar), III, 123, 3, ll, 13, 15, 17: short-f rocked
(but apparently a corruption of curtal, see III,
121 f.).
cutters, III, 228, 10: bravos, robbers.
cuttie, I, 72, 13; 74, 74: short.
cutties, II, 470, 49: spoons.
cweet, queet, II, 96, I 3: ankle.
cypress queen, as fair as a cypress queen, V, 164, 15:
Cyprus, Cypris (Venus).
'd, for 't (it), bla'd wind, bla'd weet, II, 21, 6; doo'd,
IV, 464, 16; born'd, deal'd, 465, 22, 37; 471, 41 ; lai'd,
520, 10; dee'd, V, 248, 12.
dabs, II, 167 b, F: pricks.
dada, dadda, II, 339, 16, 18; V, 112, B b 5: daddie.
daft (love), II, 410, 8: foolishly fond.
dag-durk, I, 55, 12: dagger.
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daggle, IV, 258, 25: drizzling (dag, a slight rain).
daghter, dather, daughter.
daghterie, IV, 324, l: a word of no meaning, the ori
ginal being simply daughter : see V, 272 b, 1.
daigh, daighe, I, 302, A 10; II, 467, 42: dough.
dail, IV, 430, 5: (dool) the grief, the ill consequences.
daily, dayly, daily flower, I, 76, 9, 15, 18; II, 393, 2;
IV, 19, 8: (Icelandic daelligr, Danish deilig) beauti
ful, charming.
daily dight, IV, 432, 6: beautifully adorned.
dairgie, II, 195, 41: refection given after a funeral.
dale, been at a, III, 161, 28, so: dole (to mendicants),
satirically.
dam, II, 192, 10: dame.
damasee, II, 327, 32: damson plum.
dame, addressed to an unmarried girl by her father,
IV, 195, 7.
dandily, V, 106, E 5: over nice or dainty.
dandoo, III, 5, C 7, 8: dun doe ?
dane, done, I, 68, 20, 24; 69, 45, 53; II, 81 f., 41, 56:
done, dane him to, III, 273, 15, 27: betaken himself.
See do.
dang, pret. of ding, I, 55, 12; 129, D 6; 130, P 5; 133,
M 7, 10; II, 253, 19; 261, 9; IV, 305, 18: beat, struck,
knocked, thrust, shoved, dang down, III, 460, 32.
p. p., II, 282, 10: overpowered.
danger, do danger, III, 163, 67: exercise of the power
of a superior ? violence ?
dank (moat), V, 295, 7: damp, wet.
danting, danton, IV, 287, l (burden); V, 267, 1 (bur
den) : (Fr. dompter) sexual conquest.
danton, V, 248, 19 : subdue, intimidate. See daun-
ton.
daown, adv., V, 304, 8: down.
dapperpy, IV, 185, 11: diapered, of variegated cloth.
dather, dother, V, 257, 15: daughter.
datit, IV, 467, 15: dawtit, caressed.
dative of pronoun: III, 58, 37, 44; 60, 82; 61, 100; 65, 184;
75, 381, 391. after verbs of motion (dative of the sub
ject): I, 244, 10, 13; 326, l; III, 70, 281.
daunton, danton, 1, 325, 6; III, 364 b: daunt, subdue,
put down.
daut, dawt, IV, 104, O; 277, 4; 302, 2: fondle, caress,
make much of, pet.
daw, v., II, 146, 7: dawn. p. p. da wen, II, 139, 7, 12.
dawdy, II, 308, 5: the unborn young of an animal.
dawt, daut, IV, 304, 3; V, 106, D 3: caress.
dawtie, V, 117 f., B 5, 9, 13; 173, 11: darling.
day, dey, die, dye, IV, 257, B 9; 259, 7, 17; 260, 7, 16;
262, 16; V, 265 a, 10: dairy-woman.
day, dayed, die, died.
dayly. See daily.
de, dee, dea, deei, die, = do: I, 165, N 8; 183, 24; II,
175 f., i, 8. a dee, II, 110, 25: to do. dee'd, V, 248,
12: do it- p. p. deen. See dee.
dea, die.
dead, deed, deid, dede, died, n., I, 104, 14; 353, 13;
388, A n ; 465, 19; II, 385, 25; 505, 92; III, 387, 16,
10; IV, 36, 3; 505, 57: death.
dead, be dead, II, 58, 5, 7; III, 23, 25; 28, 120; 99, 50:
die.
deak, V, 270, 7: deck.
dean, den, IV, 167, D 5, 6, ll: hollow where the ground
slopes on both sides, valley.
dean, done.
dear, deare, dere, I, 411, 5; III, 164, b 67: injury.
Dear-Coft, II, 62, 18: Dear-Bought.
dearly, IV, 98, P 6: costly.
dearsome, III, 488 f., 38, 44: costly.
dear vow, interjection of surprise or commiseration.
deas, II, 189, 24: pew (stone seat at the door of the
church. Chambers). Same word as dais. See dice.
deave, I, 389, C 3; IV, 69, 17: deafen.
debate, III, 314, 64: quarrel.
deceivin (tree), III, 396, N 3: corruption of savin (see
380 a).
decencey, V, 242 b, 8: corruption of bencite, benedi-
cite.
deck-board, deck-buird, oer (over), V, 138, B 5, 6;
139, c 6, 7: overboard.
dede, V, 283, 8: death. See dead.
dee, deei, do. how can this dee, 1, 453, 6: be allowed,
borne ; and so, perhaps, a' this winna dee (wont do),
II, 97, 14. a' this winna dee, gif ony prayer can dee,
II, 132, 16; 176, 10; it wad na do, IV, 509 b, 13; it
widne deei, V, 227, 2: avail.
dee, deei, do. See de.
dee, deei, die.
deed, death. See dead.
deed, w., I, 164, K 6; 165, O 5: died.
deed, indeed, by my deed, III, 262, 12: on my word.
deed-thraw, III, 501, 10: death-throe.
deei, do, avail; die. See de, dee.
deemed, demed, III, 61, 95: judged. Ill, 356, 35: con
demned.
deen, I, 16, C 18; II, 182 a; 409, 18, 19 done (with no
sense in 19).
deerlye (dight), III, 340, 28, 36: expensively (orna
mented). Ill, 356, 16, 31, 35 : perhaps, with great
cost to the sufferer, possibly, to his hurt; lovingly,
out of love, would answer in the first two cases, but
not in the third.
deft, III, 145, 3: neat, nice-looking.
degree, III, 323, 58; IV, 258, 20: rank, sort, served
him in his ain degree, V, 191, 19; 193, 57: rendered
him respect accordant with his rank, wee shall beare
no degree, III, 333, 19: shall have no position, stand
ing, (requite, thank, show) in euerye degree, V,
84 f., 9, 14, 27: to the full extent demanded by the
occasion.
deid, I, 105, 26; 353, 13: death. See dead.
deighte, IV, 504, 29: dight, furnished, adorned, equipped.
delated, III, 449 a, b; IV, 63 b: accused.
dell, V, 79, 32: deal, bit, whit.
dell, II, 345, 29: we are apparently to understand that
it was a dismal dell that brought James into the world
(not in itself, but from the melancholy fact of his
being born there). Possibly we may understand dell
328
GLOSSARY
= dale, affliction. But the piece is spurious, and we
need uot be nice.
delle, I, 327, 22: perhaps, dally, talk, disport; perhaps,
deal.
demean, IV, 41, note*; 107, 3: treat, maltreat, (in
107, 3, treat as he deserves, damage, do harm to.)
demed. See deemed.
den, dean, IV, 166, B 8; 168, 5, n; 169, 3, 9, G 2; 174 f.,
2, 7; 306 f., 12, 20, 48; V, 119, D 2: small valley, glen,
dingle.
den, dien, V, 260, 8, 14: done.
denay, deny, V, 110, 10; 260, 3, 4: refuse.
deol, V, 297 b: sorrow.
dep, gave him a dep unto the heart, III, 281, 14: per
haps dab, Old Eng. dabbe, stroke. But Dr Davidson
suggests that the line was misheard, and that what
was said was, a dep 'oon (wound), which seems to me
very likely.
depart, III, 139, 27: part company.
deputed, III, 414, 52: consigned, handed or delivered
over (used of a fugitive carried back for trial).
dere, dear(e), III, 99, 69: injury.
dere-worthy, 111,58,36, 37; 59, 60; 61, ill; 67, 219; 68,
250; 73, 346: precious, dear.
derf, derf blowes, III, 422, 73: powerful.
derne, I, 327, so; III, 57, 21: secret, hidden, privy, ob
scure.
descry vd, IV, 405, 50: described.
desse, I, 328, 45: dais, the elevated part of the hall, on
which was the table for the chief personages.
deuylkyns, III, 79, 73: devilish sort of.
de veiling, come, I, 302, 5: moving like the devil,
whether hieing, scouring, bouncing, or what not; or,
possibly, O. Fr. devalant, descending; an equivalence
to daundering, sauntering, has been suggested.
devyse, I, 327, 16: will, pleasure.
dey, die, dye, IV, 257, 9; 259, 7, 17; 260, 7; 262, 16:
dairy-woman. See day.
dey the, dyth, III, 112, 59: dight, prepared.
di, die, II, 132, 24; V, 35, B 5: do. dinna, I, 146, 6,
and passim : do not. See dinne.
dice, IV, 416, I7=deis: pew in a church.
did, I, 104, 3, 4: used for should,
did (be wrought), II, 506 a: caused.
did him to. See do to.
did of. See do.
die, IV, 264, 5: dey, dairy- woman. See day.
die. See de.
die, do, din, dien, done.
died, IV, 386, 19: death. See dead.
died, IV, 407, 7, 8: dead.
dien. See den, die.
dight, dicht, dycht, deight, dyght, III, 57, 19: pre
pared, dedys that here be dyght, III, 72, 320: done,
of grain, I, 16, B 16; IV, 242 a: winnow, dight
shoon, V, 105, A 11: clean, had not men to dight my
men, III, 300, 18; IV, 500, 19: serve, handle, she
dighted her father's wounds, I, 101, 8; 103, D 6:
dressed, pinnace, hachebord deerlye dight, III, 340,
28,36; IV, 504,29: fitted out. dill (grief) to him was
dight, II, 58, 4: ordained,
dight, adv., bird sang fu dight, II, 261, 10: readily,
freely (strange use of the word). Cf. complete,
dild, God, III, 35, 31: God ild, yield, reward (d carried
on from the subject),
dill, II, 58, 4, ll: dule, grief,
dimitted, III, 447 b: discharged, released,
din, dien, done.
din, I, 133, 10; II, 186, 16: dun.
dine, I, 127, 23; II, 94, 12; 194, 13, 17; 313, 17; III, 267,
18; V, 277 f., 18, 29: dinner, meal,
ding, II, 62 a, 17; 261, 8; IV, 97, P 2; 304, 16, 17: beat,
knock, ding down, II, 240, 6; III, 5, D 2, 6; 6, 2, 6;
8, 5; 9, 2, 7: lay low, overthrow, pret. dang, dung.
p. p. dung, dang, my ain wand dings me now, IV,
97, F 2: I am suffering the consequences of my own
folly.
dink, I, 74, 72: neat, trim,
dinua, do not.
dinne, V, 229 a, 35: do (you) not. V, 229 b, 6: (diane)
does not. dinner = dinna, dinne.
dinne, I, 272, 25: (noise) ado, trouble,
dint (of arrow), III, 345, 48; 350, 48: stroke, impact,
dirt, v., V, 304, 2, 3: soil,
dis, does.
Disaware, V, 49, 29; 51, 51, 62: O. E. aver (O. Fr.
aver, avoir) seems to be the basis of the word, which
would mean stripped of wealth, sans aver (avoir) ; a
Galterius Sine Avero is noted by Ducange.
discared, III, 38, 85: revoked, withdrawn (apparently
for discarded).
discharged, IV, 63 b: revoked,
discreene, II, 439, 2: descry, spy out, discover,
discreeue, II, 58, 3, should be disceuere, diskevere, dis
cover, reveal.
disgrate, V, 269, 17: disgrace,
disgrate, III, 58, 48: unfortunate, out of fortune's
favor. (Ital. disgraziato.)
disiia, does not.
distan, IV, 329 a, after 16: (distance) distinguish,
dittay, IV, 245 a: indictment,
dive, II, 132, 25: do.
diuel's mouth. He could not finde a priuy place, for
all lay in the dieul's mouth, II, 483, 4: as the devil's
mouth is depicted wide open in painted windows, etc.,
Professor Skeat has suggested that meaning for the
phrase.
do, it wad na do, IV, 509 b, 13: avail. See dee.
do. See doo.
do, doe, doe my thy hawkes, I, 211, 20: give, deliver,
do adowne, III, 67, 226; 69, 263: put down,
do away, III, 59, 63: have done with, stop,
do be, I, 184, 47: are.
do down. See do to.
do gladly, III, 58, 34; 61, 103; 67, 232: make yourself
happy (=;make glad chere, 67, 215).
do (doe) of, off, II, 138, 13; IH, 78, 449; V, 49, 23-25:
put off. pret. doft, II, 490 b.
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do on, III, 23, 27; 76, 421: put on, don.
do to, do till, with reflexive pronoun, I, 86, 30; 87 b;
115, B 3, 4; 182 ., 7, ll, 13, 17; 352, 32, 44; III, 72,
328: betake. So with up, down, V, 300, 5, 8.
do up. See do to, and dop.
doited, IV, 427, 10: stupid, doting.
doll, dolle, dol, dule, I, 217, 3; V, 111, 19, 21: grief.
domineer, in, wi, III, 268, 9; 270, 9; V, 242 b, 8: with
haughtiness, superciliously. (Perhaps a corruption
of III, 270, E 7, since the captain is said to be buke-
learned in 268, 9.)
doo (ynne gon), III, 91 a : cause, make.
doo, dou, dow, I, 163-165; 497, L 2; V, 40 f., 3, 9,
15, etc.: dove.
don, down.
done, how done you ? Ill, 35, 31 : old plural, how do
you do ?
done upon, V, 48, 6: put on.
doo'd, IV, 464, 16: do it.
dool, doll, dule, II, 175, 17; IV, 85, 42; V, 17, 31; 111,
19, 21: grief. See dail.
dool, dool and down, II, 271, 26: corruption of dale and
down ; cf. II, 175, 14; 273, 33; IV, 219, B 5: and
elsewhere.
doon, II, 198 b, 2d line : a corruption, or possibly an
Irish word, of which I can make nothing.
doon, youar begun yar doon, V, 304 b, 4.
doorcheeks, II, 99 b, 33: door-posts.
dop, III, 34 f., 6, 21: do up, open.
dorn, II, 300, 5: (sheets of) dornic, table-linen, ordi
narily, from Dornick, the Dutch name for Tournay.
dorty, IV, 288, 10: pettish, peevish, saucy.
dother, IV, 327, 15; V, 110, l; 237 f., 6, 7, 12, 22, etc.;
264, 7: daughter.
dottled, V, 94, A3: in a state of dotage.
dou, dove. See doo, dow.
dou, dow (A. S. ddah, dugon), HE, 245, B 12; 247, 18;
370, 10, 13; IV, 472, 22: can (of physical ability). II,
78, 4; 104, 24; 105, 16; 168, 12; III, 386, 21; IV, 31, 9;
512, 12: (with negative) am unable from aversion,
want of resolution, etc. dought (A. S. dohte, pret. of
dugan), pret., 1, 146, 20; II, 401, C 7; III, 465, 22; IV,
23, A c 18: was able, could. Subjunctive, I, 326, 18, 19
(be at liberty); I, 330, B 3: should be able, dought,
he neere dought good day, I, 434, 32: he never was
good for anything a good day. But we should ex
pect him : never a good day profited him.
double - horsed, III, 489, 42: with horse carrying
double.
doubt, doute, dout, n. and v., I, 295, 35; 478 f., 19, 28;
II, 52, 22; III, 57, 10; 76, 406; 125, 26; 188, 4: fear.
doubt, if tho[u], II, 449, 58: corrupt. A 53, without
all doubt.
doubtit, III, 364 b: redoubted, held in awe. See
doubt.
douce, I, 184, l; V, 210 a, l: staid and sober, violence
douce, II, 271, 19: corrupt; read done?
doue, douey=:dowie, V, 257, 7, 17: dreary, melancholy.
V, 220 f., 6, 7, 9 (of bran): wretched.
VOL. v. 42
doughete, III, 308, 28: doughty man.
dought. See dou.
douk, duck, II, 151, H 6; 153, 16, 17, 19, 21: dive.
doukers, duckers, II, 151, H 6, 8: divers.
doulfou, II, 159, 23: doleful.
dounae. See dou.
doup (dish-doup), II, 463, 23: bottom.
dour(e), I, 117, 17: hard, severe. V, 295, 3: savage,
knocks bauldly and dowr, II, 341, R after 3: hard,
or pertinaciously.
dout, doute. See doubt.
dow, dou, doo, I, 163 f., J i-e, etc.; II, 299, 22-24;
301, 14; V, 111, is; 302, 17: dove.
dow, do.
dow, downa, v. See dou.
dowie, dowy, I, 56, B n; II, 146, 19; 148, 21, 22; 189,
36, 37; IV, 33, 24; 165, 12; 166, C 4, 5, 6; etc.: sad, dole
ful, melancholy, wretched. See doue'.
dowilie, I, 439, ll: sadly.
down, wi meikle dool and down, 11/271,26: nonsense;
corruption of, beheld baith dale and doun, F 33.
down-browed, scowling; I, 302, A ll.
downfall, downcome of Robin Hood, with the, III,
271, 10; 274, 30: knocked down in R. Hood's fashion ?
dowr. See doure.
doyn, III, 111, 39: done.
doyt, III, 109, i: doth (plural).
draff, refuse, dirt.
drank, II, 30, 7: gave to drink, drenched.
drap, III, 281, 10, drap down: perhaps, drap[d] down;
otherwise, should drop.
draps, drops.
draught, I, 432, l: sketch, picture.
draw, drew her table, V, 304, 13: see explanation, 304 a.
draw, III, 6, 14, 15: move (cf. Germ, ziehen).
draw to, ti, till, draw to hose and sheen, II, 249, 15;
256, 9; IV, 464, 10: draw on. drew till him his hose,
IT, 189, 35. drew to him his sheen, II, 257, 30.
draw up wi, II, 114, 14: take up with, enter into inti
macy, relations of love, with.
drawght that thowe dost drawe, IV, 503, 16: of the
drawing of a bow. (So " Chaucer's Dream," v. 788,
Morris.)
drawn, ere the horse was drawn and brought, IV, 346 b,
I b 5: chosen.
drawn a stroke behind his hand, II, 63, 24: evidently
means give a back-handed stroke, but the phrase
sounds factitious.
dreaded, II, 169, 14: suspected.
dreads, IV, 32, C 7: suspicions.
dreamed, I was, I, 432, l: dreamed, had a dream.
drede, n., Ill, 296, 8: doubt.
dreder, II, 403, 3, 4: dread, apprehension.
dre(e), dri, drie, drye, suffer, undergo, hold out, stand,
be able, dree pine, II, 466, 35; 467, 45. doom, III,
391, 9. death, HI, 391, l. dill I drye, II, 58, 11.
dreeing trying hour, I, 73, 47. as fast as they might
dree, III, 286, 49: could do it; so, II, 149, 7; 255, 10;
HI, 106, 12; 267, 9; IV, 2, 6; 6, 13; V, 195, 13, 35; 196,
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37. whylle the myghte dre, III, 298, 58; 309, 47: as
long as they could hold out. draw carts, which horse
were wont to drie, 1, 465, 2: do, perform, drie to feel,
III, 479, 5: be compelled, come to feel.
dreel, gie a, I, 403, 9: stir up, put into a flurry,
make scud. (Old Dutch drillen, ultro citroque cur-
sitare gyrosque agere, etc. Scottish dreel, to move
quickly.)
dreigh, IV, 47, 4: seems to mean here, far to jump
from.
dress, III, 336 b: redress.
dressen, v. the dressede into the countrey, V, 71,
note f: betaken.
drew (her table). See draw.
dri. See dree.
drie, n., Ill, 415, 22: an unauthorized word of Percy's,
to mean suffering.
drie, dri. See dree.
driep, drop.
drifts, IV, 2, 10: droves.
drive, IV, 6, 19; 7, so, 32: drive off.
droonet, I, 133, 13: drowned.
droop, droop and drowsie (of blood), IV, 220, 13: droop
might be the Old English drup, sad, piteous, but a
word indicating the quality or condition of the blood
would be expected (as in German triibe, thick,
muddy). The nearest is drubly, turbid, muddy.
Cf. wan and drousie, IV, 224, 23. her lothely lere
is droupy and drowsy, Skelton, Elynour Rummynge,
15: downcast and drowsy. See drousie.
droped, III, 164, 88: drooped.
drouflye, III, 85, 22: sad. See drousli.
drousie, wan and drousie, IV, 224, 23. droop and
drowsie, IV, 220, is (of blood): sluggish, perhaps
slowly dripping. The combination occurs in Skel-
ton's Elynour Rummynge, 15, droupy and drowsy,
with sense. See droop.
drousli, III, 82, 22, should be droufli (drouflye, or
drouslye, 85, 22): (Old Eng. drof, droflie) sad.
drowryis, I, 415 b: love-tokens. See drury.
drowsie. See drousie.
drucken, II, 155, A b 3: drunken (and in A a 3, where
there is a misprint).
druken, drucken, p.p., II, 285, 9; V, 99, n, C 6; 155,
C 2: drunk, imbibed.
drumlie, -ly (stream), IV, 185, 8, 14; (eye), IV, 368, 10;
369 b: perturbed, turbulent, turbid, gloomy.
drunken, p. p. of drink, II, 110, 24; 134, 26. drunken
was = had drunken, IV, 46, 5, 6.
drunkilie, III, 490, 25: merrily (as being tipsy with
pleasure ?).
drury, IV, 58, A b 5: dowry. Drowry is used as syn
onymous with morning-gift in the Acts of James VI.
Jamieson. See drowryis.
drussie, V, 257. 14: drowsy.
drye. See dree.
drywyng, driving.
dub, I, 164, J 3; III, 162, 49; IV, 470, 25, 26; V, 169, 9:
pool.
dubby, IV, 257, A 6: dirty, having many small pools,
ducatdowns, dukedoons, IV, 128, 8; 139, I b 21:
ducatoons. corrupted ridiculously, IV, 137, 2, to
ducks.
duck, douk, II, 145, 18, 19, 22, 23: dive,
duckers, doukers, II, 145, 18: divers,
ducks. See ducatdowns.
duddie, I, 208, G 15: ragged,
duddies, dudes, V, 111, 24; 112, B 13; 113 b, 13: duds,
poor clothes.
dujty, III, 98, 32: doughty, valiant,
duke, IV, 295, D 5: dyke, wall.
dukedoons. See ducatdowns.
dulchach, dulget, I, 305, l; V, 213, 1: bundle, always
applied in Aberdeenshire to ill-shaped, untidy bun
dles of clothes carried on the person (also, bul-
shach).
dule, dool, I, 169, B 3; 442, E 15; II, 290, 8, 12; IV,
86, 20; 303, 14: grief,
dulget, I, 305, i. See dulchach.
dumped, V, 227, 4: struck with the feet,
dumpes, III, 313, 50: in the modern sense, but not
inelegant.
dune, I, 302, 2; IV, 326, 15: done,
dune out, V, 27, 28: worn out, used up.
dung, pret. of ding, beat, knock, strike, II, 132, 17.
p. p., II, 62 a, 17; 392, J 9; 472, 20, 28; III, 161, 43;
IV, 479, 4: beaten, worsted, overpowered, put down.
IV, 183, 8: overwhelmed, disconsolate, dung over,
V, 127, 22: knocked over, struck down, dung down,
I, 345, 5: thrust down.
Dunny's well, Dunny's dyke, II, 189, 28: an imper
sonation, signifying that the washing and drying have
been done in dark-colored water and on a dark-col
ored (dirty) wall.
dunts, III, 491, is: dints, blows. See dynt.
dwine, IV, 303 f., 12, 21, 27; 304, 10: pine, waste.
dwrf, IV, 290, D c 5: dowf seems to be intended,
lethargic, inert, impotent ; rather than dwarf, as
being puny or incomplete.
dyd him to, III, 72, 328: betook himself. See do to.
dyde adowne, III, 67, 226: put down.
dye, IV, 260, 16: dey, dairy- woman. See day.
dyght, III, 72, 320, dedes that here be dyght : prepared,
concerted.
dyght (to the deth), III, 309, 40: done, brought.
dyghtande, III, 75, 388: making ready (but seems to
be intended for a past participle).
dyke=wall, IV, 295, E 6; 296, F 6. castle-dyke, II,
410, 4. garden-dyke, II, 370, 5; 371, 5. fail dyke,
I, 253, 2: turf wall, hollan dyke, II, 195, 32; net
tle-dyke, II, 463, 22: wall on which hollies, nettles,
are growing.
dyke, III, 441, 36: ditch.
dyne, garre me ones to dyne, III, 296, 24: give me my
dinner, my fill, beat thoroughly. (Able to give the
greatest prince in Christendome a mortall breakfast,
if he had been the king's enemie. Holinshed's Chron
icle, III, 512, ed. 1807-8. G. L. Kittredge.)
GLOSSARY
331
dynt(e), dint, III, 309, 42, 45, 46: stroke, hit, lunge, shot
(of spear, arrow). See dunts.
dypper, V, 283, 5, 15: deeper,
dysheryte, III, 60 f., 87, 95: dispossessed,
dyspyse, II, 478, 6: cause to be despised,
dyth, deythe, I, 334, 7: dight, furnished or built.
E an O me, E an O an O me, V, 275 a, 9, 10: simple
exclamations, having here the character of a refrain.
e, II, 217, 24: ae, only.
ea, V, 214 b, 3: to be dropped ; remnant of a corrected
reading.
eaen, V, 267, 4: even.
eaght, the, the eighth.
ealky, elky, eke a, ylk a, ilka, V, 220 f., 4, 5, 8: each
(one).
ean, V, 165, 2: eyes. See ee.
ear, I, 395, l; 480, 54: early.
ear, eer, ever.
eare, ere, ayre, heir.
eare, v. t I, 15, 12: plough.
earn, V, 115, 6: curdle.
eartly, II, 494, l: earthly.
eased, III, 61, 101 (of horses) : cared for, attended to.
eased we, V, 239, 35: used (as in 33), familiar with.
easer, IV, 315, 14; V, 271, 14: maple (mazer). See
ezar.
caster ling (born), V, 54, 3, 4 (in A, 48, 3, 4, stranger
borne). The boy learned too fast for a native. Eas-
terling, a native of the Hanse towns, or of the East
of Germany. Halliwell.
eathe, III, 408, 33: easy.
eather, V, 224, 25; 241, No 156, 6: other.
eay, eayn, V, 238, 18, 28; 248, 18: eye(s). See ee.
edder-flowe, IV, 450 a, 2: adder-morass.
ee, III, 4, 9; 11, E! : eye. PL een, eeen, II, 158 f., 5,
8, 18; 160, 4, 7, 17. See ean, eay, eghne, eyen.
ee (of a cup), IV, 221, 9: may be eye, top, brim.
ee, the table ee, II, 409, 20 (Motherwell, table eye) : seems
to be nonsense; edge does not suit, b, the printed
copy, has play.
ee (A. S. ege, O. Eng. eje, eie, etc.), IV, 3, 15: awe; an
unsatisfying emendation of lee, lye (eie would be bet
ter ; I have not found ee). The Campbell MS. has
fee, meant, I suppose, for value.
ee-bree, III, 11, K; IV, 257, 5: eye-brow.
een, IV, 257, 13: one.
een, v., Ill, 495, 23, 24; IV, 517, 21: even, make of the
same value.
eenin, IV, 169, F l: evening.
eerie, eiry, I, 342, 24, 36; 355, 46; II, 466, 39; IV, 175,
N 5; 368, Q 8: dreary, gloomy, weird, exciting super
stitious dread.
eft, eft agayne^eftsones, HI, 83, 238; 87, 238.
eftsones, III, 68, 238: hereafter, another time.
eghne, I, 327, 23: eyn, eyes.
eh, IV, 512, n: exclamation of grief.
eight, the eight, I, 55, 9; 56, B 10; C 5, 11: eighth.
eihte, I, 244, 11: possession, valuable thing.
eild, III, 162, 46: age.
ein, I, 134, 13: een, evening.
eiry. See eerie.
eisin, IV, 331 b, 2: serve.
eke, also. At I, 133, L l, eke . . . eke seems to be
wrongly used for either ... or.
eke a, III, 298, 57: each (one). See ealky.
elbouthe, I, 334, 5: elbow (the th for g or 3).
eldelike, I, 334, 5: elderly.
eldern, eldren, eldrin, I, 350, 12, 13; II, 20, 2; 26, 2;
27, 2; 61, 2; IV, 486, 28: old.
eldrige, elridge (hill, king), II, 58 f., 14, 15, 23, 25-7, 36=
Scottish elric, elvish. The eldrige king has something
of the character of the ellor-gast family in Bedwulf
(spirits who belong outside of mankind), haunts a
hill, is a pagan, no one that has coped with him has
come off alive. The lady who attends him, however,
seems in no way extra-human, elric hour, I, 140, N
(Pinkerton) : hour when elves, or bad spirits, are ac
tive. In Elrick's hill, II, 62, 8, 10, etc., the adjective
is improperly turned into a noun. See elrick.
element, I, 286, 44: air, sky.
elephant, III, 211, 2: a species of scabious is so called,
according to Halliwell.
elfin, elphin, elphan, n. and adj., 1, 15 ff.; 341, 15; IV,
456, is: elf, elvish. I, 346, 15 (the Elfins); 350, 28;
IV, 456 f., 14, 15, 19, 24: fairy-land.
Elfins, the, I, 346, 15: fairy-land. See elfin.
elfish, n., I, 343, 15: elf.
elflyn, of the elves.
Elizium, V, 158, 16: Elysian.
elky. See ealky.
ell, ill, ull, v., will.
ellish, III, 481, 9: ellis, ells, (h may well be dropped.)
elphan, elphin, n. and adj. See elfin.
elrick, elritch, adj., II, 63, 18; I, 357, 53: elvish. El-
rick's, 62 f., 8, 10, 16, 21: as a substantive. See eldrige.
embowered, pret., II, 503, 13: used as bower.
erne, III, 296, 26: uncle, emys, III, 98, 38: uncle's.
-en, -n, -yn, sign of plural of verb, I, 244, 9; II, 5 b, 3;
54, 61; 445, 62; III, 13, 2, 3, 4, 8; 35, 31; 63, 134; 92, il;
104, 7; 105, 9, 11; 277, 15; 284, 3, 8, 17; 285, 30, 32, 33;
286, 48, 49; 404, 3; 406, 28; etc.
end, en, end. hous(e)-end, -en, I, 254, variations of
Twa Corbies, b, l, c, l; toun-end, V, 267 f., 10, n, 24.
on end, IV, 353, 18: to an end.
-end, termination of the present participle, sighend, I,
55 f., B 7, 9.
endres daye, pis, I, 326, 1: the other day.
eneuch, enew, I, 102, 5; HI, 318, 6; 440, 10; IV, 117,
8; 384, 8: enough.
enlured, III, 36, 45: allured (which is the word in b).
enter plea att my iollye, III, 278, 32: unintelligible
to me. iollye should probably be iollyte. The king
will have the head to serve some inscrutable purpose
when he is making merry.
enterprise, v., I, 411, 9; III, 230, 70: undertake.
entertain, III, 153, is: take into service.
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GLOSSARY
envye, III, 296 f., 12, 30: ill-will, hostility, spite.
ere, V, 300, 3: eer, ever.
ere, eare, ayre, n., heir.
ere, v., heir.
ere, II, 216, 19; 470, 44; IV, 242 a; 378, 6; 433, 31: till.
ere syne, II, 362, 34: ere then, before that.
erlis, I, 329, 60: should probably be ernis, eagle's
(herons, yrons in other texts),
erlish, I, 355, 49: elrish, elvish,
ermeline, ermine.
ern, IV, 490, 12: iron,
-e's, -is, -ys, -us, preserved in gen. sing., I, 69, 52; II, 26,
7; III, 40, n.; 98, 21, 35; 99, 47 f., 52; 100, 64 .; Ill,
33, 36, 42, etc. In the plural, I, 72, 15; III, 40, n.;
97, 2, 3, 20; 98, 25, 33, 37, 40-2; 100, 63, 82; 109, l; 111,
29, 31-37, 45 f ., etc.
esk, I, 355, 50: newt. See ask.
ettled, IV, 47, 2: purposed.
even cloth, I, 324, 16: smooth, with the nap well
shorn,
even down, IV, 110, 10, ll: flat to the ground. V, 124,
B 14: perpendicular. 225 b, No 78: straight down
(of heavy rain).
even forward, I, 324, 3: straight forward,
even up, I, 305, 7: straight up.
evening-mass, II, 168, A, 4: a religious service at the
end of the day (as in Romeo and Juliet, IV, 1).
euery syde, III, 75, 398: each side of.
euerych, euerichone, euerechone, euerilkon, ev-
erlke ane, I, 334, 5; III, 22, 4 ; 65, 174; 67, 230; 98,
30: each, each one.
evidents, IV, 40 b: title-deeds,
evyll, adv., Ill, 26, 93: ill. euyll go, HI, 77, 429: ill
walk.
ew-bught. See bucht.
ewer, IV, 19, 8: dug, udder.
exaltre, III, 90 b: axletree.
examine, II, 58, 15: put you to test.
earite, II, 125, B 22; excit, V, 223 a, No 65, B 22:
amended to sight under the supposition that exit must
be impossible.
exoiier. IV, 307, 42: exonerate,
ey, I, 415 b: egg.
eye (cote with one eye), III, 360, 117: window?
eyen, eyne, I, 472, 29; in, 74, 359: eyes. See ee.
eylde net the, III, 112, 62: yield, requite thee for it.
eylyt, I, 241 f., 5, 7: aileth.
eyre, pi., Ill, 113, 70: years.
ezar, II, 271, 17; 273, 23: maple. See easer, masar.
f, in Northern Scotch, often for wh; as,fa,faa, who;
fan, when; far,faer, where,
fa, IV, 260, 6; 261, 6: who.
fa, V, 118, B 10: fault,
fa, my lady cannot fa sic servants, 1, 116, 11: have such
fall to her, put up with, fa frae her, II, 133, D 1:
break off, give up.
fa, fae, IV, 256, 5; 337, f 2, 3, 7: from.
faa, V, 275 a, 8: who.
face, with a, III, 180, 12: with effrontery, boldness.
fache, fetch.
fact, III, 229, 32; IV, 11, ll: offence, crime.
fadge. fat fadge, II, 182, 8: "a lusty and clumsy
woman." Jamieson. "fadgy, corpulent, unwieldy.
fudge, a little, fat person. North." Halliwell.
"fodge, a fat person; evidently the same with fadge."
Jamieson. A dirty drab is the phrase corresponding
to fat fadge, II, 194, 10 (fusom fag, IV, 469, 1 10, 12).
See fag, fug.
fadther, IV, 260, 7: father,
fae, fay, fey, fee, fie, I, 245, 6; III, 481 f., 30, 24; 489,
39; 490, 24; 492, 26; IV, 430, 2: (A. S. fsege) destined
to die.
fae, II, 184, 19; 196, 9: foe.
fae, IV, 165 f ., 2, 10; 337 f, 2, 3, 7: frae, from. See fa.
faein, faen, fawn, fallen.
faem, fame, I, 68, l; 70, l; 86, l; II, 24, 12; 25, G 14:
foam, sea.
faer, IV, 262, 15; 378 f., 6, 19: where,
fag, I, 304, P 2, 3; IV, 469, 1 10, 12: a dirty drab. Cf.
fusome fug, described as a dirty drab, B 3-6; dirty
slut, C 4; dirty bitch, E 4; filthy foul flag, G 4. See
fadge, fug.
faikine, III, 199, 24: faith,
fail, feall, fell, I, 304, F 6: turf,
fail-dyke, I, 253, 2: turf-wall,
fails, II, 365 f., 2, 3, 23: falls, befalls,
fain(e), fayn(e), II, 444, 48, 57; 453, 28; III, 100, 66;
298, 50; 309, 32: glad, pleased, eager. IV, 211, 13;
V, 115, 2: fond, for faine, III, 479, 40 : for glad, for
gladness.
fainly, joyfully, blithely,
fair, V, 26 f., 13, 39: far.
fair lie, farlie, ferlie, I, 324 5 ll; 325, B 9: wonder, gars
me fairlie, IV, 357, 2: causes me astonishment,
fairly (fields), IV, 57, D l: fair, looking well,
fait, faitt, fett, V, 224, 18, 19; 274, 10; 278, 29: white,
faith and troth, to be, IV, 147, 34: to be in the rela
tion of men who have taken the engagement of mu
tual fidelity, sworn-brethren,
fald, fall, fauld, n., V, 105, A 3; 248, 21: fold,
fall, III, 76, 406: suit, become, well falls me, V, 25, 5:
my luck is good,
fall, V, 206 b, 8: pret. of fall, unless there is ellipsis of
did.
falling, III, 470 a: sunset,
fallow's deed, I, 448, 7-10 : deed of a bad fellow
seems unlikely, felloun's ? farlie, strange ?
falsh, IV, 442, l, 10, 12: false,
falyf, III, 13, 4: fallow,
fame, faem, I, 68, l; 86, l: foam, sea.
fa'n, IV, 6, 7; V, 249, 7: fallen.
fan, fand, found.
fan, IV, 262, 19; V, 110, 4; 116, l; 184, 49: when,
fancy, fell in her, V, 272 b, 2: fell in love with her.
faen deap in my fancy, 273, 12.
fand, found.
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333
fang, III, 160, 5: fastening. (164, b 5, whang.) Per
haps North Scotch for whang.
fankit, IV, 27, 28: entangled, obstructed.
far, III, 513 b, 1-4: fair.
far, fare, faur, I, 165, N l; II, 191, 23; 335, N 3-6; V,
224, 17, 18; 227, 8; 248, 22: where.
fare, go, I, 170, 4; II, 222, 21; III, 22, 6; 98, 24; 340,
23, 24; 421, 43; V, 183, 22, 32. I fare you well, II, 207,
A l: I bid you fare well. pret. foor. p. p. forn.
fare, go on, comport oneself: III, 188, 6; 357, 59.
fare, n., Ill, 160, 11, 20: going on, procedure. Ill, 76,
403: (in the modern sense) fortune, experience.
fared, favored, well-fared, well-(weel-)fard, weel-fart,
well-(weel-)faird, weil-faurit, weill-(weel-)faurd,
well-fard, II, 268, 21; 317, B a 21; 408, 26; 462, 7, 8;
TV, 220, 8, l, 4; 223, 3; 274, 2; 434, 2, 3; V, 16, 1;
154, 10; 163, 12; 177, 14: well-favored, handsome.
farei, farie, Parie (MS. farie), V, 165 f., 6, 9, 10: should
be emended to Fyvie. See V, 305 f.
farer, I, 369, 51; V, 91 f., 4, 8, 12, etc. ; 208, 9: further.
ffarley, adj., ffarley thinge, III, 92, 9: strange.
farlies, farleys, ferlies, I, 325, B 9; IV, 147, 26: won
ders, novelties. See fairlie.
far sought, was, V, 161, 6: required long to reach.
fart, weel-fart, IV, 223, 3: fared, favored. See fared.
fas, fase, III, 299, 6; V, 248, 5: false.
fa's, IV, 399, 46: fall, 1st per. sing. pres.
fash, IV, 493, 21, 23; V, 238, 22: meddle, make trouble,
or, perhaps, trouble yourself, fashed himself, IV,
69, 18, 19: got himself into trouble by meddling.
fashes, II, 238, 4: troubles (emendation forjishes ; pos
sibly we should read freshes).
fast, fast they bad, III, 26, 90: strenuously, stare, look,
III, 62, 122; V, 82, 35: intently, weep, II, 240, 3: co
piously, fast unto, III, 131, 6: close down to.
Fastness, IV, 103, 15: originally meant for faustness,
falseness.
fat, fatt, III, 281, 4; IV, 260, 2; 357, C 5, 7, 9, etc.;
V, 111, 18; 214 b, 5: what.
fate they coud na fa, II, 130 l: from it (fae it, frae
it) they could not desist.
fatten a, V, 221, 22; 247, 2: what, what sort of.
faue, V, 260, 7: fie !
fauld-dyke, IV, 199, n: fold-wall.
faun, fallen.
faur, V, 124, 2: where. See far.
faurit, faurd. See fared.
fause, false.
fause fa thee, III, 435, F 5: may treachery befall thee,
be thy lot I
fave, V, 275 b, 8: five.
fa we, IV, 505, 54: fall.
fawn, IV, 277, is: fallen.
fay, adj. See fae.
fay, III, 74, 362; 110, 13; V, 85, 16: faith.
ffayne, III, 297 f., 48, 50: glad, in, 100, 66: fond of,
pleased with. See fain.
fe, feea, wage, etc. See fee.
feall, feale, fail, fell, IV, 262, 29: turf.
Feansell, feanser, V, 55, so: emended to le and fell.
fear, II, 470, 51: frighten (us from dancing).
fearder, feardest. See feart.
feare, in, V, 15, 18: together. See fere.
fearsome, II, 394, 18: fearful.
feart, feert, III, 262 f., n, 13, 16, 17; IV, 456, 15; 498,
12, 14, 16: frightened, fearder, III, 267, 13: more
frightened, feardest, III, 162, 56: most frightened.
feather, IV, 512 b, 2, 9: father.
feathern, IV, 482 f., 4, 9, is: feathers.
fecht, feght, v., II, 319, 16; 391, 16, 17; in, 370, 15; IV,
224, 14, 15: fight. See ficht.
feckless, I, 429, 28 (dress): weak, feeble, effectless,
miserable, silly, (here = inefficacious, of no account.)
fedred, ifedred fre, III, 69, 275; 70, 288: feathered lib
erally, handsomely.
fee (A. S. feoh), 1, 327, 16 (wylde fee): animals. 1, 58,
2; 434, 31; II, 25, 7; 172 f., 40, 42, 45; 442, 8; 447, 8;
III, 94, 51; IV, 18, 17: wealth, possessions, property,
having. I, 182, 2; II, 31, N 4; 114, 17; 123, 15; 379,
l; 403, 9; III, 433, 12; 435, F 6; 436, 14; IV, 614, 21:
pay, wages. II, 117, 5, 6; III, 163, 72; 299, 5: reward.
I, 328, 57: tribute, gentylman of clothynge and of
fee, III, 30, 165: entitled to a regular stipend, knights
fee, III, 94, 51 : land of the value of 20 per annum
(under Edward I., II.). See foster of the fe, III,
28, 140. penny-fee (-fie), I, 491, 10; IV, 444, 10: gift.
fee, v., I, 211, 3, 4: hire, (gae fee, go hire yourself.)
See feet, pret.
fee, fey, doomed. See fae.
feed, feid, III, 436, 2; 464, 2; 468, c 2; IV, 2, 9; 36, 3;
37 f., 3, 10: feud.
feed, fode, food, I, 309, B l: child, man.
feed about your fire, II, 184, 13: the sense eat seems
unlikely. Possibly, to move about, to sit or move
restlessly (like feik).
feed, pret. of feed, V, 236, is: fed.
feel, fiel, II, 175, l; 176, C 3; IV, 262, 29: fool,
feel daft, II, 410, 8: foolishly fond,
feel = fell: very,
feere, fere, feire, feer, mate, consort (fere) : 1, 295, 43;
II, 58, 2. V, 15, 13: fellow (contemptuously). See
feires.
feert. See feart.
feet, pret., IV, 355 b, D: hired. See fee.
feeties, V, 209 b, 4: feet.
feght, fight. See fecht.
feid: feud. See feed.
feires, feiries, I, 295, 43; IV, 2 f., 7, 20, 22: comrades,
consorts. See feere.
felaushyp, III, 67, 229: abstract for concrete, our fel
lows.
felischepe, fellowship.
fell, fail, feale, feall, IV, 266, E 29: turf.
fell, III, 300, 9; IV, 500, 10: skin, hide.
fell, in, 439 f., 4, 8, ll; IV, 455, 15; V, 55, so: high land,
fit only for pastures, a wild hill, fells, III, 299 f.,
C 3, 6; IV, 26, 6; 500, 3: chain of hills.
fell (yard), I, 287, 63: severe, cutting, (spice), III,
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388, 3: hot, biting. IV, 258, 20: strange, prodigious,
fell thing to see, II, 132, 27: strange, freezes fell,
IV, 93, 7; 105, 7; 514, 17: sharply, severely.
fell, v., II, 419, 46: kill.
fell, feel, I, 478, 14; II, 344, 15; V, 183, 20: very.
fellen, p.p. of fell, III, 483, 7: felled (a tree).
fells, befalls, well fells me, IV, 437, 25: good for me !
felon (the kynggis), III, 98, 21, 22: traitor, rebel.
felt, III, 146, 14: should be emended delt.
fences, cock shall crow fences three, II, 8, 10, 11: evi
dently bouts, coups ; but I have not found this usage
elsewhere.
fend, fende, V, 283, 2; 284, 22: fiend.
fend, v., Ill, 300, 12; IV, 500, 13: provision.
fend, III, 440, 12: defence.
fiend, that ffend I Godys fforbod, III, 113, 72: seems
to be a double expression for deprecation, I in
hibit, protest, God forbid (see forbode). "I fende
to Goddes forbode it should be so : a Dieu ne playse
qu'aynsi il aduiengne. Palsgrave, p. 548, col. 1."
Hales and Furnivall, Percy MS., Ill, 554.
fende, III, 61, 106; 117, 8: defend.
fer dayes, III, 57, 16: far on in the day.
ferd, III, 99, 52: fear.
fere, fere love, IV, 219, B 3, 5: fair, (fair love, V,
260, E 5.)
fere, feere, II, 58, 2; III, 22, 5: mate, consort.
fere, in, on, III, 57, 27; 59, 61; 67, 231; 77, 423; 98, 38:
in company, together. See feare.
fferli, I, 334, 7: fairly, civilly.
ferlicke, I, 334, 8: strange. See ferly.
ferly, ferlie, ferley, farlie, I, 325, C i, 10; 329, 4; 333,
2; 424, d ll; III, 440, 20; IV, 455, 1, 13; 524, 10; V,
244, 8, 12: marvel, wonder, news.
ferly, adj., ferly strife, III, 97, 13: strange, extraordi
nary. See ffarley.
ferra-cow, farrow-cow, I, 224, I 9, ll; II, 261, 8: a
cow not producing a calf for the current year.
fesh, fess, III, 319, 15; IV, 94, 14; 257, i, 2: fetch.
fet. See fett.
fetchie, III, 520 b (note to II, 272, 22): tricky, prac
tising fetches ? Cf . wylie, st. 21.
fetcht a race, II, 454 f., 54, 58: took a swift prelimi
nary run.
fett, I, 432, 5: fetch, pret. fet, fette, III, 31, 14; 63,
145; 64, 172; 298, 67.
fett, V, 224, 18: white.
ffettle, III, 92 ff., 15, 37, 56: make ready.
feud, II, 279 a, 16: contest of feeling ?
feughten, p. p. of fecht, ficht, fight, I, 109, 15.
feume. IV, 473, 44: foam.
fey, I, 245, 6; IV, 44, 4; 430, 2: destined to death. See
fae.
ffeyt, faith.
feyther, V, 296 a : father.
ficht, fecht, feght, v., IV, 84 f., 16, 26, 27, etc.: fight.
pret. focht, foucht. p.p. foughten, feughten.
fie. See fee.
fie, doomed. See fae.
fiel, feel, II, 176, C 3: fool.
fielder t, V, 126, l: field ward, away (from where they
were).
fiend thing, IV, 23, A c 18: devil of a thing.
fift, II, 75, 6: fifth.
file, v., I, 135, 4: defile.
file, IV, 494, 33: while, till.
file snap, V, 260, 16: fellowship.
fill, full.
fill, I, 403, 10: follow, pursue.
Sltt,p.p., HI, 490, 20: filed.
fin, find.
fin, craig and fin, II, 28, 27: whin, whin-stone, synony
mous with greenstone, but applied to any hard rock.
finikin, III, 174, 18: fine, handsomely dressed.
fire-beams, IV, 96, 3: should be fire-boams (bombs),
as at 99, G a, H 6.
fire-boams, bombs. See fire-beams.
fir lot, IV, 46, 3; 379, 13: the fourth part of a fou, which
is a dry measure varying from two to six Winchester
bushels (a Winchester bushel being of a slightly less
capacity than the present imperial bushel).
firmaty, V, 114, 3: frumenty; in old cookery, wheat pot
tage, with flesh in it; hulled wheat boiled in milk and
seasoned with cinnamon, sugar, etc.
fit, fitt, fyt, fytte, II, 54, 60: song. I, 329, 62; III,
25, 51; 27, 97; 308, 24: division of a song. (A. S. fitt.)
fit, I, 131, G 4, 5; 164, J 6; 302, A 7; 472, 2; 491, 26;
IV, 119, 6: foot, feet.
fit, III, 142, 32; V, 240, 5: ready.
fitches (of deer), II, 132, 19: flitches, sides.
fite (bread), V, 220, 6: (probably) wheat. See white
bread.
fitt, III, 465, 21: it is better to read sitt, as in Caw's
text.
fitted, IV, 18, 9: footed.
fitted, II, 485, 18, 31; V, 103 a: suitably treated or
served. V, 132, 2: ready, disposed.
fittie, IV, 450 a, 4: foot.
fivesome, III, 472, 3: five together.
flaff, IV, 470, 20: flap, fan.
flag, I, 305, 3, 4; V, 213, 3, 4: corruption of fag, drab,
slut. See fag.
flain in, IV, 224, 23: correct tofla ovflai (flew) in?
flamboy, V, 298, 7: flambeau, torch.
flat, II, 258, 45, 46: highest and lowest layer of a grave.
flatte, IV, 504, 32: positively determined on.
flattered, flottered (on the faem), II, 25 G 14; 27, 22:
flitted, floated (O. Eng. floteren, Germ, flattern).
flattering (toung), II, 144, 8 : fluttering, waggling,
flattering tongue that flutters, II, 154, 21.
flaugh, flaw, pret. of fly, I, 286, 56; 397, B 8; II, 314, 9.
flaw, tell me without a flaw, V, 41, 28: lie.
flay, frighten. See fley.
flay (A. S. fle'on), fly. pret. flaw, flaugh.
fleachy, II, 470, 53: infested with fleas.
flear, fleer, I, 454, ll; IV, 392, 7; 410, 26: floor.
flee, v., V, 304 b, 4: flay. pret. fleed.
flee, not a, IV, 53, 12 : not a whit (fly, for a small
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thing). I count him lighter than a flee, etc., Ill,
480, 23; 482, 19; 488, 26 (flea); 490, 15. left him not
a flee, IV, 53, 12.
fleechin, I, 424, d 11; II, 32, Q 2: wheedling, cajoling,
fleed, pret., V, 304 b, 4: flayed,
fleed, flied, V, 257, 7, 17: frightened. See fleg.
fleed, IV, 348, 14; 349, 9: flood,
fleer, I, 69, 39; 298, 4; 452, 14: floor. See Hear,
fleet, flute.
fleg, fley, flay (A. S. fle*gan, Old Eng. fleyen), V, 253 b,
No 203, 3: frighten,
flesse, V, 283, 18: flesh,
flex, V, 283, 11, 21: flax,
fley, flay, III, 457, A 2; 474, 36: frighten, pret. fleed,
flied. See fleg.
flight, I, 21, note *: dispute and scold,
flink, care a flink, V, 259, 3: care a whit,
flirry, I, 424, d 10: blossom.
flo, flon(e) (A. S. fla, flan), 1, 327, 10; III, 13, 5, 15: arrow,
flotterd. See flattered,
flourishd, I, 398, 13: adorned,
flow, IV, 79, 14: moss with a spring in it, morass,
flower, I, 352, 3, 4 : get flowers for, or deck with
flowers.
flutters, II, 154, 21: waggles,
flyte, flight, III, 414 b: dispute, debate, scold (here
Percy's word, replacing flout and mock).
forward, V, 283, 4: compact,
focht, pret. of fecht, ficht, fight, IV, 167, C 10. p. p.
feughten, foughten.
fode. See feed,
folde, pret., Ill, 76, 407: folded,
folle, foal.
folye, I, 327, 17: a very unlikely word (unless we may
understand it to have the meaning of Old Fr. foler,
errer c.k et Ik). Another text has balye (Fr. baillie),
which gives a good sense, under thine own control,
in thine own custody, (folye, in 17, may be caught
from 18.)
fone, II, 196 b, 2, 8: foes,
fond, fond to see him sleep, II, 269, 26 : doted, was
foolishly happy ? (But probably corrupt: cf. fondly
seen thee sleep, 271, 30.)
food, III, 287, 61: man. See feed,
ffooder, II, 46, 41 : (cf. Ger. fuder, cart-load, the largest
or one of the largest measures for corn, liquids, and
other things), here, tun, as is clear from auger, 41.
foonshief, V, 206 a, 8: foundation, bottom sheaf of a
stack.
foor, V, 99, C 4: fared, went,
foote, goe two foote, III, 188, 6: corrupt for fold; cf.
267, 9.
for, ffor. ye (yes), for God, nay, for God, III, 61, 105,
107; 69, 259, 267, 269, 271; 76, 413, 414: by.
for, II, 124, 38: before.
for, IV, 21, 6; 438, 9; V, 16 f., 2, 5, 29: where.
for when but would be expected, II, 58, ll, 13; 59, 22 (see
II, 57 b). for and, V, 76, 25; 144, 9.
for no, I, 183, 25 ; II, 256, K 3 : phrase of refusal,
obscurely elliptical, after the manner of why, no; or
corruptly for fye, no (cf. II, 158, 2).
forbears, I, 206, 2; II, 63, 19: forefathers,
forbode, forbott, ouer Goddes, III, 29, 162; 123, 18; V,
199 a, 64: God forbid, against God's prohibition ; so
A. S. ofer cinges bebod, against the king's order; ofer
dryhtnes word, against the word of the Lord, etc.
Elliptically, God's forbod, as HI, 37, 79; 180, 16. HI,
113, 72: see fiend,
forbye, forebye, I, 402, l; H, 154, 8, 9; IV, 224, 17;
433, 16: near by. I, 86, 33; II, 70, 22: apart, aside.
IV, 203, 2: further,
forbye, forebye, forby, I, 305, l; IV, 203, 2; V, 17, 32;
213 a, l: besides.
force, no, III, 57, 13; 67, 227: no matter,
forces, for (thro, V, 306, 8) a' her father's forces, V,
166, ll: in spite of all her father could do ?
fordoo, destroy.
fore, first fore love, II, 191, 22, 25, 28, 29: earlier,
forebye. See forbye.
ffbrefend, III, 340, 26; 407, 5: avert, forbid,
forehammer, I, 21 b, 12; III, 474, 34: sledge-hammer,
the large hammer, which strikes before the smaller.
foremost man, 1, 146, 12; IV, 412, 19 : apparently
the bridegroom's " best man."
forenent, foment, I, 221 f ., E 7, 17; 504, 7; IV, 77, 3;
288, F 2; 451 a, 3, 5: over against, in the face of.
foresteed, V, 237, 28: protection, protector,
foret, I, 244, 10: forth,
forfaulted, V, 194, 68, 73: forfeited,
forfouchald, IV, 4 b, 28: very much tired. (Scottish
wauchle, forwauchld, forfaughlit.)
forfoughen, IV, 3, 28: tired out with fighting,
forgone, forgo,
foriete, forgotten,
forked, I, 492, 7; IV, 445, p. 100, B 7: of blood from
a wound, issued in divided jets.
forl, V, 116, 2; 117, 3: whorl, fly of a spinning-rock,
f or-lee, she '11 come in att your formast an gee out att
yer forlee, IV, 377, 5; V, 275 b, 5: she '11 cross your
bows and sail round you, coming out at your fore-lee
or lee-bow,
forlorn, I, 450, 8; II, 114, 15, 16; III, 124, 13; 212, 16:
lost, has him forlorn, II, 147, 17: causatively. II,
123, 13; V, 41, 23: destroyed, killed. I, 183, 42; III,
145, 9; V, 210 b, 2: destitute, deserted,
forn, p.p. of fare, II, 29, 6, 9. be weel forn: see that
ye have fared well, eat and drink heartily,
foments, forenent, foment, II, 197 a, 15: opposite
to, directly against,
forren, foreign,
forsake, forsake a ring, I, 192 a: let go, part with.
forsake that I haue promised, III, 29, 156: withdraw
from, forsake this sorowe, III, 73, 341 : decline to
have to do with this sad matter. II, 454, 52: decline
as adversary in a combat. Ill, 360, 106 : refuse an
appointment. IV, 172, l; 173, K 2: refuse suitors.
Ill, 149, 33; IV, 181, 2: give up, renounce,
forth, find forth, III, 148, 17; choose forth, III, 440, 9:
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out. thou maye well fforth for to pay mee, II, 444,
58; thou mayst well forth, thou shalt pay me, 449, 63;
(b, mayst forthwith) : go on, or, make out ?
fforthi, I, 329, 60 : therefore.
forth withall, III, 127, 16 (play): forthwith.
forthynketh, III, 28, 137: repenteth.
fortune be my chance, III, 308, 21= my hap it were,
311, 16.
forward, III, 284, li: van.
forward, V, 283, 4: compact.
foster of the fe, III, 28, 140: " A person who had for
some service to the crown a perpetual right of hunt
ing in a forest on paying to the crown a certain rent
for the same." Halliwell.
fot, I, 141 b, 10: fetched.
fothe, III, 112, 6l: foot.
fou, II, 25, 8; 26, li : a tirlot, which see.
fou, V, 270, 9: how.
fou, fow, full, fou drunken, II, 144, 4.
foucht, pret., II, 391, 21: fought. IV, 200, l: toiled.
p.p. foughten, II, 418, 32; III, 277, 22; 281, 14; 333, 30.
fouie, IV, 20, 10: well off, "possessing a comfortable
independence." Jamieson.
fouled, a bill was fouled against him, III, 463 a :
(equivalent to) found; he was indicted as guilty.
foumart, IV, 389 b: polecat.
found, III, 23, 15: provided for.
foure-eard foole, II, 483, 7: as denoting a double ass ?
fousome, fusom(e), I, 302, B 3, 5, 6; 304, 2, 3: (ful
some) disgustingly filthy.
fow, fou, II, 273, 35; III, 490, 13; IV, 168, D 14, 15: full.
fowd, V, 304 b: sheep-fold.
fowk, I, 245, e: folk.
frae, fray, from, be frae, IV, 433, 21 : remain away
from.
fraine, i\, I, 334, 6, 7, 10: question.
frame, IV, 78, 4: succeed, sae weel we frame: we are
doing, or beginning so well.
frank, of horses kept in a close, you keep them all both
frank and free, II, 450, 64: apparently, fat. Free is
a much abused word, and the only apt meaning here
would be, liberally treated. In A 444, 59, you keepe
them ranke and royallye.
ffrankely, II, 440, 13: freely.
free, n., I, 334, 8: (complimentary term for man) noble,
etc.
free, adj., is used in a great variety of senses, and is
often indefinite and hardly more than a rhyme word:
bounteous, gracious, of noble birth or rank, indepen
dent, unrestricted, exempt, spirited, valorous, beauti
ful, precious, excellent in any way. The danger will
be in assigning too positive a meaning to the word,
of Mary, III, 420 f., 29, 44. lady, ladies free, I, 324,
A 8; 328, 52; 464, 5; V, 87, 39; 279 a. a true-love
free, IV, 461, 22. God make you safe and free (your
own master ?), I, 427, 2; II, 177, 28; 421, 22. castles
free, I, 465, 6; 474, 21. lands sae free, I, 474, 25.
tocher free, II, 380, 33; 383, 26; 385, 27. Clymme of
the Clowgh so fre, Little John so free, III, 26, 96;
154, 2. freyke fulle fre, III, 308, 30. of courage
free, V, 86, 31. chrystall free, II, 52, 17. gold soe
free, V, 49, 23. gowd and jewels free, I, 474, 23.
silver free, II, 69, 9; 445, 64; 450, 70. money ffeyre
and ffre, III, 113, 82. metal free, III, 300, 7; 368 f.,
12, 14; IV, 372, 7; (nonsense in IV, 404, 29). staff of
oke so free, III, 138, 15. Less definite are the fol
lowing : Couentrye faire and free, Derby Hills so
free, Cannongate-side so free, III, 284, 17; 323, 10;
386, 10 ; seas so free, IV, 498, 6 ; water soe free, V,
51, 68 ; forest frie, V, 191 f ., 8, 12, 23, 28, 34 ; learning
my lesson free, I, 438, B 7; chariot, coach, free, I,
475, 44; IV, 410, 29; 462, 35. horses kept free, II,
450, 64: liberally, going free, IV, 289, 7: not under
control, running off. free of grace, V, 20, 24: void of
grace, cf. 43.
free, adv., arowes ifedred fre, III, 69, 275; 70, 288 : in
handsome style, ring she brake so free, I, 470, 26:
generously (cf. II, 450, 64).
freely, adj., freely feed, I, 309, B l: of noble birth, or
beautiful.
freely (naked), I, 508, 10: entirely.
freits, III, 434, 23 : superstitious notions concerning
omens.
freke, freck, freake, freyke, III, 298, 58; 308, 30; 309,
32, 47: bold man, man. (A. S. freca.)
frem, foreign.
frembde, adv., frembde bested, III, 63, 138: in the
position of a stranger (other readings, frend, friend).
frese, frese your, our, bowes of ewe, III, 67, 215; 80,
215: seems to be corrupt. The interpretation in Don
aldson's Supplement to Jamieson, where " to frese a
bow " (cited as if a phrase in full use) is said to mean
unbend, slack, would be entirely inappropriate here,
since three men are to make a desperate attack on
two hundred and fifty (bende your bowes, st. 218).
f, g have, bend we, the required sense. Chese will
not do; they have but one bow each, leese loose is
possible, or dress, or even, free.
frichtit, frighted.
frienged, fringed, gray, III, 481, 7; IV, 2, 5: refer
ring to mane and fetlocks, or perhaps to long fetlocks
only.
frightened the boar will, I, 214, 3: afraid, etc.
frith, frythe, firthe, V, 191 f., 14, 24 : enclosed land,
wood.
froom, V, 296 a: from.
froth-mill, I, 305, 13: " wauk-mill, or fulling-mill, from
the froth of the soap." But the expression seems not
to have been heard of, and froth-mill is more prob
ably corrupt for frozen mill. See next word.
frozen mill, V, 213, 10: mill of which the lade, or canal
conveying the water, is frozen.
frush, IV, 185, 13: brittle.
frythe, I, 329, 3: enclosed land, preserve, deer-park,
wood. See frith.
fue, few.
fug, I, 302, 3, 5: slut, filthy woman. See fag, flag.
fuird, n, 471, 6: ford.
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fule, fowl.
full, IV, 356, B l: proud.
fun, fune, V, 215, 15; 248, 9: whun, whin, furze.
fundid, I, 334, 8: went. (A. S. fundian.)
fur, II, 188, 12; III, 474, 41: furrow.
fusom, fusome, fousome, I, 302, B 3, 5, 6; 304, P 2, 3;
IV, 469, 10, 12: offensive, disgusting (fulsome),
fusty bandy as, V, 72 b: a drinking-formula.
fute, whute, v., Ill, 123, 15: whistle,
fynde, III, 308, 24; Professor Skeat would read fyne,
end.
fynly, III, 70, 284: goodly,
fyt, fytt, fytte. See fit.
ga, gaa, gaw, I, 420, 9, 10; 421, 9, 10; 423, 6, 7; V, 216,
9, 10: gall.
ga, gaa, I, 146, 5; V, 166, 8; 221, 16; 227, 6; 247, 3; 278,
25: go. See gang, gae.
ga, gaa, IV, 513 a, 4; V, 221, 14; 242 a, 8; 268, 23: gave.
gab, n., I, 302, B 12: 422, 13: mouth.
gab, v. t H, 149, IT: prate.
gab, n., I, 277 f . : joke, sportive brag.
gabber reel, I, 217, 8, 13: evidently a sprightly air.
The root may be Icelandic gabb, mockery. Perhaps
simply gabber, jabber.
gaberlunyie, V, 115 f., 6-10 ; 119, 8, 9: beggar's wal
let.
gad, gaud, I, 342, 33; 344, 32; 348, 13, 19; 355, 42; III,
505, 21: bar.
gad, gade, IV, 493 f., 13, 26: went,
gaddie, IV, 273, l=gaudie : showy, dashing.
gae, gai, gay, ga, gaa, gee, gie, I, 69, 49, 62; 71, 39, 60;
II, 304, 17; 468, 14; V, 166, 7; 278, 24: go. pret. gaed,
gade, gad, gaid, gied, gid, ged, good, gude. p.p.
gaen, gain, gane, gaed. pres. p. gain, gan, gaen, gane,
gaun, gawen, etc. See gang.
gae, gang, go down, IV, 12, C 6, 7; 518, 2: be hanged.
gae, IV, 493 f., 23, 32: give.
gae, pret. of gie, I, 69, 55-58, 68; 71, 45-47; 75, 42; 108, 15:
gave.
gae, gay, gey, adv., V, 266, 9: (gay) pretty, rather,
gaed, gade, gad, gaid, pret. of gae, go, I, 102, D 4;
103, E 3; 131, G 10; 439, 14, 15; II, 140, 17, 18; III,
453, 10; IV, 395,6; 494, 26; V, 117,11; 238,27; 274 b,
6; 278, 24.
gaed, p.p., II, 70, 21; III, 473, so: gone,
gaen, gain, gane, p. p. of gae, I, 70, 19; 108, 12; II,
468 f., 15, 18, 22; IV, 507, 2; V, 237, 5: gone,
gaen, gain, p. p. of gie, gae, give, I, 469, 23 (gaen the
table, given a knock); III, 271, 13; V, 183, 34. So
perhaps TI, 212, 15; cf. gain, fifth word below,
gaeng. See gang.
gae-through-land, IV, 428, 13: vagrant,
gai. See gae.
gaid. See gaed.
gain. See gaen.
gain, gaine, gaing, gan, gaen, gane, gaun, gawn,
gawen, pres. p. of gae, ga, go. gain, etc., I, 466, 15;
VOL. v. 43
II, 151, H 2, 4 ; IV, 257, 8; V, 247, 15; 256, 6. gan,
etc., II, 144, 12; IV, 210, 3; 507, 2.
gain, II, 212, 15, ye 's gain as much at mine : will get,
receive. (But will (have) given, dealt, is perhaps
possible.)
gain (him at the law), IV, 286, 3: Icel. gegna, to pro
ceed against ?
gain, gane (Icel. gegna, to suit, be meet), II, 25, 8; 26,
11 (with ellipsis of will): serve, suffice. II, 369, 15:
suit my case.
gaing. See gain, pres. p.
gaix, pay meat and gair, V, 268, 27: gear, clothes an
arms ? or money (a variation of pay meat and fee) ?
gair (of clothes). See gare.
gait, III, 266 b ; 272, 5; IV, 265, A b 10: way, road.
See gate.
galerie, V, 140, f l, 5: for gallaly, galley (doubtful
form).
Galiard, III, 459 f ., 1, 4, etc. : sobriquet of a freebooter
of a gay (perhaps dissipated) character.
galla. See gallowe-ti ee.
gallage, V, 247, 20: gallows.
gallaly, galalie, V, 136 f., 1-3, etc.; 141, d l: galley,
prolonged for metrical convenience.
gallan, gellant, gillan, IV, 260, 4; 315 f., 1, 4-7, 18: gal
lant, gayly or finely dressed.
gallio, V, 141, 2, 3, etc. = galley O.
gallowe, sing, (like A. S. galga), a gallowe, III, 92, 18.
Cf. next word.
gallows, the highest, 1, 150, 13: one elevated above a
triangular framework, for special offenders ; der
hochste Gralgen ; see Grimm's Deutsches Worterbuch,
Galgen, column 1168 (?). Perhaps simply the high
est that is to be had.
gallows-pin. See pin.
gallow-tree (A. S. galgtrdow ; O. Eng. galwetre),
III, 24, 43; 180, 17; 358, 71; 368, 10. gallou-, gal
lage-, galla-tree, gallow-pine, V, 247, 17, 18, 20, 23, 24.
gam, game.
game, had god game, V, 80, 46, 47: sport, amusement.
gamene, I, 328, 52: game, sport.
gamon, II, 59, 25: gamen, amuse himself.
gan, gane. See gain, pres. p.
gan, gon, with infinitive : began, did.
gane, II, 26, ll: serve, suffice. See gain.
gane,^>.j9. of gae, go. See gaen.
gane, III, 281, 14: p.p. of gae, give. See gaen.
gane frae, IV, 378, 3: gone ahead of, left behind.
gang, gange, gaeng, gieng, I, 55, A 5; 57, 4; 68 f., 21,
37, 46; 75, 36, 39; 217, 16; II, 175, 13; 468 f., 13, 14, 38,
39; III, 75, 397; V, 16, 2, 5: go, walk. pret. yede,
yeede, yeed, yed, jede, yode, yod, youd. p. p. gaen,
gain, gane, gaed, gade, gad, gaid, gude, good. inf.
also, gon, gone. p. p. ganged : III, 362, 102. See
gae.
gang, gae, go down : IV, 11, 9, 12; 12, C 6, 7; 518, 2:
like the Scottish be put down, be hanged.
gantrees, II, 369, ll; 370, ll: barrel-stands.
gar, gaur, 1, 100, 8; 127, 15; 130, 8; 397, D 9, ll, 13; II,
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115, 30, 31; 153, 16; 358, 17, 22-24: (Icel. gora) make
do, cause, as auxiliary, gar lay, I, 5, D l: do lay,
lay. So II, 106, il; 107, 19; 216, 3, 4.
garded, III, 117, 16: looked at.
gare, gair, gore, properly, a triangular piece of cloth
inserted in a garment to give width at that part ; in
Old English often coat or gown, low down by his
(her) gare is a frequently recurring expression which
may be taken literally, down by that part of a gar
ment where the gore would be = low by his knee, II,
197, 18. In, your ain hand sewed the gare (of a shirt),
II, 379, 13; 389, 5; 395, 12 (following ain hand sewed
the sleeve), gare in the limited sense seems hardly im
portant enough, and perhaps is to be understood side:
cf . rive it (sark) f rae gore to gore, gair by gair, 1, 439,
4; 440, 5, 7; 441, 6, 7; 442, 6, 6; II, 294, 31, 32. So also
in, frae breast to gare, I, 438, B 4, probably, though
the limited sense would answer. So, riven him frae
gair to gair, IV, 416, 17; the brown bride pat her
hand in att Anne's left gare, V, 224, 20. penknife,
sword, brand, down by (below) his (her) gare, 1, 451,
9; II, 98, 40; 144, 6; 154, 11; 172, 34; IV, 465, 38.
keys hung leugh down by her gair, IV, 465, 34. she
hung 't (cup of wine) low down by her gare, II, 369,
10 (recklessly and absurdly ; the cup is in her hand
in the next stanza). In, frae my sark ye shear a
gare, I, 388, A 8, 9, B 6, gare must be a strip large
enough to make a bandage for the head.
}are, III, 98, 24: ready.
garl, II, 129, 18; V, 223 a, No 66, 18: gravel (suspicious
word).
gar land e, in, 93, 31; rose-garlonde, III, 75, 398: a cir
cular wreath, apparently hung upon a wand or rod.
In III, 93, 31, this can be nothing more than an ex
temporized circlet of twigs.
gar lings, II, 366, 24: garlands.
garmarcie, garmercy, III, 33, 130; 81, 34: gramercy.
garned. the bride she garned round about, IV, 410, 23,
is a misprint of Buchau's for gazed, which stands in
the original MS.
garrett, III, 332, 16: watch-tower, look-out.
gars, garse, IV, 221, 11; 467, 7: grass.
gartan, garten, gartin, IV, 169, 10; 170, H 6; 175,
M 8; 176, N 14, P 2; 490, 12: garter. (Gael, gairtein.)
garthes, girths.
gast, guest.
gate, gait, get, I, 225, 8; H, 311 f., 2, 15, 21; 402, 10;
III, 92, ll; 477 f., 11, 15 (ford); 480, 24; IV, 3, 21;
V, 99, C 4: way, road, water-gate, V, 250, 12: round
by the water, in this gate, II, 73, 26: in such a way
or condition, to the gate (get) has gain, IV, 493, 5;
V, 237, 5: has gone away, tnke the gate, II, 30, 7;
IV, 392, 9: started, departed.
gaucy, IV, 271, B l; V, 152, 3: lusty, jolly.
gaud. See gad.
gaudie, gaudy, gawdie, IV, 273, 12, 13, of speech:
with a stately or pompous air. 274, D 19; 297, 13:
showy, conspicuous. 274, E 1: dashing, gaudy locks,
285, 10, 19: bright-colored. 356, B i: ostentatious.
gaule, I, 272, 11: of the color of gall; or gules, red.
gaun, gawn, gawen, I, 22, A l, B l; III, 473, 21-24;
479, 8; IV, 261, 8; 511 a, 6; 513 a, 3: going.
gaunt, IV, 20, 12: yawn.
gaur, gar, I, 73, 36; IV, 226, ll: make.
gavellock, gavlock, III, 470 b; 493, 10: iron lever.
gavil-post, II, 227 a: gable-post.
gaw. See ga.
gawdie. See gaudie.
gawen, gawn. See ga, and gaun.
gay. See gae.
gay, gae, gey, adv., II, 184, 16; IV, 271, 9; 329, c 20;
V, 266, 9: pretty, rather.
gaze, IV, 313, 10: gauze.
ge> ye.
ge, give. See gie.
gear, geare, geere, geir, gier, I, 411, 5; II, 182, 5;
184, 9; 185, 38; III, 440, 12; 459, 3; IV, 6 f., 5, 19, 29;
469, 10; V, 170, 3, 4: goods, property, often cattle,
silken gear, 1, 145, 22: clothes. Ill, 440, 7, 18, 19; 446
b: fighting equipments, the less gear and the mair,
III, 8, 23: smaller game and greater, pay meat an
gair, V, 268, 27: clothes and arms? or money? Ill,
341, 47; 404, l; IV, 505, 51; 506, 66: business, affair.
geat. See get.
geeks, gien the, II, 105 f., 20, 21: made a fool of.
Geek in German, the northern languages and Eng
lish, fool; in Scottish, according to Jamieson, "sign
of derision, gibe, cheat." See gowk.
gee, give. See gie.
gee, gie, IV, 508, 2; V, 238, 22: go. pret. gied, gid, ged.
See gae.
geere. See gear.
geet, IV, 494, 37: get, progeny, child.
geid, pret. of gie, give, II, 277, A 8. See gied.
gein, p. p. of gie, IV, 316, 18.
geir. See gear.
gell, V, 221, 20 (unnecessarily changed to kell) : congeal,
freeze. (Aberdonian.)
gellant, gallant. See gallan.
gen, V, 247, 10: given.
gen, gen Pasehe, II, 146, 9: against, for, Easter.
general, with the, III, 176, 2: people in general (in
public).
genty, I, 421, 10: elegant of form or dress, but here
refers to gentleness of disposition.
gep, gip, III, 138, ll ; 140, d 11= gup, go up, get up
(properly, a call to a horse), marry gep, interjec
tion of contempt = marry, come up.
gereamarsey, III, 111, 37: gramercy.
gerss, I, 450, 5; II, 248, 9, 16; 464, 8, 10: grass.
get, IV, 493, 5: gate, road (to the get he 's gane, has
gone away). See gate.
get, gett, geat, II, 470, 56-8; V, 238, 13, 24: progeny,
brat.
getterne, I, 328, 49: a stringed instrument.
geve, give. See gie.
gey, adv. gey sad, II, 184, 15, 16: pretty, rather. See
gay.
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339
ghesting, I, 284, 17, 18: guesting, lodging.
gie, go. See gae.
gie, gi, ge, gee, gae, geve, give, gie, I, 71, 55, 56; 74,
76, 77; 206, 26, 30; 207, 30. gi, I, 68 f., 26, 69, 70; IV,
493, 21. ge, gee, IV, 222, 19; 493, 15; V, 228, 10; 248,
4, 5, 21, 22. pret. gae, ga, gaa, gaed, geed, geid, gied.
p. p. gin, gine, geen, gein, gien, gen, gane, gaen. geve
on (like take) = strike, III, 127, 53. gien, II, 232, 13:
struck.
gied, gid, ged, pret. of gae, gie, go, I, 74, 3; 80, 5; 310,
10, 12, 14; II, 75, ll; 357, 7; III, 434, 27.
gied, geed, geid, pret. of gie, give, I, 79 f., 24, 28; 439, 3;
n, 408 f., 3, 4; IV, 512 b, 8.
gien, gine, gin, gein, geen, gen, p. p. of gie, give: I,
100, 25; 467, 25; IV, 316, 18; 509 a, 13; 510, 16; 513,
12; V, 215, 13; 219, 23; 224, 20; 229, 30; 247, 10; 306
b, 3. V, 219, 23: given (a blow) to.
gieng, II, 61, 3: gang, go.
gier. See gear.
gif, giff=if, I, 70, 16; II, 21 B 10; 28, 3; III, 285, 22.
giff-gaff, I, 21 b, 14: give and take, tit for tat.
gile, III, 482 ll : jail.
gill, a steep, narrow glen.
gillan, V, 272 b, l: gallant. See gallan.
Gilliecrankie, be a, IV, 268, 22: a Gilliecrankie woman,
live in Gillecrankie (see 20), be a Highlander, g reads,
hae a Killycrankie, that is, a domestic battle, or row.
gillore, III, 136, 34: galore, in plenty.
gilt, III, 370, 10: money.
gimp, I, 387, l; II, 220, l, 3: jimp, slender.
gin, gine, ginne, V, 125, 9: a contrivance, specially,
the apparatus for fastening a door, I, 107, 4; II, 241,
23; III, 492, 6; IV, 445 f ., 3, 4; 446, b 3, 4 ; door and
window, IV, 480, 4, 5. chappit (knocked) at the
gin, I, 465, 11; IV, 445 f., 3, 4. lift the gin (that is
the lever for raising the latch), II, 158, 4; 165, 4, 7,
altered to pin, II, 158, 4, in the margin of the MS.,
and pin stands in 7 of the same piece. Otherwise,
chin.
gin, I, 108, B 3, like the gin: corrupt, compare A 4.
gin, II, 23, E 8; 271, 34; 286, 3; IV, 412, ll; 485, 15;
V, 243, 17: (of time) against, towards. II, 313, 14;
IV, 138, M l; 166, C 6; 392, 12: by the time that.
gin, con/., I, 5, C 8; 68, 21, 22; 70, 15; 72, 24; 310, 4, 6;
466, 4, 5; 468, 5, 8; 478, 4, 6, 8-10: if.
gin, gine, given.
gine, ginne, n. See gin.
gip. See gep.
gird, III, 35, 19: blow, stroke.
girded out, guirded, V, 76, 23; 82, 37: cracked, let.
girdle, I, 403, 12: griddle.
girds, II, 70, 27; IV, 481, 6: hoops.
girn, I, 344, 31: (of a hound) snarl. IV, 69, 18: (of men
hanged) grin.
girth was the gold-twist to be, III, 490, 16, see
486 b. girth should probably be graith, but ad
mitting this, the sense is not clear, and further cor
ruption may be suspected. We may understand, per
haps, that after the rescue the mare was to have a
caparison of gilded chains. Or we may read, her
graith was used the gold-twist to be.
gitter, V, 243, 16: gutter,
glue, II, 442, 7, io: = gif, if.
gives, II, 448, 26: misgives,
gladdynge, III, 70, 297: gladdening (cheering in later
texts).
glaive,glaue,IV,491,ii; V, 235, 32: sword. Seeglaue.
glamer, glamour, glamourie, glaumry, IV, 65, 2;
66, 2; 67, 2; 68, D 2, E 2; 70, P 2, etc.; 367, 8; V, 301,
No 200: a charm deluding the eye. IV, 310, 14:
glitter, gleam.
glance, III, 394, K 6; 397, 5; IV, 508 a, 8: shine,
glaned, IV, 406, 14: (giant, from glent) glanced, shone,
glar, I, 494, 18: mire,
glashet, 1, 434, 36: (0. French, glacer, glachier) darted,
flashed,
glasse, III, 340, 32; 344, 30, 31 ; 349, 31 ; IV, 504, 36:
lantern, ship-light,
glaue, glaive, III, 105, 20: (in this place) a cutting
weapon fixed to the end of a pole. See glaive,
glaumry. See glamer.
glazen, of glass.
gleat (Icelandic glit), I, 100, 28: glitter.
glede, gleed(e), I, 285, 28; 287, 67; 342, 34; III, 308,
14; IV, 379, 14; V, 184, 42: glowing coal. II, 115, 29;
140, 18; V, 27, 46: fire. See glyde.
glee (=glue), I, 68, 9, 12: glove,
gleid, gley(e)d, IV, 56, B 3; 58, 3, 4, 9, 10; 135, 23, 24:
squint-eyed,
glen, set her on the glen, IV, 284, 25; take her to the
glen, 286, 29; set her to the glen, 287, 18: because,
the roadways running usually through glens, this
amounts to a public exposure,
glent, I, 105 a, 28: glitter, glancing, wi a glent, II,
119, 19; IV, 467, 14: in a flash, a moment (otherwise,
in a glent).
glent, III, 307, 6: glanced, went (perhaps, darted).
gley(e)d. See gleid.
glided, I, 333, 3: glittered, glinted,
glintin, IV, 450 b, 6: gleaming, flashing,
glister, IV, 510, 5: shine,
gloamin, III, 319, 23: twilight, evening,
gloe, III, 455, 8, 9, 11: glove. See glee,
gloom, IV, 94, 9: frown, morose look,
gloom, I, 302, A ll, B 9; 303, C 6; IV, 337, g before
20: frown, look sullen,
glore, II, 319, 13: glory,
glove, cut my glove, etc., II, 105, 18: lovers were wont
to cut a glove and each take a part. S. W. will take
in his hand the half of his glove which represents
Janet and dance for two. T. Davidson, played at
the glove, III, 448, 5: some game for braw gallants,
unexplained ; possibly, spearing a glove when riding
rapidly.
glove tee. See tee.
glowd, glowde, II, 454 f., 54, 58: glided,
glowred, IV, 429, a 15: stared,
glue, II, 147, 12: glove. See glee, gloe.
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GLOSSARY
glyde, II, 375, 19: spark. See glede.
go, goe, goo, gone, III, 64, 160; 71, 302; 77, 429; 105,
22; 432, 19: walk, go boun away, IV, 224, 15, 16: go,
depart, go down, IV, 13, 2, 3; 14, 2: be hanged
(cf. gae down), goe vppon his death, V, 53, 99:
pass upon the question of.
gockies, II, 470, 48: deep wooden dishes.
god, godde, III, 113, 72, 78, 80: property, goods.
God, omitted, O save and you may see, III, 181, 19;
184, 16.
God, II, 46, 5l; in, 29, 146; 59, 62, 63; 61, 92; 68, 240;
75, 391; 101, 90; 105, 23 (mood, wrongly for my
God?}; 359, 103; 444, 16, 17: the second person in
the Trinity.
G-od a marsey, God amercy. God have mercy, III,
111, 39; 138, 22; 149, 41; 445, 30; V, 76, 10; 77, 39;
80, 51, 53; 81, 13; 83, 55: gramercy (not Dieu merci,
i thank God, which meaning, unlikely in all, is impos
sible in most of the cases).
God beffore, V, 79, 19: before God (attestation). Cf.
for God. But perhaps God before (and God before)
is always to be distinguished from before God, and to
be understood as, God my guide or helper ; which
sense seems to be required in Shakspere's Henry V,
I, n, 307, III, vi, 165; Percy MS., Hales & Furni-
vall, III, 30, v. 304, 528, v. 57. [So, and God to-
forn, in Chaucer, Troilus, i, 1049 ; n, 431. Cf. also
King Edw. and the Shepherd, Hartshorne, Ancient
Metrical Tales, p. 47 ; Peniworth of Witte, Englische
Studien, VII, 116, v. 287 ; Weddynge of Syr Gawen,
v. 640, Madden, p. 298 s ; etc.]
God's peny, V, 14, 5; 15, 27: an earnest-penny, to bind
a bargain.
Godzounds, V, 93, 4, 8, 12, etc.: God's wounds.
gogled, III, 179, 7: joggled, waggled.
golden-knobbed (gloves), II, 133, 6: ornamented with
golden balls or tassels, (siller-knapped, 134, 8, 13.)
golett of J?e hode, III, 99, 49: throat, part covering
the throat.
gon, gone, infin. of go, III, 24, 45; 35, 32; 66, 204;
67, 223; 71, 316; 74, 363; 77, 435; 111, 28.
gon, gon gae, I, 333, 3: did go.
gone, subj. of gon, go, III, 67, 219.
good, gude, pret. of go, III, 464, 4; V, 153, 1.
Good, V, 199 b, 20: God.
Good-ben, III, 267, A 10. If ben is to stand, it must
be benison abridged. Good benison be here, quoth
he, makes a satisfactory line. Compare B 9, D 9.
good-brother, IV, 168, 9: brother-in-law.
good b'w'ye, III, 134, 6: God be wi you, good-bye.
goodman, III, 274, 33, 35; V, 91, 1, 5, etc.; 98, 2, 3:
master of a house.
good-mother, IV, 412, 19: mother-in-law.
good-son, IV, 283, 10: son-in-law.
goodwife, III, 274, 33, 35; V, 91, 2, 6, etc.; 98, 1, 2:
mistress of a house, housewife.
goold, V, 296 a: gold.
gorgett, III, 422, 75: defense for the neck, here a part
of a jack.
gorgett, II, 45, 32: a neckerchief. (" Nearly = wimple
in Edward I.'s time ; in 15th century, neckerchief.")
gorney, journey.
goud = gan, did, IV, 20, 12, 13. (Cf . begoud = began.)
goud, gowd, n. and adj., I, 127, 12; 135, 9-12; 351, 35;
429, 28: gold.
gouden, go w den, I, 127, 21, 22; 145, 23: golden.
goudie, goudy, V, 110, 7; 267 b, 10; 268, 19: golden,
yellow (locks).
goun-teall. See gown-tail.
goupen, I, 356, D b after 23: hollow of the hand.
gouernor, I, 286, 40: director, guardian.
go wans, I, 55, A 1: daisies.
gowany, I, 315, 12: covered with daisies.
gowd. See goud.
gowk, II, 111, 12: (cuckoo), fool, gien me the gowk,
made a fool of me. See geeks.
gown of green, gien her a, II, 472, 2: defloured. got
on the, I, 350, ll: strangely used for to be with
child; properly, she got a gown of green eight months
before: it can hardly mean, put on a green gown,
literally, as at I, 358, 40.
gown-tail, gooun-teall, II, 31, M 4; 472, 19; V, 235,
4: lower part of the skirt of a gown.
soy, joy-
graid, great.
graie dogs, III, 7, l: Scottish hunting dogs, deer dogs,
rough greyhounds.
grain, sitt in a graine, I, 210, 5: fork of a tree. Ill,
267, 2l; 269, 14; V, 243, 17: branch of a tree.
graith, n., IV, 86, 8: equipment (horse and arms).
graith, v., V, 192, 34; 198 b, 34: make ready, p.p.
graithed, IV, 2, 5; 27, 26: equipped in defensive ar
mor, golden graithed behin, II, 191, 18; gowden-
graithd before and siller-shod behind, II, 343, 4; shod
wi silver afore an gold graithed behind, II, 194, 16,
20: properly, harnessed, but as the horse is silver-shod
before and gold behind, 183, 16; 185, 23; V, 224, 14,
shod seems to be meant here. So in the patched-up
ballad IV, 410, 18. The horse silver-shod before and
gold-shod behind is a commonplace ; see II, 266, l;
267, 1.
graithing (gowd), IV, 410, 18: harness or caparison,
behind horse. But see graith, v.
grammarye, grammeree, V, 294 b, 2: grammar, learn
ing. II, 53, 36, 41; 54, 55; 55, 68: magic. Gramery=
grammar, learning, occurs three times in the Towne-
ley Mysteries, but strangely enough seems not to
have been heard of in the sense of magic till we
come to Percy's Reliques. Percy suggests that the
word is probably a corruption of the French grimoire,
a conjuring book. Grimoire, however, does not ap
pear until the 16th century and was preceded by
gramoire (Littre). Gramaire in the 13th-15th cen
turies has the sense of magic: see the history of
grimoire in Littre'. Godefroi interprets gramaire
savant, magicien.
grandmother over, IV, 70, G 2: corruption of, glamer,
oer her.
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341
grange-house, III, 360, lie: farm-house.
grat, II, 70, 25; 323, 26, 27; IV, 7, 36; V, 166, 11, 13,
pret. of greet, weep.
gravat, II, 283, 21; V, 240, 14: cravat.
graveld green, II, 158, l: a green with gravel walks?
Probably corrupt: in yonder green, B, garden
green G.
gravil, I, 350, 18, 19 (pile o the gravil): expounded by
Donaldson, Supplement to Jamieson, p. 304, as " the
plant graymill or gromwell, of the genus Litho-
spermum, anciently used in the cure of gravel, hence
its name. Said to be used also in producing abor
tion." I fear this is somewhat conjectural or even
arbitrary. The pile seems to be simply some downy
plant (velvety moss) which grows on stones; indeed
we are expressly told this, IV, 456, 9, 12 : 'a flower, it
grows on gravel greay,' ' the pile that grows on gravel
green.' ("We have gravel green and gravel grey in
the ordinary sense again, I, 347, l.)
greaf, grave.
greahondes, grehoundis, greyhounds.
great, I, 252, 3, 5: groat.
great, IV, 373, 15; V, 176, 16: intimate, high in favor.
grece, harte of, III, 27, 105: a fat hart.
gree, III, 61, 108 (made the gree) : paid my dues,
(make gre in Old English, to discharge obligation;
Old Fr. gre, gret, from gratum.)
gree, from them take the gree, IV, 248, 16: prize, su
periority. (Lat. gradus.)
greecy (ghost), II, 390, 27: frightful (grisly).
greeme, I, 69, 51 : (groom) young fellow. See grome.
greet, greit, I, 186, B 3; 359, l, 2; 448 f., B l, 5; II,
77, 30; III, 384, 4; 387, 6; 391, 5; V, 36, C 3: weep,
cry. pret. grat.
greete, III, 105, 26: grit, gravel, sand.
greeter, V, 183, 17: weeper.
greeting, weeping.
grefe, III, 69, 268; 83, 268: 87, 268: offence, displeasure,
a-grefe, III, 69, 268: in displeasure.
grehoundis, greyhounds.
greit, greet, weep, cry.
grenner, compar., V, 283, 9, 19: greener.
gret, pret. of greet, address, III, 111, 40.
grett wurdes, III, 297, 31: high, haughty words.
grevis, III, 307, 6: groves. See grief.
grew, grow.
grew, V, 113 b, 7: greyhound. See next word.
grew hound, grew(e)hund, I, 328,47; II, 70,24; 79,
37: Dr. J. A. H. Murray says Greek hound; "still
called in Scotland a grewe, which was the older
Scotch for Greek." Grew= Greek is well known in
Middle English, and greyhound (Icelandic greyhundr)
may have been changed to grewhound under its influ
ence.
grey (meal), oat-meal and grey, II, 462, 30: barley-
(bere-) meal, as distinguished from oat-meal (= white
meal).
grief, V, 151, F l: grove, (tier should be tree.) See
grevis.
grien, III, 397, Q 2: yearn, long.
griesly, grisly, grizly, I, 298, 4: 300 a; V, 234 b, 31:
frightful.
grievd, pret., Ill, 162, 58: injured.
grimlie, grimly, II, 45, 19, 31; 199 a; 201, 7: grim, ter
rible.
grind, II, 216 f., 4, 27, 29: an apparent corruption for
graith, graithed, accoutre, adorn. Cf. II, 191, 18; 194,
16, and many other places.
grinding, I, 130, l; 134, O l: this word of the refrain
may be suggested by the mill.
grips, IV, 53, 13: clutches, fastenings. See signots.
grisel, grissell, III, 369, 20, 23: gray horse.
grisly, II, 397, A so: terrible. See griesly.
grit, grite, gryte, IV, 312, 9; 445, b l: great.
grit oats, IV, 20, 14: great, or improved oats as dis
tinguished from the sma corn or oats of the early
part of the century.
grith, III, 101, 86, 87: (peace) remission of hostility,
" charter of peace." neither grith nor grace, 358, 65.
grizly, IV, 398, 21: frightful. See griesly.
grome, groom, greem, I, 75, 40; 77, 20; 342, 40; 345,
38; 355, 52; 371, 3; III, 56, 4; 67, 224: man, young
fellow.
gross, II, 267, 13; 268, 18: big, burly.
ground, the grounds o my pouches, V, 306, 9: bottoms
(V, 165, 6 has, the boddoms of my pakets).
ground-wa-stane, III, 433, 12, 13 : foundation-stone.
(A. S. grundweall, fundamentum.)
growende, ground.
grumly (A. S. gramlfc, gromlfc), (of the sea) II, 22,
10: furious, (of a seal) II, 494, 2: fierce-looking.
(Jamieson: muddy, turbid.)
grun, ground.
gryming, IV, 6, 7; V, 249, 7: sprinkling, thin covering.
grype, II, 45, 19, 31: griffon (also vulture).
grysely, III, 298, 60: frightfully.
gryte, great: I, 127, 22. See grit.
gude, gued=God, II, 94, 17; V, 221, 24.
gude, guid, gueed, good.
gude, good, pret. of go, III, 464, 4; V, 153, 1.
gude father, gude faythir, I, 301, l; 302, l; 303, C 1:
father-in-law.
gude mother, II, 284, 10: mother-in-law.
gude neighbours, I, 352, 8: euphemism for fairies.
gudeson, guidson, II, 463, 20; IV, 309, 3; 310, 6: step
son, son-in-law, wrongly used of an own son, II,
219, 9.
gued, gueed(e), I, 68, 10, 14; V, 221, 24: good.
gued, God. See gude.
guid, good.
guide, gyde, n., I, 101, 9; 102, 7; IV, 174, 19; 425, 6:
one who has charge, etc., custodian. I shal be Ipe
munkis gyde: III, 98, 35: take charge of him. death
is her guide, II, 191, 29: has her in hand, this sword
shall be thy guide, V, 49, 28: shall settle thy case.
IV, 309, 2: escort, convoy.
guide, v., 1, 481, 44; II, 152, 1 2; III, 459, 21: treat, use.
guiding, gude, I, 303, C 3: thrifty management.
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GLOSSARY
guidson. See gudeson.
guildery, guildery maids, V, 301 b, 5 : guildry is
Scottish for guild, but this makes small sense here.
guilt, all of guilt, II, 46, 43: of gilding or gilt metal,
all begilt.
guirded, V, 77, a b 23. See girded.
gull, III, 217, 44: a fool.
gunies, guineas.
gurious, II, 380, 31 : (same as gruous, grugous) grim,
grisly (or, ugly).
gurly, (sea) II, 26, 14; IV, 366, 7: grim, surly, growl
ing. gurrl(e)y fellow, IV, 489, 24, 25: gruff, surly.
gutter-hole, I, 164, K 3: the place where filth from
the kitchen is thrown.
gyde, be }>e munkis, III, 98, 35: take charge of the
monk. See guide.
gyff, gif, if.
gyll, II, 478, 4: opprobrious term for woman, here re
ferring to levity.
gyrde, pret., Ill, 66, 211: girt.
gyat, III, 13, 10: gettest.
jare, III, 98, 24: ready. See yare.
jates, jatis, III, 99, 61, 62: gates. See yate.
3 e, V, 283, l: ye.
36, III, 97, 6: yea.
jede, III, 99, 60: went. See yede.
jelpe, III, 14, 16, IT: brag.
jeluer, campar., V, 283, ll, 21: yellower.
jeman, joman, III, 99, 58; 100, 74; 101, 86, 87: yeo
man.
jete, III, 100, 82: ate.
jeue, III, 13, 12, 14: give, jouyn, 14: given.
3006, I, 327, ll, 12; 328, 38-44; III, 13, 1: yon.
jowe, I, 328, 53: you.
ha, hae, hay, I, 299, 7, 9, 11; 330, A 6, B 6; 331, C 3, 6;
D 6; 332, F 5; II, 74, E 6; 145, 27; V, 215, 9; 219, 20,
21; 221, 16, 22: have. See haed, haet.
ha, hall, I, 101, 14; 133, M l; II, 371, 8; 387, 13; IV,
84, 5; V, 209 a, the last 2: house, manor-house, hall,
IV, 513 b, 1, 2; V, 247, 1, 2, must be hold, as in other
versions; but in IV, 514, 15, 16, would be house, un
less an error for hale, whole.
haad, v., II, 338, R 11: hold. See baud.
hachebord, hatchbord, III, 340, 36; 342, 70: would
most naturally be interpreted gunwale, or side of
the ship, and so archborde, 340, 23. But in 36 Sir
Andrew lies at the hache-bord (which is hached with
gold), and stern would be a better meaning for hache
bord in that place, the high stern of the old ship
being a conspicuous place for a captain to lie. See
archborde. Barton lies a larborde in the York copy,
IV, 504, 38, which is quite loose.
hached, the hache-bord is hached with gold, III, 340,
36: gilt (possibly inlaid).
haches, hatches, III, 341, 54, 57: deck, properly a frame
of crossbars laid over an opening in a ship's deck.
(Skeat.)
had, ellipsis of, V, 274, 10, [had] rather [have] wedded,
and [have] trailed, I [had] rader.
had, haad = hold. See haud.
hadden, p. p., I, 402, 4, 6: held.
hadno, had not.
hads, hads slaine, III, 358, 61 : the s in hads is per
haps caught from slaine. Other readings are had,
hadeste.
hae, have. See ha.
hae, II, 97, 18: correct to has; cf. drees, 17.
haed, II, 110, 33: had.
haely. See haly.
haet, hayt, hajt, I, 415 b; III, 109, 5; 110, 20; 111, 41;
113, 78: hath.
hafe-gate. See half-gate.
hagg-worm, II, 503 : a monstrous snake.
haghty, V, 219, 21: haughty.
ha-house, manor-house.
haik ye up, IV, 219, 13: keep you in suspense (from
hake, a frame on which fish are hung to be dried (?),
or, haik, to drag up and down to little purpose
(Jamieson), " bear in hand," delude with false
hopes ?
hail, III, 163, 77: whole, wholly. See hale.
hail, II, 151, H l; 256, K 5: conceal. See heal.
hailing (Old Eng. halen=Germ. ziehen, draw, move),
denoting rapid motion, driving, rushing, wind come
hailing, II, 22, 9. ship come hailing, IV, 402, 15, 25.
went hailing to the door, hailing ben the floor, hailing
through the closs, IV, 422 f, ll, 15, 18; V, 279 a, No
257, ll. Of tears and blood falling fast, tears dame
hailing down, II, 407, 14; drops o blude came hailing
to the groun, II, 418, 31. See hailing.
hailing at the ba', II, 269, 8: playing foot-ball. Hail
the ba is specifically drive the ball to or beyond
haill. See hale.
hailsed, I, 333, 2: greeted.
hain, II, 92, 17, strong participle of have (haven),
wald hain = would (have) had.
haind grass, II, 465, 7 (spared, preserved) : grass kept
from cutting or pasturing.
hair, hire.
haisling, IV, 46, B 9, come haisling to the town; of.
hailing, proceeding. (Perhaps miswritten; Hill Bur
ton's hand is not always careful.)
halch, halch vpon, I, 294, 18, 20; III, 419 f., 7, 37:
salute, bestow a salutation on.
hald. See hauld, hold.
hale, haill, hail, haylle, hell, II, 28, 23; 80, 15; III,
296, 23; IV, 379, 11; 380, 20; 381, 8; 382, 13; V, 276,
14, 15: whole, in sound condition. Ill, 163, 77; 299,
3: wholly.
Haleigh, as he was walking the Haleigh throw, I, 76,
E 6: ha-lee, the lea of the hall ?
halfendell, III, 75, 382: the half part.
half -gate, hafe-gate, II, 313, 14, 16: half-way.
halke, III, 74, 366: corner, hiding-place.
hall, house, manor-house. See ha.
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343
hall, either in arcbbord or in hall, he wold ouercome
you, III, 340, 29: hull ?
hall, hold. See hauld.
hall, IV, 514, 15, 16: perhaps written for hale; in any
case meaning whole.
hall an, V, 99, 2: in cottages a wall between the fire
place and the door, to shelter from the air (extending
only as far as is thought requisite for that purpose).
halld. See hauld.
halle, V, 236, 23: hollo ! or, perhaps, simply halle=
hail.
hailed, V, 270, 11: hailed, saluted.
halleen, V, 197, 9: holly. See hollen.
hailing, come hailing to the town, V, 277 f., 15, 25. See
hailing.
hallow, haly, II, 175, 16; 239, l: holy.
hallow, good hallow, II, 270, 10: a form of salutation;
perhaps, God hallow, sanctify, cleanse us from sin !
perhaps simply an elliptical Good saint ! I have not
met the phrase elsewhere, and it seems no longer to
be familiar in Scotland.
Hallo wday, 1, 342, 25; 507, l; in, 246, B 1: saints' day,
All Saints.
hallow seat, I, 367, 7: a saint's place.
hals-bane, hass-bane, hause-bane, hase-bane, I,
394, 8: neck-bone.
halse, I, 327, 10: neck. See hause.
haly, haely, hallow, II, 104, 22; 175, 16; 179, 13; 239,
i; 417, 13; III, 262, 5: holy.
halycon, come halycon to the town, III, 434, B 3: in a
rollicking, or a boisterous, turbulent way. North
Eng. hallacking, making merry; Scottish hallach, hal-
lokit, crazy.
halyde, hauled.
hame, bring bame, bear a child. See bring.
name, home, came, IV, 405, 54; 420, 5: was born.
hame, gae hame, III, 398, A c after 3: that is, to the
heaven where you belong, seek your lover hame, IV,
174, ll: go for and bring.
hame-gaun, I, 72 f., ll, 66: home-going (to go home).
hamesucken, IV, 244 b: invasion of a private house.
hand, att hand of, III, 278, 30: nearly, about; cf. Old
Eng. nearhand. (stroke) behind his hand, II, 63, 24:
seems to be intended for backhanded.
hand for hand, III, 465, 34; 466, 48: in a fair match ?
(hand to hand, 468, 48.)
hand, lokyde at his hand, III, 307, 10: probably, shad
ing his eyes with his hand; possibly, looked aside.
Cf. lookit aneath (below) the sun, III, 5, D 7; 6, 6;
8,6.
hand, on the upper, II, 245, 29: side, uppermost (see
II, 247, 32; 254, 22).
hand, out of, III, 440, 25: forthwith ? (The line seems
to be corrupted; without resource, unable to help
themselves, hors de combat, would give an easier sense
if allowable.) Should we read: as many as was, out
of hand ?
hand-write, III, 455, 8, 9, ll; V, 300, 10, 16, 19: hand
writing.
hang, pret. of hing, to hang, I, 327, 23 (hange); 448, 5;
451, 9; II, 154, 11; 172, 34; IV, 465, 38.
hang down, III, 483, D 9: unintelligible to me, whether
hang or gang, ding down ? (drown my mare and
thee, III, 492, 26; 493, 15.)
hanging well, III, 440, 17 : draw-well of which the
bucket is raised and lowered by a pole or beam turn
ing on an upright post ? By some understood as, a
well near the place of execution.
hankit, I, 224, J 2, 8: tied tight.
hansell, haffe hansell for the mare, III, 111,32: have a
present, the more you buy ? have the first purchase
(which was thought lucky) for the larger part (of the
ware) ? (Doubtful.) HI, 284, 10: reward. V, 112,
B b 9: used in Galloway of a piece of bread given
before breakfast (Jamieson); here apparently of a
draught of ale given early in the morning.
hantle, II, 337, ll: a large number.
hap, happing, cover, coverlet: IV, 65, 7; 258 f., 6, 20.
hap, v., I, 15, 18; 299, 5; IV, 233, 2: cover, wrap.
hap, v., IV, 483 b, after 12: hop.
happer, hopper.
happing. See hap.
harbengers, III, 198, 2: harbingers, officers who pre
ceded the king in a progress to provide accommoda
tion for the court.
harl, harl her thro the lin, I, 303, D 4: drag. See
haurld.
harme, III, 357, 50: sorrow.
harnessed (men), III, 62, 133: equipped.
harns, V, 201, note f : brains, barn-pan, brain-pan,
skull.
harried, haryed, pvtf. and p. p., Ill, 295, 4, 6; 296, 12;
IV, 6, 9, 14, etc.; V, 250, 9, 13 : plundered. See herry.
harte of gre(e)ce, III, 27, 105; 124, 3, 4: a fat hart.
har tinge, IV, 504, 31: encouragement.
hart-roote, II, 241, 27: (Icel. hjarta-rcetr, pi., Old
Eng. heorte rotes, heart-roots, -strings) term of
affection.
has be, I, 86, 24: as if for future (see a, us, etc.); but
shall in 7, 16, and sail in b.
base, halls.
hase, hass, neck, throat. See hause.
hase-bane, hass-bane. See hause-bane.
hast, V, 78, 12: am in haste (as well as fow hast, hast-
est).
hastely, hastilye, III, 74, 376; 75,392; 405,20: immedi
ately, soon, promptly.
hat, pret. of hit, I, 299, 5; III, 350, 50.
hatches = deck: III, 335 b; IV, 505, 57. See haches.
hather, III, 424 b; 426 a: heather.
haud, had, hawd, haad, howd, I, 21 b, 3, 4; 74, 75;
341, 12; 354, 17; 421, 4, 8, ll; II, 70, 17; 74, D 7; 463,
24, 25; III, 491, 9; V, 296, l, etc.; 304 b, 3: hold,
keep. pret. had, II, 371, 7. p. p. hadden, I, 402, 6;
hauden, II, 161, 7.
haud me un thought lang, IV, 260, 10: keep me with
out the time seeming long, interested, entertained.
haugh, low ground, properly on the border of a river:
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in, 9, G 10; 483, 5; IV, 3, 17; 77, 3; 273, C 7; V,
250, 20, 21.
hauld, hald, halld, hall, hold, III, 281, l; 371, 33;
433, l, 2; 434, 1, 2; 436, l; IV, 513 b, 1, 2; V, 247, l,
2: place of shelter, stronghold, quarters. See hold.
hauld, I, 359, 9, gang by the: walk by taking hold of
things, gang by haulds, III, 162, 46.
hauping, II, 463, 16: hopping, hobbling.
haurld=harld, V, 99, C 6: dragged.
hause, base, hass, halse, I, 149, H l; 327, 10; II,
165, 22; 319, 3; 366, 38; in, 163, 76; V, 184, 44:
neck, throat.
hause-bane, base-bane, bass-bane, hals-bane, I,
394, 8; 395, B 3; H, 146, 14; 147, 15; IV, 165, 15;
447 b, after 13; 448 a, 2d stanza; V, 204 b: neck-
bone.
have, ellipsis of. would been, 1, 169, 7. I wad taen, I,
356, 54, 55. shuld I slain, II, 169, 7. ye widna kept,
III, 390, 10. I woud not swum, III, 489, 42. I should,
might, enjoyd, IV, 135, 23; 137, 32. he woud guarded
me, IV, 148, 55. they taen, IV, 221, D 7. as muckle
as wald bocht, IV, 386, 18. I seen 't, IV, 465, 31.
euer I scene, V, 53, 105. seem[d] to worn, V, 55, 26.
he 11 learned, V, 196, 53. had rather lost, V, 302, 17.
have = proceed, go. have in (to water), have over, III,
128, 76, 77.
ha ve= provide or procure that a thing is done, hae me
hame, II, 82, 54; hae me to the town, II, 122 f., 4,
28: take.
have in, had him in, II, 216, 8: had him in my posses
sion (Germ, innehaben) ?
have (on the skynne), III, 127, 60: get a blow.
haw, green haw sea, II, 28, 21; IV, 379, 10, 14; 380, 19:
bluish. " azure; pale, wan; " Jamieson. (A. S. hsewen,
glaucus, caeruleus. Old Eng. hawe, haa.) green raw
sea, II, 30, 6, is a corruption; I have been lately in
formed that the singer ordinarily gave haw. In haw
bayberry kame, IV, 471 f., 2, 4, there is again cor
ruption; as in the same passage of other versions.
hawd. See baud.
hay, II, 160, is: for hae, has.
hay, went forth to view the hay, IV, 233, 1; 238, 1: to
see how the hay was coming on, as a way of taking
the air.
hay, IV, 225, 15; V, 261 a, No 221, G 22; hays, 16: in
Maidinent's text, lea, leas, probably right, hays mak
ing no reasonable sense.
hay lie, III, 296, 23: whole, entire. See hale.
hayt, hajt, I, 415 b; III, 109, 5; 111, 41; 113, 78:
hath. See haet.
he, him, she, her, with proper names (almost always
him, her) : like Icelandic hann, hdn (htin) (" so fre
quent in modern conversational usage that a person
is scarcely ever named without the pronoun," Vigfus-
son.) out and spak he Sweet Willie, II, 108, 19;
185, 33. sighing said he Love Robbie, 370, 8. up
and raise he Sweet Willie, 108, 15. up and raise he
the bridegroom, 108, 13. up and stands she Fair
Annie, 189, 32. whare it is him Sir Colin, 61, l; so
147, 16. out it speaks him Young Bondwell, I, 479,
41; so II, 418, 25; 419, 37, 53. sighing says him
Brown Robyn, II, 371, 8, 9. leugh him Childe Vyet,
134, 21. out it spake her Dow Isbel, II, 97, 21; so
418, 34. out spoke her Lady Frendraught, IV, 44, 12.
out waked her May Meggie, 188, 14. it was her
May Catheren, II, 145, 25. sighan says her Suse Pay,
V, 219, 17. Etc., etc. Cf. Chaucer in, he lakke
Straw, he Theodomar, he Pluto, = perhaps, ille; but
not, him Arcite, Knight's Tale, 352, 475.) with the
objective case: as, sought her Lady Maisry, II, 114,
3, 4, 10; 154, ll, 24, 26, 27; 370, 18; etc. (Him, her,
with verbs of motion may possibly be a relic of the
old use of a dative, and such cases are not included.)
he, I, 242, 12; HI, 13, 4, 8: they.
he, hee, III, 307, 4: high.
header, heather.
heal, healle, hail, I, 453, 9; H, 145, 26; 146, 9, 10;
154, 13, 14; 155, 37: conceal.
healy, hooly, adj., gentle.
healy, heely, hooly, slowly, gently: II, 94, 15; 110,
22, 23.
beans, hens.
heard, V, 253 f., No 203, D 2, 8: hired.
hearten, IV, 444, 32: encourage.
heathen (child), II, 246, 13: unbaptized.
heathennest, I, 284, 15: heathendom.
heather-cow(e), I, 302, A 9; 304, E 8, P 8; 305, 14; V,
173, 8; 174, C 2; 213, 8; heather-crow, I, 301, note *:
tuft or twig of heather.
heather-knaps, V, 173, 8: heather hillocks, knolls.
hech and how, III, 392, 13: to utter these interjec
tions of grief.
heckle, IV, 247, 12; 248, 17 : hackle, flax-comb (board
set with sharp steel spikes).
hecks, IV, 319, I, 5: racks.
hee. See he.
heely, n, 220, 21: slowly. See healy.
heer, heir, heire, I, 301, 3; 303, C 3; 304, E 2: the
sixth part of a hank of yarn, 240 threads.
hegehen, I, 333, 3: eyen, eyes.
heght, IV, 179, A l: promised.
heigh a ween, and Oh a ween ! interjections of grief,
II, 504, 27. a ween is probably I ween.
height, heihte, hight, hith, heiste, hette, I, 244, 10;
IV, 503, ll, 14; V, 288, 18: was, is, called.
heir, heire. See heer.
heiste. See height.
hele=heal, conceal.
hell = whole, staunch, tight, V, 276, 14, 15. See hale.
hell, heel.
helt, IV, 457, 22: pret. of hile: hailed.
he me, III, 434, 27, 28: home.
hempten, V, 87, 11: hempen.
hend, hende, heynd, hind, hindy, III, 57, 25: noble,
gracious, lady hende, of the Virgin, III, 68, 251.
hend soldan, II, 59, 36, 37: noble, of rank. Ill, 110,
27; V, 49, 12: friendly, kindly. I, 71, 4i(?) ; 329,
57: fine-looking. Ill, 98, 41 : civil. See hind.
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345
hende, I, 71, 41 (gallant hende) : hind, young fellow ?
The adjective, of noble rank, courteous, kindly, is
less likely.
hent, III, 110, w; 123,8, 10: caught, took.
hepe, III, 66, 204: hip (as II, 273, 35), berry of the wild
rose.
herbere, I, 327, 32: garden.
herkeneth, herkens, imperative plural, III, 81, 317;
109, 2.
herowed, herowed hell, III, 25, 63: harried, despoiled.
See harried, herry.
berry, II, 261, 7; III, 473, 23; IV, 26, 2: harry, pil
lage, rob. See harried.
hersed, V, 156, 15: rehearsed, repeated praise of?
her ship, IV, 41, note*: plundering.
he ae. See -s as sign of future.
het, eat.
het, hot.
hethyne, I, 329, 58: hence.
hett, I, 271, 5: bid.
hette, I, 224, 10: is called. See height.
heuch, heugh, I, 312, is; II, 503 f., 11, 15, 28; IV, 231,
1 15: steep hill or bank, glen with steep overhanging
sides.
heved, I, 243, 7; III, 70, 290 (?): head.
hewene, V, 283, 15: heaven.
hey, I, 438, B l: interjection of pleasure, displeasure,
pain, excitation. (Not the dance which is called the
hay.)
heye, III, 482, 21: hie.
heyer, hyer, compar., V, 283, 5, 15: higher.
heynd, III, 110, 27: friendly, kindly. See hend,
hind.
hey ng, pret. of hang, V, 78, 4.
heyt war howte! Ill, 111, 28: heyt ! is a well-known
call to horses, as in Chaucer (get up !), and war-oute
is a term used in driving, according to Halliwell's
Dictionary.
hi, I hi, III, 349, 46: have. I hinna, H, 469, 28: have
not.
hich, high.
hide, II, 467, 44, 50: should probably be heed, as writ
ten by Motherwell.
hie, hye, n., I, 328, 37; II, 164, 9, 12; III, 99, 50: haste.
hie, she smiled hie, V, 51, 55: with a smile not confined
to her mouth, but mounting higher.
Mean, II, 147, 2: hying.
hiesed, IV, 424, b 7, 8: hoised, lifted, dragged.
high-gate, V, 239, O 4: high-road.
highman, I, 203, C 16, 17. In a 16, the reading is
hymen, which is in itself plausible, but not ballad-
like. If highman is right, the meaning would seem
to be, the chief man of the occasion, the bride
groom.
hight, III, 441, 30: is, was, called. See height.
bight, III, 309, 34: I promise, pret. heght, hight,
III, 407, 17.
hile, v., IV, 456, 17: hail. pret. helt, 457, 22.
hill-gate, IV, 249, F 4: hill-road.
VOL. v. 44
hilt, V, 76, 21: flayed.
him. him, hym come, I, 244, 10, 13, 17; up stod him, 16,
16: dative of subject after verb of motion, stert hym,
III, 62, 120. wente hym, III, 62, 126. rade him, IV,
2, 5. ar the coc him crowe, I, 244, 18.
hin-chill, V, 278, 33. See hind-chiel.
hinchman, III, 320, A b 16: henchman, servant (man
who stands at the hinch, haunch).
hind, hiiide, hindy. hynde, adj., courteous, gracious,
gentle, kindly: I, 430, 5, 9; II, 177 f., 20, 35; HI,
310, 52; 358, 69. See hend.
hind, hynde, n. (A. S. hina, O. Eng. hine, servant),
youth, chiel, callant, seems often to be used as an
epithet = young (but this may possibly be hind = kindly
courteous, etc., in some cases). Hynde Etin, 1, 369 f .,
3, 5, etc. (called Young Akin in A 367, 6, etc., Young
Hastings the groom in C, 371, 3). Hind Henry, II,
305 f., 6, is, etc.; Hynde Henry, H, 306 f., 6, 8, etc.
hind-chiel, hin-chill, hynd-chiel, I, 367, 3; II, 83,
after 38; IV, 432, 15; V, 278, 33. hind-greeme, I, 69,
51. hind-squire, I, 452, C 10; 453, 7; hynde squire, V,
25 f., 2, 13, 19, etc. hine-squar, V, 278, 29 (called
young squar in 18). In all three, both parts signify
young fellow.
hind, gane hind away, 11,248, 5=hyne away, faraway.
hindy. See hind.
hing, II, 194, 22, 27; 239, 6; III, 299, 6; V, 226, 4: hang.
pret. hang, hanget. p. p. hanged, hangit.
hingers, V, 40, 4: hangings.
hinna, I hinna will, II, 469, 28: I have not will, I wish
it may not.
hinnie, hinny, honey, IV, 66, 15; 69, 15; 70, 12; 72,
I 5: term of affection.
hinnie-mark, honey-mark, IV, 479, 7: mole ? (cf.
Germ, honigflecken, yellow spot.)
hinny -drap, II, 283, 5: mole ?= hinnie-mark.
hire, a yearl's hire, II, 191, 20: rent, revenue.
hirewoman, IV, 202, J 3: female servant, hired
your ban, IV, 240, 14, if right, must mean, she
would have paid you to do it. Other copies, kissed.
hirn, I, 334, 9: corner.
hirpling, II, 474, 8; 476, 3: halting.
hisn, V, 293, 14: his.
hith, I, 334, 7: hight, am called. See height.
ho, who.
hochis, III, 306 b, note *: hocks.
hoe, IV, 19, 7: (as a singular of hose) stocking.
hoes, IV, 486, 7, 8: as plural of hoe (?).
hog, II, 258, 32; IV, 325, 6, 7; 328, 3, 4; 332, 13; 469,
10, 12: young sheep that has not yet lost a fleece.
hog-rubber, IV, 208 a : (seemingly) a fellow em
ployed to rub down hogs, or fit for such business.
hoised, hoisd, hoist, I, 206 f., 9, n; IV, 248, 2, 5;
V, 132, 7, pret. of hoise, heave, lift, drag.
hoky-gren (burnt like), II, 145, A 27: hoakie, "a fire
that has been covered up with cinders, when all the
fuel has become red." Jamieson. A branch or stem
in such a fire ? or good to make such a fire with ?
Scott has, hollins grene.
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GLOSSARY
hold, holde, hauld, II, 216 f., 4, 27, 29; III, 358, 74;
430, 1; 435, l: housing, quarters, place of shelter,
lodging, thirty horsses in one hold, II, 444, 59: per
haps place of keeping (450, 64, in one close). See
hauld.
hold, holde, v., Ill, 97, n; 176, 5, 6: wager.
holde, III, 61, 93, 107: retain (legally).
hole-house, I, 305, 3; V, 213, 3: said in depreciation
of an humble sort of house (hole of a house), as a
divot-house, a turf-cottage. (Still in use. W. Walker.)
hollaii, hollin, holland, linen.
Hollan, Hollans, boats, I, 467, 18, 22: Dutch boats.
Dutch fishing-luggers are to be seen in great num
bers on the Scottish coast in summer.
ho 11 an. holland, of holly, hollan dyke, II, 195, 32:
wall planted on the top with holly.
hollen, hollin, I, 294 f., 15, 27; II, 153, 29; V, 191 f.,
3, 18: holly. (Perhaps hollin's, V, 194, 2, should be
hollins.)
hollie, V, 111, 16: (slowly) softly. See hooly.
hollin, holland.
holm, holme, houm, howm, III, 460, 38; 488 f., 31,
34, 41; IV, 522, 4, 10: low ground on a river-bank.
holpe, pret. of help, III, 342, 76. See hope.
holtes, III, 296, 14; 357, 53: woods.
holy dame, by my, III, 209, 7: halidom. Originally
halidom in oaths meant reliques of saints ; my hali
dom seems to be used in the sense of sacred oath.
(Printed holy dame in three copies, and very likely
often so understood.)
horn, V, 304 b, 2, 4: home.
horn, III, 308, 26: them.
home, hame, came, IV, 405, 54; 420, 5; was born.
See bring hame.
hondert, hondreth, hondrith, hundred.
honey, term of endearment. See hinny.
honey-mark, II, 282, 12: mole ? See hinnie-mark,
hinny-drap.
honey month, she has turned the honey month about,
to see if he was coming, IV, 320, J 2: inexplicable.
hongyr, V, 283, 16: hunger.
honour's gate, II, 163, 21: (honour, a manor, the man
sion-house of a manor) an imposing gate, such as
would be put at the principal entrance to a mansion-
house. W. Maemath.
hooding. See huddin.
hook, IV, 19 f., C 3, 8: loop.
hook-tooth, I, 18, F 9: tooth of a sickle with serrated
edge.
hooly, adj., II, 107, 9: slow, gentle.
hooly, hoolie, hollie, huly, adv., slowly, softly: I, 451,
12; II, 108, 10; 111, 10; III, 393, 14. See healy.
hope, houp, IV, 25, 4; 27, 12; 184, 2, 3: "a deep and
pretty wide glen among hills." Jamieson.
hope, pret., V, 103, A c 14: holp, helped. See holpe.
hope, I, 327, 12; 449, 17; II, 311, 6; V, 54, 3: expect,
think.
hore, hoar, gray, greue wode hore, holtes hore, III,
65, 176; 357, 53: gray as to trunks.
home and lease, III, 360, 113. See Pegge, Archseo-
logia, III, 1, 1775, " Of the horn as a charter or
instrument of conveyance." Professor Gross, of Har
vard College, has favored me with the following case :
" Pro quo officio [i. e. coroner and escheator of the
Honor of Tutbury] nullas evidentias, cartavel alia
scripta, proferre possit nisi tantum cornu venato-
rium." The possession of this horn still conveys the
right to hold the office. Cf. J. C. Cox, Three Centu
ries of Derbyshire Annals, London, 1890, I, 73-79.
horse-brat, I, 302, B 10: horse-cloth (horse's sheet,
horse-sheet, of A 13, F 4).
hose, I, 285, 38: embrace, hug (halse, Scottish hawse).
hosen, hose, III, 65, 193: stockings (not breeches;
see 196).
hosens, IV, 257, 3: stockings without feet.
hostage, III, 271, F 10; hostage-house, 4, 5, 8, 9: inn.
hosteler-ha, III, 270, E 3, 4, 5, 7: inn.
hostess-house (= hostage-house), IV, 175, N 4: inn.
hostler, III, 266 f., 4, 6, 9, 10; V, 153 f., A 3, 4, B 3-5;
156 b, B: innkeeper.
hostler- wife, IV, 508 l; V, 154, 3: woman keeping an
inn.
honk, V, 218, 5: dig. Pret. andjo. p. houked, houket,
houkit, howket, etc., I, 184, 9; 220, A 2, B 4, C 4;
221 f., B 7, 17; III, 500 b, 8; IV, 451 a, 3, 5; V, 210, 9.
houl, III, 247, 5: hold.
houm, howm, holm, I, 394, 14; III, 370, 5; IV, 168,
E 2, 5, 7, 8, ll, 12; 523, 3, 5: level low ground on a
river-bank.
hound, IV, 19, 4; 20, 9: chase, drive.
houp, hope, IV, 2, 13: (A. S. h6p) sloping hollow
between two hills.
hour, whore.
house, V, 273, No 237, 20: hose.
house 11, II, 3, 10; 5 b, 2: house (sing.).
house-end, -en, I, 254, b l, c l: gable.
housle, houzle, II, 46, 46; III, 330, 13: give the sacra
ment.
houzle, III, 105, 22, 23: communion.
hove, hove hole, I, 304, F 2: a hole which one haunts
or lives in.
hoved, III, 296, 20: hung about, tarried.
hoved on, III, 358, 69: moved on (hied, 362, 69).
hoves, V, 227, 4: hoofs.
how, how soon, III, 450 a: so soon as.
how, howe, n., Ill, 164, b 49; 316 a, last line; IV,
110, 10; 303, 7: hollow, sometimes, plain.
how, adj., IV, 476 a, 4: hollow.
how, III, 392, 11, is (as verb) : exclamation of grief.
howbeit, III, 450 a: although.
howd, hold. See haud.
howded, V, 124, C 15: swung.
howk, howked, etc. See houk.
howm. See houm.
howre, V, 78, 5, 6; 79, 28, 33, 35; 80, 37: our.
howther o dirt, II, 184, 13: a mass of dirt.
howyn, own.
hoy Be, hoise, II, 26, 8: hoist.
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347
huddin, hooding (hud, hod, to hide), IV, 262, 30; 266,
15: covering, coverlet.
huddle, II, 246, B 7: (hide) cover, protect (Scot,
hiddle, hide).
huggar, I, 303, D 5: stocking without a foot.
huggell, II, 244, 16: hug, or, perhaps, a variety of
huddle.
huly, hooly, healy, II, 168, B 4; 169, 12; 216, 2; IV,
413, 18; 436, 8: slowly, softly.
humming, III, 136, 30: heady, strong, as causing a
hum in the head.
hunder, hundre, hunner, huner, hundredth, hun
dred.
hunger, hungre, v., II, 382, 4; 386, 4; 387, 2; 391, 2:
starve.
hunkers, V, 213, 9= clunkers, clots of dirt.
hunt's ha, I, 298, 2: hunting-house or lodge.
husbande, husbonde, III, 57, is; 295, l: farmer, hus
bandman. Ill, 58, 46: economist, manager.
hussyfskap, husseyskep, V, 98, A 3, B 3: housewifery
(she was making puddings). But perhaps, specifically,
hussyskep, a sort of basket or bin of straw, formerly
used, especially in ruder districts, for holding corn
or meal. In like manner, a " platted hive of straw "
is called a bee-skep. G. F. Graham's Songs of Scot
land, III, 181.
hy, hye, hyght, on, vpon, III, 296, 9; 297, 31, 47, 48; 359,
91: in a loud voice, on hy, hye, III, 309, 51; 297, 46:
on high, up, erect, on hyght, III, 297, 34: on high.
hye, hie, n., I, 328, 37; III, 99, 50: haste.
hyer, heyer, compar., V, 283, 5, 15: higher.
hyf, V, 283, 4: if.
hyghte, I, 328, 36: promise, hyght, p.p., Ill, 297, 29:
promised; III, 77, 442: vowed.
hym, wente hym, stert hym, III, 62, 120, 126: dative of
subject after verb of motion. See him.
hyndberry, I, 177, A c: raspberry or brambleberry.
hynd-chiel. See hind.
hynde, n., Ill, 64, 164: fellow, hynde Henry, II,
306 f., 6, 8, etc.; hynde squire, V, 25 f., 2, 13, 19, etc.
See hind, n.
hynde, adj., II, 177 f., 20, 35: gentle, or the like. See
hind, adj.
hyne, II, 314, C 3: (up) behind.
hyne, II, 314, C 3: hence, away.
hypped, III, 77, 429: hopped.
(See also under J, Y.)
I, II, 59, 34; 160, 10-16; 264 f., 4, 18; III, 185 f., 3, 4, 15,
23; 203, 18; 287, 59; 356, 28: ay.
i, abridgment of in, passim.
i, abridgment of with . IV, 465, 23.
i-bouht, bought.
ickles of ice, III, 154 f i: icicles,
i-dyght, y-dyght, III, 62, 131, 132: furnished, adjusted.
Ill, 75, 392: made ready,
if, apparent ellipsis of, II, 62, 9, with honour that ye do
return.
i-fedred, feathered.
i-flawe, III, 13, 6: flayed.
ile, oil. 'inted (anointed) har with ashen ile, V, 305 a,
6: gave her a beating with an ashen cudgel.
ilk, ilke, same, of that ilk, III, 451, note *: having a
title the same as the surname: as, Wemys of Wemys.
in that ilke, I, 287, 72: in that same; III, 105, 14: at
that same moment.
ilka, I, 107, 7; 302, A 9, 11, 12; 474, 40: each, either,
ilka ane, ilkone, II, 185, 25; III, 97, 16: each one.
ilkone. See ilka.
ill, ell, ull, will.
ill-bukled, V, 276, 18: badly run down at the heel.
See baucheld. (Unless ill be for old.)
iU-far'd, I, 342, 41: ill-favored.
ill-fardly, V, 115, 9: ill-favoredly, in an ugly way.
ill-wordie, V, 243, 15: unworthy.
ini, am.
impale, V, 182, 5: make pale.
imy, I, 243, 7: in my.
in, IV, 464, 3; V, 277, 5, 9: an, and, if.
in o = in (in some part of ?), Ill, 495 b, 23, 24; IV, 19,
3; 517, 19.
in one, II, 186, l; 187, 8; 196 e 1, 7; into ane, 184, 5,
8, ll, 18: anon, or, at once = in a single answer. In,
riddle both of us into ane, the intention was, per
haps, together, simultaneously; and so, all in one, III,
4, 7; both as one, II, 187, 2.
inbearing, II, 28, 15: obtrusive, over-officious, inter
meddling (with the object of thereby ingratiating
oneself).
infeft with, in, I, 478, 5, 10; IV, 350, B b, 4, 6; V,
274, 6, 7; convey (land, money) to, put in possession
of. inheft (o), IV, 349, B 4, 5: mistakenly for infeft.
in-fere, together. See fere.
ingle, III, 484 a, 36; V, 45 l: fire.
inheft, IV, 349, B 4, 5, for infeft b, to invest with a
possession in fee.
inn, inne, III, 117, 11; 118, 8; 200, 6, 7; 212, 5: lodg
ing.
i-nocked, III, 62, 132: nocked, notched.
inowe, III, 57, 13; 58, 43: enough.
instiled, III, 227, 3: styled, intitled.
'inted, V, 305 a, 6: anointed. See ile.
intil, intill, I, 68, 28; 69, 36; 302, A 11, IV, 171, l: into,
in.
Into, I, 70, 20; 71, 29; 127, 5; 440, 13-15; IV, 263, 36: in.
into his age, IV, 359, 12: at, of.
into ane, II, 184, 5, 8, 11, 18: anon, in a single answer,
or simultaneously. See in one.
intoxicate, pret., II, 47, 8: intoxicated.
i-pyght, III, 63, 136: put.
ir, are.
irale (stane, as the rhyme shows the reading should
be), I, 326, 9: an undetermined stone mentioned in
romances.
ire, thro, II, 408, 17: seems to mean, as resenting the
covering (not ballad-like), wi ire, II, 411, 10, is
sufficiently incongruous.
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GLOSSARY
irke with, V, 15, 14: tired, weary of.
is, III, 440, 11: has.
-is, -ys, termination of 3d pers. pres. indie., he stendis
louys: III, 98, 22; 101, 88.
I'se, IV, 506, 68: I am.
istow, I, 175 f., 4, 10, 16: is thou, art thou.
it (=O. Eng. his), its. defile it nest, III, 445, 32.
ith, in the.
'ith, with.
ither, IV, 210 a; V, 306, 15: other. IV, 110, 9: one
another.
I wat, a wat, I wot, I wad = surely: I, 107, l; 471,
11; and very often. See a=I.
I wis, IV, 405, i: probably to be taken as assuredly,
since we have I wot in that sense in 7.
i-wis, i-wisse, i-wys, II, 46, 43; 265 f., 9, 26; III, 27,
104; 277, 17; 359, 84: surely, indeed. As to i-wis that,
III, 277, 18, 19, it is to be remembered that a super
fluous that is common in the Percy MS.
I wist, III, 187, 32: for iwis, indeed. Perhaps the
Scottish I wat, surely, has influenced the form.
iyen, iyn, III, 57, 23, 28; 59, 58: eyen, eyes.
Jack, IV, 112, 4; 113, 5: insolent fellow.
iacke, III, 342, 64: (here) coat of mail, cf. 58, 59, 60.
soldans iack, III, 422, 75. An ordinary soldier's jack
(III, 440, 18; 465 f., 33, 42, 49; IV, 147, 4l) consisted
of two folds of stout canvas, or some quilted mate
rial, with small pieces of metal enclosed. Fairholt.
Old Robin, II, 241, 21, puts a silke cote on his backe
was thirteen inches folde.
jail-house, V, 300, 16: jail.
jamp, pret. of jump, II, 121, 21: jumped.
iapis, III, 59, 63: japes, jests, waggery, trifling.
jauel, V, 81, 11: a term of abuse, good-for-nothing, idle
fellow. Prompt. Parvulorum, gerro. " He called
the fellow ribbalde, villaine, iauel, backbiter, sclaun-
derer, and the childe of perdition." Utopia, Arber,
p. 53.
jaw, jawe, 1, 127, 10; 128, 8; II, 21, 8; 24, ll; 29, 10-12:
wave.
jawing, jawing wave, II, 223, P 7; IV, 472, 16: surging.
jawing, n., IV, 462, 24: surging.
jee, I, 389, 7; IV, 476, 5: move, stir.
jelly (jolly), I, 69, 51; 298, 2; 452, 10; II, 403, 5; IV,
413, 20: handsome, pleasant, jovial. Jamieson: " up
right, worthy, excellent in its kind."
ietted, III, 199, 19; V, 86, 30: moved in state or with
pride.
jimp, gimp, jump, adj., I, 330, 8; 333, 6; II, 216, 18, 20;
217, 1, 3; 221, l, 3; 225, J l; IV, 212, l; 272, 2: slender,
slim.
jimp, adv., TL, 74, D 3: tightly, so as to make slender.
jo, II, 103, 5: sweetheart.
jobbing (of faces), III, 219, 14: billing (like doves).
jobbing at, I, 104 b, 10 : jogging. The at is diffi
cult. The old prefix means off, away, but is not
separable.
Jock Sheep, John Sheephead, II, 480 a; IV, 290,
23: a man deficient in virility (?). V, 206 a, 9: sim
pleton, of one who has been stultified or outwitted.
iollye, III, 278, 32: should probably be iollyte. See
enter plea.
joukd, V, 9, 12: bent forward. See juks.
jow (of bell), II, 277, A 8: stroke.
juks, V, 110, 5: bows, obeisances. See joukd.
jule, jewel.
jully-flowers, gilly-flowers.
jumbling, V, 102 B 13: mudding, fouling.
jumly, IV, 182, F 9: turbid.
jump, V, 267 b, 5: jimp, slender.
jumpted, IV, 519 a, 3: jumped.
justle, III, 280, 26: joust, tilt.
justler, III, 280, 31, 32: jouster, tiiter.
justling, III, 279, 12, 14, 16: jousting.
kail, kale, colewort, made the baron like kail to a pot,
IV, 86, 13 : cut him up. broth made of greens, espe
cially of cole worts: II, 467, 41 ; III, 300, 12; 388, 3;
IV, 500, 13. See kell.
kaily lips, I, 302, A 10: covered with kail, and so
repulsive.
kaim, kame, keem, comb.
kaivle, II, 298 f., 3, 19: lot. See kavil.
kale. See kail.
kame, keem, comb.
kamen, combing.
kane, I, 353, 15; 356, 56: tribute (originally a duty
in the form of a part of the produce, paid by an
occupant of land to his superior).
kauk, V, 116, 10: chalk.
kavil, kaivle, kevel, cavil, I, 71, 36, 38: lot.
kay, key, kine.
keach, V, 123, 17: perturbation, shaking up.
kean, v., V, 110, 4: ken.
kebars, I, 332, P 6; II, 227 a: rafters.
kebbuck, IV, 323, 5: cheese.
keckle-pin, burnt like keckle-pin, II, 155, 38: that is,
I suppose, like heckle-pin, the sound of the k being
carried on from like. Mr William Forbes, of Peter-
head, suggests the following explanation: The pins
used to hold the straw raips which hold down the
thatch on cob or mud huts ; being driven into the
top of the walls close to the eaves, they are always
dry and ready to burn. JThe mass of interlaced
straw is called a hackle. Used all over East Aber-
deenshire.
keeked, keekit, I, 303, D l; 304, E 3: peeped.
keel, V, 116, 10: red chalk.
keem, kem, kemb, kame, comb.
keen, v., V, 238, 18; 278, 38: ken, know.
keen, armour, II, 62, 10: no sense except for arms of
offense (as in Old Eng.).
keen (of tying), II, 162, D 3: strong or hard.
keen(e), II, 45, 26; 46, 39; V, 192 f., 27, 57: bold, spak
sharp and keene, III, 394, K 3: cuttingly, poignantly.
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349
keep, catch. See kep.
keep up, V, 114, 12: keep under custody, safe from
the hands of others, lock up. See kept up.
keep(e) with, II, 411, 15; III, 36, 41: stay, live, with.
keepit a bower, II, 407, 8: frequented, lived in.
keepit, IV, 215, A 2: heeded, observed.
keist, kiest, kest, kyst, pret. of cast, I, 69, 46; 241, 3.
kell, II, 264 f., 5, 12; 364, 30; V, 161, 7: a cap of net
work for women's hair.
kell. lang kell, V, 110, 9, 10. See lang kell.
kelter, kelter-coat, V, 64, 20 : made of kelt, black
and white wool mixed and not dyed. Dillon, Fair-
holt's Costume in England, where a kelter-coat is
cited from a will. Kelt, cloth with the knap, gener
ally of native black wool. Jamil-son.
keltit, IV, 493, 5: kelted, tucked.
kem, kemb, comb.
kemp, kempe, kempy, I, 301, i; 302, 6, B i; 303, C l,
9; 309, 3, 5; II, 53 f., 25, 31, 55; III, 447 a: champion,
fighting-man (A. S. cempa). kemp o the ship, V,
151 f ., F 2, 4, is no doubt a corruption.
kempery(e), II, 54 f., 54, 66, 68: company of fighting
men (or, if adjective, fighting).
kempy. See kemp.
ken, I, 343, 42; 345, 41; 348, 21; III, 268, 4: know.
Ill, 266, 4: to make known.
kene, cawte and kene, III, 296, 26: wise, shrewd, or,
perhaps, brave.
kenna, know not.
kep, keep, cap, cape, catch, stop, intercept: II, 322,
21; 325, 21; 407, 13; 413, 6, 8; III, 125, 34; 245, 2;
246, E 2; 436, 5, 7; IV, 480 f., 17, 18, 19; V, 230, 10,
11. she keppit him (received him) on a penknife
(as he leaned over to her), II, 147, 6. she keppit
Lamkin, II, 335, M 7; V, 230 b, Y 10: encountered,
he kepped the table, door, wi his knee, I, 476, J 5;
481, 42; II, 91, 26; 94, 18; 271, 17: took, struck,
keppit, III, 246, D 2, is an obviously wrong reading,
and should be kicked; cf. 243, 2; 245, 2; 246, E 2.
kepd the stane wi her knee, II, 421, 29, is absurdly
taken from other ballads (and from ball-playing).
pret. kept, kepd, kepped, kepit, keppit. See cap.
kepe, I, 329, 2: care for, value, kepe I be, III, 100,
80: care I to be.
keping, IV, 313, 20: meeting. The meaning is that
he went to meet (come should be came) the body
which was lying at the gates. There was no proces
sion towards him.
kepping, keeping.
kept up, IV, 287, 15: shut up. See keep up.
kerches, kerchiefs.
kest, keste, pret. of cast, III, 76 f., 421, 422. See keist.
kettrin, IV, 84, 8: cateran, Highland marauder. See
caterans.
kevel, kevil, I, 74 f., 3, 36; 77, 4; 80, 4-6; IE, 16, 2;
301, i; IV, 394, C i: lot. See kavil.
key, kye.
keys, rang the keys, IV, 430, 2: keys of her spinnet.
kickle, III, 230, 59 (the actual reading) : not easily
managed, unsteady, Scot, kittle. (But perhaps we
should read kick, since a verb would be expected.)
kiest, keist, pret. of cast, I, 74, 2; 75, 36; 80, 4; 351,
44; IV, 32, 11.
kilt, IV, 257, 3: a skirt worn by Highlanders, reaching
from the belly to the knees.
kilt, kelt, tuck up: I, 341, 3, 17; 343 f., 3, 8, 16, 35; 369,
2; II, 92, 7; 461, 5; 462, 5; 471, 4. p. p. kilt, II, 423,
8; IV, 210, 7.
kin, a' kin kind, II, 114, 2: a' kin, all kind, equivalent
to every, na kin thing, I, 394, 10.
kin, ken.
kind, kindly, II, 319, 7; III, 266 f., i, 5, 21; 300, 26;
IV, 501, 30: kindred, native, kindly cock ward, I,
285, 24: natural, born, fool, kindly rest, V, 124, C 14:
natural.
kine, what kine a man, IV, 504, 27: kind (of).
king's felon, kynggis felon, kings ffelon, III, 98,
21; 180, 16: traitor, or rebel, to the king.
kinnen, III, 370, 4: coney, rabbit.
kintra, country.
kipeng, keeping.
kipple, I, 333, 5; IV, 432, 6: couple, rafter.
kipple-roots, I, 304, P 5: the ends of couples (rafters)
that rest on the top of the wall. " In rude erections
the couples were rough unhewn tree-stems, which
were placed with their thickest, or root, ends on the
walls, the smaller ends abutting at the ridge of the
roof." J. Aiken.
kirking, I, 371, 6, 12, 14: churching.
kirk-shot, IV, 359, 10: the fishings on the water where
nets are shot, belonging to, or adjacent to, the kirk.
kirk-style, 1,441, 8-10 ; 498, 16, 24; IV, 183, 9, ll; 360,
16: the gate of the enclosure round a church, or, the
stile in the church-yard wall.
kirk-toun, II, 219, 13: village in which is a parish
church.
kirkyard, V, 299, 4: churchyard.
kirn, n. and v., V, 115, 6: churn.
kirtle, kirtell, kyrtell, part of a man's dress, per
haps waistcoat: III, 65, 194; 71, 299. name given to
a variety of articles of female attire, explained as
jacket, corsage or waist, upper petticoat, a loose
upper garment, tunic or short mantle, etc. dress of
silk worn under a gown, over a petticoat, I, 433, 9.
gown, petticoat and kirtle, III, 273, 14. kirtle and
gown, III, 215, 10; IV, 432, 7, 8.
kist, chest, I, 15, A 3; B 3; 17, D 2; III, 189, 34; IV,
485, 19; V, 115, 5: coffin.
kithe, a, III, 93, 36: of kith, of the same country, re
gion, people, kith, kyth, and kin, II, 216, 6, 8; 252,
29; III, 93, 36.
kitt, V, 240, 14: outfit, supply.
knabby, IV, 262, 23: knobby, rough.
knack fingers (in sign of grief): IV, 418, 7; 435, 13;
knak, V, 227, 5 (passage corrupted) ; knick, III, 455,
E 1; knock, II, 312 f., 5, 6, 7: crack the finger-joints.
(Elsewhere, wring, II, 315, D 7; 319, 17; in, 477,
4.) ladies crackt their fingers, II, 26, G 16.
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GLOSSARY
knapped, II, 134, 8, 13: knobbed, ornamented with
balls or tassels. See naps, golden-knobbed, II,
133, D 6. (knob, sometimes a tassel to the cord of a
mantle.)
knapscap, napskape, IV, 7, 35; V, 251, 3i: head-piece.
knaue, III, 14, 16, 17; 60,81; 94, 50; 127, 44 (play):
servant. IV, 501, 37: person of servile or low rank.
knave-bairn, I, 350, 20; 11,418,23: male child, knave-
boy, V, 235 b, after so.
kneene, III, 362, 87: knees.
knell, v., II, 189, 23: ring.
knet,pret. of knit, III, 431, 17; IV, 31, B 6: knitted,
knotted.
knicking fingers, III, 455, E: making the finger-joints
crack. See knack.
knight-bairn, V, 236 f., 21, 28, 29: male child.
knip-knap, V, 213, 6: a knock, tap. V, 124, C 15: to
express the sound of cracking.
knobbed. See knapped.
knock. See knack.
knocking-stane, I, 304, 10: stone mortar.
knoe. See know.
knop, III, 138, 9: (knap), blow.
knoppis, knobs.
know(e), knoe, II, 308 b; III, 464, 5; 466, 38; IV,
171, 4; 193, l; 195, l; 201, 10; 205, 22: hillock.
knowe-tap, IV, 60, C b 6: top of a hill.
kod, kuod, quoth.
koors, I, 353, 15: turns.
koupd. See couped.
kouthe, II, 499 b: known.
kow, V, 157, 11, 12: twig. See cow.
ky, kye, kyne, III, 464, 6, 7; 465 f., 19, 62; IV, 7,
29-32; 84, 17, 18: COWS.
kyrtell. See kirtle.
kyst, I, 241, 3: cast.
kyth (and kin), home, country, people. See kithe.
kythe, II, 168, 10: be manifest, appear, pret. kythed,
1, 117, 10: appeared.
laa, law.
lachters, lauchters, IV, 166, 14: locks.
lack, lake, a<i/. = laigh, low, humble, in lack o luve,
II, 376, 24, 27, 30. so lack a knight as bid her ride,
II, 97, 10. thought his father lack to sair, II, 408, 1
(lake, V, 235 b, l; cf. thought father's service mean,
II, 178, 2); V, 272 b, 8, 10: of mean position.
lack, lake, n. (think, hae, lack), reproach, discredit,
IV, 15, 16; 518, 8. woman, lack o our kin, IV, 325,
13. had ye nae lack (reproach or fault), IV, 281, 3.
what other ladies would think lack, II, 159, 22 (but
here lack may = laigh, and mean beneath them, as
in II, 97, 10). tooke a lake, III, 419, 2: incurred a
reproach or blame ? of his friends he had no lack,
IV, 11, 18: corrupted from, of him his friends they
had no lack (or the like). See lauch.
lad, in surgeon-lad, IV, 484, after 25: man. lad nor
lown, IV, 304, 8, 9: should probably read, laird.
lad-bairn, II, 299, 12, 21; III, 392, 7; 395, L l, 5; IV,
610, V s: boy.
lad, pret. of lead, III, 75, 388.
lade, led, taken.
lader, V, 265 b, 20: leather.
laid, III, 35, 15: laid a plan, laid about, III, 329, l:
invested.
laid, laid her bye, V, 169, 6: lay down by her.
laidler, II, 503 f., 10, ll, etc.: corruptly for laidley (as
in 7).
laidley, laily, layle, layely, etc. (A. S., laClic), I,
312, 8, 13; 348, 14, 20; II, 503 f., 7, 32, 35; V, 214 f.,
2, 3, 5, etc.: loathly, loathsome.
laigh, II, 188, 3; III, 384, 2; 397, A b l; IV, 200, 9;
268, 21; V, 236, 11: low, mean, oer laigh, III, 480,
12: too low, too short. See lack.
laigh, leugh, n., Ill, 162, 49: low ground. Ill, 489, 10:
lower part; so, leugh, 487, 6, 14, 16.
laily, layle, layly, layelly, V, 214 f. See laidley.
lain, laine, layne, leans, lene, len (Icel. leyna), III,
332, 7; IV, 7 f., 30, 47; V, 250 f., 27, 40: conceal.
lain, alone. See lane.
laine, p. p., Ill, 401, 16: laid.
lair, lear (A. S., lar), II, 175, 16; 305, 15: instruction,
unco lair, to learn, get: 11,118,1; 119,1; 174,1; 178,
2; III, 385, l; IV, 411, l; unco lear, IV, 467, l:
strange lesson, applied to one who is to have an ex
traordinary experience; cf. English lair, IV, 466, l.
See lear.
lair, lear, II, 311, 1: lying-in.
laird, a landholder, under the degree of knight; the
proprietor of a house, or of more houses than one.
Jamieson.
lairy, IV, 22, 10: miry, boggy.
laith, loath. See leath.
lake, n., Ill, 419, 2; V, 235 b, l; 272 b, 8, 10. See
lack.
lake, I, 254, 8: pit, cavity. See laigh, n.
lake, V, 235 b, l; 272, 8, 10= laigh, of mean position.
See lack, adj.
lake-wake, leak- wake, lyke-wake, II, 311, 19:
watching of a dead body.
lamar, lamer, lammer, II, 131, 6; 323, 24; IV, 203, 5;
204,14: amber.
lambes woole, V, 85, 18: pulp of roasted apples
mixed with ale.
lammas beds, II, 96, J 4, in virtue leave your: cor
rupt. See note, II, 100 b. Dr Davidson, correcting
by sound, would read, never to leave. For lammas
beds we may perhaps read, families. Cf. 87, B l,
that ye dinna leave your father's house.
lammer, lamer, lamar, amber. See lamar.
land, V, 128, 29: country (opposed to town).
land-lieutenant, IV, 517, 17. lord lieutenant, III,
492 f ., 7, ll, 17. lieutenant, III, 488, 32, 33, 35, 37. See
next word.
land-serg(e)ant, III, 481, 33; 482, 27; IV, 2, 9, 14: offi
cer of the gendarmerie of the Borders, called land-
lieutenant, IV, 517, 17.
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351
landart, V, 106, E i; 111, l: belonging to the country,
rural.
landen, II, 29, 17: landing.
landen span, III, 511, 16, 18: corrupted from London
band, or the like.
landsman, III, 489, 44: land owner.
lane, III, 357, 51 : lane, as where poor men live ?
(Rhymed with aye, and perhaps corrupt. 361, C 51,
lawne.)
lane, lain, leen, lean, lone, alane, alone, annexed to
the dative or genitive of the personal pronoun (as in
Old Eng. him ane, hire ane), my, mine, thy, our,
your, her, his, him, its: I alone, by myself, etc. my
lane, I, 79, 22. thy lane, IV, 197, 8. our lane, I, 72,
20. your lane, II, 69, l. your lone, IV, 195, 16. her
lane, lean, I, 350, 10; IV, 456, 1. his lane, lean, IV,
227, 6; 345, 5. him lane, leen, I, 368, 26, 28; II, 90,
18. their lane, I, 254, c l. its lone, I, 132, J 4; II,
308, 3. its leen, IV, 418, l. it lane, II, 82, J; 307,
22; III, 388, 5. me ane, I, 333, l. by my lane, I, 330,
B l. mine alone, alane, I, 332, E l, F l; III, 489, 1.
him alone, in, 159, 2; cf. IV, 464, 1.
lane, IV, 281, 2: misprint for bane.
lang, at lang, IV, 318, P 9: at length.
lang kell, V, 110, 9, 10: coleworts not cut up and
mashed, "lang kail [a tall-growing cabbage?] be
came extinct about 60 years ago, giving place to
finer-flavored varieties." W. Forbes.
langin, she's gane langin hame, IV, 198 a, 7: perhaps
simply longing, languishing; lingering would be more
appropriate if the interpretation were justifiable.
Ian g-s ought, V, 35, B 5: been long (and fruitlessly)
seeking for some object (if the reading is right),
indicating a hopeless passion.
lap, grip her in his lap, II, 325, 18: (possibly) embrace,
clutch.
lap, lappe, III, 59, 70; 65, 194; 353, 12; 430 f., 15, 17:
wrap, roll.
lap, pret. of loup, leap, I, 330, A 5, 7, B 5; 331, C 5, 7;
III, 270, l; V, 228, 16. lap him, III, 266, 2: the old
construction of dative of the subject after a verb of
motion.
lappen, p. p. of loup, leap.
lapperin, III, 395, L 4; IV, 224, 23: clotting.
lappin, IV, 510, V 3: covering; probably corrupted
from lapperin of L 4, clotting,
lard, leard, V, 36, B 8, 9: laird,
lass-bairn, lassie-bairn, I, 350, 20; II, 301, 10, 11; IV,
418, 5: girl.
lat, I, 310, 8; 351, 37: let.
lat down, III, 281, 2, 5, 6: give over, discontinue,
late, III, 164, b 51: let, hindrance,
late, pret. of let, allow, V, 256, 13.
latten, p. p. of let, II, 189, 26; IV, 493 f., 7, 28, 31
(left),
lau, low.
lauch, n., II, 20, 4; 385, 6; 390, 7; IV, 259, 9: laugh.
IV, 327, 12: perhaps laughing-stock; but cf. lack, 325,
13, reproach.
lauch, lawhe, v., IV, 121, G 2; V, 80, 48: laugh, pret.
laugh, laughe, leuch, leugh, luke, lough, low, lowe,
lowhe, laucht, lought.
laucht, pret. of laugh, II, 106, 14.
lauchter, IV, 385, 6: laugh,
lauchters, I, 74, 68, 72; 79, 25: locks,
lauchty, V, 213 a, No 33, 10: the reading in Sharpe's
Ballad Book corresponding to tauchy, I, 302, A 10.
In the copy of Sharpe used (a presentation copy), a
line is drawn through the 1, indicating, probably, the
editor's intention to emend to tauchty or tauchy.
laue, law.
laugh, laughe, pret. of laugh, II, 418, 34; 420, 69; III,
287, 59.
launde, lawnde, III, 27, 105; 33, 105: plain ground in
a forest; "a small park within a forest, enclosed in
order to take the deer more readily, or to produce
fatter venison by confining them for a time."
launsgay, III, 63, 134: a kind of lance, javelin (com
pound of lance and the Arabic zagaye).
lave, leve, II, 78, li; III, 495 b, 23, 24; IV, 220, 3; 428,
6; 517, 20: rest, remainder.
lauede ablode, I, 244, 9; V, 288, 16: swam in blood.
lav(e)rock, I, 201, 3; 202, 3; 205, P 4; IV, 266, 16:
lark.
law, I, 209 a: faith, creed,
law, Castle-law, II, 149, 4, 7; Biddess-law, III, 460,
29: hill (A. S. hlsfcw).
lawhe, V, 80, 48: laugh, pret. lowhe.
lawin(g), III, 472, 7; IV, 151 f., A 2-4, B 5, 9, 10, etc.;
157, 5, 6: tavern-reckoning,
lawiug, V, 266, 8: lying (reclining),
lawude. See launde.
lax, IV, 233, is: relief,
lay, II, 59, 25: law, faith,
lay, II, 483, l; IV, 203 f., 6, 7, 23; V, 260, 10, 11: laud
not under cultivation, grass, sward, lays, IV, 224, 23:
fields, plains, ground,
lay, >., lie.
lay, I, 399 a, E n: seems to be nonsense; probably we
should read gray, as in No 248, IV, 389 f .
lay by, IV, 519, 5, 7, n; 520, 5, 10 (lay'd=lay it):
lay aside, let be, cease, lay bay, V, 275 b, 3: put
aside or behind, outsail,
layelly, loathsome. See laidley.
laying, IV, 174, 1: lawing, reckoning,
lay-land, II, 59, 23: (Old Eng. leyland) lea land, un-
tillcd land; simply plain, ground,
layle, loathsome. See laidley.
layn (withouten), III, 97, 17; 100, 81: lie (truly),
layne (Icel. leyna), IV, 7 f., 30, 47: conceal. See lain,
layne, v. (A. S. legman), III, 297, 35, 40: lie.
layne, v., II, 87, 33: lean,
lazar, -er, II, 44-46, 4, 5, 9, 11, etc.: leper,
lea, lee, lie, loe, loi, loie, loy, loo, low, lue, v., I,
438, 10; II, 260, 4; 408, 23; 417, 2; 419, 52; V, 116, 2,
3; 117, 3; 220, 6; 221, 9; 242, 14; 260, 13; 272 b, 3, 7,
ll; 277 f., l, 4, 23, 31 : love,
lea, lee, lie, mentiri.
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GLOSSARY
lea, in, 457, A 2; IV, 100, 4; 102, L 6; 263, 2: leave,
(so leave, IV, 94, 15, is to be sounded.)
lea, n. See lee.
lea, lee, lie lea, lie lee: IV, 26, 5; 350, B b after 2;
520, 2: untilled. lay lee, V, 189 b: lay waste.
leace, withouten leace, III, 27, 108, 115: falsehood.
lead, III, 460, 26: lead their horses ?
lead, V, 36, 11; 117, 14; 221, 18; 268, is: led.
lead, laid.
lead(e), I, 232, 9; V, 53, 103: vat, boiler.
leaf, loaf.
leaf, gae out under the leaf, IV, 379, 6: luff, loof, after
part of a ship's bow; or here, as opposed to lee, the
weather side. See lowe.
leak, adj., V, 111, 20; 224, 26: like.
leak, v., V, 242, 15: like.
leak, II, 193, 28; V, 224, 26; 228, 28:=lyke, for lyke-
wake, watching of a dead body.
leak-wake, V, 228, 13, 14, 23, 24: lyke-wake, watch
ing of a dead body. See lake-wake, lyke-wake.
leal, leel, leil, liel, III, 464, 12: loyal, faithful, true.
I, 70, 24 ; 73, 34, 45, 46; II, 73, 19; III, 437, 36; IV, 212,
l; 240, 13; 283, ll; 289, ll: virginal, chaste, expers
viri; so, lealest, leelest, I, 220, A 3; 221, D 6. Ill,
464, 3; 465, 30: veracious. V, 115, 5: upright, honest,
love me leel, I, 345, 9: faithfully.
lea-lang, I, 352, 7. See lee, adj.
leall, V, 248, 4: perhaps only faithful; but possibly
lief, lee (dear), leman, the final 1 being caught from
leman.
learn, leem, v., II, 410, 24: gleam.
lean, leen, his, him, IV, 345, 1 5: lane, lone. See lane.
lean, leane, lene, len, v., II, 403, 8 (see len); III,
330, 19; 420 f., 30, 32, 34, 52; IV, 277, 15, 17; V, 36,
B 8, 9: conceal. II, 164, 8, ll, 14: conceal, or lie.
See lain, to conceal.
leap, pret. of leap, loup, V, 227, 17. See leepe.
lear, II, 176, C l, 2: instruction. IV, 413, 2; 414, 1;
467, l: learning. Ill, 473, 24: information. See
lair.
lear, II, 313, 25: apparently meant for lair, bed; but
rhymed with white, and the reading should undoubt
edly be lyke, that is, lyke-wake, as in II, 117, 16.
leard, laird. See lard.
lease leash, II, 265, 19: a thong or string (as if for
bringing back the deer he should kill ?). I, 211, 20:
a leash (of hounds), pack. Ill, 216, 31: a leash (of
bucks), three.
ledsing(e), leasynge, lesynge, leesin, 1, 412, 26; III,
28, 132, 134; 359, 86; IV, 465, 22: falsehood.
leath, laith, III, 162, 54; IV, 479, 4; V, 216, 6: loath.
leaugh, leugh, lewgh, leiugh, lieugh, III, 465 f., 33,
39, 42, 49; 487, 6, 14, 16 (see laigh) : low.
leave, gie them a' thier leave, I, 431, D 13, E 10: take
leave of them all.
leave sleeve, dear, II, 414, 24. leaver, III, 362, 82.
leave (to weepe), IV, 140, 10: cease.
leave, live.
lede, III, 74, 368: leading, conduct.
ledes-man, lo desman, III, 74, 369; 88, 369: guide.
ledyt, I, 242, 11, old imperative plural : lead.
lee, lea, 1, 100, 4; III, 171, 9; 174, 20: untilled ground,
grass land, open plain, ground.
lee, lie lee, IV, 26, 5: untilled. lay lee, V, 189 b, lay
waste.
lee, adj., the (this, a) lee-lang, lief-lang day, I, 100, 11,
12; 440, 3; II, 96, 1 2: (Old Eng. the leeve longe day)
livelong, from A. S. le'of, used like German lieb in
der liebe lange tag, die liebe lange nacht. So lee, le,
lei, ley, licht o the moon, I, 389, 5; II, 188 f., 4, 14, 35;
195, 37; 233, P l; 374, B 3; 413, 7, as in die liebe sonne,
der liebe mond, regen, wind, and other formulas in
great variety, (lee licht o the moon is replaced, II,
103 f., 10, 12; 106, 10, by hie light, ae light.)
lee, v., lie, mentiri.
lee, II, 256, K 5: live.
lee, v., love. See lea, love.
leech, IV, 426, ll: meant for leesh, and so spelt in
another copy.
leed, lied (A. S. beden), I, 207, 18; 430, 5, 9; II, 366,
19; IV, 379, 14: talk.
leed (A. S. le'od), III, 355, 3: man. pi. leeds, 6: people.
leed, laid.
leed, n., II, 366, 37: lead.
leedginge, II, 58, 7: leeching, doctoring.
leeft,pret., IV, 220, l: lived.
leel, loyal, faithful, etc. love me leel, I, 345, 9: faith
fully. See leal.
lee-lang. See lee.
leemin, II, 361, 33: gleaming. ,'
leems, IV, 460 a, No 47: gleams; but langs, belongs,
is the word required; cf. I, 430, 6.
leen, lean, her, your leen, him leen, IV, 291 b; 345, 9;
V, 171, 2, 6: lone. See lane.
leepe, leap, pret. of leap, loup, II, 445, 76; V, 227, 17.
lees, leeze, me on thee, III, 495 a, after 7; IV, 517,
15: blessings on, commend me to. (lees me, origi
nally leeve is me, dear is to me, my delight is.)
leese, III, 37, 75; 189, 4; 228, 17; 374, 3: lose.
leesin, IV, 465, 22: a lie. See leasing(e).
leesome, I, 182-3; IV, 432, 2; 455, 18; V, 178, l: lovely,
pleasing, leesome blew the wind, IV, 410, 10: pleas
antly.
leeve, leve, leave, lefe, lieve, live, adj., II, 305, 13;
414, 24; V, 227, 13: lovely, dear, pleasant; camp, leifer,
leuer, 1, 328, 43; III, 24, 35; 189, A 9; 297, 42; 436 f., 10,
25; V, 83, 51. epithet of London, II, 265, 5, 12; 440,
14; III, 276, l; 284, 6, 7; 330, 16; 406, 35; V, 227, 8. So,
lovely London, III, 352, l; 355, 7. lilly Londeen,
IV, 485, 19. whether he were loth or lefe, III, 67,
225 (properly, him were): disagreeable or agree
able; here, unwilling or willing. For had lever see
leuer.
leeve, III, 105, 15: believe.
leeve, III, 287, 62: grant.
leeze. See lees.
lefe, III, 28, 128: pleasing, agreeable. Ill, 67, 226:
pleased. See leefe.
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353
leffe (A. S. Isefan), wolde not leffe beheynde, III, 112,
60: remain.
leg, V, 126 f., l, 2, 5, etc.: highwayman.
legg, V, 275, 7: league.
leguays lequays, V, 217, 12, 13: likewise.
lei, ley, lei light o the moon, II, 188 f., 4, 14, 36; 195, 37.
See lee, adj.
leifer, leifar, III, 436 f., 10, 25; IV, 196, 13: rather. See
leeve.
leil. See leal.
leiugh, low. See leaugh.
leman, lemman, Old Eng. leof man, beloved (of both
sexes). I, 232, 6, 7; 314, 2-4, 6; II, 271, 18; 273, 24,
400, 6; IV, 151, B i, 2; 154, 2, 3; V, 283, 3: lover,
paramour. I, 72, 30, 32; 117, 8; 254, 10; II, 73, 27, 28;
81, 40; 289, B 2, 3; V, 248, 4; 283, 12: love, mistress,
loose woman.
lemanless, III, 434, 28: without lovers.
lemaury, V, 25, 4: illicit love.
len, v., lean. See lend.
len, lene, III, 420 f., 30, 32, 34, 52; neither lee nor len,
IV, 277, 15, 17: conceal. II, 164, 8, 11, 14: conceal, or
lie. that cannot longer len, II, 403, 8: remain con
cealed (but the reading should probably be, I cannot).
See lain, lean.
len, lene, III, 79, 40, si; V, 283, 14: lend, give, grant.
lend, II, 229, 5, 8; III, 63 f., 153, 165; 82, 76; 85, 76; V,
49, 21: grant, give.
lend, n., II, 185, 38: loan.
lend, I, 207, 19, lend ye till your pike-staff: we should
no doubt read len = lean, lent, I, 223, 1 4: leaned.
lende, III, 75, 395: dwell.
lene, conceal. See len.
lenger, lengre, III, 61, 105; 73, 341; 78, 443: longer.
lenght, III, 478, 17: length.
length, this length, IV, 271, A 4: for so long.
lent,pret., I, 223, I 4: leaned.
lequays, likewise. See leguays.
lere (A. S. hle"or), III, 57, 28: cheek, face.
lere, III, 57, 16; 77, 426: learn.
lese, leese, III, 59, 56: lose.
less (age), IV, 64 a: minor.
less o him, I, 332, G l: smaller of him, than him.
lesse, III, 296, 25: false, falsehood.
lest, II, 81, 45 (reading in earlier MS. for rest) : last.
lesynge, falsehood. See leasing(e).
let, lat (A. S. Ijgtan), allow, leave. II, 54, 48; 265,
8, 15, 24; III, 58, 38: omit, fail. pret. late, loot, lute,
lett. p. p. latten, letten, lotten, looten, loot (?).
let, lette (A. S. lettan), I, 334, 8; III, 110, 22, 23; 128,
75; 307, 2: hinder.
letten, p. p. of let, I, 87, 43; 452, 6: allowed, left.
letters, letturs, III, 99, 55 (the kyng did hit vnf old) ;
III, 297, 36: letter.
leuch, luke, pret. of laugh, II, 30, K l; 81, 33; 366, 23;
IV, 272, 9.
leugh, n., lower part. See laugh.
leugh, pret. of laugh, I, 388, A 7; II, 134, 21; in, 69,
273; 467, 60; 490, 17.
VOL. v. 45
leugh, leaugh, lewgh, etc., IV, 465, 34, 38; 484 f., 8,
10: low.
leutye, lewte, IH, 64, 154, 169: loyalty, faith.
leuve, 1, 17, 14: palm of the hand. See loof.
leve, lave, m., II, 75, 20: rest.
leue, v., Ill, 61, 112; 79, 76: permit, grant.
levedys, I, 334, 9: ladies.
leven, I, 324, 13; 325, 12: lawn, glade, open ground in
a forest. See launde.
leuer, leifer, pleasanter, preferable, rather, had leuer,
HI, 24, 35; 189, A 9; 297, 42; 436 f., 10, 25; V, 83, 61.
See leeve.
lewde (lye), in, 171, 8: base, vile.
lewgh, low. See leaugh.
lewte. See leutye.
ley, lea, lee, III, 109, 4; for a' his father's leys, II,
333, ll; 334, M 4; riding the leys, IV, 137, 34: land
not under cultivation, simply land, plain, field, lands
and ley, V, 157, 2: arable land and pasture; a com
mon phrase in Scots conveyancing, " all and whole the
lands and leas."
ley-land, I, 15, ll; 16, B 11: land lying lea, not under
cultivation. See lay-land.
ley licht. See lei, lee.
leyngger, V, 80, 37: longer.
leyt, V, 80, 37: lighted.
leythe, III, 112, 62: light.
liag, V, 237, 5: leg.
libertie, lying at, II, 464, 11 : possessed in one's own
right, unencumbered.
liberty, lybertye, place of, II, 443, 39; 449, 44, 52: where
one can fight without fear of interruption ?
liberty-wife, II, 291, 2: mistress.
licence, V, 155, C 3, make their licence free: pay the
licence of an inn-keeper.
licht, I, 146, 19, 20: alight, lichted, lichtit, II, 92, 16;
IV, 195, D 2; 337 b, g after 20.
lichter, I, 21 b, 8; U, 105, 10: delivered. See lighter.
lichtlie, lichtly, lightly, IV, 94, 3; 98, 8; 100, 7; 337 a,
g 16: make light of, treat, or speak of, with disre
spect.
lick, II, 470, 45: gratuity (of meal from the miller).
lick, III, 163, 87: take for one's self; cf. II, 470, 45.
lidder, lither, III, 464, l: lazy, as adv., 467, b l: ex
cessively. (A. S. lyore, bad.)
lie, ly, lye, 1, 103, 10; III, 123, 5; 432, 17; V, 191, 6: re
side, live.
lie, lee, lea, love. See lea.
lie, m, 301, E: lea.
lie, thou lie, IV, 197, 17: for thou liest, ye lie.
lied (A. S. l&den), I, 430, 6, 9: language, talk. See
leed.
lied, pret., V, 220, 6: loved.
lief-lang. See lee-lang, under lee.
liel, I, 70, 24: chaste. See leal.
lien, p. p., II, 135, 32: lain, she 's nouther pin'd nor
lien, IV, 484, after 25: has not been lying bed-rid,
does not look like one who has long been confined to
bed.
GLOSSARY
lierachie, III, 319, 20: hubbub. " leerach=the bottom
of a dung-pit after the dung has been removed, but
left in a filthy state. The word is used to signify
anything in a disordered state. Hence, confusion,
hubbub." Rev. Walter Gregor.
lieugh, low. See leaugh.
lieve,'II, 345, 34: dear. See leeve.
life, leaf,
life, man of life, II, 244, 10: man alive (Chaucer's lives
man).
lift, I, 370, 16; 440, 18; II, 26, 14: air, sky.
lift, V, 82, 37: lifted,
lig, ligg, ligge, lygge, imperat., I, 328, 36; II, 437, 72;
439, 4, 7; IV, 396, 6; inf., Ill, 212, 17: lay.
lig, ligge, lygge, I, 328, 38-41; II, 244, 6, 7: lie.
light, jore*., 11,46, 38; 54,49; V,53,93: lighted, alighted.
See lyght.
light, III, 156, i: corruption of lith, listen,
lighter, of a bairn, I, 86 f., 7, 8, 16, 17, 24, 25, 43; II,
98, 35; 108, 12; 109, 11; 115, 23; 117, 10, ll; 118, 13;
123, 25, 26: delivered. (Icel. verSa le'ttari, Old Eng.
to lighten.) lighter a dochter, II, 132, 15 : ellipsis of
of. See lichter.
lightly, lightlie, lyghtly(e), III, 23 ff., ll, 41, 45, 61,
V, 82, 36: quickly. Ill, 35, 35: easily. V, 84, 3:
for slight reason,
lightly, lichtlie, -ly, III, 472, 10; IV, 351, 2, 9: treat
with disrespect. IV, 92, 2: slight (in love). IV,
94, 3; 98, 8; 100, 7; 103, M 1; IV, 337 a, g 16: speak
disparagingly of.
like, liken, like to be dead (dee), II, 58, 7; 372, 24;
III, 386, 7; 392, 6; 394, J 4; 395, M 2 (cf. L 2): in
a condition, in a fair way, or likely, liker, II, 97, 22:
more likely (?). See lyken.
like, III, 355, 13; 358, 60, 80; 360, 109, ill: please. Ill,
400 a, (7) : be pleased, satisfied.
likesome, II, 433, 5, 6, 8; 440, 23; 442, 4; 446, 89: pleas
ing, lovely.
lilt, I, 187 b; IV, 266, 16: to sing cheerfully, lilted,
IV, 95, 3: sang, chanted.
lily, lilly, lilye, lillie, liley, lillie, lea, lee, lie, I, 325,
B 11; III, 299,8,11; 300, 25; 301, 32, E; 435, 2; IV,
454, 6; 455, 14; 458, 7; V, 244, 16, 19; lillie leven, I,
324, 13; 325, C 12; lilly bank, brae, IV, 220, 13, 14:
explained as " overspread with lilies or flowers," but
clearly from A. S. le'oflfc, Old Eng. lefly, etc., lovely,
charming. So, lilly feet (i. e. leely), I, 130, E 13;
lily leesome thing, IV, 432, 2. We have lilly Lon-
deen, IV, 485, 19= the frequent leeve London, lovely
London. See leeve, lee-lang.
limmer (French limier, a kind of hound), a term of
opprobrium, or simply of dislike. II, 322, 6; III,
466, 47: wretch (m. or/.), rascal, limmer thieves,
439 f., 4, 20; 441, 34. limmer loon, IV, 146, 15, 17.
of a woman, II, 219, 9: jade.
lin. See linn.
Lin, Linn, Linne, Line, Lyne, a stock ballad-locality
(like Linkum): I, 78, 38; 466, 5; 478 f., 5, 10, 16, 34;
H, 240, 2; 290, 19; IV, 379, 18; 381, 12; 382, 15; V,
14, 1 ff.; 182 f., 2, ll, 29; 219, 6; thro Linkum and
thro Lin, II, 124, 37.
lin, III, 105, n; 174, 15: stop.
lin'd, III, 164, 91 : beat.
ling, lyng, III, 3, 6; 7, 5; 99, 53: a species of rush, or
thin long grass, bent grass, Scotland ; in England,
heath, furze.
lingcaii, I, 299, 5: lichame, body.
linger, I, 334, 8: longer.
Linkem. See Linkum.
linkin, linken, IV, 332 b; V, 124, 4; 240, l: tripping,
walking with a light step, on a horse, II, 285, ll.
linking ladie, IV, 355 b : light of movement, key
gaed linking in, V, 18, b 23: passing in quickly, slip
ping in.
linkit his armour oer a tree, III, 270, E 7, compar
ing A 9; B 8; D 8, and observing the crooked carle
in E 8, seems likely to be corrupt, and perhaps we
should read leaned his arm out-oer. Otherwise, hung
his armor, etc.
Linkum, an indefinite ballad-locality, not a bell in
merry Linkum, II, 106, 21, 22. thro Linkum and
thro Lin, II, 124, 37. cock crew i the merry Linkem,
II, 239, B 4. a the squires in merry Linkum, IV,
432,1.
linn, lin, lynn(e), water-course, torrent, river, pool in
a river (A. S. hlynna, torrens): I, 303, D 4; II, 147,
9; 153, 24; III, 274, 1. of a mill-stream, I, 129, D
6. o'er the linne, II, 282 f., 9, 17, 18; IV, 479, 10 (=
in the lynn, IV, 479, 5); II, 283, 8, 9: over the bank
into.
Linnen, II, 225, D 3: Lunnon, London.
linsey, linsey-woolsey.
lint, IV, 433, 32: linen, linen mutch or cap.
lippen on me, II, 94, 10: depend, to God, III, 269,
12; to good = God, V, 243, 15: trust.
lirk, IV, 198, 2: crease, hollow.
lish, leash.
list, n., Ill, 137, 2; 181, 16: inclination.
list, v., Ill, 171, 9; 179, 4; 311, 19: desire, be disposed.
pret. list, III, 171, 11. impersonal, me list, III, 97, 9.
See lyste.
lith, lyth, I, 135, O 15, 17; 345, C 4; II, 412, l; 413, 8:
member, joint.
lith, I, 334, 7: light.
lith, lithe, lythe (Icel. hlyoa), I, 334, 10; in, 22, 5;
198, l; 411, l: hearken.
lither, II, 54, 51 ; 138 f., 9, 13, 22, 23: bad. See lidder.
Litle Brittaine, I, 284 f., 4, 24, 33, 37: generally under
stood as French Brittany, but it is inexplicable that
Arthur should be reigning there. Perhaps Litle
means no more in this piece than in Litle England,
II, 440, 20, 22; III, 278, 34; 285, 27; Litle London,
III, 285, 22; Litle Durham, III, 285 f., 29, 39, 40. All
these places, it will be observed, are in the Percy
MS.
live, leave.
live, V, 227, 13: dear.
live best, IV, 146, 2: are the best of those living.
GLOSSARY
355
lively, I, 184, 47: alive,
liuer, adj., Ill, 180, 10: deliver, agile,
lluerance, III, 411, 8: payment for delivering,
livery-man, I, 419, i; 421, l: servant,
liues, II, 59, 25: 'lieves, believes.
liuor, III, 411 f., 8, 9, 10, 14: deliver, hand over, sur
render.
load, III, 267, 10: loaded (with liquor),
leaden, p. p. of load, IV, 395, A b 5.
loan, lone, a common, any free or uncultivated spot
where children can play or people meet, even the
free spaces about a house: II, 62 a, 14, 16; 140, l; V,
118, 2. (loan-head, IV, 285, 11, is toun-head in the
original.)
locked, lockit, in a glove, II, 461, 21; 464, 6; 477, D
17: fastened,
lockerin, comes lockerin to your hand, IV, 213, 14;
lockren, V, 258 b, 7: curling, closing as if to em
brace.
loddy, IV, 70 f., G 4, 5, etc.: laddy.
lodder, loder, V, 283, 6, 16: louder,
lodesman. See ledesman.
lodging-maill, III, 474, 38: rent for lodging,
lodly, I, 285 f., 31, 43, 56; II, 44, 12: loathly, disgusting,
lodomy, IV, 398 f., 9, 34: laudanum.
loe, loie, loy, lou, v., I, 438, 10; V, 221, 9; 260, 13;
272 b, 3, 7, 11; 277, l, 4: love. See lea.
loffe, n. and v., V, 79, 26, 28: love,
logie, IV, 175, N 11: lodge,
loie, loy, love. See loe.
lome, II, 44, 12: lame man.
lone, n., II, 333, l; 489, 17. See loan,
long, tall. Long Lankyn, Long lamie, II, 328, l, etc.;
Ill, 358, 63, 65, etc.
long of, II, 436, 53; III, 98, 22: owing to, the fault of.
loo, love, II, 408, 23. pret. lood, II, 417, 2; 419, 62.
See lea.
lood, loud,
loof, looff, lufe, luve, leuve, 1, 15, 15; 16, B 16, C 16;
17, 14; 18, F 9; 19, 14; III, 374, 8: palm of the hand.
(Icel. I6fi.)
looke, IV, 503, 12: look up.
loon. See loun.
loord. See lourd.
loose, V, 300, No 191: lose,
loot, bend. See lout.
loot, pret. of let, I, 68, 7; 204, 19: allowed.
loot, p. p. (?) of let, I, 351, 49; III, 436, 13; IV, 33, 26:
allowed, allowed to come,
looten, p.p. of let, II, 168,8: allowed (to come). See
lotten.
lope, pret. of loup, II, 59, 30; 434 f., 28, 47; 436, 58; III,
479, 39.
lord nor loun, III, 301, 32: man of high or low rank.
In II, 159, 26, lord is a wrong reading; rogue nor
loun, or the like, is required, as in 160, 20.
lordane, lurden, III, 25, 61 : dolt, clodpoll, etc.
lore, lorne, III, 59, 51; V, 79, 32: lost,
loset, III, 94, 52: loosed, delivered.
loss, V, 200 a, 65; 262, No 223, 10; 277, 6: lose.
lotten, p. p. of let, I, 87, 38: allowed. See looten.
loudly, in, 440, 12: loud.
lough, loughe, pret. of laugh, II, 54, 58; 444, 48; V,
254 b, 2. See leuch, leugh.
lou&ht, pret. of laugh, HI, 82, 74; V, 61, 55.
loukynge, V, 283, 17 : expectation, hope deferred.
loun, lown, lowne, loon, IV, 501, 36, 37: a person of
low rank, laird or (nor) loun (lown), I, 69, 40, 41;
71, 32; in, 435, P 8; IV, 514, 12. lord nor (or) loun
(lowne), III, 301, 32; 430, 13; 435, E 5; 436, 6, 8.
IV, 11, 2; 519, H 2, I 2: rogue, often a mere term
of general disparagement (as in, English loun): (of
a man) II, 118, 3, 4; 140, 25; V, 171, 4; (woman) I,
100, so; 491, G 24, H 22. fellow, without disparage
ment, IV, 258, 21. naughty girl, II, 419, 37. mis
tress, concubine, whore, II, 181 b; IV, 14, 13; 330 a,
3; 332 b; 469, 3; 519, 9; 520, 13. See lown.
loup, I, 102, D 3; II, 464, l; IV, 44 f., 14, 15, 17, 23; 47,
4, 5: leap. pret. lap, leap, leepe, lope, loup, louped.
p. p. loupen, luppen. loupin, V, 213, 3, has been ex
plained as a form of leeping, heating (warming her
self over the coal; cf. cowering oer a coal, I, 304, 2).
We have, however, whisking ore the coal, I, 302, 4;
reeking (=raiking) oer the coal, 304 E 3; and across
agrees better with leaping than with heating.
loup, pret. of lonp, II, 461, 5.
loupen, louped, p. p. of loup, III, 465, 27; IV, 462, 36.
lourd, loord, pret. and p. p. of lour = prefer, verb
made from lever, rather. I had lourd, IV, 199, 18.
I wad lourd have, IV, 7, 43. loord a had, V, 251, 36.
I rather lourd it had been, II, 275 b.
lout, loot, I, 56, B 12; 351, 36, 48; II, 401, C 5: bow,
bend, lean. pret. louted, looted, louted in, I, 331, D
5: bent our heads to enter ? louted twafauld, three-
fauld, V, 242 b, 7: bent double, treble, p.p. louted,
lootit, louten.
louten, p. p. of lout, II, 168, 9: bent.
love, I, 476, J 4: loaf.
love-clapped, II, 165, 10; 169, 8; 171, 13; 370, 8; 371,
8; IV, 392, 8; V, 277, 8: embraced lovingly, caressed.
loverd, I, 243 f., l, 6, 17: lord.
louesome, III, 431, 30 : lovely.
lov(e)ly, louelie, epithet of London: III, 199, 19;
310, 6i; 352, l; 355, 7. See leeve.
low, lowe, I, 211, 35; III, 93, 46: hill.
low, lowe, III, 435, P 5, 10; 436 f., 13, 20, 24, 34; IV,
47, 5; 514, 8: flame.
low, lowe, pret. of laugh, III, 110, 16; 112, 63; V,
78, 4. See lowhe.
lowe, doggs bite soe, III, 342, 66: a phrase for, take
mean advantages.
lowe, bye lerbord or by lowe, IV, 504, 30: loof, luff,
the after part of a ship's bow (Falconer, Marine
Dictionary) ; or perhaps the weather side. See leaf.
lowhe, low, lowe, pret. of laugh, V, 80, 44, 46-J8.
lown, IV, 304, 8, 9: must mean here a young man in a
low social position, since there can be no question of
her kissing a disreputable fellow. There is no proper
356
GLOSSARY
contrast with lad, and probably we should read, laird
nor lown (see loun).
lowse, loose, free,
loyed, V, 221, 9: loved,
lucettes, III, 297, 46: luces, pikes.
Luckenbooths, V, 162, C 7: a range of buildings
which formerly stood in the thoroughfare of the High
Street in Edinburgh, parallel to Saint Giles Church,
lue, loe, loo, lou, loie, lea, lee, lie, v., love. See lea.
lufe, luve, leuve, loof, I, 16, C 16; 17, 14; 19, 14; III,
374, 8: palm of the hand,
lugs, I, 302, A 10; IV, 63, 11; 296, 8; V, 102, B 15;
103 b, 15: ears,
luid, III, 370, 19: loved,
luke, pret. of laugh, V, 238, 28.
lum, V, 125, 3, 9: chimney,
luppen, p. p. of loup, leap, I, 55, A 3, B 3; IV, 444,
26; 470, 30; 518, 8.
lurden, lor dan, III, 35, 18: dolt, clodpoll.
luscan, a sturdy beggar (and thievish), III, 519 a.
lust, V, 213 a, l: a bundle, (last, a measure, as twelve
dozen hides or skins, etc. ?)
lust, III, 56, 6; 85 and 89, 446; 332, 13: inclination, dis
position, thy lustes to full fyll, III, 90 b: wishes.
att his owne lust, III, 332, 13: pleasure,
lute, pret. of lett, IV, 345, 8: allowed. V, 248, 15: let
down.
luve, palm of the hand. See loof.
ly, lye, IV, 261, 24; V, 168 f., l, 2, 3, etc.: live, dwell.
pret. lyed.
lyand, lying.
lyart, IV, 7, 36: grizzled, gray,
lybertye, apoint a place of, II, 443, 39; 449, 44, 52: a
place where the two can fight freely, without risk of
interruption ?
lye. See ly.
lyed, II, 266, 28: lay, lived. See ly.
lygge, ligge, I, 328, 38-41: lie. See lig.
iygse, lay. See lig.
lyghte, lyght, I, 327, 21; III, 297, 33: alighted. See
light.
lightly(e). See lightly.
lyke, I, 327, 22; in, 28, 121; 64, 165; 76, 417: please,
lyke, I, 506, 3, 8, 9; II, 295, 8; IV, 236, 30: lyke-wake,
watching of a dead body. In II, 117, 16: simply,
death-scene,
lyke-wake, I, 251, B 4, 6, 7; II, 282, 14; III, 495 b,
21; IV, 516 f., 1, 7, 18: watch of a dead body, dead
lyke-wake, I, 251, B 4, 5: wake for your death. See
lyke, leak, leak-(lake-)wake.
lyken, participle, IV, 511 b, X 6: about, at the point.
See like, liken,
lynde, lyne, III, 75, 398; 91, 2; 92, 22; 93, 33; 97, 10;
98, 23; 100, 76, 78: linden, tree.
lyne. See lynde.
lyne. See lin.
lyng, III, 99, 53: heath. See ling,
lyon, III, 344, 33; 349, 33: the royal standard (quite
out of place here).
lyste, me lyste, III, 78, 446: it would please me, I
should like. See list,
lyth, lyth, lithe (Icel. hlySa), III, 56, l; 63, 144, 70, 282;
71, 317: hearken,
lyth, member. See lith.
lyuer, III, 362, 82: leever, rather.
lyueray, III, 59, 70 : present of clothes. Ill, 64, 161 :
purveyance of drink.
M
ma, III, 490, 15, 27, 29: bit, whit.
Mable, booke of, 111,422, 61: some book of predictions,
like Thomas Rymer's.
made, a lie, I, 478, 25: told.
made, men, III, 406, 37: raised, made a bow o bere, V,
264 a, 2: contributed.
mae, III, 301, E; 349, 46; IV, 490, 27: more.
maen, mane, meen, n., II, 107, 2: moan.
magger of, in the, III, 307, l: in spite of, maugre.
maick, make, mate.
maid, may, used loosely of a young wife: II, 300, 6, 8;
307, 33; V, 227, 7. So K^pi], irapMvos, in Homer, of a
young wife, and puella of married woman often.
maid of a place, as, maid of the Cowdenknows, IV,
200, 12, 13; 202, J 2, 3; 203, 8; 205, 14: the eldest
daughter of the tenant or proprietor, who is gener
ally called by the name of his farm.
maid alone, II, 149, 2: solitary, like burd-alone, I, 298,
2 (which, however, is there used of a man).
maiden, IV, 30 a: an instrument for beheading, re
sembling the guillotine.
maigled, IV, 41, note *: mangled.
maik. See make.
mail, rent, lodging-maill, III, 474, 38.
main, man o the main, is it to a man o the might, or
till a man o the main, II, 403, 7, 8: main can have no
sense distinct from might, and man of the might, man
of the main, is simple verbiage. In B 4, H 6, we
have, to a man of micht or a man of mean: man of
mean cannot be wrenched into man of low degree,
and we do not want that sense even if we could legit
imately get it, for the antithesis is not between the
man of micht and the man of mean degree, but be
tween both these and the robber or robbers of the
last half of the stanza. The stall copy, 405, 5, 6,
having only grammar in mind, reads man (one) that 's
mean, and but for rhyme might perhaps have gone
so far as, a man of means. IV, 146, 21, reads, man
o mine, to avoid the difficulty. See mean.
main, n., IV, 473, 39: moan. See mane.
ma-i-ntn, V, 303 a: maintain, support.
mair, IV, 21, 14: more, bigger.
mairly. IV, 59 f., d 2; e 2, g 2: a rhyme used for mair.
maist, II, 169, 7: almost.
maistly, I, 138 b, d 5: mostly, almost. See mostly.
make, maik, maicke, 1, 127, 14; 128, ll: 129, D 8; 347,
23, 30; 348, 11, 17: mate, consort. I, 403, 12; II, 46, l;
IV, 344, 7; V, 184, 44: match, like; and so in, what is
my lineage or what is my make, IV, 341, D 8.
GLOSSARY
357
make, III, 37, 67: for made, p. p.
making, IV, 208, 3: doing, deportment.
maks, V, 307 b: makes.
male, III, 63, 134; 68, 247, 255: (O. Fr. male) trunk,
male-hors, III, 74, 374.
mall, with the leaden mall, III, 357, 42: mallet, ham
mer (referring to the weight of his stroke).
mallasin, malison.
man, V, 191, 8, 12: vassal. V, 304 b, 3: husband.
man, mane, maun, mun, I, 16, B 8, 9, 12-16; 146, 5, 6;
V, 197, 12; 219, 29; 220, 4; 248, 12, 13: must.
mane, maen, main(e), meane, meen, I, 72, 20; 448,
A l, 3; etc.: moan, complaint, lament; often nothing
more than utterance, enunciation, as, I, 253, l; 394,
A 2; 395, C 4; III, 489, l.
mane, v., I, 72, 23: moan. See mean.
maney, III, 109, 4: meny, followers. See mene.
mang, I, 108, 6: among.
manhood, manhead, manheed, men (man) o your,
men to your, I, 108, 14; 109, 13; IV, 446 f., 14: a
strange way of saying, if you are men (man) of
true valor, willing to fight one by one. Ill, 422,
69: manly deed, exploit demanding courage.
manie, mennie, V, 270, 8: maunna, must not.
mankie, V, 173, 3: calamanco, a stuff made in the Low
Countries.
manratten, manrydden (A. S. manrsSden), III, 359,
95; 362, 95: homage, vassalage.
manrent, IV, 34 b: homage, vassalage. See manrat
ten.
mans worn, I, 394, 3; IV, 442, 10: perjured.
marchandise, III, 92, 22: dealing.
march-man, III, 296, 8: one who lives on the march,
or border.
March-parti, Marche-partes, III, 310, 58, 67: Border-
part, -parts, Border, Borders.
marie, III, 491, 14: mare.
marie. See mary.
mark, II, 62 b, 11; 132, 29; IV, 202, K 2: murky, the
mark, II, 164, 3. See mirk.
marke, merk, I, 394 ff., B l; C 2; III, 68, 243, 246; 69,
270: two thirds of a pound.
marke hym, III, 297, 44: commit himself by signing
the cross.
marries, IV, 487, 25: maids. See mary.
marrow, I, 147, 5; 148, G 4; 149, I 4; IV, 165, 13; 168,
2; V, 41, 16: (of man or woman) mate, husband, wife.
IV, 165, 8, 9; B 2; 166, 2, 3; 167, D 6; 169, 5, 6; 170,
G 3; H 3: match, equal in rank, equal antagonist,
bear ye marrow, 169, 4: should perhaps be, be your
marrow, as in 170, G 3.
mary, marie, marrie, marry, II, 369, 13, 15, 19, 20;
370, is, 14, 17; 371, 14, 15, 20, 21, etc.; 390, 25; 391, 19;
IV, 487, 25; 489, 26 : a queen's lady, maid-of-honor
(cf. Ill, 381 b ; 385, 18; 386, 19; etc.), maid (like
abigail).
mary mild, IV, 213, 13: marigold; cf. V, 259, 5.
Mas (James Melvine), III, 471 a: Magister, Mr. Mess
James Murray, V, 196, 51 : see Mess.
masar, maser, HI, 65, 175; 83, 86, 175: a drinking-ves-
sel, of wood, especially of knotty-grained maple, often
mounted with bands or rings of precious metals. See
Way's note, Prompt. Parv., p. 328.
mass, in the frequent formula, when bells were rung
and mass was sung and a' men bound to bed, II, 70,
21, etc. : a domestic religious service at the end of the
day. evening-mass, II, 168, A 4.
mast, maste, III, 296 f., 22, 31; V, 79, 22: mayst.
master-man, II, 16, 2: captain of a ship. V, 191, 19:
chief.
masteryes, make, III, 92, 27: do feats of skill.
mat, matt, mat he (ye) dee! wae mat fa, mat(t)
worth ! = mot, in the sense of may: II, 27, 7, 10;
472, 25, 33; IV, 391, 6; 392, 9, 21; 428, 6; V, 166, 10;
306, 10. See met.
maught, maugt, might.
maugre, maugre in theyr teethe, III, 67, 225: in spite
of.
maun, I, 16, B 8, 9, etc.; C 7-10, etc.; 17, D 6-7, etc.;
146, 5, 6; 183, 25, 26: must. 71, 39 in pret. sense. See
man, mun.
maunna, I, 185, 25: must not. See manie.
mavosie, I, 465, 8: mavis, song-thrush.
maw, sea-maw, II, 360, 3; 363, 7; 365, 5; IV, 482, 6:
sea-mew, gull.
maw, v., I, 427, 13, 15: mow.
mawys, I, 326, 2: mavis, song-thrush.
may, mey, 1, 115, B i, 3, etc.; 173 f., 6, 10; III, 93, 39;
286, 45; IV, 432, 9; 515, 2: maid.
may, optative, frequently put after the subject, as,
Christ thy speed may bee ! thou mayst sune be! I
may be dead ere morn ! Ill, 355 f., 5, 23; 359, 87;
370, 8, n; IV, 365, 18.
may be is, like can be: II, 448, 33; 451, 100. might
be = was, III, 452, 10. (So, possibly, might see, I,
434,30.)
may gold, III, 497, 13: marigold.
mayue, strength.
maystry, mastery.
me, I, 243 f., 5, 15: men, French on.
me, ethical dative, sawe I me, etc., Ill, 65, 184; 68, 249;
75, 381; 79, 147; 80, 169.
meal, III, 163, 77: meal-bag.
meal, II, 230, 14, 15; 362, 36: mold, dust, earth. See
meel.
mean, man of, I, 358, 30; II, 233, F 3; 400, 4, 5; 404,
6, 7; V, 36, B 8, 9: mere verbiage, I judge; mean looks
like an attempt to escape from main, which see. (man
of mean, II, 233, F 3, not being joined with man of
might, might be understood as, man of main, or vio
lent man.)
mean, meane, meen, v., I, 426, 5; V, 246, 4, 6: moan,
lament. I, 388, A 7, 10 : bemoan, lament the state of.
not to mean, V, 160, 2: not to be pitied, mean, V,
160, l, is doubtful, but the verb corresponding to
moan is to be preferred. See mane, menyd.
mean, n., moan. See meen.
meany, III, 307, 3, 10: troop. See mene.
358
GLOSSARY
meateu, meeten, II, 434, 17; III, 33, 158: measured.
meathe, IV, 378, 9; 380, 17: landmark.
meatrif, III, 163, 87: abounding in food.
meckle, meikle, muckle, IV, 513, 6, 7 : much.
medder, V, 221, 11: mother.
medill-erthe, I, 327, 27. See middle-earth.
meed, I, 68, 10, 14; II, 172, 33: mood, heart, state of
feeling,
meed, warld's meed, I, 108, 14; IV, 446 f., 14: seems
to be corrupted from mate (make). Woreldes make
is a familiar phrase in Old English, and not unfre-
quent in ballads,
meel, meel or mor, III, 281, 8, 10: mold, earth, ground;
but perhaps an error for mede, mead. See meal.
meen, v., moan, lament. See mean, v.
meen, mean, I, 427, 5; II, 124, 39; 417, 11; III, 389,
12, 13 : lamentation. See mane,
meen, I, 222, 8; 315, 8; IV, 416, 10: moon,
meet, I, 148, P 10: (causative) pass, put, thrust in.
meet, meete, II, 46, 45: even, equal. II, 229, 13: scant,
close, and so, perhaps, II, 436, 61.
meeten, meateu, II, 434, 17: measured, by measure.
See met.
meiht, I, 243, 3: mayst.
meikle, meickle, mickle, muckle, I, 72, 24, 25; 86,
2, 3; 309 f., 2, 4; 330, A 3, B 3; IV, 514, 5: much,
great,
meisseine, V, 132, 7: spanker, or perhaps, Fr. misaine,
foresail,
mell, I, 299, 6; 304, 10; F 6; 305, 12; V, 108, B 6: mall,
wooden hammer, beetle,
mell, IV, 177 b, I 7: mail,
mell, III, 172, 24: meddle.
meller's hoops, I, 304, P 5: mill-casings, the circular
wooden frames which surround mill-stones,
melten (goud), IV, 471, 37: molten,
mene, menye, meany, menyie, meyne, maney,
monie, III, 72, 335: followers, band,
menement, V, 242, 9, ll, 13: amendment,
menji, menji feathers in her hat, V, 163, 13: many,
mennie, mauie, V, 270, 8: maunna, must not.
mensked, I, 334, ll: honored, dignified.
meuyde (of hir songe), I, 326, 2: moaned, uttered, de
livered. See mean,
menye, menyie, household, retinue, people: III, 91 a;
IV, 127, 4, 5. See mene.
mere, IV, 493, 21: more.
meri. See mery.
merk, marke, I, 394 f., B i, C 2: two thirds of a
pound.
merk. See merkes.
merk, v., mark, merked them one, III, 297, 47: took
their aim at.
merkes, III, 75, 397: distances between the bounds,
merke-soote, I, 334, 4: mark-shot, distance between
the marks (cf. Ill, 75, 397), from bow to target, bow
shot.
merlion, merlyon, II, 45, 21, 33: merlin, the smallest
of British falcons.
merrily e, III, 329, 11: in good or valiant fashion. So,
nearly, IV, 477, 8.
merry (men). See mery.
merry Cock land, III, 250, l: corruption of the merry
Scotland of 249, I, J, 1; 251, M, l; 252, O, 1.
merrys, I, 327, 22: mars, marrest.
mery, meri, merry, merrie, myrri, myrry (men),
II, 386, 12; III, 66, 205; 71, 316; 73, 340; 97, 9; 114,
121, 131; 116, 2; 285 f., 30, 48; 309, 37; 330, 17; 430, 5;
431, 4; 432, 2; 433, 2; IV, 234, 39; V, 191, 4, 14: a
standing phrase for followers, companions in arms.
mese, I, 328, 45: course (at table).
mese, III, 484 a, 16: mitigate.
Mess, an epithet said to be contemptuous for a priest
or parish minister (as one who says, or said, mass),
so Mess John,,IV, 442, 10, 12; but there is no reason
to suppose disrespect in V, 196, 51. See Mas.
mestoret, V, 80, 42: needed.
met, I, 324, 3; IV, 455, 4; V, 195, 9: mat, may. See
mat.
m.et,pret. of mete, III, 60, 73: measured, p. p. met,
mete, HI, 60, 72; 203, 17; IV, 465, 23; 467, 13.
methe, meat.
mett, meet.
met-yard, III, 105, 27: measuring-rod.
mey, V, 161, 9: maid. See may.
meyne, III, 27, 96; 58, 31; 61, 95, 97; 76, 419: retinue,
suite, household, company, body of people. See
mene.
mey the, III, 112, 59: might.
micht, v., V, 299, 4: might.
micht'll, might well.
mickle, great, much. See meikle.
midder, mideer, mother.
middle-earth, medill-erthe, 1, 327, 27; II, 69, 25: (A. S.
middangeard, middaneard), earth (conceived as being
the middle of the universe; see miogarSr in Vig-
fusson).
middle stream, III, 125, 19: middle of the stream.
middle waist, IV, 523, 6: middle of his waist.
mid-larf, crowing a, II, 230, 5, 8: corrupt (changed by
Scott to merry midnight). Taking into account the
young cock crew i the merry Linkem, II, 239, B 4,
midlarf may stand for some locality (suggestion of
Professor Kittredge).
might be = was, III, 452, 10. See may, can.
mild, maidens mild, II, 312, l; 314, C 1, D l; 316, l:
meek, gentle, demure. So Mild Mary, II, 315, E 7;
Mary(-ie) Mild, III, 395, M l, 3; 396, N l; 398 a, c
4; Mary Mile, III, 386, 5, 6, 8. Corrupted to Moil, IV,
507 b, 3 2; Miles, IV, 511 a, 5. myld(e) Mary, of
the Virgin, III, 97, 7, 17; 98, 35: lenient, compassion
ate, myld myjth, V, 283, 13.
milk-dey, IV, 262, 26; 524, 6: dairy-woman.
mill, mille, IV, 503, 13; 505, 45; V, 221, 15, 16; 224, 25:
mile.
millaine, I, 286, 42, 45: of Milan steel. See myllan.
mill-capon, II, 477 b, D 27 : a poor person who asks
charity at mills from those who have grain grinding,
GLOSSARY
359
the alms usually given being a gowpen, or handful,
of meal.
millering, II, 467, 42: waste meal, sweepings of a mill
(dust [which] lyes in the mill, II, 470, 43).
mill-town, mill-toun, II, 471, 18; V, 238, 29: miller's
steading or place.
miln, I, 18, 11: mill.
milner, mylner, III, 85, 4; 360, ill: miller.
min. See mind.
mind, II, 216, 12, 15; 218, 13, 16: recollection, her mind
she keeped, II, 72, 13: did not forget what she had
promised, for changing o her min, 81, 32: seems to
mean, lest she should change her mind; but the sense
is not striking.
mind, mind o, on, I, 481, 26; IV, 194, 16, 9; 195, 15;
196, 17; 197, 17, etc.: remember, pret. mind, I, 183, 30.
mind of, on, mind to, I, 470, 16; IV, 403 f., 14, 28;
437, 24: remind of. he mind't him on, V, 18, 5: re
membered.
minde, ffor the may dens loue that I haue most minde,
II, 58, 5 : elliptical or corrupt. Comparing 59, 24 (where
the MS. reads, wrongly, most meed) we see that for
is not to be taken with minde. We must understand
most in mind or most mind to or of, or, possibly, minde
may be (from minnen, remember) had in mind.
mlnge (A. S. myndgian), III, 355, 6; 362, 72 : utter,
minged, II, 59, 21: didst name the name of, mention
(or, perhaps, only bore in mind), myn, III, 358, 72.
minikin, V, 201 b: little, pretty little.
minion, I, 284, 12: dainty.
minnie, minny, II, 473, 16, 17; IV, 69, 16; 294, C 9,
10; V, 115, 9: mother. IV, 6, 15; V, 250, 14: dam.
mint to, H, 469, si; IV, 493, 20; V, 28, 67; 238, 21:
put out the hand towards, move towards, minted as,
V, 9, 7: took a direction as if, made as if.
mire, myre, I, 428, 13, 14; 429, 7, 8; III, 475 b:
swamp, bog. mire an moss, bog, an miery hole, IV,
22, 12; cf. 184, 5.
mirk, myrke, mark, I, 326, 16; IV, 517, 14: dark.
Mir ry -land toune, III, 244, B l: probably a corrup
tion of the merry Lincoln of A 16, 17; 246, D 1; 251,
Ll.
miscarry me, IV, 267, ll: get me into trouble; fail,
disappoint me (?).
misgae, misgave.
misgiding, V, 117, 15: ill treatment.
misguide, misgiding, V, 117, 15; 119, 15: ill treat
ment.
miss, n., IV, 317, E 5; 325, C 5, D 3: mistress, whore.
miss, n., II, 465, 4: wrong or injury.
miss(e), v., I, 210, 12: omit, fail, miss your Wanton
slack, IV, 22, 10, 12: fail to keep him tightly reined (?).
mis-sworn, I, 395, C 5: mansworn, perjured.
mister, myster, III, 450 a; IV, 268, 26; 464, 15:
need, requirement, an exigency, misters, III, 164, 90:
sorts of.
mistkane, I, 105 a, 18, if not miswritten, seems to be
simply a phonetic variation of mistane.
mith, mithe, n., I, 334, 6, 7, 11: might.
mith, mithe, v., II, 139, 10; IV, 493, 19: might, mith
slain, II, 165, 23: might [have] slain.
mode, I, 328, 47: spirit.
modther, IV, 260, 3, 7: mother.
mody, mudie, I, 334, 10: proud, high-spirited.
mold, molde, mane of molde, I, 327, 20: earth, ouer
the mold, into the Scottish mold, I, 433, 21, 23: land,
country. I, 434, 37; II, 246, 7: ground.
Moll Syms, 1, 126,13; IV, 448, 7: a well-known dance
tune of the sixteenth century.
mome, in, 352, 7: dolt.
monaud, n., II, 87, 36: moaning.
mone, I, 326, 1: moan, lamentation, complaint. See
meen.
mome, IV, 437, 2: menie, company, suite. See mene.
montenans. See mountnaunce.
monty, IV, 42 a, note : staircase. (Fr. monte'e.)
mood, giue me, III, 105, 23: though give me my God
looks like a bold change, it is not improbable. We
have, yeve me my savyour, in the Romaunt of the
Rose, 6436, le cors nostre Seigneur, 12105, Michel.
And again: For it was about Easter, at what times
maidens gadded abrode, after they had taken their
Maker, as they call it. Wilson, Arte of Logike, fol.
84 b. "In 1452 John Bulstone (of Norwich) be
queathed to the church of Hempstede ' j pyxte, to
putte owre lord god in.'" Academy, XL, 174. (These
last two citations furnished by Prof. J. M. Manly.)
Again, the Breton ballad, Ervoan Camus, Revue
Celtique, II, 496, st. 6, has 'she has received my
God.' (Dr F. N. Robinson.) See V, 297 a.
moody-hill, moudie-hill, mould-hill, IV, 148 f., 48;
150, g, h 48: mole-hill.
mool, mools. See moul.
morn, morrow, the morn, III, 480, 18; 482, 14; 488, 19;
489, ll ; IV, 617, 18: to-morrow, the morn's morning,
IV, 373, 8.
mornin's gift, morning gift, II, 132, 32; 135, 28:
gift made the morning after marriage.
mort, III, 307, 8; IV, 26, 8: note on the horn to an
nounce the death of deer.
mose-water. See moss-water.
moss, muss, mose, I, 78, 32; 99, 6; III, 4, 3, 48; 440,
10; IV, 443 f., 6, 19; 445, 8: bog.
moss-water, mose-water, II, 193, 21; 195, 83; V,
224, 19: water of a peat-bog.
most, I, 328, 50: greatest.
mostly, maistly, IV, 242 b: almost.
mot, I, 473, 5: must.
mot, mote, I, 333, 2; HI, 7, 9; 68, 243; 75, 394; 113,
81; IV, 137, 29; V, 82, 25, 27; 83, 44, 50, 53; 283, 3: may.
mote, III, 68, 253: meeting.
moten, molten.
mothe, mouthe, I, 334, 4, 6: for meahte (mohte),
might.
mother-in-law, II, 71, ll; 72 f., 14, 15: stepmother.
mother-naked, I, 344, 33: naked as in, or coming
from, the womb.
mothly, III, 148, 27: motley.
360
GLOSSABY
motion, III, 216, 38: proposal.
mou, moue, mow, I, 302, B 8; III, 149, 34; IV, 277,
10; V, 115, 9; 268, 18; 269, is: mouth.
moudie-hill. See moody-hill.
moue, I, 16, C 15: put up in ricks.
mo ught, V, 76, 28; 83, b 25, etc.: mote, may. Ill, 30,
98: might, were able.
moul, mouls, mool, mools, IV, 329, A b, after 16;
330, D d 20: mould, dust, ashes (of the dead). I,
184, 10; II, 233, 6; 429, 6; IV, 492, 6; V, 210, 10:
earth of a grave. See meal, II, 230, 14, 15.
mould-hill. See moody-hill.
mould-warpe, III, 420, 20: mole.
mountnaunce, montenans, I, 327, 31; III, 64, 168:
amount.
mouthe. See mothe.
mow, III, 149, 34: seems to be meant for mouth (lip).
But perhaps we may understand grimace (for a
tyrant to make faces at). See mou.
mow, mows, IV, 224, 22; 225, 20: jest.
moyen, IV, 42 a, note: means.
mucell. See muckle.
muck, IV, 323, 6: dung.
muck the byre, IV, 293, 9; 294, C 9, 10; 295, D 9;
297, 9: carry out dung from the cow-house.
muckle, mukle, mucell, meikle, IV, 398, 6; 494, 33:
big. IV, 399, 40; V, 271, 13: much.
mudie, III, 434, 27, 28: bold. See mody.
muir, moor.
mullertd, IV, 86, 12: miller.
mini, maun, man, II, 59, 20; 314, 28; IV, 343, 6:
must.
mune, moon.
munt, I, 304, E 2: come to, make out.
mure, V, 202 b: moor, heath (?).
muss, III, 4, 3, 4, 8: moss, bog. See moss.
myght, welcome myght thou be, III, 65 } 177: Old Eng.
2d pers. pres. ind. = mayst.
myght neuer no tyme to sleepe, III, 77, 441: prob
ably corrupt, and to be read, no tyme slepe ; but the
construction is not unknown.
my 3th, n., V, 283, 13: might, power.
myld, mylde. See mild.
myle, two myle way, III, 64, 168: the time it takes to
go two miles.
myllan, III, 309, 31: Milan steel. See millaine.
mylner, milner, III, 81, 4; 97, 8: miller.
myn, III, 358, 72: say. See minge.
myneyeple, III, 308, 30: corruption of manople, a
gauntlet protecting the hand and the whole fore
arm (?). Skeat.
myre. See mire.
myrke, mirk, mark, I, 327, 30: dark.
myrri, myrry. See mery.
myrthes can, III, 66, 210: knows pleasant stories.
my saunter, III, 13, 10: mischance.
myster, III, 68, 244: need, occasion. See mister.
mystery, mysterie, III, 495, B b, after 7; IV, 517,
15: craft.
N
n, carried on from preceding word to following, noo
nother, no noder, III, 81, 58; 100, 80: none other, a
nother, nether, III, 80, 200; V, 247, 9: an other, a
naughtless, noughtless, IV, 286, 12; 287, 5: an aught-
less, good for nought, a noke, V, 81, 45: an oke.
they nere, they nee, III, 112, 50; 204, b 31 : theyn
ere, thyn ee. my nane, I, 469, 29 (but nane should
probably be name). So, his nawn, her nain (nen),
yer nane, as if from hisn, hern, yern, I, 469, 28; III,
269, 1; IV, 132, 13; V, 224, 24. In, an onte-horne,
III, 30, 87, n seems to have been carried back, from
nonte (see V, 297 a), n in naut, III, 35, 24, 31, is an
arbitrary prosthesis.
na, nae, no, not: I, 68 f., 12, 22, 31, 44, 51; 107, 3, 8;
310, 9, 11, 13; V, 260, 16. Frequently united with the
preceding verb, hadna, I, 343, 5, 18. winna, 354, 27.
canno, 368 f., 35, 37, 39. coudna, 369, 51. wadna,
394, 9, 11. shanae, 394, B i. woudna, 396, 23, 26.
shoudna, 396, 27. didna, 397, 12. kensnae, 466, 13.
wasnae, 467, 34, etc., etc.
naesaid, IV, 371, 7: refused.
nags, naggs, nogs, III, 480, 11; 481, 8; 484 a, n:
notches, nicks.
nain, own. See n.
nane, nen, yer nane, my nane, etc.: own. (n, origi
nally, carried on from mine.) See n.
nane, neen, none. 1, 16, 6; 309, 12; II, 108, 13; 129, 16;
425, 3: adverbially, not, not at all. See none.
nant, III, 35, 24, 31 : aunt.
naow, V, 304, 5, 12, 14: now.
napkin (-ken, -kain), I, 395, 9, 14: neckerchief. II,
108, 3; 158 f., 5, 8; 160, 4, 7; 163, 4, 6: pocket hand
kerchief. pocket-napkin, IV, 468, 2.
nappy, V, 84, 13 (of ale) : strong.
naps, naps of gold were bobbing bonnie, IV, 295, 8,
9: knobs, balls, mentioned as ornaments to gloves, II,
133, D 6, golden-knobbed gloves; 134, 8, 13, siller-
knapped gloves.
napskape, knapscap, IV, 7, 35; V, 251, 31 : head-piece.
nar^nor, with comparative, for than: III, 112 f., 57, 69;
V, 78 f., 12, 18. See nor.
nas, I, 244, 15: ne was, was not.
naught, V, 102, A 13: naughtiness.
naughtless, a naughtless lord, IV, 287, 5; a noughtless
heir, 286, 12: an aughtless, onghtless, good-for-naught,
impotent.
naughty, V, 267, 13: good-for-naught.
naur, II, 62 a, 15: near, or nearer.
naw, IV, 442, 2: nay. V, 296, a: not.
nawn, own. See n.
naye, withowghten naye, III, 296, 18: undeniably,
truly.
ne, III, 349, 46; V, 272 b, 5, 6; 273, 16: no. Ill, 62,
128: not.
ne, stand ye ne aw, III, 350, 53: misprint (in original);
g, stand in no awe.
nean, V, 219, 27; 220, i; 257, n: none.
GLOSSARY
361
near, neare, ner, nere, I, 101, 19; II, 183, so; 191, 37;
HI, 62, 119; 111, 46; V, 224, 28: nearer.
near, IV, 446, 14 4 ; 447, 14 4 : corrupt, as the repetition
from the second verse shows; while (till) my days are
near (to an end) would be extremely forced, in any
case.
near, neer, never.
near-hand, adj., IV, 197, 4, 5: near, short, adv., Ill,
161, 36; IV, 222, 8 (near-ban) : near, almost.
neast, neist, nist, nest, V, 117, A 7; 216 f., l, 5, 7, 10,
18; 242 a, 10, 12: next.
neathing, nothing.
neave, III, 123, 16, 20: fist.
neb, I, 425, A 16: beak.
nee, III, 422, 67: nigh.
needle-tack, II, 217, 5 : fastening or stitch with a
needle.
neen, none. See nane.
neen nae, II, 318 b, 4: need na, need not.
neerice, nurse. See nourice.
neeze, V, 222 b, 26: sneeze, snort.
neigh, v., II, 54, 54, 55: nigh, approach.
neis, I, 302, B 8; IV, 247, B 12: nose.
neist, niest, I, 223, 9; 314, 5; 419 f., l, 3, etc.: next.
nelle, V, 284, 22: ne will, will not.
nen, her nen, V, 224, 24: own. See nane.
ner, nere, III, 62, 119; 111, 46: nearer. See near.
nere, III, 113, 75: were [it] not.
nere, they nere, III, 112, 50 : theyn ere, thine ear.
neshe, III, 445, 31 : of delicate quality.
nest, next. See neast.
nettle-dyke, II, 463, 22: wall with nettles growing on
it, or near it. Cf. II, 467, 40; 469, 42.
neuk, coat-neuk, II, 107, 4, 5: nook, corner.
new-f angle, I, 272, 9 : fond of novelties, capricious,
inconstant.
next, I, 412, 27; II, 45, 30, 34: nighest.
nextand, II, 94, 6. See -an.
neys, V, 80, 39: nice (ironically).
nicher, nicker, n. and v., Ill, 370, 10; IV, 18, 15; 19,
13; 20, 10; 21, ll: neigh.
nicht, the, to-night.
nicked him of naye, II, 52, 12; nickd them wi nae
(nay), V, 182 f., 12, 30 (clearly borrowed from the
above in Percy's Reliques) : refused with nay.
nicker. See nicher.
nick-nack, playd nick-nack on the wa, V, 123, 16;
124, B 14: to express the sound of successive colli
sions.
niddart, niddart ither wi lang braid-swords, II, 422,
49: thrust at. Jamie son, pressed hard upon. Corre
spondents from the North of Scotland say, notched,
slashed.
nie, III, 473, 27: neigh.
nie, neigh, nigh.
niest, I, 15, B 3; 147, 5: next, nearest, come niest,
IV, 485, 30: nigh to. See neist.
niffer, n. and v., I, 203, C 10, 15; IV, 406, 24: ex
change.
night-coif, III, 514, 3; 515, l; V, 225, 4: night-cap,
night-wake, IV, 453, 3, 4: night-watch, as of a dead
body, perhaps a corruption of lyke-wake.
nimble, nimle, wrongly for thimble, thimber, I, 332
B 2, F 2, G 2.
nine, the, m, 392, 8: the nine justices of the supreme
criminal court of Scotland. Kinloch, A. S. B., p. 259.
ning, V, 165 f., 4, 12: nine, nine, 111, 26, is changed
from ninge. In the older stages of the language, re
marks Dr. Murray (Dialect of the Southern Coun
ties of Scotland, p. 125), ng was often written for
Latin gn, and vestiges of this substitution of the
nasal for the liquid n are still found in the spoken
dialect.
nip, III, 160, 18, 19: bit.
nires, norice, nurse. See nourice.
nist, nest, neast, V, 216, 10; 242 a, 10, 12: next.
nit, in, 465, 20: knit, fasten.
nit, I, 450, 2-1: nut.
nit-broun, IV, 469, 7; 470, 23, 29, etc.: nut-brown.
no, I, 86, 13; 100, 10; 108, 6, 8; 135, P 8, 10; II, 218, 12;
222, 19; HI, 465, 32: not.
noble, nobellys, III, 113, 81; 126, 39; 201, 29: a gold
coin of the value of one third of a pound. (Fifteen
score nobles is of course exactly an hundred pound.)
=20 groats, V, 76 f., 18, 19, etc.
nocked, III, 82, 132; 86, 132: notched.
noder, nother, III, 81, 58 ; 100, 80, no noder, noo
nother = none other. See n.
nog. See nags.
noghte, not.
nolt, nout, V, 249, 4: neat, neat-cattle.
nom, III, 51 b, 13-15: take.
none, adv., II, 361, 24; V, 295, l: not at all. See nane.
none of, none of my brother, II, 11, 3, 6, 7: not at all
my brother.
noo, V, 307, 11: now.
noorice. See nourice.
nor, nar, after a comparative, I, 5, C 9-18; II, 134 f.,
15, 29; 268, 21; 374, 13; 409, 19; IV, 166, 12; V, 184,
49: than, nor be, II, 97, 22: than to be (if liker
means more likely), too gude nor ever woud make
a lie, II, 372, 26: better than, too good, to make. I
doubt not nor she be, U, 390, 23,=:je ne doute pas
qu'elle ne soit.
not, IV, 331 b, 8: misprint for out.
note, notte, V, 283, 9, 19: nut.
note, m, 512, I! 6: corrupt (nut in F 7). Some im
possibility is required.
noth, nothe, I, 334, 7, 8: not.
nother. See noder.
noughtless, naughtless, IV, 286, 12; 287, 5: a nought-
less = an oughtless, good-for-nothing, impotent.
noumbles, nowmbles, noumbles of the dere, of a do,
HI, 58, 32; 64, 172: frequently defined entrails; Pals
grave, praecordia, the numbles, as the heart, the
splene, the lunges, and lyver. At least a part of the
noumbles are the two muscles of the interior of the
thighs of a deer: venatores nombles vocant frustum
VOL. v.
46
362
GLOSSARY
carnis cervinae sectum inter femora (Ducange). See
the elaborate directions for breaking or undoing deer
in Juliana Barnes's Boke of Huntynge, and in Mad
den, Sir Gawayne and the Grene Knyjt, vv. 1344-
48 especially.
nourice, nourrice, noorice, nourry, nurice, nur-
ische, nury, II, 322, 6, 13-17; 333, 5-7; III, 433, C
7; IV, 31, 7; 32, 3; 480, 5, 10, etc.: nurse.
nout, nolt, III, 460, 25, 36; IV, 246, is; V, 116, l:
neat cattle.
noute-horne, a, III, 26, 87: horn of neat, ox, cow
(wrongly substituted for, an oute-horne; see V, 297).
uouthe, I, 334, 5: not.
nouther, IV, 219, 8: neither.
now, V, 78 f., 5, 24, 25: new.
noy, I, 217, 7, 12: grief.
nul, nule, I, 244, 11, 13: will not.
mime, preL, III, 355, 4: took.
nurice. See nourice.
nurische, IV, 28 a, 29 a: nurse. See nourice.
nury. See nourice.
nyghtgales, I, 327, 33: nightingales.
nyll, II, 478, 4: will not.
O, brighter O shall, IV, 170, O 10: heard for rose. For
rose (which the last letter of brighter, the o, and the
first letter of shall make) cf. 167, 17; 169, 14; 175,
Mil.
o=of. diel o there, III, 488, 26: devil (1. e. not a
bit) of anything in that way (?) (devil be there,
489, 43).
o=on: I, 232, A 2; II, 375, 15, 16; III, 488 f., 23, 39,
45; IV, 84, 19.
ochanie, och how, IV, 103, 14; III, 392, ll: inter
jections of sorrow.
ocht, IV, 230, l: aught.
ochree. See ohoii.
of=on: I, 284, 14, 16: II, 59, 23; 452, 5; III, 105, 19;
309, 46 (on, 45, vppone, 42); 355, 8; 359, 89; 464, 2; IV,
503, 20. beate of mee, II, 54, 53 (?). In, put of the
pot, put of the pan, II, 118, 8, of is perhaps simply
an error of the scribe; we have, put on, 119, 5, 6. In,
seruyd (q. v.) him of bred, I, 241, I, for is required,
and of, which would signify with, cannot stand.
officier, V, 155, D 2: officer.
ojaines, I, 192 a: against, towards.
oger, I, 202, l: auger.
ohon ochree, III, 390, 13: exclamation of sorrow.
okerer, III, 58, 46: usurer.
old, auld, old (auld) son, of babe just born, II, 95, 11,
12; 105, 7; 107, 4, 5, 6, 17: called young son, II, 104,
12, 15; 106, 8, 10, 18, and, at II, 95, immediately after,
13, 14. See auld son. old daughter, II, 382, l; 387,
1; 388, 15: oldest, old sister, I, 175, D 8: one older
than a second sister.
old, auld, in your fifteen year old, I, 115, 13; in fifteen
years old, I, 116, 13: of age. See aull, auld.
on=of: III, 93, 38; 132, 3; 231, 84; 296, 20; 308, 13.
on = one: V, 78 f., 7, 26, 28; 80, 52. on for on, III, 308,
21.
on, wedded on, I, 146, 24; married on, I, 497, 22: on
the strength of (to have as a dowry).
on ane, I, 334, 6: anon.
on fere, III, 98, 38: in company.
on o = on (on upon?): Ill, 349, 38 (calld on o); 488,
25, 27; IV, 470, is; 517, 9. (cald of, IV, 503, 20.)
onbred, I, 415 b: incompletely grown.
one, I, 104, 6; II, 45, 28: a. of one, I, 104, 6 2 should
have been retained (=on a).
one, on.
one', ony, onie, II, 58, 3: any.
ones, onys, III, 98, 23: once.
onfowghten, III, 297, 41: unf ought, without fighting.
onlouping, III, 449 b: mounting (of a horse).
onthought lang, I, 478 f., is, 47: without wearying,
entertained. See unthought lang, thinke lang.
ony, onie, one, any.
oor, I, 133, M 6: hour.
or, I, 285, 33; 294, 10; 328, 35; 411, 17; II, 22, is; 105,
8: before, or eir, II, 21, A 9 : or or (doubling of
before).
or, II, 166, 27: than.
order, ordre, III, 66, 197, 198: rule of an order.
ordered, II, 257, 9: taken order for, made arrange
ments for.
orders, III, 286, 44: prepares.
ordeyn, III, 72, 326: give order for, levy.
orghie, IV, 513, H 2 4 (to be supplied): orgeis, a
fish, large kind of ling. See V, 299 b, note on No
178.
orlange, II, 61, 8, 9, 12: perversion of eldrige.
orless, I, 141 b, 8 : emended to unless.
orphare, I, 326, 9: orfevrie, goldsmith's work.
osterne, III, 412, 27: austere. See austerne.
ostler, V, 155, C 4, D 2: innkeeper.
ostler-ha, III, 270, 6: ostler-house, hostelry, inn.
ostler-house, III, 268, 4, 6, 8; 269, 4-6: hostelry.
other, pL, III, 298, 66; 335 b.
ottrauuce, at, III, 90 b: to the utterance, extremity,
death.
ought, I, 294, 12: am under obligation, pret. and/). p.
Ill, 228, 9; 431, 30: owed.
ould, IV, 456, 9; V, 199 b, 35: would.
our, owr, ower, over, too.
oure, prep., over. See ower.
ousen, owsen, owsn, II, 192, 6: oxen.
out, he slew out, II, 383, 25; beat out, III, 151, A 4,
B 4: out and out. fight ye all out, IV, 173, 6:
through, to the last.
out into, I, 115, B 2: from within.
out of hand, II, 321, 3; III, 440, 25: forthwith.
out the gate, way, IV, 470, 21; 477, 12: along the
way.
outehorne, III, 26, 87(the original and popular read
ing) : here, a horn blown to call out citizens to the
support of the civil authority. See Spelman's Glos
sary, 1687, p. 441. Cf. V, 297 a.
GLOSSARY
363
outlyer, I, 175 f., D 3, 9, 15, 21: one who lives away
from men, in the woods, banished man, outlaw.
out make I, 61, C c 5: make out.
outmet, jp. p., Ill, 29, 158: measured out.
out-oer, -our(e), -ower, -owre, -over, I, 246, 13, 14;
II, 256, K l; III, 6, 19; 7, 17; 270, 13, 17: over, above,
heirs out ower a' my land, II, 176, C 8. leand
himsel outowre a tree, III, 270, D 8. the flower
out ower (owr) them a', II, 256, L l; III, 246, D 7.
out oer her, IV, 224, 19, should perhaps be, out o'
her.
outrake, III, 413, 32: excursion, outing.
outside, outsyde, II, 444, 43; 449, 48: place apart, re
tired.
outspeckle, IV, 7, 30; V, 250, 27: laughing-stock.
outthro, IV, 445, 20: through to the opposite side.
out-wood, III, 179, 8: wood outside (of a town ?).
ouer all, III, 28, 141: everywhere.
ouer goddes forbode, forbott. See forbode.
ouer-by-gone, I, 326, 8: covered, set.
overthrew us, V, 134, 8: threw us over.
o-vour, II, 25, F 13: half owre, half way over.
ower, owre, oure, I, 16, C 17; 80, l: over, ower (a
window) : over against.
ower, owr, our, over, too.
owerturn, owre turn, I, 332, E, F 7; III, 10, 21: re
frain. See owerword.
owes, who, IV, 205, 27: owns, whose is (who owns=
wha's aucht).
owerword, owre-word, oerword, II, 254, 8, 9; 363,
14; IV, 7, 28; 482 f., 8, 11: refrain (word frequently
repeated), call, cry. See owerturn.
owre, II, 20, 8: or, before.
owsn, owsen, ousen, I, 465, 2; II, 175, 7, 8; 176, 8, 9;
192, 6; 194, 10: IV, 12, C 8; 27, 20: oxen.
owthe, III, 112, 51: out.
owtlay, III, 99, 43: outlaw.
oxe-lig, ox-leg.
oxtere, IV, 506, 6: (A. S. dhsta) arm-pit.
oyes, II, 315, ll; V, 229, 37: grandsons.
oysyd thare trawale, III, 41 a: used, carried on
their operations.
pa, paw.
pa. See palle.
Pa, III, 244, B l: unintelligible and doubtless cor
rupt. Percy, who supposed that Mirryland toune
might be corrupted from Milan, Germ. Mailand, un
derstands Po, although, as he observes, the Adige,
not the Po, runs through Milan.
pack, IV, 69, 12: familiar.
pad, V, 114, 1: (in canting language) highway.
pae, I, 333, 3: peacock.
pakets, V, 165, 6: pockets. (V, 306, 9, has pouches,,
pale (of a puncheon), II, 81, 45: tap, spigot.
pale, and the covring that these lovers had was the
clouted cloak an pale, I, 305, 12: a derivation from
Lat. pallium, coverlet, cloak, O. Fr. paile, palle, has
been suggested, and as to meaning would suit; but
if the word were popular it should be heard of else
where. Possibly an error for fale, turf, which is the
bed-covering in F 6, p. 304; though the combination
with cloak would be strange.
palle, pale, paule, pa, I, 68, 7; 333,1; II, 139,4; 256,
L 4; 259, A a 3, b 3, C c 3; 483, 5: fine cloth.
pallions, III, 300, 15; IV, 500, 16: pavilions.
palmer, I, 232, 3-5, 12, B l; 284, 8: pilgrim. Ill, 3,
10, ll; 4, 4, 5; 180, B 8; 186, 10, ll, 17; 189, A 8, B 3;
IV, 445, 3, 4, 20; V, 16, 9, 17: tramp, vagabond, beg
gar.
pannells, V, 86, 29: riding-pads or cushions.
papeioyes, I, 328, 33: popinjays.
paramour, I, 68, 4; 70, 4: in A 4, the word, coming
between bouted flour and baken bread, should signify
something eatable; B has attempted to make easy
sense by inserting the. Paramour as lover, lady
love, in the honest sense occurs II, 86, 19, 21; 412, 2 ;
V, 182, 7. the love was like paramour, II, 407, 8:
like amorous passion (?). Quite unintelligible in II,
409, 4, a red rose flower, was set about with white
lilies, like to the paramour; again, 410, 2.
parand, heir and par and, II, 447, 2, 4: parand, in 4,
might appear to be meant for apparent, but we have
his parand and his heir, in 2. There is more igno
rance of the meaning of words in the piece.
pardon, I, 411, 8: leave of absence.
part, God, Christ haue part(e) of the (me), III, 58, 39;
329, 8: perhaps, make me an object of his care (as
prendre part en = take an interest in); or, take me
for his, number me among the saved.
part, part the quick, II, 231, 9; parte our company,
III, 71, 307: quit, part from.
partakers, III, 138, 7, 8: helpers.
parti, vppone a parti, III, 308, 19: aside. March-
parti, III, 310, 58: Border-side. Marche-partes,
III, 310, 67.
party, nane to party me, V, 127, 19: be of part with.
Fasch, Pasche, II, 146, 9; 147, 7: Easter.
pass for, III, 138, 15: care for.
passe vppon, V, 51, 67: pass, go, on.
passe, III, 73, 357: extent ? In 84, 357, and 88, 357, the
reading is, compasse.
passage, IV, 515, l: occurrence, incident, adventure.
passilodion, V, 71 b; 72 a: a drinking-word.
passments, IV, 343, 4: laces, trimmings for dresses.
pat, pot.
pat, patt, paut, I, 396, 20; II, 123, 29: strike the
ground with the feet, stamp, pat the ball, III, 251
L l, 2: kick, patted wi her lips, II, 83 a: struck to
gether, smacked (?).
pat, patt, pret. of pit, put, 1, 107, 7; 465, 2, 3; V, 218, 2.
pat-fit, I, 302, B 8: pot-foot.
paughty, II, 364, 21: haughty, malapert.
pauky, V, 115, l: sly.
pautit, I, 397, D 9, ll: patted, struck with the foot,
stamped. See pat.
pavag, pauage, pawage, III, 109 f., 5, 11-13: Fr.
364
GLOSSARY
pavage, road-tax. See Ducange, pavagium. (passage,
III, 114 f., 130, 180, 181, etc.)
paw, a slight motion, neer played paw, III, 480, 14:
never stirred again.
pay, n., 1, 285, 32; III, 28, 128; 59, 66: satisfaction.
pay, paye, ., I, 328, 37; II, 478, 12: satisfy, please.
pay, III, 142, 36; 161, 26; V, 105, A 5, 6; 106, E 6:
beat.
payetrelle, I, 326, 9: poitrail, part of the harness on
the breast of a horse.
payrelde, parelde, I, 327, 16, 17: apparelled.
peak, pick.
peak, peck.
peak-staff, pike-staff.
pean-kniff, pen-knife.
pear, peare, V, 110 f., 2, 4, 6, etc.: poor.
pearled, apron, IV, 67, 12: bordered or trimmed with
lace.
pearlin, pearlins, III, 9 f., 6, 14; IV, 448 a, 2d line:
pearls.
pearling, pearlin, II, 323, 6; IV, 326, 16: lace.
pearting, parting, separation.
peat, I'se gar ye dance upon a peat, V, 104 b (a
threat) : on a (burning) peat, make it hot for you.
pecis, III, 65, 175: vessels (of silver), probably cups.
peed, IV, 316, 14: pu'd, pulled.
peel, I, 403, 9: pool.
peel, a tower, stronghold; climbing the peel seems
inappropriate at IV, 6, 4; V, 249, 4, unless the mean
ing be that the peel was " ransakled " for valuables
(since kye would not be kept in the peel).
peeped, V, 10, 3: spoke faintly, whined.
peerls, peerls many, IV, 134, 10: poor folk (Chaucer's
poraille). B 8, C 6, D 10, P 8, G 4, etc., poor folk
many.
peers, pears.
peit, I, 22, 3: a peat carried to school as a contribution
to the firing.
pellettes, III, 430, 12: bullets.
pendles, IV, 296, 8: pendants, ear-rings.
penned in, of windows, II, 330, G 3: fastened, per
haps pinned. See pin, v.
penny-brown, III, 281, 10: brown as a penny, penny-
gray, III, 281, 8, at best would mean gray as a silver
penny; but silver is called white money. It is just
possible that the word is legitimate, and that, penny-
brown being understood as very brown, penny-gray
might come into use for very gray. Possibly penny-
brown (gray) might mean dappled with brown (gray)
spots.
penny-fee, -fie, 1, 491, 10; IV, 444, 10: gift of a penny
largess, pour-boire. (I, 490, 6, penny instead of
penny-fee.) II, 469, 25, 26: simply, money.
peny, shete a peny, III, 97, 10: shoot for a penny, as
104, 6.
Perce, V, 298 a: Persia.
perelle, I, 326, 8: pearl.
perfyte, II, 72, 4; 75, 6; 78, 8: perfectly.
pestilett, III, 430, 11: pistolet.
petty toes, I, 133, L 9: pettitoes, feet (as in Winter's
Tale, IV, 4), or a play upon words, little toes.
phat, III, 318, 8: what.
philabeg, IV, 234, 21; 271, 8; V, 266, 8: kilt, skirt
worn by Highlanders, reaching from belly to knee.
pibrochs, IV, 298, G b 14: bagpipe airs; seems here
to be meant for the pipes.
pick, pick a mill, I, 211, B 3, 4: sharpen the surface
of a mill-stone when worn smooth by friction, picked
a stane, II, 323, l: dressed with a pick.
pick, pickle, I, 16, C 14; IV, 481, 5; V, 206 a, 6: a
grain.
pick, n., IV, 2, 12: pitch.
pick, pict, v., 380, 20: pitch (pict, II, 28, 23, may be a
misspelling).
picke, III, 358, 77: pitch (throw).
pickle, a grain. See pick.
pickle, II, 147, 12, 14; 476, 16, 17: pick, collect.
picklory, III, 132, 4: name of a cloth.
pickman, pikeman.
pict, v., II, 28, 23: pitch (probably a misspelling).
pig, I, 305, 5; IV, 206, 9: an earthen vessel, earthen
pitcher.
pig-staves, V, 213 a, l: pike-staves.
pile, o corn, I, 18, H 7: a grain.
pile, pile o the gravil green, gray, I, 350, 18, 19; pile
that grows on gravel green, IV, 456, 11, 12: a fibre or
blade of some velvety moss which grows on stones.
See gravil.
pilk, II, 473, 16: pick, collect. See pickle.
pilleurichie. See pitleurachie.
pin, pinn, an implement for raising the fastening of a
door, tirled the pin, IV, 390, 4; 415, 5. tirled at
the pin, I, 470, 23; II, 141, 8; 164, 3; 471, 8; 474,
I 3, etc. tirled on the pin, II, 461, 11. thirled at the
pin, II, 121, 15. thrild upon a pinn, II, 138, 10, 16.
twirld at the pin, IV, 390, b 4. lifted, lifted up
the pin, II, 104, 14; IV, 391, 3; 415, 6. " The pin was
always inside, hung by a latch, or leather point, the
end of which was drawn through a small hole in the
door to the outside. During the day-time, the pin
was attached to a bar or sneck in such a way that
when the latch was pulled the door was free to open.
But at night the pin was disconnected from the door-
fastening and hung loose, so that when the latch was
pulled the pin rattled." W. Forbes. (See tirled.)
knocked at the pin, II, 387, 10; 468, 15; upon a pin,
III, 105, 12; rappit at the pin, I, 472, 17; chapped
at the pin, I, 481, 29, are probably corrupted from
knocked, etc., at the ring (and so, tinkled at the pin,
II, 253, 3) ; if not, the meaning must be, knocked at
the door at the place of the latch, that so priuilye
knowes the pinn, 1, 433, 25, implies that there was some
secret connected with the pin (like, knew not the gin,
IV, 446 b, 3), which it is difficult to conceive in an
arrangement so simple as that described above; but
it is probable that complications were employed by
the cautious. See gin.
pin, gallows-pin, gallou-pine, I, 146, 25; 150, 17; III,
GLOSSAKY
365
388, 18; V, 247, 18; hanged them out-oer a pin, III,
268, 18; hang you on a pin before my door, V, 26, 15:
the projecting, or horizontal beam of the gallows ?
Any projection upon which a rope could be fastened.
pin, v., pin my windows in, V, 295, 5, 6: fasten. See
penned.
pindee, II, 326, 2, of windows, pinned-ee for rhyme, or,
possibly, for in, as penned in, II, 330, G 3.
pinder, pindar, pinner, III, 131 ff., A 1-5, etc.; B
1-3; II, 484, C 6, 7; 491 a, 5, b, 6: pounder.
pine, pyne, I, 464, 8; 470, 15, 32; 474 f., 36, 41; IV, 430
f., 4, 23; V, 219, 25: suffering, pain. Goddes, Creys-
tys, pyne, III, 75, 391; V, 79, 18: suffering, distress,
passion.
pine, I, 453, 3: (pind, poiiid) distrain, seize.
piner-pig, III, 385, 7: an earthen vessel for keeping
money.
pingo, pingo white, IV, 213, 12: pinkie (?).
Pinnatree, The Gold, V, 141 b: name of a ship.
pinner. See pinder.
pint, point.
Pirie, in Pirie's chair you '11 sit, the lowest seat o hell:
I, 429, 30, 31. For the derivation Sir W. D. Geddes
suggests as possible le pire, which would be in the
way of the Scottish " ill chiel." Professor Cappen
writes: "Familiar name in doggerel lines recited by
boys in their games. One boy stood back against the
wall, another bent towards him with his head on the
pit of the other's stomach; a third sat upon the back
of the second. The boy whose head was bent down
had to guess how many fingers the rider held up.
The first asked the question in doggerel rhyme in
which Pirie, or Pirie's chair, or hell, was the doom
threatened for a wrong answer. I remember Pirie
(pron. Peerie) distinctly in connection with the doom.
Pirie's chair probably indicates the uncomfortable
position of the second boy (or fourth, for there may
have been a fourth who crouched uncomfortably on
the ground below the boy bending), whose head or
neck was confined in some way and squeezed after a
wrong answer."
pistol-pece, III, 432, 9: pistol.
pit, I, 86, 31; 467, 17; V, 219, 10: put. pit mee down,
H, 131, 4: be my death, pit back, IV, 510, W 3:
stop the growth or development of. pret. pat. p. p.
pitten, putten.
pith, hammer o the, II, 374, B 2: sounds like non
sense. The smith's anvil being of gold and his
bellows-cords of silk, his hammer should be of some
precious material. To say his hammer was wielded
with force would be out of keeping, and very flat at
best.
pitleurachie, pilleurichie, III, 320, A a 20, b 20:
hubbub, discord. See lierachie.
pit-mirk, III, 495 a, after 7; IV, 517, 14: dark as a
pit.
pitten, p.p. of pit, put, I, 463 f., 2, 14.
place, in place, V, 84 f., 10, 25: presence, in place, III,
422, 76: (means only) there.
plaet, pret., IV, 465, 40: plaited.
plaiden, IV, 257, 3, 5: coarse woollen cloth diagonally
woven.
plain fields, IV, 432 f., 2, 10, 17, 21: open fields.
plainsht, III, 360, 121: plenisht, filled.
plainstanes, IV, 152, 5: pavement.
plaow, n., V, 304, 5, 12: plough.
plat, I, 101, 19; II, 285, 20, pret. of plet: plaited, inter-
folded.
plate-jack, IV, 147, 22: a defensive upper garment
laid with plates.
platen, I, 243 f., 8, 11: plates, pieces.
play-feres, in, 244, 2, 6; 245, 4, 5: play-fellows.
plea, I, 169, 7; II, 282, 2: quarrel.
plea, enter plea att my iollye, III, 278, 32. See enter.
plead, III, 277, 10, 12: contend.
pleasure, drink his, V, 307 a, 4: drink as much as he
wishes.
plee, III, 165, 72: plea (your offer to give up your
money is but a slight ground for a plea to be spared ?
or a slight argument to enforce the justification pre
viously attempted ?).
pleuch, pleugh, n., II, 190, 9; 194, 10: plough. IV,
196, 19; 197, 19: (of land) plough, which see.
pie wed, feathers pie wed with gold, II, 435, 49: not
understood.
plight I lay, IV, 433, 21: the pledge I did lay ? con
dition in which I should lie ? (Very obscurely ex
pressed stanza.)
plight, pret., II, 52, 24; 364, 24; V, 50, 45: plighted.
plooky, II, 47, 14: pimpled.
plough, pleugh, pleuch, plow, IV, 194, 18, 11; 195,
18; 196, 19; 197, 19; etc. (of land): as much land as
one plough will till in a year.
plucke, fyght a plucke, III, 128, 85: (blow, stroke)
a bout.
pluck e-buffet, they shote, III, 77, 424: at taking and
giving a buffet for missing. (This supposes pluck =
take, get; it may be the noun pluck, blow.)
plummet, of swords, III, 466, 40 : pommel.
pock, III, 160, 6, 16; 163, 68, 74, 83: bag.
pocket-napkin, IV, 468, 2: pocket-handkerchief.
poind, pret., poinded, p. p., II, 429 b, 3; IV, 80 b; IV,
492 a, 3: distrained.
poll, lighter than the poll, IV, 434, 1 (not recognized
as Scottish by any of my correspondents) : boll, lint-
bow, the seed-pod of flax ? Not probable.
poorly, IV, 444, 35: feebly. V, 10, 3; 266 b, 2: faint
heartedly.
portioner, IV, 81 a: possessor of a part of a property
originally divided among co-heirs. Jamieson.
portly, III, 280, 24: of imposing appearance.
pot, II, 144 f., 14, 24; 153, 22; 154 f., 17, 31, 34, 36; 474,
J e; IV, 181, 13; 189 f., 7, 22, 28: deep place or pool
n a ver.
potewer, I, 271, 6: read potener, French pautonniere,
pouch, purse. " pawtenere, cassidile." Prompt. Parv.
" Marsnpium, a pawtenere, a powche. . . . Cassidile
est pera aucupis, vel mercipium, vel sacculus, a
366
GLOSSARY
pautenier or a pouche. Cassidile dicitur pera . . .
crumena, etc. cremena, a pautener." (Way's note.)
pottinger, IV, 509 b, 13: apothecary.
pottle, V, 86, 35: a measure of two quarts.
pow, II, 476, 16: head.
powd, III, 268, 7: pulled.
powder, IV, 514, 17: dust (?).
power, above (loved), II, 286, 2: beyond (ordinary)
capacity or intensity.
powther, powder.
prah, v., V, 303 a: pray.
praise, III, 204, 29: prize.
praise, V, 115, 5:= God.
praisin, III, 455, D l: if the line is genuine, all the
meaning praisin can have will be, the laudation of
the queen for her generous behavior.
pran, V, 220 f., 6, 7, 9: bran.
prece, prese, prees, III, 24, 36; 67, 218: press, crowd.
Ill, 62, lie: thick of a conflict.
pree, I, 81 a: taste. See prey.
preen, n., I, 430, 13: pin.
preen, v., I, 147, 13; III, 436, 3; V, 105, B 7: pin. See
prin.
prees, prese. See prece.
preke, n., Ill, 112, 62. See pricke.
preke, v. See prekyd.
preker, V, 79, 13: rider.
prekyd, prycked, V, 78, 6; 80, 40: spurred, rode fast,
the hors prekyd, 80, 42: ran, scampered, sped.
prese. See prece.
present, III, 199, 19: represent, act as representatives of.
presenttiiig, wine, IV, 37, 16: holding out the cup or
glass towards the person saluted.
presently, III, 400 a (7) : at present.
president, III, 231, 82: precedent.
press, V, 111, 22: closet.
prest, the made them prest, III, 111, 45: ready, berdys
sang preste, III, 112, 63: freely, con amore. 111,171,
10: in haste.
prestly, III, 27, 113: quickly.
pretend, I, 110, 18; V, 57, 66: purpose, design.
prevayle, III, 313, 55: avail.
prey, II, 490 b, 12-14: (prie, pree) taste.
price, III, 358, 63: estimation.
prick them to the gin, IV, 480, 4: pin to the fasten
ing.
prick(e), pry(c)ke, preke, rod or wand, used as a
mark in shooting = pricke- wand: III, 93, 28,30; 202,
34. he cleffed the preke on three, III, 112, 52. ' have
at the pryke ! " and Y cleue the styke,' III, 90 b. a
mark or butt generally, III, 29, 145. slise, cleue the
wand=cteffe the preke, III, 70, 292; 75, 401.
pricked, pret., II, 266,28: stuck.
pricke-wande, III, 93, 31 : a rod set up for a mark.
prickt, p. p., I, 345, C l: prinkt, deckt.
priefe, V, 81, 14: prove, experience, enjoy.
pril, V, 73 a: a drinking word, to which the response
must be wril.
prime, pry me, I, 254, 9: the first canonical hour.
prin, n. and v., I, 345, C l; 431, 10; II, 109, 17, 19;
111,388, 17; IV, 189, 4, 6; V, 105, B 7 (preened):
pin.
pr inkling, II, 386, 20: seems to be used (perhaps an
error) for trinkling, trickling,
prittle, I, 59, 15: a doublet of prattle,
priving, V, 115, 8: tasting.
process, III, 164, 90: occurrences, story of occur
rences,
propine, I, 79, 24: present, gift, in thy propine, I,
227 b: to be had by thee as a gift.
propose, n., V, 207 b, No 5: proposal,
proselya, the reef was o the proseyla, I, 333, 6: in
other copies the roof is of beaten gold, the floor of
cristal a'. The roof here might be of proseyl a', if
that would help, but I know no more of proseyl than
of proseyla. The nearest I can come to cristal is,
porcelain.
pressed, proceed,
proue, II, 446, 81 : try? Poor sense and no rhyme.
The MS. reading is perhaps praie, which is, however,
not preferable. Pross is a northern word for talk
(Halliwell), and the corresponding verb would suit
here.
prowed, proud.
Prudents, I, 471, 2, 4: black people of the Holy Land
pruel, made her heart to pruel, II, 376, 32: to ache or
shiver with fear. (Dr Davidson.) To preel in Aber-
deenshire is to cool. (Principal Barbour.)
pryce, III, 63, 137: prize,
prycke, n. See pricke.
prycked, as faste as he myght ronne, III, 296, 21:
sped; and so V, 80, 42. See prekyd.
pryckynge, III, 67, 229: spurring, riding briskly, should
probably be rakynge; the yeomen are on foot. Cf.
Ill, 123, 12; 180, 9, 11.
pryke, n. See pricke.
pry me, prime, III, 23, 9; 25, 72: the first canonical
hour, first hour of the day.
pryse, I, 327, 16, 17: value, most(e) of pryse^most
richly.
pu, pow, pull,
pudding-pricks, III, 160, 19: wooden skewers to
fasten the end of a gut containing a pudding,
puggish, II, 427, 6: in a later copy, ragged. Mr Ebs-
worth suggests the meaning, tramper's. (puggard,
thief; pugging, thieving.)
purchase, III, 203, 20: booty, prize,
purchast, p.p., Ill, 36, 48: acquired (perhaps, stolen),
pure, poor.
pusin, n. and v., poison,
puss-pay, V, 110,9, 10: hare or rabbit pie (still in use:
W. Walker).
put down. See putten down,
put on (intransitively), II, 92, 21; 255, 22; 278, 7; IV,
190, 25: dressed, put on him, II, 162, 12: jogged,
pushed.
putten, putn, p. p. of put, 1, 446, 10; 469, 3; III, 433, 3.
putten, put, down, II, 178, 39; HI, 393, 15; IV, 14, u;
GLOSSARY
367
66, A 10; 70, 13: hanged. IV, 32, 12: put to death
by violence,
putting-stane, II, 421, 28: as the stone is thrown,
there is no propriety in the hitting and kepping
(catching) in 29.
pyet, pyot, magpie: II, 93, 6; 148 f., 11, 13, 15, 17.
pyght, III, 296, 19: pitched (fixed in the ground the
pole of).
py grail, III, 410 b, note: paltry,
pylled, hatte, III, 179 a: (bald) that has lost the
nap.
pyne, Goddes, Creystys, pyne, III, 75, 391; V, 79, 18:
passion. See pine,
pyot. See pyet.
quaich, V, 264 a, 3: cup or bowl (Irish cuach).
quarrelld, p. p., I, 367 f., 12, 20: quarrelled with, found
fault with,
quarry, IV, 26, 6: of living game, in the modern way
(in an adulterated ballad). See querry.
quarterer, IV, 152, B 9, 10: lodger,
queed, II, 423, A i: gueed, good is required; queed
could mean only ill.
queen, quean, queyne, quen, quien, I, 69, 38, 39;
302, A 11; 303, C 6: woman. II, 141, ll; V, 272, 8,
10: concubine.
queer, quir, IV, 465, 39; V, 224, 27: choir,
queet, quit, cweet, IV, 190, 26; II, 96, I 3: ankle,
quen. See queen,
quequer, III, 112, 51 : quiver,
quere, III, 250, K 7: inquire,
querry, quyrry, III, 307, 8; 311, 11: quarry, dead
game. See quarry,
quest, III, 25, 69; IV, 11, 12: inquest,
questry-men, another, IV, 11, 13: men constituting a
quest, inquest; but another raises a doubt whether
we should not read quest of, as in 12 (ry being caught
from jury, above).
queyt, III, 112, 59: quit, requite. See quite,
quien. See queen,
quiles, II, 488, 1, 2: coils, colls, cocks,
quill, IV, 213, ll: quill, the small round fold of a ruff,
seems to be put for the quilled ruff; otherwise, kell,
cap (or coul, night-cap, not likely),
quine-stane, qunie-stane, V, 248, 10,11: (quoin, coin)
corner-stone.
quir, queer, V, 224, 27: choir,
quirn, I, 17, 15: hand-mill,
quit, II, 283, 3: ankle. See queet.
quite, III, 333, 28: requite. See queyt, quyte.
quite, III, 431, 28: free, clear, unpunished,
qunie-stane. See quine-stane.
quoif, coif, II, 279, l: cap.
qustens, V, 217, a 15: questions,
quyrry, III, 307, 8: quarry, the slaughtered game. See
querry.
quyte )?e, III, 100, 77: acquit thyself, square the
account. The other text has, quit me.
race, of ginger, IV, 70, O 3: root.
race, II, 445, 70, 72; 450, 77, 79; III, 278, 24, 29: course
in justing, fetched a race, II, 454 f., 54, 58: took a
run (for impetus); so 1, 176, 22.
race, castle-race, II, 75, 15; 81, 43: course in the castle-
grounds, or contour of the castle (?).
rache, I, 327 f., 10, 16, 51 : a scenting dog.
rack, III, 472, 3, 4: ford. "A very shallow ford, of
considerable breadth: Teviotdale." Jamieson.
rad, V, 192, 26: afraid.
rader, rather. V, 283, 7, 17: quicker.
rader, rider.
radly, III, 98, 24: quickly. See rathely.
rae, I, 350, 21; 352, 7: roe (referring to the wildness of
Tarn Lin).
raid, read, rede, pret. of ride.
raid, n., IV, 520, 3: simply ride, for hunting.
raik. See rake.
rair, I, 256, 4: roar.
rais, raise, rase, jwe*. of rise, I, 305, 5; 327, 13; 420,
18; 422, 18; 451, 12; II, 30, 5; 92, 21; 108, 13-15; IV,
215, A 6.
raiths, rathes, reaths (Gael, raidh), II, 314, 30; V,
268, 21, 22: quarters of a year.
rake, raik, reek, n, 216 f., 5, so; 483, i; in, 125, 27;
162, 47; 180, 9: walk, move, raking on a rowe, III,
117, 24; 123, 16; 180, ll: advancing in a line; on a
rowte, III, 180, 9: in a company.
ramp, rider, IV, 198, G 6: wild (of manners or habits).
See rank.
ramp, I, 302, B 7: spring, bounce, whisk, ramped him,
I, 215 a, 7: Cramped, bounded.
randy, I, 104 a, burden of d: probably unmeaning,
though the sense "indelicate hoyden" would suit
with stanza 2.
rane, lang rane, II, 82, C: yarn, tedious tale.
rang, wrong.
rank (A. S. rane, strenuus, fortis, protervus), wild,
bold (turbulent), strong, violent, rank river, IV,
200, 5; 442, 4. rank robber (who robs with violence,
"strong thief "): II, 223, F 4; 233, F 3; 399, 6; 400,
4; 401, C 6; 404, 6. rank reiver, III, 472, 6; IV,
195, C 3; 472, ll. rank rider, IV, 196, 4; 204, ll:
rude, boisterous; but II, 434, 24; 437, 75: of spirit
and courage, sturdy (stout rider, IV, 197, 3, no
reference to horsemanship). ramp rider, IV,
198, G 6. rank Highlands, II, 93, 2, 3: rude, wild,
ranke (of horses), II, 444, 59: high-fed (or used ad
verbially),
rankit, pret. and p. p., V, 197, 10: drew, drawn, up in
military order.
ranshakled, IV, 6, 4; V, 249, 4: ransacked,
rantan, ranten. See ranting,
ranted, IV, 153, E 4; V, 115, l; was rantin, IV, 85,
39: of making noisy merriment,
ranting, n., IV, 284, 26; 287, l; 288, l: raking,
ranting, rantin, rantan, ranten, laird, laddie, III, 455,
D l, 13; IV, 351, l, 3 ff.; 356 f., B l, 3, 4; V, 274 b,
368
GLOSSARY
3-6: jovial, dissipated, wanton, rakish, "fast;" we
have a rantin lassie, IV, 354, A b l, 2.
rap, IV, 382, 14: knock, drive, pret. rapped, rappit,
rappet, at, with ellipsis of the door, I, 105 a, 29; IV,
444, 16, 35; V, 173, 1; 306 b, 1.
rap, II, 426, 12; IV, 352, 7; V, 161, B l, 5; 274 b, 7;
302, 14: (of tears) to fall in quick succession.
rape, rope,
rarely, IV, 58, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11; 358, 20, 21: rhyme-word
(to which any one can assign all the sense it has).
as adj., IV, 154, 7: rare,
rase, pret. of rise. See rais.
rash, n., IV, 75 a, b; 76, l; 448 b, 5 (rash-bush); 524,
4, 7; V, 157, 12: rush,
rashin, V, 173, 7: rushen, of rush,
rassiecot, V, 107, 2: perhaps of no meaning, or, rush-
coat.
rathely, I, 327, is: quickly. See radly.
rathes, II, 314, so. See raiths.
rau, row. See rawe.
r aught, I, 434, 36: reached, delivered,
ranked, I, 69, 61 : searched, rummaged. (Misprinted
ranked.)
rave, reave, rive, pret. of rive, I, 439, 5; II, 294, 32;
IV, 181, 15. See rive,
ravie (rave ?), V, 111, 19: rive, raving, V, 254, 14, 18,
19: tearing,
raw, green raw sea, II, 30, 6: as of weather, wet
and cold; but I am informed that the singer ordina
rily gave haw, as II, 28, 21.
rawe, rewe, n., Ill, 71, 306: row.
rawstye by the roote, III, 94, 56: rusty, soiled, foul,
(with blood) at the end (?).
ray, n. and v., Ill, 112, 60; 201, 17; 406, 29; V, 83, b 3:
array. V, 192, 34: make ready, saddle,
ray, n., IV, 3, 22: track,
raye, III, 67, 230: striped cloth,
raysse, III, 295, 2: riding, raid.
reacheles on, III, 93, 38: reckless of, heedless about,
read, pret. of ride, IV, 457, 23; V, 166, ll; 228, 26.
read, I, 309, B l; 310, B b: rehearse, tell.
read (of dreams), IV, 167, D 9, 10; 171, 11; 172, 12,
etc.; 180, C 3; 190, 23; V, 221, 24; 224, 23; 257, 14:
interpret, give an issue to.
read, reade, rede, red, redd, n., II, 53, 34, 35; 182, 4:
advice. See rede,
read, reade, red, v., II, 52 f., 6, 34; III, 104, 2, 4; 105,
25: advise, read my rede, II, 186, l: corrupted from
riddle my riddle, 187, 2, 8. See riddle,
readilie, ready lye, II, 23, E 7; 444, 43: (without
difficulty or hesitation) certainly,
ready, V, 75, 6, 7; 81, 10: direct, readye, II, 58, 16:
indubitable, certain,
reaf, reif, III, 458 b: plunder,
reak, smoke. See reek,
reaming, a suit o claise were o the apple reamin, IV,
176, 15: reaming = creaming, foaming, which of course
gives little or no meaning. Apples were sometimes
used to scent clothes.
rean, rin, run.
reap, V, 165 f., 6, 9:= ripe, search, rummage; see V,
306,9.
reapeu, p. p. of reap, II, 9, 26.
rear, rare.
reas, praise. See roos.
reas, ryse, III, 307, 5: rouse,
reast, reest, V, 256 b, 4: roost,
reaths. See raiths.
reave, IV, 26, 1: rob.
reave, rave, rive, pret. of rive, I, 442, 6; IV, 416, 18.
reavel(l)d, II, 140, 19, 20: ravelled, disordered (of hair),
reaver, rever, riever, IV, 85, 2: robber,
recher, compar., V, 283, 10, 20: richer,
reck, v., II, 340 b, 2d line: rock (perhaps miswritten).
recones, IV, 496 b: reckonings.
record, sma, III, 319, 22: note,
red, redd, rede, n., II, 182, 4; III, 112, 58: counsel.
I, 22, B l; 227 a, 5: talk, tale. See read,
red, redd, rede, reid, v., I, 329, 58; II, 59, 20; 62 a,
15; 182,4,6,9,10; 272,6; IV, 495, 2 ; V, 191, 8: advise,
red, III, 163, 80: to rid, clear out. of hair, comb (see
redding-kaim). red the question, II, 253, 18: clear
up, settle.
redlan(d),I,16,Cll; IV, 274, 6; V, 206 a, 5: cleared,
ploughed.
red river comb, II, 216, 19, 21: corrupted, as are
other versions in this passage,
redding-kaim, reeding-comb, III, 452, 8; IV, 515,
7: comb (for disentangling).
rede. See red.
rede, p.p., Ill, 298, 53: read, divined, discerned,
rede, pret. of ride, III, 63, 134 (reden,they rode); IV,
182, P 5. See read,
redly, III, 67, 223: quickly,
reeding-comb. See redding-kaim.
reef, I, 333, 5: roof,
reef-tree, I, 299, 5: roof-tree, beam in the angle of a
roof,
reek, reak, reik, n., II, 191, 24; 193, 21; 195, 33; III, 433,
C 6-8, D 12; 434, 15; 435, 14; IV, 514, 16, 20: sinoke.
reek, v., I, 304, E 3; II, 30, L 2; V, 162, E b l: rake,
range, move, turn. See rake,
reekit, V, 108, B 7: smoked, smoky,
reel, reel went round, V, 155, C 2: revel, riot (of merry
makers) ?
reem, II, 335, N 7: room,
reest, reast, IV, 189, 3, 4: roost,
reet, I, 367, 7; V, 213, 8: root,
reeve, V, 69 b: bailiff, steward, pi. reues.
refell, I, 110, 22: repel.
refer, message, II, 286, C 10: report, announce,
regulate, III, 509, l, 7: corruption of, riddle it.
reid, v., V, 200 a, after 50: advise,
reif, reiff, III, 365 b; 471, notef; V, 198 b, after 62:
robbery.
reign, II, 8, 1: for rhyme; range ? or rein, as 9, b 1.
reik, smoke. See reek.
reill, reel.
GLOSSARY
369
reiver, rever, riever, III, 472, 6; 473, 22: robber. See
reaver.
rejoyfull, IV, 173, 7: rejoicing,
remeid, II, 367, 42; 371, 13; IV, 405, 49; 428, ?:
remedy.
remorse, III, 209, 10; 231, 94: compassion,
remoued, II, 58, 4: agitated.
renisht, renisht them to ride of twoe good renisht
steeds, II, 52, 8; 53, 42 (42 emended from, on tow
good renish, in conformity with 8) : should have some
such meaning as accoutred, but a derivation is not to
be made out. Qy. [ha] renisht, harnessed ?
renown, spake wi renown, IV, 348, ll: force of au
thority (of prestige), or, with the air of a person of
repute,
repair, II, 163, 18: resort to? fix upon? (probably
nonsense for rhyme).
require, II, 427, 6: ask for. (Other texts, inquire.)
reset, IV, 281 a: harboring,
respect, in respect, III, 364 b: considering,
rest, pret. of rest, IV, 424, 12.
restore, IV, 425, 8: restore, because the morning-gift
would revert to the father and be at his disposition,
no son having been born,
retour, IV, 91, note f: return,
returned, III, 356, 33: turned away,
reuelle, I, 328, 51, 52: festivity.
rever, III, 458 b; IV, 472, 11: robber. See reaver,
reues, III, 68, 254: bailiffs. See reeve,
rewe, be re we, II, 479, 15: in a row, one after another,
each of the whole class. See rawe.
rewth, III, 28, 136: pity.
ribless kiln, I, 18, F ll: the ribs of a kiln for dry
ing grain are the cross-beams, on which were laid
the " stickles," or short pieces of wood, to support
a layer of straw (or hair-cloth, or bricks) on which
the grain was placed. It would of course be impos
sible to dry grain on a ribless kiln.
rid, ried, red.
riddle, II, 184, 5, 8, ll, 18; 186, l; 187, 2, 8; 196, e l, 7:
resolve, riddle my riddle, 187, 2, 8: resolve my di
lemma, read my rede, 186, l, is probably corrupted
from riddle my riddle; cf. 187, 2, 8.
ried, ride.
rien, V, 161, 9; 162, B 6: riven,
riever, reiver, rever, IV, 84, 8; 195, C 3: robber.
See reaver,
rig, rigg, riggin, ridge.
rig, rigg, of land, I, 19, 9; II, 152, ll; V, 164, 16; rig-
length, III, 273, 23: a measure of land 600 feet by
15, containing 9000 square feet. Donaldson,
riggin, III, 459, 5: ridge,
right, III, 356, 19: right off, directly,
rigland, land under the plough, and so in rigs, ridges.
rigland shire, II, 132, 32: a shire of such land (?).
rin, rine, rean, V, 221, 15: run.
ring, plural, II, 285, 16 f . : misprint in Scott ?
ring (dancing), II, 104, 23; so, take me to the middel
o the ring, V, 273, 12.
VOL. v. 47
ring, knocked at the, with the, ring, II, 187, 12; 201, 2;
459, 10; III, 106, 4; 250, ll. rappit wi a, H, 462, 10!
rapped on the, V, 293 b, 10. pulled at a, H, 490,
D b 9. tinkled at the, II, 196 b, 4; 251, 4; 266, 7;
267, 9; 393, 11; 475, K 6: the hammer of a door
knocker. But, perhaps, in the case of tinkling, the
ring may have been gently drawn up and down or
struck against the projecting bow or rod of a door
handle (often wound with a spiral), an operation
which, when vigorously performed, is described as
risping or rasping.
ring (game), to ride at the ring, III, 448, A 3: to
attempt, while at full gallop, to carry off, on the
point of a rod, a ring suspended on a cross-beam
resting on two upright posts. Jamieson.
ring and the ba, IV, 257, 4; 354, A b l, 2: a game in
which a ring was thrown up, and a ball was to be
thrown through before the ring fell. Dr. W. Gregor.
The rantin lassie plays at this, IV, 354.
ringle-tree, V, 112, B b 11: probably the huge block
of wood used for scutching flax and mangling clothes.
An old game-keeper tells me that he has heard the
word and so understands it. When not in use for
beating flax, the beetle and tree-block were used by
the women to mangle their clothes after washing.
W. Walker.
ripe, reap, rype, III, 160, 16; 163, 83, 84; V, 306, 9:
search, rummage, clear or clean out, rifle,
rise, III, 332, 2: branch,
rise = raise: III, 513 b, 4. pret. rose, 514 a, 6. See
ryse.
rise, pret. of rise, III, 369, 17.
rise, did on anchor rise so high, III, 344, 34: said of a
ship in full sail; no apparent sense, (ride in B c,g,
347, 34; upon an anchor rose so high in h, 349, 34.)
rispen, fine rispen karne, II, 225, J 2: keen, sharp,
risping, rasping ? or, p. p., filed ? (This passage is
variously corrupted in different versions.)
ritted, II, 295, B b 4, 22: stuck, stabbed,
rive, rave, reave, pret. of rive, tear, V, 256, 13. p. p.
II, 465, 4, 6, 8.
rive up, I, 303, 7: plough up, tear up.
riued, I, 284, 9: arrived, travelled,
river, III, 364 b: robber. See reaver,
river-comb, red, II, 216, A 19: is river a corruption of
ivory f In B 2, 4, it is a tabean brirben kame. H
1, brown berry comb. J 2, fine rispen kame: fine-
filed (?). All seem to be badly corrupted,
rock, roke, IV, 84, 14; 85, 4; 86, 6; 87, 4; V, 254 a, 4:
distaff.
rocked, rocket, roked, II, 191, 24; 195,33: smoked,
rod, III, 8, 21: a bier was extemporized by taking rods
from bushes for spakes, spokes, or bars,
roddins, II, 408, 19, 20; 409 f., 21, 23: berries of moun
tain ash. (But the berries are said to grow on yon
der thorn, 409, 21.)
rode, rood.
roelle-bone, I, 326; 6. royal bone, I, 466 f., 10, 38;
royal ben, I, 478 f., 12, 46: interpreted variously,
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without satisfaction. See rewel-boon, Professor
Skeat's note to Chaucer's Sir Thopas, v. 2068. Hertz-
berg suggests Reval bone, mammoth tooth, fossil
ivory, imported into western Europe via Reval,
Chaucer Nachlese, in Jahrbuch fur Rom. und Engl.
Litteratur, VIII, 164 f.; and Prof. Skeat (with a
different derivation), ivory of the walrus, citing Gode-
froy, "roehal, ivoire de morse."
roke, III, 298, 51: reek, vapor.
roke, V, 254 a, 4: rock, distaff. See rock.
roked, rocket, rocked, II, 191, 24; 193, 21; 195, 33; V,
224, 19: smoked.
rom, V, 304 b, 2: room.
rood, III, 93, 28: rod (a measure).
rood, four and thirty stripes comen beside the rood,
II, 59, 29: referring to the scourging of Jesus (?).
room ye roun, II, 89, 29: move round so as to make
room.
roome, III, 36, 44: companye (the reading in b).
roos, rous, reas, v., IV, 69, 21; 378, 2; 379, 2; 384, 2;
V, 275, 2: to praise, laud, boast.
roose, n., IV, 503, 19: rose.
roosing, rosin, rousing, n., IV, 378, i; 379, l; 383,
l; V, 275, l: praising, boasting, bragging.
root, I, 304, F 5: the end of a rafter, resting on a wall,
ring of an auld tree-root, I, 304, F 4: hoops are some
times made of tree-roots, which are very tough; the
point here is the size of the fingers which such a ring
would fit.
root of his sword, III, 268, ll: a blunder; see note,
III, 275.
rose-garlonde, III, 75, 398: a "garland" appears to
have been attached to the yerdes (397), and every
shot outside of the garland was accounted a failure.
The garland as the limit of allowable shots is men
tioned at 93, 31. This must have been an extempo
rized ring of twigs in the latter case, and was so,
perhaps, in the other, for it is likely that the term
would become conventional, and mean, as Mr C. J.
Longman suggests, nothing more than a disk with
circular rings, such as survive to this day in archery
targets.
rosin, V, 275, ll: boasting. See roosing.
rosses, roses.
rottens, rottons, I, 466, 8; V, 124, 6: rats.
roudes, II, 284, 4: haggard (subst., an old wrinkled
woman).
roun, rown, round, III, 199, 28; 356, 19: whisper.
rounin(g), n., V, 256, 10: whispering.
round, so it went round, IV, 146, 7: so much it
came to (?).
round tables, II, 343, l: a game.
rouudlie, I, 104, 6: at a good pace.
rous, roos, reas, IV, 379, 2; V, 275, 2: boast of.
rousing, n., boasting. See roosing.
rout, n., Ill, 160, 22: blow.
rout, n., IV, 113, 3; 114, D l: row, brawl, disturbance.
rout, v., II, 318 a; IV, 378, 5; 380, ll: roar. IV, 6,
16; V, 250, 14: bellow.
route, rowte, rowght, III, 23, 22; 26, 88; 180, 9; 297,
33: company, band, crowd. In III, 297, 33: perhaps
melde, affray.
routh, I, 298, l: plenty.
row, rough.
row, rowe, I, 71, 61; 80, 33; 441, 6, 8; II, 443,35; 448,
39; IV, 267, 9; 269 b, 9: roll. pret. and p. p. rowed,
rowd, rowit, rowt, I, 441, 7, 9; IV, 274, 15; V, 106,
D 7: rolled, wound.
rowan, row on, rown, tree, II, 504, 18: mountain-ash.
rowe, on a, III, 67, 229; 117, 24: in a line, file.
row-footed, III, 473, 25: rough-footed.
rowght, III, 297, 33: company, ryall in rowghte, kingly
among men. See route.
rowght, wrought.
rown, 1, 312, 17, 22: rowan, mountain-ash. See rowan.
rown, roun, round, III, 356, 19: whisper.
rowt, pret., V, 106, D 7: rolled. See row.
rowte. See route.
rowynde, III, 297, 33: round.
royal bone, royal ben. See roelle-bone.
royalty e, III, 411, 5: splendid display, or the like.
rub-chadler, rub-chandler, I, 285 f., 31, 43: rubbish-
barrel. See I, 279.
rudd, n., I, 272, 13, 20, 24: (redness) complexion, face.
rudd, v., IV, 28, 34: redden.
rudely, III, 162, 49: sturdily.
rue, III, 220, 6: cause to rue.
rugge, I, 243, 2: back.
rule, III, 98, 32: going on, taking on, noisy bewailing.
run, IV, 289, F 6: issue, outcome (said to be slang).
run, red runs i the rain, II, 304, 4: gives no sense, and
so of Scott's reading at this place, the red sun's on
the rain. It will be observed that the day has not
dawned.
run a reel, II, 108, 17: gone through, danced.
rung, I, 202, A 12; III, 161, 43; IV, 444, 20: staff, pike
staff.
rung (of the noise of a cannon), n., IV, 52, 14: ring;
appears to have been altered, for rhyme, from ring,
which is in two other copies.
rusty, V, 151, E 6: surly,
rybybe, I, 328, 49: a stringed instrument.
ryght, straight, directly, ryjth, V, 283, 14: aright.
rynde, be rynde and rent, III, 297, 42: flayed, (rynde
should perhaps be riven.)
rype, v. See ripe.
ryse, III, 22, 2; 23, 20: rouse. See rise.
rysse, I, 328, 39: probably rising ground, elevation
(compare mountayne, playne, delle, hill, in 38, 40-42:
not twig, brushwood).
rysyt, I, 242, ll: riseth (old imperat. pL), rise.
S
s, se, as sign of the future tense. I 'se, III, 488, 19; IV,
428, 18. thou 's, 'se, IV, 3, 31; 12, C 6. he 's, hee 'se,
II, 442, 16; IV, 146, 6. we 's, I, 467, 29; IV, 181,
D 14. ye 'se, IV, 22, 18; 109, 7. yow 's, IV, 504, 36.
they 's, IV, 486, 32. itt's, H, 443, 22. heart's, IV,
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371
181, 17. Jocky Ha 's, III, 487, 6. thy dinner 's, III,
489, 41. (The s being the initial letter of sal, it
would be better to write I s', etc.) s attached to the
verb, be 's, III, 160, 9. We even find shals, I, 481,
28.
-s(-is), of the genitive, omitted, III, 97 f., 8, 23, 28; 111,
39. moder son, III, 98, 24, 27, as in A. S.
's, II, 375, 19: of his.
-s (-se), termination of the 2d pers. sing, of the pres.
indie, thou was, I, 222, E ll; seese J>ou, I, 328, 38-42;
JH>U commes, 44. thou 's welcome, III, 488, 24. shals
thou, 1, 481, 28. istow, 175 f., D 4, 10, 16. See 1, 130,
5; 327, 20; 328 f., 56, 58; 341, 13; 411, 4; 413, 3; II,
64, 57; 148 f., 12, 20; 218, 8, 10, 16; III, 97, 11, 15; 99,
62; 110, 23. Etc., etc.
-s, -es, -ys, termination of pres. indie, plur. cods that
sleeps, cheeks gars, bairns has, lies men, raches
rynnys, fowles synges, I, 68, 29; 115, C 3; 130, P ll;
327, 16; 329, 59; 342, 40; 345, 39; II, 32, P 4. So, is,
was, I, 68, 27; 69, 43; 255, 3-5; 342, 30; 344, 28; H,
71, 13, 14. Etc.
saa, pret., saw.
sabelline, I, 221, D 8, 9: sable.
Backless, sakeless, saikless, II, 145, 22, 23; 153, 19,
21; HI, 437, 27; IV, 373, 9: innocent,
sad, III, 67, 215; 357, 40: steadfast, firm, stanch,
saep, v.y III, 269, D 3: soap,
saerd, p. p., IV, 494, 33: served,
safe, II, 160, 4, 6, 7: save,
safeguard, V, 66, ll: riding-skirt,
safer, V, 283, 21: saffron,
safly, IV, 18, 10: softly,
salt (of sleep), HI, 489, ll: lightly,
saikless. See sackless.
sain, I, 351, 36, 48: cross, bless, p. p. sained, I, 354, 26.
ill sained, pret., I, 350, 25. well saint, p. p., Ill, 488,
37.
saint, in, 488, 37: blest. See sain.
saint, v., disappear. See sainted.
St Mary knot(t), III, 465, 26, 27: a triple knot (see
462, note *).
sainted, saunted, I, 331, C 8; 333 b, 8: disappeared.
saipy-sapples, I, 303, D 5 (the right reading) : soap
suds in which clothes have been washed (probably
meaning the strong of V, 213, 5).
sair, sore. I, 100, 9: lamentable.
sair, sare, saer, sere, I, 301, 2; II, 71, 15; 105, 9; 408,
1, 2; IV, 248, 10; V, 105, B 3, ll; 239, 34: serve.
sairly, IV, 358, 19 : rhyme word; much is all the mean
ing.
salt, set.
sakeless. See sackless.
sale, V, 228, 19: sold.
sail, shall, pret. sould.
sally rod, HE, 252, 12: sallow, willow.
salten, adj., IV, 452, 6; 475, 6: salt.
sallied, in, 61, 102: greeted.
Saluter, HI, 250, 3: corrupted from Sir Hugh (see
other versions of the ballad).
same, alle in same, HI 91 a: all, together, vppon the
same, III, 361, b 33: again, after the same fashion (?).
san, sane, sayn, syne, V, 214 f., 4, 9; 221, 24; 242 a,
7; 257, 14: since,
sanchojris, of his bryk, HI, 13, 3: apparently the
fork of the breeches, but the etymology is to me
inexplicable.
sang, pret. of sing, to singe, II, 155, 37, 38.
sanua, shall not.
sarbit, H, 132, 33, 34: exclamation of sorrow,
sare, serve. See sair. sare a man a wear, I, 301, 2:
serve, supply, a man (of) with his wear, clothing,
sark, I, 15, 8, 17; 16, B 8, 18, C 6, 18, etc.; 387 f., A 5,
8, 9; B 5, 6, 7: shirt, shift,
sarsenent, IV, 312, 8: sarcenet,
sassaray, H, 209, E 5: imitation of the sound of
church-bells. See ceserara.
sat, saut, I, 310, 4: salt,
sate, sit a gude sate, a silly sate, IV, 469, 8: occupy,
be in, a good, pitiable, position,
sathe, I, 333, appendix l, wrongly written (or read)
for sagh (or something equivalent), saw. (th in this
piece very frequent for gh.)
saugh, III, 459, 15; IV, 95, 2: willow,
saun faile, V, 297 b: assuredly,
saunted, sainted, I, 331, C 8; 335 b, 8: disappeared,
saut, sat, IV, 258, 26: salt,
saute, III, 327 b: assault, attack,
sauyour, see (saw) my sauyour, III, 97, 7: attended
mass, or, took the sacrament.
saving tree, HI, 398, D 4: corruption of savin tree,
saw, v., I, 427, 13, 15; 428, ll: sow.
sawe,/>.^>. of see, III, 59, 60.
sawe, speech.
sawten, v., S pi., HI, 100, 63: assault, attack,
sawtrye, I, 328, 49: psaltery, a stringed instrument,
say, H, 87, 30: try.
say, saye, pret. of see, IH, 111, 34; 309, 44; V, 79, 35;
80, 47.
sayn, san, sane, syne, V, 239, 34; 254, 9, 11, is, 22;
257, 15: since, then,
sayne, I, 70, 19, strong participle of say. In, I yow
sayne, III, 297, 46, an auxiliary, do or can, must be
omitted, or else we must read saye, as in 32, 34, 62, 65.
scad, I, 102, 12: reflection (of the color of). In other
texts, shade, shadow, I, 490, 21; 491, 20; 492, 12.
scaith, skaith, scath, n., HI, 162, 52, 66: hurt,
scaith, skaith, v., Ill, 5, D 8; 6, 17: hurt,
scale, I, 429, 11: a drinking-vessel. (Icelandic skal,
Danish skaal, a bowl for drinking.)
scale, III, 403 a: scatter, disperse. Ill, 393, 6: expel,
drive away, scaling wide, III, 301, D 2: scatter
ing, covering a good deal of ground,
scales, V, 211, 25, 31-34: discs worn as ornaments on
the head.
scanct, I, 336 a, last line but one: shone, gleamed,
scarson, II, 434, 29: scarcely up to.
scart, I, 301, 5, 6; 303, D 2: scratch, scrape,
scath, scaith, n., I, 284, 18: harm.
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scathe, awayte me scathe, III, 66, 202; wayte me
skathe, wait me scath, III, 83, 202; 86, 202: lie in
wait, seek an opportunity to do me harm.
scathe away, I, 348 f., 5, 8: expel, get rid of ? See
skaith, I, 397, 14.
scaur, Braidscaur, III, 5, D 2, 6: a bare and broken
place on a steep hill; also, cliff, precipice. Broad-
spear, 6, 2, 5, is probably a corruption.
Scere-thorsday, 1, 243, i: Maundy Thursday, Thurs
day before Easter. (Icelandic Skfri-J>orsdagr.)
schane, pret., shone.
scharpper, compar., V, 283, 6, 16: sharper. V, 283, 8:
emend to strenger.
schele, scheel, II, 164, 2; 335, N 5; IV, 328, A b,
after 7: school. See schule.
schet, schette, pret. of schote, shoot, III, 13 f ., 13, 15.
schill. See shill.
scho, II, 146, 19; IV, 418, 2: she.
schon, shon. shone, V, 79, 27: shoes. See sheen.
schoote his horsse away, froo, III, 297, 32, 33: dis
carded, sent off.
schrewde (arrow), III, 13, 6: accursed, pernicious,
baneful.
schule, scheel, squeel, II, 175, 16; IV, 327 f., 2, 5;
329, D d 7: school.
schunte besides, beside, III, 361, b, c 38, 41: turn
aside from.
schylde, imperat., V, 283, 14: shield, protect.
sckill, I, 295, 28: reason, judgment. See skill.
sclasps, twa lang sclasps between his eyes, IV, 489, 25:
clasps. Span would answer were it not that there are
but three sclasps between the shoulders. (In L 18,
of the same ballad, II, 394, there are three women's
spang (span) between his brows.) If sclasps were
taken in the sense of fathom, the space between the
arms extended, this would suit the shoulders well
enough, but the absurd disproportion in relation to
the eyes would remain. Probably yard or ell has
dropped out in 25 4 . (yards three in L 18.)
sclavin, I, 190 a: pilgrim's cloak.
scob(b), scope, scoup, II, 313, 26; 316, 10: gag.
scop, III, 138, 9: (scalp) pate, head.
scope, scoup, scob, II, 312, 29; V, 229, 33: gag.
score. See cor.
scorn, skorne, II, 105, 20; III, 113, 77: shame, humili
ation, mortification, give the, this, a, scorn, III, 111,
12; 360, 23; 362, 35; 363, D 14; 367, 49; IV, 201, 23;
224, 24, 25; 254, 25; 357, B 6, 10; 358, 16; 465, 35,
36 : put to shame, subject to humiliation (especially,
by showing a preference as to marriage, or by slight
ing a woman). So, playd you the scorn, IV, 483, 25;
get the scorn, II, 367, 47; IV, 221, 16; 222, 18, 19;
227, 16, 17; 228, 19; 230, 24.
scort, I, 334, 4: short.
scoup, n., V, 229, 33: gag. See scob, scope.
scoup, v., II, 70, 15: move hastily from one place to
another, fly.
scouth, III, 161, 42: room, range.
scray, III, 116, 4, as to form suggests scrag, scrog;
but the meaning required is, branches, branckage, or
even spray.
scread, II, 425, A 6: shred, bit, piece.
screeded (or scrieded), pret., II, 212, 13: rent.
screeking, screening, II, 485, 17: screeching.
screfe, screfie, shryve, III, 111 ff., 27, 33, 38-42, etc.:
sheriff.
screighed, IV, 174, 20: shrieked.
scrieded. See screeded.
scrime, IV, 10, 2; serime, 15, d 2: seem to be cor
rupt; possibly, crime; pursuing the crime for pursu
ing the criminal.
scrodeley, V, 79, 14: shrewdly, rudely, ungraciously.
scroggs, scrogs, III, 3, 12; 5, C 3; 7, E, F 11; 9, G
10, H 13; 10, I 5; IV, 496, 8: stunted bushes, or per
haps trees; underwood. " Scroggs, blackthorn." Hal-
liwell, from a MS. scrogg-bush, V, 10, 4 (high
enough here to hang the pair on).
scroggy, scroggie, IV, 174, 10; 273, 14: covered with
stunted bushes; "abounding in underwood," Halli-
well.
scug, to scug his deadly sin, II, 283, 22: shade, screen.
(Icel. skyggja, overshadow; Dan. skygge, Swed.
skugga, shade.) expiate, W. Scott.
scuttle-dishes, II, 467, 43: the larger dishes, in which
things are served, in distinction from those out of
which things are eaten (T. Davidson) ; platters.
se, sign of the future tense. See s.
se, pret. of see. See see.
sea-ground, I, 448, 11 : bottom of the sea.
sea-maw, II, 363, 7; 365, 5; IV, 482 b, 6: gull.
seal, IV, 409, 5: (A. S. ssll) happiness, blessing, gude
seal that it sae spread, II, 420, 1: (happiness result
from its spreading ?) quod fans turn sit!
scale, III, 412, 24: sail.
sear, sair, IV, 456 f., 15, 19: sore.
sear, V, 223, 8: sure.
sear, serve. See sair.
search her, IV, 446, 2: look her up, see about her,
overhaul (should, perhaps, be seek, visit).
seat, V, 274 b, l: sight.
seek, I, 15, 15: sack.
Second person of pret. indie, without termination, thon
made, thou did, thou came, etc., I, 221, C 9; 222, E
10-17; 434, 27; II, 148 f., 12, 14, 20; 218, 16. So, thou
will, schall, thou '11, well thow, I, 130, 4; 221, C 10,
ll; III, 110, 24; 112, 48.
securly, III, 98, 34: surely.
see (videre), pret. say, saye, sey, se, see, seed. pret. se,
see, I, 283, l; 295, 27; II, 46, 40; 245, 27; III, 24, 47;
27, 99; 97, 19. p. p. se, III, 27, 102.
see, save and se(e), II, 44, 6, 15; 52 f., 10, 18, 44; III, 65,
177; IV, 198, G 4; 455, 4: protect (tueri).
see, well mot ye fare and see, III, 266, 3: as here
used, see well would have to mean, see prosperity;
but apparently there is a confusion of well may you
fare and God see you, protect you (as in, save and
see). In B 3, p. 268, loeel may ye save might mean,
may God save you, but far better, in the next line, is
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not in concatenation, and we shall be obliged to un
derstand weel as good fortune. The passage must
be corrupted, well may you sit and see, lady, well
may you sit and say, II, 290, 15: (corrupted) non
sense.
see, sigh and see, IV, 193, 14: apparently a doublet of
sigh, as ne of neigh and nigh, he of high.
see, n. t V, 283, 5, 15: sea.
seed, pret. of see, IV, 151, 6.
seek, seke, I, 75, 46; II, 146, 18, 20; 171, 16; III, 68,
255; V, 256 b, 14: search. I, 202, 16; 204,11; V, 211,
19, 23: ask. socht, II, 30, 8: asked for. par tic. seek
and, seeking.
seek in, V, 180, 13, 15: ask admission.
seeke to, unto, III, 444, 5: resort to.
seel o downs, IV, 218, 12: chelidonium, celandine,
mallow-wort.
seely, happy, seely court, I, 315, 12; 507 f., 2, 12:
fairy court (as I, 346, 16; elfin court, 351, 30).
seen, I, 504, 7: sun.
seen, I, 183, 9, 15; II, 166, 20; 257, 30; IV, 135, 26:
soon, seener, IV, 262, 31.
seen = syne, afterwards.
seene, I seene, V, 53, 105: ellipsis of have.
seep, II, 148, in: ooze, leak.
seeth, III, 281, 7: sooth.
seke, III, 68, 255; 100,76: search. See seek.
seke, to, III, 110, 14: at a loss.
seker, III, 67, 215: firm, resolute.
sekirlye, I, 327, 18: certainly, truly.
seld, IV, 2, 2: sold.
selerer, III, 61, 91, 93; 67, 233: the monk who has
charge of the provisioning of a convent.
selke, V, 283, 21: silk.
selkie, silkie, II, 494 a: seal.
selle, I, 326, 6: saddle.
semblant, semblaunce, semblaunte, semblaunt,
III, 57, 22; 79, 22; 82, 22; 85, 22: mein, look.
sembled, III, 160, 15 : met. (b, asembled.)
sen, sent.
sen, II, 32, Q 2; 110, 2; 272, 10, 12: since.
send, sene, II, 360, 10; 365 f., (10), 17, 18: a thing sent.
IT, 109, 15: the messengers sent to fetch the bride.
Bend, pret., 1,204, D 3: sent.
sendered, IV, 229, 12, 16: sundered, parted.
senes, IV, 315, 2; 316,25: sends, messages. See send.
sent, III, 75, 384: sendeth.
sent, sent I me, III, 76, 414: assent.
sentence past, IV, 514, 6: order given.
sere, serve. See sair.
serre, II, 59, 29: sair, sore ? (MS. serrett).
serundad, surunded, V, 262, No 225, A 3; 263, 4:
surrounded.
servit, II, 371, 5: (serviette) table-napkin.
seruyd him of bred and cloth, I, 241, t: for would
make an easier reading than of, which will have to
be understood, on terms of (receiving food and cloth
ing).
set, V, 80, 57: sitteth.
set, II, 168, l; 282, 7; 463, 19, 25; HI, 216, 29; IV, 135,
20; 204, 9; 331, 18: sit, become, suit, set a petticoat,
IV, 331, 18: became (looked well in) the petticoat.
See become.
set, p. p., Ill, 37, 61: fixed, determined. See set for,
below.
set her brest (and sworn), II, 459, 8: brought her
breast to a level with the water. (Elsewhere,
smoothed.)
set, set a mill, I, 134, O, 8: to stop the machinery by
turning off the water from the wheel.
set, set the monke to-fore the brest, III, 67, 223: as
sailed, shot at.
set (sete, and wrongly sat) a dynt on, vppon, of, III,
309, 42, 45, 46: inflicted a blow, stroke.
set by, IV, 11, 15, 20: lay aside, cease, let be.
set for, IV, 229, 12, 16: set upon, bent upon.
set them up in temper -wood, IV, 222, 20: corrupt.
See note, 231, D 20.
sete, n., Ill, 63, 133: suit, dress.
sett, III, 340, 3l: take aim.
settle by, IV, 219, 13: set you aside (?).
settled, gun, III, 341, 44: levelled, adjusted.
sevent, II, 75, 7: seventh.
several, III, 224, 13: variously.
sey, pret. of see, V, 80, 41.
seyn, syen, syne, then, afterwards.
seyte, neys seyte, V, 80, 39: pretty sight !
sez I, V, 304, b, 4: say(s) I.
sha, shaw, V, 267, 10: show.
shack, shake, IV, 325, 9; 326, 7: shake straw so that
the corn may fall out (?).
shade, shadow, scad, I, 101, 13; 490, 21; 491, 20;
492, 12: reflection (of the color of). We have, shad-
doowes greene, in one copy of Adam Bell, see III,
32,48.
shaft their arrows on the wa, IV, 3, 16: so in both
copies, unintelligible; corrected by Scott to sharp,
shaftmont, shathmont, I, 330 f., A 2, B 2, C 2; 332,
E 2: the measure from the top of the extended thumb
to the extremity of the palm, six inches. (A. S. " ix.
scaefta munda." Lex. Ath.)
shake. See shack.
shals thou, 1, 481, 28. See s as sign of the future tense.
shambo, II, 376, 26: shamoy, chamois,
shame, the, II, 70, 15; III, 464, ll; 466 f., 44, 62, 68:
euphemism for the Devil, shame a ma, III, 490, 15,
27, 29: devil a bit.
sham ef 11 reel, II, 110, 28: the first reel that is danced
with the bride, her maiden, and two young men;
called the Shame Spring or Reel, because the bride
chooses the tune. Buchan.
shames death, II, 60, 41; III, 330, 14: death of shame,
shameful death.
shamly, III, 80, 337: shamefully.
shaii e, pret. of sheen, shine, IV, 469 a, 11.
shank, IV, 37, A 6, B 8: the projecting point of a hill,
joining it with the plain,
shapen, III, 79, 81, 85, 50: devised, ordained.
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GLOSSARY
share, I, 388, B 7; IV, 416, 17: cutting, portion.
shathmont. See shaftmont.
shaw, shawe, I, 422, 3; HI, 91, l; 97, l; V, 250, 25:
wood, thicket. See wode shawe. In Teviotdale
shawe is " a piece of ground which becomes suddenly
flat at the bottom of a hill or steep bank." Jamie-
son. So, perhaps, V, 250, 25.
shaw, sha, show.
shay, V, 110, 8, 9: shy.
she, III, 318, 4: spurious Highland dialect, repre
senting he, they, and even Highlander, for which
she, her, hernanesell have become a nickname. (The
Gaelic having no word for the neuter it, the masc. e
and fern, i do duty for the absent form, i in some
Highland districts is largely used in speaking of
sexless objects.)
sheaf, shefe, of arrows, in, 3, 5; 62, 131 : bundle of
twenty-four. Cf. II, 168, 5; III, 13, 9.
shealin, shiel, shielin, shielen, shieling, shield, IY,
258, 23; 259, 17; 260, 16; 262, 27, 29; 266, 17: herds
man's hut.
shear, III, 307, 6, 8: several. (Scot, seir.)
sheave, shive, n., I, 470, 32; II, 358, 27; 367, 44; V,
16, 13, 14; 18, 3, 4; 219, 25: slice.
sheave, v., IV, 476, 7: slice.
sheave-wisps, V, 213, 5: wisps of straw from a
sheaf, put by peasants into their shoes for more
warmth.
shed, II, 116, 27; 118, 21: a piece of ground on which
corn grows, so called as being separate from adja
cent land.
shed by (hair), II, 129, 26, 27: parted, threw off from
the face on both sides, shed back, II, 135, 39 (shook
back, 135, 38).
shedd, prat. See sheede.
shee, shie, I, 68, 9, 12; III, 271, P 9; 384, 9: shoe.
sheed, V, 251, 36: sheet.
sheede, I, 273, 43, 44: shed, spill.
sheen, sheene, sheyne, I, 490, 7; II, 52, 5, 11; 372, A
b 2; III, 24, 48; 91, l; 97, l: shining, bright, beauti
ful, (bright is also beautiful, I, 285, 25; 293, 2.) In,
shawes been sheene, III, 91 and 97, l; shadowes
sheene, III, 24, 48, we must take sheene in the
secondary sense, beautiful.
sheen, shene, I, 176, 2, 7, 12; II, 395, 17; IV, 380, 26;
416, 12; V, 306, 2, 3: shoes. See schon.
sheen, shene, v., Ill, 392, 9, 10: shine, pret. shane.
sheene, n., II, 183, 13: brightness, splendor (evidently
a word of Percy's here).
shefe. See sheaf.
shend, III, 27, 114; 63, 140; 123, 13: put to shame, in
jure, destroy.
shent(e), p. p., HI, 27, 114: blamed. Ill, 75, 396;
123, 13: hurt, etc.
shete, shoot, shete a peny, III, 97, 10, n: shoot for a
penny-stake, pret. shet, III, 97,12; shyt, III, 26, 83.
sheu, IV, 289, P 9: show.
sheugh, II, 238, 6; V, 108, B l: trench, ditch, furrow.
shew, I, 299, a 13; II, 332, J 6: sew.
shewed, III, 450 b: represented.
sheyne. See sheen.
shie, shoe. See shee.
shiel, shielen, shieling, shield. See shealin.
shill, schill, I, 16, l; 17, E l; n, 254, 10; 382, 28;
383, 29; 386, 24; IV, 200, 2; 201, 1: shrill.
shimmerd, glittered.
shin'd, preL of shine, IV, 240, 2.
shirife, shirrie. shrife, sheriff. See screfe.
shirrs, shears.
shive, sheave, V, 219, 25: slice.
shock, v., IV, 106 b: collide, encounter.
shoder, V, 221, 10: shoulder.
shogged, III, 332, 14: moved away.
shon, schon, shone, shoon(e), shoun, I, 69, 52; 71,
42; 73, 64; 78, 39; III, 65, 193; V, 83, 55: shoes.
shook (sword over the plain), II, 393, K 14: the MS.
has shook, not strook, but strook must at any rate be
meant (cf. 380, A 32). See II, 378 a.
shooled, I, 184, 10 ; V, 210, 10: shovelled. See shule.
shoon(e), shoun, shoes. See shon.
shoon, shoun, soon.
shoot at Sim and moon, III, 201, 21; to the sun or
the moon, III, 203, 18: they wish to have no mark
measured, are ready to take any distance.
shope, III, 59, 64: created.
shopen, shapen, III, 82, 50: devised, ordained.
short-bread, V, 262, 22: "a thick cake of fine flour
and butter, to which caraways and orange-peel are
frequently added." Jamieson. (A sweet short-bread
is still well known in Scotland.)
shorten her, I, 478, 14: while away the time for her
self; cf. Germ, kiirzen, kurzweilen. See shortsome.
shortly^ and anone, III, 23, 10: speedily.
shortsome, adj., II, 371, 2: enlivening, cheering.
shortsome, v., II, 370, 13, 14: divert (while away the
time, opposed to langsum). See shorten.
shot, o wheat, IV, 459, 2: field, patch.
shot, V, 76, 9; 127, 3: reckoning, trust me one shott,
V, 15, 22.
shot, II, 256, K 2=schawit, looked at(?).
shot, p. p., IV, 458, 3: shod.
shot-window, II, 122, 5; 141,10; 177,24; 230, 9; 322,
7; 357, 8; 368, 3; 375, 22; 376, 37,40; III, 23, 22; 105,
20; IV, 135, 19; 151, 6; 153, E 6; 154, 11; 428, 3;
493, 12; V, 248, 8. II, 141, a princess looks out at a
shot-window; II, 368, a lady draws her shot- window
in her bower, harps and sings; II, 376, a knight
jumps to a shot-window to escape; III, 105, Robin
Hood glides out of a shot- window; IV, 135, a queen
looks oer her shot-window; IV, 493, a knight goes in
at a shot-window. " Windows called shots, or shut
ters of timber with a few inches of glass above
them." Wodrow's History, II, 286. But the shot-
window of recent times is one turning on a hinge,
above, and extensible at various angles by means of
a perforated bar fitting into a peg or tooth. Donald
son, Jamieson's Dictionary, 1882, notes that in the
west of Scotland a bow-window is called an out-shot
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375
window. A bow-window would be more convenient
in some of the instances cited.
shott, V, 15, 22: reckoning (oddly used here as of an
ale-house.) See shot.
shouir, shower, III, 385: throe, pang. See showr.
shoulder, looked over the left, III, 339, 7; 368, ll;
369, 13, etc.: apparently a gesture of vexation or of
indignant perplexity. See the passages cited at V,
286 a.
shoun, shun, shoes. See shon.
shoun, soon,
shour, sure.
shourn, V, 225^ 5: shoulders,
shouther, showther, shuder, I, 21 b, 3 ; 302, A T;
303, 9; 331, D 2; 332, F 2; IV, 297, 10: shoulder,
showded, V, 124, C 15: swung.
shower. See showr.
shower o his best love, I, 476, J 4: share, or cut, of
his best loaf.
sh owing-home, II, 437, 78: shoeing-horn, a pun on
the beggar's horn, whether as a means of sponging
liquor, or of helping one to take in drink,
showne, pret., Ill, 37, 84: showed,
showr, shower, shouir, I, 68, 32; II, 105, 3; III, 385,
5; 386, 7: throe, paroxysm of pain,
shradds, III, 91, 1: coppices (Halliwell, perhaps con-
jecturally). The equivalent shard, he says, is in
Yorkshire an opening in a wood. (A. S. scre"adian,
cut, dock ?)
shrewde, shrewed, a term of vituperation; originally,
cursed, thou art a shrewed dettour, III, 61, 104;
thou arte a shrewde hynde, III, 64, 164 : perhaps
ironical (devilish pretty), shrewde wyle, III, 65,
181: clever,
shroggs, III, 93, 28: rods, wands (serving for prickes,
marks).
shryue, III, 70, 287: sheriff. See screfe.
shuder, IV, 493, 8: shoulder. See shouther.
shule, v., IV, 207, 20: shovel. See shooled.
shun, shoun, shoes,
shun, III, 357, 41: better, shunte, as in the other texts,
turn off, aside. Shunte is to be understood in 43,
45, 47.
shuped, I, 204, E 2: shipped. (The reading may be
sheeped.)
shyt, pret., Ill, 26, 83: shot,
shyt, imperative, III, 71, 314: shut. p. p., Ill, 25, 53:
shut,
si, so.
siccan, sic, sick, sicke, sicken, such, such a.
siccarlie, III, 492, 27: so as to make all safe, sick-
erlie, III, 491, 5: securely. Ill, 491, 12: so as to
make certain, make sure of the effect,
siccer, sicker (siccer and honestly), III, 487, 9; IV,
31, B 6: securely, safely.
sich, sick, n., sigh: II, 139, 6; 168, 15; 230, C l.
sich, sick, v., I, 451, 12; V, 164, D b 10: sigh. pret.
sicht, I, 73, 66; III, 453, 2. sikt, II, 241, 8. siched,
I, 72, 21. sight, IV, 503 f ., 6, 21, 23. pres. p. sichand,
sichan, sichin, II, 96, I 3, 4, 6; 471, 13; V, 41, 31;
IV, 382, 6.
sichin, n., II, 286, C 10: sighing.
sicht, sight.
sicke, sicken, III, 367, 3; 441, 32; V, 194, 64 (sicken-
like): such.
sicker. See siccer.
sickles of ice, ickles of ice, III, 152, l; 154, f l:
icicles.
side, keeping her flocks on yon side, IV, 323, 1: ellipsis
of hill, river, or the like.
side, adj., II, 122, H 7, 8; 407, 9; 409, 15; 466, 37, 38;
469, 38, 39; IV, 165, 15; 283, 12; 285, 4; V, 267, 4:
long, and so, probably, IV, 130, 4; 134, 8. I, 80, 12,
of stirrup too long, low for the foot (Icel. sfor, de-
missus), saddle a steed side, IV, 464, 18 : wide,
wear your boots sae side, 1, 428, 8; 429, 5: of boots the
tops of which lap a good way over, or perhaps of
boots wide at the tops; I, 430, 2. See syde.
side be, mother-in-law side be, II, 71, ll: seems to
mean, side by, by his side. Possibly, sud, should, be.
sighan, sighend, pres. p. of sigh.
sight, sikt, pret., IV, 503 f., 6, 21, 23: sighed. See
sich, v.
signd, IV, 288, 10: that is, sind. Si nd is to wash,
rinse; here she has simply wet her lips.
signots, took out the gowd signots, IV, 53, 13: orna
ments, whether seals or not, attached to the ears by
" grips." Three sygnets hang at a gold ring, IV, 37,
13; 38, 13, which is taken off in the latter place, and
was, therefore, a finger-ring.
sike, syke, II, 238, 6; IV, 3, 28: ditch, trench (water
course, marshy bottom with a stream in it. Jamie-
son.) IV, 470, 25: (perhaps) rivulet.
sikt, sighed.
sile, IV, 118, C 3: flow.
silkie, selkie (A. S. seolh), II, 494, 3, 4: seal.
siller-knapped (gloves), II, 134, 8, 13: ornamented
with silver balls or tassels, (golden-knobbed, 133,
D6.)
silly, silly tin, silly twine, II, 224, 12, 17: simple, mean,
of slight value, silly sisters, II, 311, l: harmless,
innocent ? silly old man, silly old woman, etc., Ill,
5 f., 10, 11, 20; 6 f., 9, 10; 9, G- 9; 180 f., 3, 8, 9, 19;
271, 8 : of a "puir body," palmer, beggar. V, 129,
l; 130, l; 131, d l, e 1-3 : of a supposedly simple
old man who turns out to be shrewd. V, 253 f., No
203, D 2, 8: (perhaps) spiritless, cowardly, sit a silly
sate: see sit.
simmer, II, 261, 10 ; V, 299, 4 ; etc. : summer, sim
mer-dale, II, 261, 8, 9.
simple, III, 163, 72: poor, scant.
sin, III, 281, 7; IV, 260, 17: son.
sin, II, 494, 6; IV, 77, 3; 280, b 22: sun.
sin, sine, syne, I, 16, C 9; 17, 7; 204, E 3 ; II, 32, 3;
160, 4, 7; 161, 5, 7; III, 433, n ; 436, 9 (?): since
(temporal and causal), then. II, 237, 6: when, as
in Shakspere after verbs of remembering (Winter's
Tale, v, i, 219, etc.). See syne, then.
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GLOSSARY
sin-brunt, V, 224, 19: sun-burnt.
Binder, II, 164 f., 18, 19, 21: sunder.
sindle, II, 261, 8: seldom.
Binary, II, 344, 4: several. IV, 219, A 6: sundry
(people).
sine, then, since. See sin and syne.
single, liverie, IV, 261, 5: dress of a plain or inferior
man; IV, 334, 11, 12: dress of a private soldier, sin
gle man, sodger, soldier-lad, IV, 336, b, c, d 16; 337,
f, g 15; 338, h after 15: private.
sinner, V, 254, 12: sooner.
sinsyne, synsyne, I, 227 b; III, 394, J 2; 396, N 2:
since, afterwards.
sir, title of parson: III, 217, 49.
it a sate, IV, 469, 8: maintain or enjoy a position.
(You may live comfortably if you are well stocked
with cattle, but only in a beggarly or pitiable way
with nothing but beauty.) " You shall sit at an easier
rent." Scott's Redgauntlet, Wandering Willie's Tale.
Falstaff sits at ten pounds a week (his expenses came
to that), Merry Wives, I, 3.
sitt, p.p., HI, 400, 5: seated.
sitten, sutten, p. p. of sit, II, 273, 37; III, 433, 4.
skail (blood), IV, 373, 13: spill.
skaith, skaeth, n., I, 370, 5; II, 292 f., 8, 18: III, 162,
66: harm, gien the skaeth, II, 364, 36; IV, 465, 35,
36: done a wrong, injury.
skaith, v., Ill, 371, 21: harm.
skaith frae, v., I, 397, 14: keep from. (A. S. sce'adan,
Germ, scheiden, O. Eng. shed, part, divide.) See
scathe. A skaithie in Scottish is a fence or wall to
keep off wind.
skeely, skilly, III, 26, l: skilful, intelligent.
skeigh, III, 495 b, 23, 24: shy, skittish.
skelp, V, 106, B 6: drub.
skerry, rocky, skerry fell, I, 325, 10: rocky hill.
skerry, skerrie, II, 494: a rock or rocky islet in the
sea.
skill, sckill, skylle, reason, discernment, knowledge.
a baron of sckill, I, 295, 28: reasonable, of good judg
ment, etc. that's but skill, I, 295, 44: reason, some
thing right and proper, the skylle I sail pe telle
wharefore, I, 328, 56: the reason why. can skill, little
they can skill of their train, etc., II, 445, 62; 450, 67,
69: Icel. kunna skil, to know distinctions, have know
ledge, could noe skill of the whisstill heare, IV, 506,
70: perception (that is, literally, could not hear whether
there was a whistle or not), had no skill, IV, 213,
3: knew nothing of the matter, or, possibly, had no
regard, felt no approbation.
skilly, skeely, II, 97, 21: intelligent, knowing, skil
ful.
skink, I, 190 a: pour out liquor.
skinkled, II, 183, 19: sparkled.
sklate, II, 293, 15: slate.
skomnshes, III, 433, C 4, 7: stifles (discomfits).
skorne, III, 113, 77: disgrace, humiliation. See scorn.
sky-setting, I, 351, 31: sunset.
skylle. See skill.
skyred, IV, 413, 12, 14: startled, blenched, shrank
back.
slack, II, 116, 20; 117, 14; 313, 23; III, 181, 29; 281,
12; 363, notef; IV, 7, 27; 184, 2, 3; 467, ll; V,250,
25; 262, 19. 1.) a gap or narrow pass between two
bills. 2.) low ground, a morass. It is often not
possible to determine which is intended. In III,
281, 12, the meaning is morass. Plain ground will
suit III, 181, 29. Such terms vary according to lo
cality and time. Cf. slap.
slacke (woe), V, 83, 44: lessen, mitigate.
slade, III, 92, 12: "a valley, ravine, plain." Halli-
well. Cf. slack, slap.
slae, I, 450, 2: sloe.
slap, II, 120, 14; III, 185, 24, 25; V, 228, 26: a narrow
pass between two hills (= slack). In III, 185, 24,
25, there is a contrast with glen, the word replacing
the slack of III, 181, 29; perhaps, plain ground. IV,
300, 12: a breach in a dyke or wall.
slate, slait, of whetting a sword by passing it over a
straw or the ground (Icel. sletta, to slap, or sle*tta, to
level, smooth), has slaited on the strae, II, 273, 30.
slate it on the plain, IV, 491, ll. slait it on the
plain, V, 235, 32. See strip, streak, streak, straik,
strike.
slawe, p. p. of slay, III, 14, 16, 17; 71, 306. y-slaw,
III, 28, 140.
slee, sly.
sleste, slist, III, 70, 292; 79, 146: sliced, split.
slet, pret. of slit, III, 63, 146.
slichting, slighting.
slight, III, 473, 13: demolish, we '11 fecht them, we '11
slight them, IV, 85, 5: make light of (?).
slipe, sleep.
slist, III, 70, 292: sliced, split,
slo, sloe, sloo, slon, I, 210, 9; III, 77, 438; 97, 8;
110, 19: slay. pret. sloughe, III, 308, 25. p. p. slo,
slowe, slone, II, 479, 17; III, 35, 22; 77, 428. slawe,
y-slaw.
slocken, sloken, IV, 386, 16: quench,
slode, pret. of slide, II, 59, 22: split.
sloe, sloo, I, 210, 9; III, 77, 438: slay. pret. sloughe.
p. p. slowe, slone. See slo.
slogan, III, 474, 32: war-cry, gathering word of a clan.
Jamieson.
sloken, slocken, III, 473, 14: quench (fire), p-p-,
IV, 60 b, after 10 (with ellipsis q/"have).
slough-hounds, IV, 3, 15: sleuth-hounds, blood-hounds
(slooth, b, 4, 15).
sloughe, pret. of slo, slay, III, 308, 25.
slowe, p. p. of slo, slay, II, 479, 17.
sma, small, of linen, I, 428, 18; 419, 3; II, 128, 5; 130,
4' ; 133, D 3 ; 134, 7 ; 269, 15 ; III, 7, E 12 : of fine
texture, of the blast of a horn, II, 258, 31; small, V,
83, 48: shrill, keen, of wine, I will drain it sma, IV,
476, 8: should mean, strain it fine, or, pour out in a
thin stream, run it off gently; the intention seems to
be, give but a small quantity.
smeek, IV, 385, 25: smoke.
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smiddie, IV, 470, 18: smithy. In smiddy-bour, II,
186, 12, hour for room or workshop is strange.
smirkling, smirkling smile, IV, 117, 3: suppressed.
smit, II, 149, 2: noise, clash.
s mi the red, III, 268, 17: smothered.
smoldereth, III, 431, 19: smothereth.
smooth, II, 233, 14; V, 167, A 7: pass lightly over,
smooth the breast for swimming, see breast.
smore, V, 37, 6: smother.
smotley, V, 79, 15: pleasantly.
snack, IV, 415, 6: quick.
snags, III, 483, 7: protruding remnants of branches
hewn off.
sned, II, 274, C 19; 462, 26: cut, lop. (misprinted
sued, II, 462.)
sneed, V, 165, 4, 5: snood, fillet for a maiden's hair.
sneer, IV, 18, 15; 19, 13: snort.
sneeters, V, 213, io: = snotters, gatherings of snot.
snell, of weather, wind, frost, I, 342, 23; 344, 22; III,
435, l; IV, 213, 17; 214, 4; V, 99, 2: sharp, keen, of
a blast of a horn, III, 195, 7: keen, shrill, of talk,
III, 492, 31: sharp, caustic.
snoded, tied with a snood.
snood, V, 306, 4, 5: a fillet with which a maiden's hair
was bound up. See sneed.
snotters, V, 213, 10: gatherings of snot. See sneeters.
soberly, III, 487, 17: quietly, making no noise.
socht, sought, pret., 1, 147, 11, 12; II, 30, 8; III, 466,
46: asked for.
sodde, pret., V, 53, 103: seethed, boiled.
solace, I, 328, 53: pleasure. solaces, III, 287, 65:
merry-makings, diversions.
soldan, II, 59, 35-37: sultan, any pagan king; hence,
giant. See soudan.
Soldanie, Soudonie, V, 199 b, 33; 200 b, 33: Sultan's
people.
solde, I, 326, 4: should.
some, with singular, some clean white sheet, V, 294, 7.
somers, III, 67, 216, 224; 74, 374: sumpter-horses, pack-
horses.
sone, at once.
sone so, I, 243, 8: as soon as.
sonsie, II, 370, 16: plump.
soom, soum, sume, swoom, II, 29, 19; III, 394, K
4; IV, 493, 9; 511 b, 4; V, 138, B 6: swim.
soon, III, 440, 13: early, soon at morn, IV, 446, 2:
early in the morning.
soone, II, 446, 92: swoon.
sore, as, they mighten a had, III, 441, 26: on whatever
hard terms.
sorn, IV, 464, 14: sworn.
sorners, IV, 41, note*; 81 b: sojourners, properly
those who take free quarters (such may be expected
to make free generally with the property of those
upon whom they impose themselves); "forcible in
truders, people quartering themselves on tenants, etc.,
masterful beggars."
sorowe, sorrow, III, 61, 96; IV, 174,6; 241 b; V, 28,
55: sorry, sorrowful, sad.
VOL. v. 48
sorraye, II, 209, 9: sorrow.
sorrowful, III, 440, 12: sorry, pitiful.
sorte, III, 128, 97: set.
souce, V, 84, 7: the head, feet and ears of swine
boiled and pickled.
soud, sude, should.
soudan, sowdan, souden, soldan, I, 54, 66; V, 195,
26; 197, 5.
Soudron, V, 192, 22: Southron.
Soudronie, V, 192, 33: Southronry.
sough, sound.
sould, should.
soum, soom, sume, II, 464, 2, 3; 474, J 6; V, 237, 9:
swim.
soun, make bed saft and soun, IV, 279, 31, 32: smooth,
lead the bridle soun, II, 105, 14: steadily, so as not
to cause a jolt by jerking it.
sound, IV, 206, 10: safe and well, sailed it sound, II,
223, P 8: safe.
sound, a sound, III, 165, 88: a-swoon.
sound, IV, 172, 12, 14; 173, 7, 10, 11: in the sleep of
death.
sounded, IV, 99, 3: should probably be rounded, whis
pered.
souner, I, 442, 10: sounder.
soup, I, 324, B 9: sup.
sour (reek), III, 433, C 6: sharp, bitter.
souter, soutter, III, 282 a; IV, 262, 16: shoe-maker.
south, I, 334, 9: sweet.
southen, southin, II, 358, 16, 28; IV, 482 b, 2, 3, 4;
483, 9, 17, 18: southern.
southering, IV, 48, b 18: soldering (corruption of, seeth
ing)-
sowdan. See soudan.
so we, III, 41 b, line 17: to be corrected to sowter, cob
bler (?).
sowens, V, 108, B 10: flummery; "oat-meal sowr'd
amongst water for some time, then boiled to a con
sistency, and eaten with milk or butter." Herd.
sowt, III, 13, 8: sought, peered, scanned.
sowt, south.
soyt, III, 110, 23; 111, 31, 43; 112, 55; V, 79, 30: sooth.
spait, III, 473, 26; 479, 2: flood.
spak well in his mind, V, 260, 15: sounded well,
suited his own thoughts.
spakes, I, 61, C c, 15: the bars of a bird-cage.
spald. See spaul.
spang, II, 394, 18: span.
spare, I, 302, A 10; 446, 10; 451, ll; III, 246, B 7:
opening in a gown or petticoat.
sparks out o a weet, IV, 379, 15: rain-drops from a
shower. " Spirks, spirkins, applied to drops of water
in Scotland; sparks usually to fire." W. Forbes.
sparred, III, 97, 20; 99, 61: shut.
spartled, v., II, 94, 6: sprang, spartling, II, 306, 15:
kicking, struggling.
spartles, n., II, 94, 4: springs.
spaul, spauld, spald, spole, III, 473, 17; V, 105, A
3, B 6; 106, D 6, E 4; 107, 3: shoulder.
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GLOSSARY
spayed, spied.
speal, I, 428, 17; 430, 6, 7: another form of scale, a
wooden drinking vessel.
speals, spells, II, 410, 24; V, 236, 18: chips.
spear, v., IV, 85, l: spare.
spear, speer, speir, spier, sper, ask. See spyrr.
speed, prosperity, help.
speel, w., II, 73, 25: climb.
speen, IV, 287, 19; 357, C 8, 9: spoon.
speer, inquire. See spyrr.
speere, V, 15, 20: "a hole in the wall of the house,
through which the family received and answered the
inquiries of strangers." Ritson. This, I fear, may
be conjectural. Speere, a screen (wall) between fire
and door to keep off the wind is well known both in
England and Scotland. But the Heir seems to be
outside and could not look up at this speere.
speir, ask. See spyrr.
spelle, v., I, 329, 3: discourse.
spells, speals, II, 410, 24; V, 236, 18: chips.
spendyd, a spear, III, 309, 40 : "spanned; hence, got
ready, placed in rest." Skeat.
aper, V, 78, 6: inquire. See spyrr.
spier-hawk, IV, 484, l, 2: sparrow-hawk.
spin, spine, gar your blood, IV, 84, 3, 6; V, 253, D l:
spirt (as in Shakspere's Henry V, iv, 2, spin in Eng
lish eyes).
spird, II, 144, 12: spurred.
spite, I, 211, 27: spital.
spleen, v., Ill, 220, 5: regard with spleen, hatred.
spleene, n., Ill, 230, 70: animosity.
splent (splint), III, 473, 17: armor of overlapping
plates.
splinders, II, 91, 26: splinters.
splits, II, 389, 10: strands.
sply, II, 252, l: (perhaps miswritten) spy.
spole, III, 342, 63: (O. Fr. espaule) shoulder. See
spaul.
sporne, v., Ill, 64, 161 : kick.
spreckl(e)d, 1, 159, 5; 160, 3: speckled.
sprente, III, 309, 32: sprang, spurted.
spring, IV, 265, 13: probably miswritten or corrupted
for young, which we find in the next stanza.
spring, 1, 129, 17; 130, 20; 132, 13; 135, O 18, P 18, 19;
IV, 312, 4; 313, 7: quick tune.
spring (well both clear and spring), II, 198 a, last
line: spring water, pure as a spring.
sprunks, fine, III, 221, 12: showily dressed women ?
(Cf. prank, prink, Dan., Swed., Germ., prunk.)
spulye, n., Ill, 458 b: spoil.
spulyie, spuilye, spuilzie, v., Ill, 463 a; IV, 53, u;
84, 5, 8: despoil.
spunk-hole, V, 213, 3 (spunk = fire): a hollow in the
floor, where the fire was made, fire-place.
spurn(e), n., Ill, 310, 65, 66: kick. The word,
though protected by rhyme and by occurring twice,
is suspicious. If spurn could be taken as clash,
encounter, collision, it might stand, but such a sense
is forced.
spurtle, V, 92, ll, 12: stick for stirring porridge,
spy lie, I, 327, 20: mar, destroy.
spyrr, spire, spier, speir, speer, spear, sper (A. S.
spyrian), I, 176, 17; 325, B 13; 349, G 9; 440, 10-15;
III, 98, 41; 100, 64; V, 115, 4: ask, inquire, spear
at, I, 151 a, 10; IV, 328, A b, after 3: inquire of. I,
349, G 7; II, 268, 12; 272, 9, 18; 379, 12; IV, 203, 9;
205, 15: ask, request.
squar, squer, squire.
square-wright, V, 124, 3: carpenter, joiner.
squeel, schele, schule, II, 175 f., l, 6; 306, 19; IV,
327, 8.
squier, n, 59, 30:=swire, neck,
st, as sign of the future. I'st, II, 449, 62; III, 411, 1;
413, 36; thoust, 'st, I, 211, 29; 433, 8, 26; II, 44, 13; 442,
10; 449, 60, 6i; III, 277, 4; 411, 4; 432, 7; 477, 7; V, 50,
33. shee'st, she'st, II, 442, 3; 447, 3. you'st, II, 451,
88; HI, 104, 6; 412, 12. (All from English ballads.)
sta, pret. of steal, III, 464, 13, 14.
stack, I, 16, B 14: stalk,
stad, V, 248, 19: stood,
staen, stolen.
stage, at a, III, 98, 39: from a floor, story (?).
stage, III, 295, 3: stag.
staig, III, 301, A a, 3; IV, 26, l: a young stallion,
staking, III, 138, 18: cutting into stakes (cleaving,
140, c 18; stacking, 140, d 18).
stale, stathle, I, 18, H 9; 19, 12: the foundation of a
stack, the undermost layer of sheaves in a stack.
stale straiig, V, 213, 5: urine long kept for a lye and
smelling strong. (But stale may = urine as well as
strang.)
stalle, in strete and stalle, III, 101, 89: station; from
the contrast with street, we may infer the meaning
to be, when in movement (on the road) and when
stationary, or housed.
stamp o the melten gond, IV, 471, 37: an embossed
plate.
stanch, III, 364 b: check,
stand (of milk, water), I, 344, 34: a barrel set on
end.
stand, briddel-(bridell-)stand, V, 228, 12, 22: suit of
clothes (bridal clothes),
stand, III, 453, A 14; IV, 515, 13: (of a court) sit.
IV, 420, 9; V, 222, 34; 269, 1: take place.
stand, IV, 152, C 11; stand out, HI, 439, 2: stickle,
scruple.
stand na, ne, no(e), awe, I, 421, 5; III, 350, 53; IV,
505, 54; 506, 69: na may be a contraction of in na.
na stand in awe, I, 419, 4; stand not in awe, HI,
345,53.
standen, p. p. of stand, HI, 361, b, c 64.
stane, II, 467, 56: i. e. the (stone) wall.
stane-auld, III, 9 f., 11, 12, 20: very old (Germ, stein-
alt).
stane-chucking, I, 441, E l: throwing the stone, as in
B 2.
stank, IV, 47, 12, 13: (0. Fr. estanc) ditch.
stap, n. and v., I, 298, 4; II, 88, 8, 9: step.
GLOSSARY
379
stap, stape, stop. II, 494, i: stop, stay, reside, will
stap to die, IV, 107, 7: shrink, hesitate.
stap, I, 439, 4, 5; 440, 6, 7; 504, 7; II, 294, 31, 32; 467,
41: stuff, cram.
stare, III, 128, 104: (eyes) protrude, or, are fixed, can
not move (?).
stare (of hair), V, 66, 19: stand up.
Btarf,pret., V, 297 b: died.
stark, I, 69, 39; III, 474, 37: strong, stark thief, III,
365 b=the English strong thief, one who uses vio
lence, stark and stoor, II, 47, 5: in a moral sense,
wanting in delicacy, rude, violent, or indecent, the
wind up stark, IV, 378, 5; 380, 11: ellipsis of blew,
came, before up.
starn, stern, 1, 440, 18; IV, 455, 10: (Icel. stjarna), star.
start, I, 341, 5; 343, 5; 347, 3; 348, 2: spring, jump.
Ill, 164 b, 49; 342, 64: recoil, flinch, recede, pret.
start, stert, I, 108 b, 8; 286, 56; II, 454, 56; III, 32,
8l; 64, 159; IV, 477, 16: sprang. See stert.
state of my lande, II, 446, 91 ; state of my father's
lands, 451, 98: landed estate.
stathle, stale, I, 17, 12 : the foundation of a stack, the
undermost layer of sheaves in a stack.
staw, II, 90, 23; 184, 13: stall.
staw, pret. of steal, II, 76, 25; 80 f., 9, 29; IV, 12, 13;
490, so.
stawn, p. p. of steal, IV, 18, 19, 20.
stay, stey, IV, 262, 23: steep.
stead (e), steed (e). See stede.
steal, pret. sta, staw. p. p. stawn, stowen, stown, stoun.
stealed, steald, IV, 20, 16; 166, 2, 3. stelld, III, 459, 7.
stean, Marie's stean, II, 183, 19: a stone seat at the
door of St. Mary's Church.
stear, steer, III, 474, 33: stir, commotion.
steck. See steek.
stede, steed(e), stead(e), I, 334, 7; 411, 7, 16; II,
359, 19; III, 60, 81; 74, 376; 79, 133; V, 194, 71, 72; 197,
66; 199, 71, 72: place, dwelling-place, stand in stead,
steed, steede, III, 344 f., 38, 44; 349, 38; IV, 505, 45:
hold good, be kept, maintained, made good.
steed, I, 298, 4: stood.
steek, steck, steik, II, 336, P 2; IV, 188, 9; 279, 19,
27; 480, 4, 5; 514, 5: stick, shut, fasten, steekit (dor
an window) to the gin, IV, 480, 5: to the fastening.
steek, steik, n., II, 364, 30; IV, 483, 20: stitch with the
needle. Ill, 397, A b 5: stitch (of pain).
steeking, n., II, 361, 26: stitching.
steel, pret., I, 477, 4: stale, stole.
steer, steir, II, 21, 10, 11; 29, 13, 14: rudder.
steer, stear, II, 369, 12: disturbance.
steer, sture, I, 69, 39; 71, 31 : strong, robust, (stor,
big.)
steer, II, 161, 12; IV, 69, 15: disturb, meddle with (for
harm).
steer, I, 251, A 13: stir, move.
steik, n., stitch. See steek.
steik, v., shut. See steek.
steir, n., rudder. See steer.
stell, steel.
stelld, pret. of steal, III, 459, 7.
stelld, IV, 110, 10: placed, planted.
stende, me stende, I, 243, 5: that people should stone.
step-minnie, II, 367 b: stepmother.
stern, starn, I, 326, 16: star.
sterne, III, 308, so: stern (men).
stert, start, pret. of start, III, 66, 211 : sallied, stert
out of the dore, sterte (start) to an offycer, stert hym
to a borde, III, 26, 81; 32, 81; 62, 120, 125: rushed.
stert to foot, IV, 224, 14: sprang to their feet,
steuen, III, 94, 52: voice, vnsett steven, III, 93, 27:
time not previously fixed,
stey, stay, IV, 185, 10; 264, 15: steep,
stiffe, I, 293 f., 2, 9, ll; II, 55, 67: unyielding, stanch,
still, had your still, IV, 85, 7; V, 247, 14: hold your
peace,
stime, styme, I, 482, E; III, 163 f., 78, 91: glimpse,
ray, particle of light.
Stincher, IV, 69, 6: a river of Carrick, Ayrshire. (Mis
printed stincher.)
stingy, IV, 316, 17: forbidding, cross.
stint, stinte, I, 334, 8; 411, 8, 17; 412, 28: stop.
stirred, III, 162, 49: should probably be stirted (shrank,
flinched). The other text has, started,
stirt, stirred,
stock, I, 419, 2; 421, 2, 4, etc.; II, 467, 56: the outer
side of a bed, opposite the wall (the bed, an enclosed
box, being enterable at this side only),
stock, I, 402, 5: (term of disparagement) wanting in
vitality, sensibility, youth, or what not.
stogg, IV, 480, 7, 8: stick, stab,
stoll yellow, IV, 453 a, b 13: corrupt; a has, gold that
is yellow.
stomach will givs him, II, 447, 17: disposition will
incline him. II, 450, 69: courage,
stomached, well, III, 335 b: courageous,
stonde, I, 334, 8; III, 286, 55: while, time. See
stound(e).
stony t, I, 242, ll: stoneth, old plural of the imperative.
stood, V, 269, 1: took place, stood him upon, III,
228, 11: was incumbent on. See stand,
stoode, my need stoode, III, 412, 16: existed,
stook, I, 485, 10: put into shocks,
stoor, stark and stoor, II, 47, 6: (store, big) in a
moral sense, rude, brutal,
store, I, 328, 60 : big. See stoor.
store, buffets store, III, 145, 8: in plenty,
store, purse of gold and store, II, 461, 23: treasure
(precious things laid up), carryd the store (of con
stancy), V, 158, 16: the totality.
stot, stott, IV, 12, B 4; 26, 1; 248, 19; 519, 6; 520, 6,
7: young ox.
stoun, III, 388, 8: (stoun, stound, North of England,
to smart with pain, Scott, an acute intermittent pain)
a painful attack,
stoun, p.p. of steal, III, 453, 10; V, 221, 24. See
stowen.
tound(e), stonde, III, 25, 68; 284, 3; 298, 55; V, 83,
42: time, point, moment of time.
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GLOSSARY
stoup, II, 344, l; V, 91, 7, 8: pitcher, can, bucket (nar
rower at the top than at the bottom).
stour, stoure, stowre, II, 55, 67; III, 26, 89; 298, 58;
309, 47; 441, 27: tumult, brawl, fight, stour of thy
hand, III, 280, 37: turbulence, destructiveness. JII,
270, 16: disturbance, commotion.
stour, II, 195, notes, A; IV, 470, 20: dust.
stourished, III, 520 a: read flourished (?), blooming.
(Cf. Ill, 373, 4.)
stout(e), II, 282 ., 4, 17 (audacious), 18; III, 339, 5;
IV, 503, 5, 7: haughty, high-mettled, bold. Ill, 411,
8 (traitor): audacious, unflinching. V, 36 f., 9, 10:
unabashed. I, 3, 3; IV, 197, 3: sturdy.
stowen, stown, p. p. of steal, I, 367, 14; II, 72, 23;
79, 38; IV, 133, H 6, 7; 241 a. See stoun.
stowre, n. See stour.
stowre, adj., I, 293, 2: (originally, big) strong.
stracht, straght, III, 521 b, 272, 15; V, 236, 9: straight.
strack, struck.
strae, stray, stro, II, 162, 8; 169, 19; 185, 36; 261, 15,
etc. : straw.
straik. streak, streek, stroke, (a sword) oer (on) a
strae (strow), II, 261, 15; V, 37, 8: pass it over a
straw to give it an edge. See streak, straiked
back hair, IV, 184, E 17: stroked, straik (streek)
wi a (the) wan(d), II, 188, 8; IV, 46, 3; 480, 15:
of a measure, to even at the top by passing a stick
over.
straine, streen, the, V, 221, 24: evening of yesterday.
strait (a rope), IV, 398, 7, 25: straighten, stretch,
tighten, pret., of stirrups, III, 492, 27.
strait, IV, 262, 23, strait and stay: another word for
stay, stey, steep.
straith, strath, IV, 184 a: a valley through which a
river runs.
st raked, streaked, straked her trouth on a wand, II,
230, 9: a symbolical act, of gently rubbing or passing
the fingers over a wand, by way of giving back a
lover's troth.
strand, I, 165, M 4; III, 460, 28; IV, 172, 15; 174, 16:
stream. Sometimes hardly more than a rhyme-word.
In, Scotland's strands, strand, II, 289, 7; 294, 8, strand
appears to be put for country, bounds; and for no
thing more definite than way, road, in he gaed in the
strand, etc., II, 177, 23; 289, B 2; III, 3, 5; IV, 210, l.
In, stript it to the stran, II, 390, 28, stran cannot
mean more than plain (ground).
strang, V, 213, 5: urine kept for a lye, and smelling
strong. See stale.
strang, strange.
strange, V, 76, 16 : backward, diffident.
strated, V, 228, 15: stretched.
stratlius, I, 368, 23: straddlings, stridings.
straucht, straught, adj. and adv., I, 146, 14; 251, A
10; II, 461, 5; IV, 94, 9; 214, l: straight.
straught, V, 199 a, after 61 : stretched. See straucht.
stray. See strae.
streak, straik, of whetting a sword by passing it
over a straw (cf. Germ, streichen, strike, smooth,
whet), streakd it on a strow, V, 37, 8. straiked it
oer a strae, II, 261, 15. See stroak, strike, strip,
slate.
streak, streek, I, 299, 17: stretch.
streak by, I, 454, 12: to put off, put away.
stream-tail, IV, 185, 12: the lower end of a stream as
opposed to the upper. Tail-race is the name given
to the stream that carries away the water after it has
passed the mill. J. Aiken.
streek, streak, I, 299, 17; II, 139, 7, 12; 345, 30; V,
174, 4; 209 b, 6: stretch, streeket, streekit, strickit,
p. p., II, 189, 38; IV, 128, 17; 316, 25; 318, G 9; 319,
H 7: stretched, laid out, as dead.
streekit. See straik, and streek.
streen, straine, the streen, I, 57, C 13; II, 30, 4; III,
396, N i; IV, 47, 10, 18; V, 118, B 13; 221, 24; 257,
14: yestreen, yester-night.
stronger, compar., V, 283, 18 (and so we should read
in 8 instead of scharpper) : stronger.
strickit. See streek.
strike, of whetting a sword, etc., on a straw, or the
ground, he 's struck it (rappier) in the straw, II,
249, 18. struck it (brand) ower a strow, V, 226 b, 8;
(dagger) 227, 21. struck it (bran) across the plain,
II, 380, 32. See stroak, streak, strip, slate.
strinkled, III, 4, 10; 5, C 6: sprinkled.
strip, of whetting a sword by passing it across straw,
a stone, the ground; replaced by stroak, streak,
strike, slate, draw (cf . German streifen). has striped
it throw the straw, II, 159, 15. he stript it to the
stroe, II, 161, 13. he 's stripped it athwart the straw,
n, 256, 12. he 's stripd it oer a stane, II, 396, 28.
has stript it to the stran, II, 390, 28. he drew it
through the strae, II, 185, 36; three times thro the
strae, II, 162, 8. See stroak, etc.
stro, stroe, strow, strae, stray, II, 131, 16: straw.
stroak, stroke, of whetting a sword by passing it over
a straw, stroakd it oer a stro, strae, stray, II, 131,
16; 166, 17; 169, 19; 305, 8, 21; 306, 14. See strip,
streak, straik, strike, slate.
stroe, stro, strow, II, 161, 13: straw.
stroke. See stroak.
stroke, III, 180, 13: probably corrupt; read streke,
stretch ? (Scott, streik, streek).
stronge th(i)efe, strong thief, III, 13, 2; 67, 221; V,
77, 32; 83, 49: a thief using violence. See stark
thief.
strook, pret. of strike, V, 135, b 18.
strow, stro, V, 37, 8; 226 b, 8; 227, 21: straw.
strucken, p. p. of strike, II, 48, 3; III, 487, 13.
stryke pantere, V, 72 b: a drinking formula, in re
sponse to fusty bandyas.
stubborn, IV, 168, 8; 169, 6, 15; 170, G 4, 11, H 3, 4,
10: seems to have its old meaning of truculent, fierce,
rather than wilful, mulish. See note to H 3, 4, IV,
177.
stude, stede, I, 244, 15: place.
study, studie, studdy, II, 374, A 2, B 2; 375, 3:
stithy, anvil.
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381
sturdy, sturdy steel, II, 380, 15; 381, 10; 385, 4; 388,
13: stiff, rigid (stubborn, II, 393, 10).
sture, steer, I, 71, 31; 69, 39: strong, robust, (stor,
big.)
sturt, II, 249, 4: trouble, anger.
stye, I, 310, 9, 11, is: pen, den. Ill, 100, 76: a smaller
thoroughfare, alley.
styme, I, 482, E. See stime.
styrande, III, 295, 3: stirring, dislodging. See note,
301.
sty the, I, 311, 9, il: place.
suan, V, 277, 14: swain.
suar, III, 308, 27; 309, 42: sure, trusty.
succeed the fame, his fame, IV, 249, 9; 251, 10: cor
rupt for, exceed in fame, or the like. See note, IV,
254, E 9.
such an a, IV, 312, 12: such a.
sud, soud, suld, should.
suddled, thy suddled silks, that thou wears every day,
etc., II, 186, 5, 6, 10, ll: soiled, or rumpled, creased.
suddling, suddling silks, III, 398, C 9: soiling, which
one would not mind exposing to soiling. Perhaps
we should read suddlit. See suddled.
suderen, V, 217, 17: southern.
suds, leave you in the suds, V, 114, 12: in difficulty, in
a strait.
sugar-sops, defined in dictionaries as sugar-plums.
Fletcher's Monsieur Thomas, ii, 3, "Dandle her
upon my knee, and give her sugar-sops." By analogy,
bits of bread or cake dipped in sugar juice.
sugh, II, 258, 34: sough, sound (of wind).
suit, V, 215, n; 223 b, l; 246 b, 2: sweet.
suith, III, 468, c 9: sooth.
sulle, sell.
sume, V, 221, ll, 12; 237, 10: swim. See soum.
sun-bruist, IV, 469, 9: should, perhaps, be sun-burnt,
as in the following line.
sundry, II, 212, 17: asunder, apart.
sune, adj., V, 256, 12: sound.
sunks, IV, 262, 29: seats.
supply, IV, 154, 13: afford help, mak him some
supply, V, 196, 39, cf. 43: succor, reinforcement.
surrount, IV, 245, 3: Skene's spelling for the original
serundad, surrounded.
suspitious, II, 448, 37, 38: worthy of Mrs. Malaprop,
but not so easy to unriddle: in her mouth, auspi
cious; here the modern suggestive, significant, would
suit.
sujjfe, III, 514 b, 1st line: then.
sutor, I, 430, 2: shoemaker. See souter.
sutten, p. p. of sit, IV, 468, 6.
swack, IV, 415, 6: nimble.
swack, v., V, 305, 5: whack.
a wads, swades, V, 134, 7; 135 b, 7: "swad in the
North is a pescod-shell: thence used for an empty
shallow-headed fellow." Blount, in II alii well. Also,
a cant term for soldier.
swaft, swaffed, III, 511, 8, 11: swapped.
swair, swaird, laird o the Ochilberry swair, IV, 207,
27, 29; laird o Athole swaird, IV, 198, 14: sware,
neck or slope of a hill, (swaird, a corruption of
swair, = sward, grassland, is not likely.)
swak, III, 300, 21. See swap,
swap, swak, swords, with swords, III, 298, 50, 54; 299,
9; 300, 21 (swakked); 301, 30; 309, 31; 422, 73; IV,
487, 29; 500 f., 22, 35 (swakked); V, 240, 6, 9: smite,
swarmd, III, 347, g 45; IV, 505, 56, 59: climbed.
(swarm, to climb a tree that has no side branches to
help one.)
swarued, swerved, III, 341, 53, 56; 345, 45: climbed
(= swarmd, IV, 505, 56, 59).
swat, pret. of swe(a)t, III, 299, 9; 300, 21; 301, 30;
309, 31. swett, III, 422, 73. swette, III, 298, 50, 64.
swathed, II, 305, 10: swaddled (as it were) in blood,
swatter, I, 135, P ll: flounder, splash,
sway, howsoeuer this geere will sway, III, 341, 47:
whatever turn this business may take, however this
affair may turn out.
swear, pret., swore.
sweauen, sweueu, II, 45, 18; III, 91, 4: dream,
sweer, II, 61, 4; IV, 229, 20: slow, reluctant. Ill,
160, 14: reluctant (to part with money),
swerers, quest of, III, 25, 69: jurors,
swerved, III, 347; d, e, f 45: climbed. See swarued.
swet, swett, swette, pret. of swe(a)t. See swat,
swetter, compar., V, 283, 9, 19: sweeter,
s we veil, sweauen, II, 45, 18; III, 91, 4: dream,
sweythyli, V, 80, 45: swiftly,
s wick, IV, 438, 12: blame,
swikele, I, 243, 4: deceptive, treacherous,
swilled, I, 287, 72: tossed about or shook, as in rinsing
(but in this case to effect a mixture),
swimd, swimmed, pret. of swim, II, 16, 5; 24, F 9;
IV, 129, 5; 130, D 9.
swinke, III, 171 f., 8, 26: labor.
swire, swyre, I, 295, 34; III, 91 a: neck. IV, 5, 2;
7, 27; V, 249, 2: "the declination of a mountain or
hill, near the summit." Jamieson.
swith, II, 65, 67; 248, 18: quickly,
swither, III, 268, 17; 272, 21: trepidation.
swittert, I, 129, ll: struggled, floundered, splashed
(made spasmodic motions to keep herself up),
swoghynge, n., I, 327, 31 : sounding,
swoom, V, 151, P 2: swim,
swoond, swound, n., I, 434, 29; II, 105, 19; HI, 373,
A 4: swoon.
swumd, p. p. of swim, III, 482, 26.
swylke, I, 327, 15: such,
swyre, swire, III, 91 a: neck,
syde, I, 333, 3: (of beard) long, hanging down. I,
426, 3: of a horn worn low. See side,
syke, sike, II, 238, 6; IV, 3, 28: ditch, trench. IV,
470, 25: perhaps, rivulet, (water-course, marshy
bottom with a stream in it. Jamieson.)
syne, sayn, san, sane, I, 17 f., P 2, 7; 127,27; 347, 9;
III, 437, 16, 20, 21, 24: then, afterwards. I, 204, E 3;
V, 306 b, l; III, 436, 9 (?): since,
synsyne, since. See siusyue.
382
GLOSSARY
sypress, cypress, III, 148, 10; 150, b 10: crape (veil),
syre, IV, 21, 10: (sewer) drain, gutter,
syt, III, 70, 280: old contracted form of sitteth.
sythis, I, 327, 21: times.
T
tabeau brirben (kame), II, 217, 2, 4: printed by
Herd, Tabean birben. Jamieson conjectured for
Tabean, ' made at Tabia, Italy.' Dr C. Mackay very
properly remarks that Tabia was not known as a
place of manufacture for combs. He suggests a
Gaelic origin: taobh, a side, taobhan, sides; bior, a
pin, point, prickle, the tooth of a comb; bean, a
woman; whence taobhan bior bean, the side comb
of a woman. Whether this is good Gaelic, I am
myself unable to say; but it is a simple criticism that
a woman's hair is not combed with a side-comb. The
passage is undoubtedly corrupt. In IV, 471, 2, we
have, a haw bayberry kame, also corrupt; bayberry
was heard for whatever tabean brirben stands for.
One copy had birchen, IV, 471, note to 221.
table, take vp the, III, 29, 142: take away, the tables
were laid on trestles and easily handled, removed,
and, as we often see in ballads, kicked over, drew
her table, V, 304, 13: see explanation at V, 304 a.
tack (of needlework), II, 30, L i: attachment by
stitching, needle-tack, II, 217, 5.
tack, took.
tacken, taiken, IV, 515, 12: token.
tae, II, 147, 4: too.
tae, the tae,=ae, one. See tane.
taen, tane, tean, teyne, p. p., taken.
taiglet, taiglit, IV, 195, 4; 196, 9: tarried.
taiken, tacken, I, 396, 5, 6: token.
Tailliant, Talliant, II, 383, 22, 24, 25; 385, 23, 25, 26;
387, 17, 19, 20; 388, 16, 18, 19: Italian.
taipy-tapples, I, 303, D 5: misreading of saipy-sap-
ples, which see.
tait. See tate.
take, V, 277, 2: talk.
take, III, 60, 72, 76; 62, 123; 65, 194; 73, 351; 110, 9:
hand over, give. I, 465, 18; 472, 28; II, 108, 17; 271,
17; 273, 23; III, 110, 18; 472, 9; IV, 508, 5: deliver a
blow, strike.
take on (lawing), IV, 175, N 4: run up (reckoning).
take road, take foot, II, 62 b, 14: make off.
take sworne, III, 340, 34; IV, 504, 34; V, 52, 73: take
an oath of, put under oath.
take truce, II, 443, 39; 449, 44; III, 469 a: take
trewes, pledges of good faith, for suspension of hos
tility, take peace, III, 278 f., 3, 6: perhaps formed
upon take truce.
take up (the table), III, 29, 142: clear away (remove
the boards). See table, take up (dogs), III, 125,
35, 36: stop, restrain, call off (?).
take with, III, 413, 47; IV, 334, 13: take up with, put
up with, submit to.
takle, takyll, III, 70, 288; 75 f., 398, 404: arrow,
talbott, III, 333, 28: a species of hound.
talents.
The talents of golde were on her head sette
Hanged low downe to her knee,
II, 52, 17: talents probably refers to the weight or
value of gold worn in massive ornaments (cf . a weight
of goud hung at her chin, 1, 472, 24). It is not likely
that the lady wore coins,
talk, IV, 13, 12: should probably be lack, reproach,
blame. The reading in A 18; D 5, is suspicious;
lack, reproach, is in E 16.
talkitive, IV, 13, D 8: used for talkativeness.
Talliant. See Tailliant.
tamper ye at, keep ye up and, IV, 226, is: seems to
be corrupt, cf. 221, 17, keep ye up i temper guid.
tamper may be meant for temper, in the sense of
putting a machine into working order, try expedients
to humor or manage you.
tane, the tane, the tither, tother, I, 253, 1; II, 104, 30;
132, 18; 190, 42; 212, 16. See tean, ton.
tane, taen, tean, teyne, p. p., taken, tane with me,
IV, 98, 12: occupied, engrossed, captivated (seized
or smitten with compassion for, love ?) tane sworn
(I am), V, 52, 73: of one who has taken an oath,
tangle, V, 259 a, ll: sea-weed,
taps, V, 173, 8: tops, tips (of heather).
Targalley, V, 141, c 1, 2: perhaps a corruption of
Turk (Turkish) galley, cf. C, a, f, g.
targats, targits, III, 363, note*; 371, 26, 27: tassels,
targe, III, 75, 385: "Targe or chartyr. Carta."
Prompt. Parv. " quatre grosses blancs appeltes
targes." Ducange, targa. (Corrected from tarpe.)
tarlottus, tynkerris in tarlottus, III, 41 b (?).
tarnd, V, 303 a: turned,
tarpe, III, 75, 385; 80, 385: emended to targe.
tasse, V, 37, 9: cup (tarse in MS.).
tate, tait, teet, tet, tette, I, 86, 15; 130, E 14; 323, 2;
II, 189, 23; 191, 18; 194, 27; 389, 16; IV, 449, 15:
lock (of hair, of mane),
tattles, tittles, I, 302, B 7: tits, bits,
taucher, toucher, tocher, dowry. See toucher,
tauchy, I, 302, 10: greasy.
taul, told.
taunt, bide to taunt, II, 272, 11: endure taunting (?).
tay, tie.
tayened, tayned, V, 228, 26, 27: (tined) lost, killed,
teacht, IV, 150, g 25, 30: taught,
teall, tale.
tean, IV, 456 f., 5, 24; 515, 12; V, 36, ll, 15: taken. See
taen.
tean, the tean, the eather, V, 224, 27: the one, the
other. See tane.
tear begane this spurn, III, 310, 65: see note, 307.
tee, IV, 446, 7:= tie, 447, 7. glove tee, V, 300, 10, 16,
19.
tee, ti, I, 300, 7, 9, 15; II, 30, 4: to, too.
teem, toom, II, 169, 13; IV, 182, F 5: empty,
teem, I, 444, G b 2: pour,
teemed, II, 435, 36: allowed,
teen, teene, tithe. See teind.
GLOSSARY
383
teene, tene, I, 328, 40; III, 24, 48; 37, 63; 60, 78; 62,
128; 66, 211; 72, 329; 230, 70; 412, 22; 443, 1: injury,
wrath, vexation, annoyance, grief, trouble,
teenouslye, III, 356, 21: angrily,
teet. See tate.
teeth, I, 305, A isfc tooth,
teind, teein, tiend, tene, teen, I, 342, 24; 344, 23;
350, 23; 354, 32; 452, 3; III, 504 b, 9; IV, 456, 15;
458, 16: tithe.
teindings, IV, 455, 18: tithings.
tell, till, to.
tempeng, tempen, V, 165 f., 6, 9, 10: tempting,
temper, set them up in temper wood, IV, 222, 20: cor
rupted, as will appear from the conclusion of the
other versions. Parts of two stanzas are mixed,
tene, v., Ill, 110, is: do harm to.
tene, n. See teene.
tenements, V, 77, 38: holdings (whether of lands or
houses does not appear here),
tenish, V, 245 a, 8: tennis,
tent, n., II, 139, li; IV, 223, 3; 390, 4: heed,
tent, v., I, 74, 81; III, 478, 28: take care of, guard,
watch.
tet, tette. See tate.
tew, V, 303 a: two.
teyne, IV, 504, 26: taken. See taen.
teytheyng, tythyng, V, 79, 25: tidings,
tha, then. See tho.
tha, V, 296 a: the.
thae, I, 369, 3; 427, 15; 447, 14; II, 190, 43; IV, 69, 12;
258, 27; 470, 28, 29: they, them, those, these,
thairbut, thairben, IV, 291, after ll: out there, in
there,
thar, I, 334, 8: it is necessary (it is not necessary to
hinder thee of thine errand),
that, II, 451, 93: till that,
that, imperative particle, anone that you tell me ! Ill,
27, 118. no peny that I se ! Ill, 58, 41; 68, 246. no
ferther that thou gone ! Ill, 67, 219.
that, superfluous, I, 273, 38; 284, 7; II, 58, 6; 433, 3;
434, 16, 18; 436, 59; 437, 89; 442, 18; 444, 41; III, 276,
l; 277, 18, 19; 341, 46, 54, 57; 413, 39; IV, 503, 8; V,
48, 6. (Very common in the Percy MS., where all
the above, excepting one, occur.)
that, plur., that two lords, II, 130, 28, 29. See this,
that . . . his = whose, IV, 330, Appendix, 2.
that -was her own, II, 73, 20: that referring to roses
and ribbons, or the bridal relation, or to both,
the, the, I, 284 f., 9, 30; III, 307 f., 3, 8, 12, 25, 28;
419 f., 14, 33; 421, 45, 65; 477, 4; 479, 38; V, 263, 7, 9,
ll, 12: they.
the, the, I, 296, 50: thee.
the day, I, 356, 56; II, 32, Q 2; 248, 5; 285, 14: to-day,
the morn, II, 104, 18; III, 480, 18; 482, 14; 488, 19;
V, 300, 17; 307, 7: to-morrow, the morn's nicht, II,
208, C 9: to-morrow night,
the night, the nicht, I, 303, C 4; 304, E 4; III, 480,
18; 488, 19; V, 299 a, l: to-night,
the streen, yestreen. See streeu.
the, IV, 494, 29: to be corrected to she; they in the
next line to mean the mill-people.
the, thee, then, thye, II, 164, 17; III, 67, 234; 78, 452;
113, 81; V, 76, ll; 79, 14; 82 f., 26, 27, etc.: thrive,
prosper.
thee, III, 6, 20: for thou.
theek, I, 253, 4: thatch, pret. and p. p. theekit, theekd,
IV, 76 f., l, 2, 4; 458 b, 9: thatched, roofed.
theer, V, 296 a: there.
thegither, thegithar, thegether, III, 261, 3; V, 217
b, No 49, l: together.
their. See thir.
then, v. See the.
there, the diel o there, III, 488, 26: seems to mean of
that; but we have, devil be there in 43, as an equiva
lent phrase.
there, III, 504 a, 14; IV, 465, 25, 26; 485, 24; 510 a, 2:
there is. Ill, 489, 9: there are (or, there is, Scottice).
there down, downwards, down.
theretoo, III, 64, 172: besides.
thes, III, 111, 34; 113, 76: thus. See this.
they, II, 434 f., 25, 38; 437, 78; 442 f., 19, 29: the (fre
quent in Percy MS.).
thick, spak thick, I, 343, 13: not articulating distinctly
(from emotion).
thick, III, 35, 29: thilke, that.
thie, I, 19, 14: 330, B 2; 331, C 2, D 2: thigh.
thief, foul thief, V, 123, 14; 184, 44: devil.
thiggin, V, 117, 2: begging, levying supplies.
thimber, I, 330, A 2: (Icelandic Jmngbserr, heavy to
bear ?) heavy, massive. Not understood and changed
to nimble, nimle, I, 332, P 2, G 2, umber, I, 331, C 2.
think, thynk, III, 27, 98; 58, 37, 44; 60, 82: seem, me
thinke, me thynke, methink, III, 81, 37; 153, c 5; 158,
d 17; 321 b; V, 82, 26, 41 : methinketh, methinks. See
thoghte, thouth.
think lang (A. S. lang thyncan, seem long), thouth
me nouthe lange, 1, 334, 5, 9: seemed not long, amused
me, impressed me pleasantly. In Scottish, personal,
with substitution of think for seem, think lang, I,
370, 4; V, 115, 2: find the time wearisome, suffer
from ennui. I think lang, I, 368, 35, 37, 39; 506, 2:
long for. I '11 never think lang, IV, 257, 10: shall
never be discontented, she thought (thocht) lang, I,
478, 14; II, 76, ll; 78, 14: was weary with waiting,
keep frae thinking lang, I, 467, 16, 20. keep him on-
thought long, I, 478, is. See unthought lang.
thir, their, I, 5, C 5; 329, 61 ; 482, C b 11; II, 78, 23,
24; 271, 21; III, 441, 34, 35; 464, 4; IV, 7, 30; 476, 4,
5; V, 115, 2; 195, 9, 10: these, those.
thirld in his ear, II, 208, 5: thrilled.
thirled at the pin, II, 121, 15: tirled, rattled.
this, pi., this bonny boys, II, 81, 37; this twa, II, 158 f .,
l, 19. See that.
this, thes, thys, III, 73, 346; 111, 34; 113, 76; IV, 210,
4; V, 283, 2: thus.
tho, III, 28, 138; 34, 7, ll; 36, 44; 111, so: then.
thoe, III, 285, 33: they (possibly, then).
thoghte, I, 328, 50: (probably) seemed. See think.
384
GLOSSARY
thole, thoule, I, 508, 8; II, 46, 2; 124, 38; 314, 10; IV,
17, 2; 21, 16; 278, 12; V, 229, 32: bear, suffer (IV,
17, 2: like dree, be capable of.)
thorn, II, 27, I 6: dialectic variation of forn, J 6,
parlic, of fare: fill yourselves with good fare,
thornd, II, 110, 24: fared,
thoth, thouth, I, 334, 7, 8: though,
thother, the, III, 111, 43: tother, other,
thou, though.
thou is, thou's, III, 483, 31; 488, 24.
thou sitts, thou ryd.es, III, 479, 35.
thou will, thou made, thou was, thou took, etc.,
# pers. sing, without termination: I, 221, C 9-11,
222 E n-17; 223, 12, 16.
thought lang, I, 370, 4; 478, 14, etc. See think lang.
thoule, II, 159, 20: suffer, put up with. See thole,
thouth, I, 334, 5, 8, 9: seemed. See think,
thouth, I, 334, 8: though. See thoth.
thowt, n., V, 283, 20: thought.
thra, thrae, IV, 128, l; 220, 2; 369 b; 446, 8; 465, 34;
470,20; 479, 3; 518, 10; V, 197,3,13: dialectic variety
of fra, frae, from,
thrae, I, 170, 6: through,
thrall, III, 480, 15: bondage,
thrang, V, 115, 2: intimate, familiar,
thrashes, threshes, IV, 77, b 4: thrushes, rushes,
thrashin oer his songs (of blackbird), I, 133, M 3, 5:
repeating, or practising,
thrast, pret., Ill, 98, 25.: pressed,
thrave, I, 21, 10: twenty-four sheaves of corn, two
shocks.
thraw, II, 146, 14; 147, 15; 149, 14; 283, 16; IV, 479,
8: twist, contort, pret. threw, p. p. thrawen, thrawin,
thrawn, IV, 348, 6, 7; 349, b 3; 350, B b, after 5; V,
273, No 239, 3.
thrawin, I, 465, 12: thrown,
thrawn, twisted. See thraw.
thrawn, IV, 465, 20: ill-humoredly,
threefold oer a tree, III, 267, 9: with a double curve,
over a stick.
threesome, II, 270, 30: three together,
threshes, thrashes, IV, 258 f., 5, 20: rushes,
threty, thirty.
threw, pret. of thraw, I, 102, 18; 492, 18; II, 111, 21;
183, 30; 185, 40; 208, 12; 286, 16; V, 262, 24: twisted,
intertwined. Ill, 180, 10, Robin he lope, Robin he
threw: may be, threw himself about, or twisted
twirled, showing his suppleness,
thrien, I, 244, 18: thrice,
thrild vpon, thirled at, a pinn, II, 121, 15; 138, 10, 16:
tirled, rattled. See pin.
thrill, II, 291, 27: pierce, penetrate,
thristle-cock, I, 427, 8; thristle-throat, I, 429, 8:
throstle, thrush.
throch, II, 30, 6; 256, 12: through,
throly, III, 98, 25: strenuously, doggedly,
thronge, III, 25, 56: pressed, made his way.
throw, intrans., fyer out of his eyen did throw, I, 211,
23: dart, shoot.
throwardlie, III, 365 a: frowardly, crossly, ill-tem-
peredly.
thro we, III, 78, 448: space of time,
thrown, IV, 249, P 3: corrupted from this road; cf.
A 6; B 7; C 9; D 6.
prumme, III, 13, 9: the extremity of a weaver's warp,
from six to nine inches long, serving to hold arrows.
Cf. II, 168, 5, four-and-twenty arrows laced in a
whang.
thrusty, IV, 172, 4: trusty ? (rusted, 173, K 4.)
thurst, IV, 60 b, 6: thrust,
thryfte, euyll thryfte, in, 67, 220: ill thriving, ill
speed, bad luck,
thu, V, 283, 13: thou.
thye, thigh.
thye, II, 241, 14: thrive. See the.
thys, V, 283, 2: thus. See this,
ti, I, 299, 13: to; too.
ticht. See tight,
tide, tyde, III, 299, C 1; 432, 15; 473, ll; V, 83, 49:
time, into the tide, V, 160, 2; by the tide, 163, 4;
164, l: at the time, now.
tidive, tidive hour, II, 257, 15: timely, early? (the
hour may be early morning).
tiend, tithe. See teind.
tier, V, 151, F i, should be, tree.
tift, II, 183, 17: puff, whiff.
tight, ticht, V, 151, E 3; 161, 2: (of a man) well built.
V, 258, 4: (of a maid) neatly shaped, jimp.
till, n., II, 409, 12: toil.
till, till see, II, 191, 22; till and frae, II, 71, 15: to. At
III, 338 b, it is said that in A 66, till may mean
while. Here Jamiesou was followed: but there ap
pears to be only one case to cite, in a single MS. of
Barbour's Brus, where others read quhil. The re
mark must be withdrawn, though while might be
offered as an emendation, since it is, for obvious
reasons, far more probable than till.
till, v., II, 54, 57: entice.
timmer, timber, wooden.
timouslie, IV, 63, l: early.
tine, tyne, tayen, I, 16, C 14; II, 70, 30; 313, 21; 336,
O 8, 9; III, 75, 398; lose. I, 324, B 7; IV, 454, 3;
455, ll; 458, 5: to be lost, perish. I, 115, ll: cause
to perish, pret. and p. p. tint, IV, 18, 20; 127, 14;
165, 15; V, 99 C 4: lost.
tinye, n., a little tinye, V, 51, 69: bit.
tip, tippet (of horse's mane), IV, 410, 18, 21; 413, 13:
= tate, lock.
tirl at the pin, trill, rattle, at that part of the door-
fastening which lifts the latch. See pin.
tit, V, 125, 9: quick pull.
tithyngus, III, 98, 40-42: tidings.
tittles and tattles, I, 302, B 7: tits, bits.
to, III, 110, 14, 16: two.
to, till.
tobreke, subj., I, 243, 6: break, burst (apart), p. p.
to-broke, broken up.
tocher, toucher, tougher, taucher, n. See toucher.
GLOSSARY
385
to-clouted (gowne), III, 179 a: with patches set to it.
tod, I, 355, 44; IV, 193, il; 194, 4; 195, 9; 196, 13,
etc.: fox.
toe from home, boune, IV, 504, 24: to a place away
from? (perhaps corrupt),
to-hande, III, 110, 14: two-hand, two-handed,
tolbooth, tolbuith, tollbooth, III, 482, 18; 489 f., 9,
10, 15: prison, jail. That in Edinburgh, III, 385, 12;
386, 12; 389, 14; IV, 508 b, 8; 609, 9 (Towbooth).
tolde, III, 59, 67-69; 68, 247: counted,
to-morne, I, 328, 57: to-morrow,
ton, tone, the, III, 296 f., 12, 30: the one. tone,
tother, II, 53, 27, 32. the tone, the tother, II, 51, 2.
See tane.
tooke, III, 405, 14: put. See take,
tooken vpon one part, III, 404, 3: engaged, enlisted,
on the same side.
toom, teem, I, 72, 17; II, 124, 38; IV, 143, B i, 3, C
6; 180, 8; V, 196, 53; 251, 30, 32; 256, 8: empty,
toomly, IV, 181, 11: empty,
toorin, I, 500, R 1-4: cooing. (Imitative, cf. Scott.
curr, curroo, Germ, gurren.)
too-too, to-towe, III, 217, b, c, 41: a strong too.
top, IV, 288, E 3: should be toss, toast.
topcaatle, III, 340 f., 32, 58; 344 f., 28, 46; IV, 504 f.,
32, 58 (topcasaille) = top. See topps.
topps, III, 419, 15; IV, 506, 61: " Among seamen tops
are taken for those round frames of board that lye
upon the cross-trees, near the heads of the masts,
where they get up to furle or loose the topsails."
Phillips. A noble ship at III, 419, 15, has five tops.
tor (of saddle), IV, 410, 21: pommel.
tor, tore, II, 323, ll; 334, M 2; IV, 480, 8: projection
or knob at the corner of old-fashioned cradles (as
also, ornamental balls surmounting the backs of
chairs).
torne, III, 112, 56: turn, bout,
tortyll-tre, III, 112, 56: corruptly for trystell-tre.
toss, IV, 288, E 3: toast (as a beauty), (misprinted
top.)
to t', III, 439, 4: to the.
to-towe, III, 430, i: too-too, a strong too.
toucher, tougher, taucher, n., IV, 283 f., 10, 22, 23;
285, 12, 13; 286, ll; 287, 4; 487, 30; 489, 29; V, 267,
12, 13: tocher, dowry.
toucher, u., IV, 284, 23: pay a dowry to.
touchered, V, 224, 11: dowered,
toun, town, IV, 200,19; 201, n; 202, K 5; 203, 13; V,
228, 27: a farmer's steading or place (or, a small col
lection of houses). V, 267, 7: perhaps simply house,
toun-head, V, 267, ll: centre or principal part of the
town.
tour, lyin in a tour, IV, 87, 20: continuous route,
tout, I, 274, 18: backside,
touting, blowing.
tow, III, 396, N 8; 449 b; V, 125, 9: rope,
tow, III, 434, 17, 18; 435, 12: let down by a rope. V,
123, 15, 16: draw up and let down,
towbooth. See tolbooth.
VOL. v. 49
toweld, II, 194, 22: twilled (?).
town. See toun.
tows, went to the, IV, 380, 8: tows= touts, drinking-
bouts, fell to drinking (in contrast to Allan, who
went to pray. Tows cannot be ropes; they had not
gone aboard the ship).
trace, II, 479, 16: track, path, way.
trachled, V, 169, 9: tired out.
trade, II, 454, 37: should be train, as in 445, 62; 460,
67.
train, IV, 107, l, 13, 16: company.
train(e), II, 445, 62; 450, 67: training.
traitorye, III, 411, 2: treachery.
trailed, V, 274, 10: trailed (had rather have married
A. and have trailed).
trance, II, 468 f., 18, 22; V, 268, 7: passage in a house.
tranckled, I, 284, 10: travelled. (Dutch trantelen,
tranten, tarde progredi; morari. Hexham, to go
lazily, at a soft pace.)
trap, a doublet of trip, trip for trap, II, 328, 17: trip
ping.
trapand,p. p., (of horse) IV, 44, 4: treacherously dealt
with.
trappin, IV, 342, 12: tape.
trattles, II, 152, 5: tattles.
travisse, II, 92, 20: (a frame for confining cavalry
horses) horse's stall.
trawale, III, 41 a: travail, operations.
tray, tree (A. S. trega), injury, suffering, grief, vexa
tion, tene and traye, I, 328, 40; tray and tene, III,
66, 218: grief and vexation, tree and teene, III, 412,
22: grief and injury, (tregan and te*onan, Genesis,
2274.)
tray, try.
tread, tred, pret. of tread, II, 160, 5, 6; 165, 9; 171, 10,
12; IV, 468, 3, 4. jp. p., IV, 128, 19.
treasonie, II, 344, 14: treason.
tree, tre, I, 343, 42; 345, 40; II, 218, 19; III, 23, 26;
309, 44: wood. I, 465, 2; 473, 4: pole, shaft of a
cart. I, 341, 21; 344, 20; III, 25, 59; 29, 154; 63, 147;
97, 4: the cross. Ill, 160, 22, 25; 161, 42; 162, 55, 62;
163, 78; 267, 9; 268, 8; 270, D 8; 271, F 10: staff,
straight piece of rough wood, crooked tree, III, 160,
18: bow. trenchen tree, III, 164, 91: truncheon, cud
gel, staff, of (a) myghtte tre, III, 308 f., 27, 42: of
strong wood, a trusti tree, III, 309, 40: perhaps
shaft; but the a is likely to be of, as Professor
Skeat suggests, and the meaning, of trusty wood (cf .
44, bowe made off trusti tree), horse of tree, III,
478, 13: bridge, or, at least, tree-trunk.
tree, III, 412, 22. See tray.
trenchen tree, III, 164, 91 : truncheon, cudgel, staff.
trew, true, II, 384, 20, 21; III, 474, 45: trow, believe.
trews, trues, IV, 157, 18, 19; 267, 7; 272, 3; V, 165, i;
267 a, 6; 306, l: trousers.
treyffe, III, 113, 81 : thrive.
triest, trist. See tryst.
trinkle, I, 497, 15; H, 197, 17; 209, D 7; 290, 25; 326,
ll; 411, B 17; IV, 236, 5; 409, 6; 487, 27: trickle.
386
GLOSSARY
trip for trap, came down the stair, III, 328, 17: trip
ping, trip-trap (trap, a doublet of trip).
tristil-tre, III, 98, 37. See tryateU-tre.
troule, V, 84, 13: go round (of a bowl of ale).
trow, trew, true, believe, suppose. I trow, 1, 104, c
13: assuredly.
trowt, trowet, III, 110, 23, 26: troth.
truce, my petticoat, IV, 288, E 2: put in a trouss, tuck
or fold, to shorten.
true, days of, III, 352 a: (singular of truce, trews,
pledges of good faith) truce.
true, IV, 486 f., 5, 21; 491, 5: trow. See trew.
true-love, lover, betrothed lover (often not to be dis
tinguished from true love), passim.
trues, trousers. See trews.
truff, II, 144 f., 14, 24: turf.
trust, II, 307, 34; 379, 4; IV, 494, 37; V, 38, 5: trow,
believe, suppose (of the things one would rather not
believe).
truste, III, 66, 207: trusty.
trusty tree, III, 92, 8; 116 f., 2, 21; 200, 37; V, 75, 4: an
obvious corruption of trystill-tree, a tree appointed
for a meeting or assemblage. (Trusty also in later
copies of Adam Bell and the Gest for trysty, trys-
tell, which see.)
trusyd, III, 13, 9: trussed, bound up.
tryst, tryste, ., I, 394, A i; 395, l; IV, 2, 4, 6: ap
pointment to meet. IV, 413, 7; 414, 3, 4: appoint
ment for wedding. I, 326, 18: market.
tryst, tri(e)st, v., I, 314, l; II, 270, 3; 272, 4; IV, 201,
8; V, 171, 4: engage, induce, entice, to come, go
with. II, 294, 13; IV, 194, 6; 198, 8; 200, 19; 201,
li; 202, K 5: prepare a way for coming, cause to
come.
tryst, n. or v., IV, 154, 5: appoint a place, or, appoint
ment of a place.
trystell-tree, trysty-tre, trystyll-tre, tristil-tre,
III, 69 f., 274, 286; 71, 298; 75, 387; 76, 412: a tree serv
ing for a meeting-place (of Robin Hood's band).
(In later texts, trusty.)
trysty tre, HI, 26 f., 95, 98; 27, 102: tree fixed upon for
rendezvous (trusty, trustie in later copies).
tu, V, 303 a: to.
tua, the tua part, V, 254 b, 4: two thirds. But twa
part, V, 276, 20, seems to mean second part, half,
which we have at IV, 120 P 7; 381, 16; that is, it
is more likely that an equal share should be offered.
tul, III, 440, 25; til, to. tul a, III, 440, 13: to have.
turn, IV, 477, 14; turning o the tune, II, 249, 11; o the
note, 250, 13; IV, 477, 13: refrain (owretura, I, 332,
E, P 7; owreword, II, 254, 8, 9). turnin o the bell,
IV, 314, 19.
turn the wind wi thee, IV, 379, 6:= take the wine
(i. e. wind) fra thee, V, 275, 5. (The meaning is clear,
but whether turn is in actual use in the required
sense I have not ascertained.)
turning. See turn.
tust, IV, 224, 20: tost.
twa, two. twa part, see tua.
twafald(-fold), oer a tree, staff, II, 461, 19; III, 268, 8:
bent double over a stick, twafald ower his steed,
III, 8, 18: doubled, head hanging on one side, feet
on the other. See twofold.
twain, v., part. See twin.
twal, twelve.
twalmon, twalmont, twelvemonth.
twalt, twelt, twelfth.
twan, pret. of twine, I, 256, 2.
twatling, dishes, V, 86, 36: unmeaning, nonsensical, of
no account.
twaw, two.
twig, IV, 31, B 6: twitch, pull.
twin, twine, twyne, twin me o my make, twin babe
of life, I, 129, 8; 174, 18; 175, D e, 12; 177, 17; 220,
B 3; 222, 7; H, 218, 16; IV, 179, A 2: deprive,
twine a mantle, I, 453, 3; twine me, IV, 154, 5: part
with. twin(n) with, 1, 175, 4, 5, 10, li; II, 232, 7, 10, 12;
twin(e) me and my make, etc., I, 127, 14; 128, ll;
350, 15; II, 159, 12, 13 (twain); V, 178, i: separate,
gar twa loves twin (twain), etc., I, 56, B 9; II, 63,
23; 230, B 3, 6: part, intrans.
twine, coarse linen, duck, crash, for towel, IV, 460,
No 47, 1, 2; shift (contrasted with holland), II, 224,
17. II, 27, 19, 20: canvas. 1, 221, C 9; 504, 4: coarse
stuff of some kind. Lincoln twine, III, 5, D 5; 8, 12;
IV, 496, 10, is doubtless the Lincoln green of other
versions, and so simply texture. Ill, 192, 10: yarn,
ropes o silken twine, IV, 472, 10: twist, shoes of
small corded twine, V, 301 b, 3.
twinkle, II, 409, 17; 425, A 7: triukle, trickle,
twinn, v. See twin.
twinn, part in twinn, I, 432, 3: in twain, in two.
twirld, at the pin, IV, 390, b 4: tirled, rattled,
twofold oer a staff, threefold oer a tree, III, 267,
9; the body being bent double over the staff, the
whole presentation is, with the staff (tree) threefold.
Corruptly, III, 188, 6, two foote on a staffe, the third
vpon a tree. See also twa-fald.
tydand, II, 433, 9: tidings,
tyde. See tide.
tyndes, III, 65, 186: (A. S. tind) tynes, antlers,
tyne, I, 17, ll: = tynd, harrow-tooth (harrow-pin, 1, 19,
10).
tyne, v. t to lose, to perish. See tine.
tyte, his backe did from his belly tyte, III, 277, 17:
quickly. A verb of the sense fall away may have
dropped out after did, and is at any rate to be under
stood, unless tyte had that sense. A Scottish tyte, to
totter, fall (tyte oer, fall over), is noted by Jamie son.
tythance, tythand(e)s, tythyng, III, 361, b, c i; c
14, 49; 362, 93; V, 78, 5: tidings.
ugsome, II, 47, 15: exciting disgust or abhorrence.
(Icel. uggr, fear.)
nil, I oil, V, 267, 5: will,
umber, I, 331, C 2: seems to be the same as thimber
(I, 330, A 2): massive.
GLOSSARY
387
unbeen, my barn's unbeen, IV, 143, A 4: not thor
oughly closed in or made tight ? (been, well-pro
vided, warm, dry and snug. A bein cask, water
tight, Jamieson.) a house is beind when thoroughly
dried.
vnbethought him, I, 214, A 17 (printed um-); II,
240, 5; V, 15, 16: bethought himself of.
unbigged, IV, 143, A 4: unbuilt.
unco, adj., A. S. unciiS (uncouth, III, 245, ll). unco
man, IV, 235, 11: unknown, strange, unco land,
ground, I, 182, 1, 3; 324, 4; IV, 410, 10, 11. unco
squire, V, 26 f., 25, 36: stranger, unco woman, I, 78,
26: unfriendly, unco lair (lear), II, 118, l; 119, 1;
174, l; 178, 2; HI, 385, l; IV, 411, l; 467, l: ex
traordinary.
unco, adv., I, 370, 5: unusually, very.
uncouth, vnkowth, vnkuth, vnketh, 1,344,25; III,
245, ll: (A. S. unciiS) unknown, strange. See unco.
vnder, Grenwich, III, 358, 78: perhaps, below, further
down the Thames.
vnder hand, shott it vnder hand, III, 199, 29; 202, 33;
shot under his hand, III, 204, 26: Dr Furnivall and
Mr C. J. Longman suggest, putting the bow horizon
tally, in which case you shoot with the arrow under
the left hand, instead of beside it, as in shooting with
the bow vertical. Ascham speaks of an underhand
shaft, but without denning it: "The underhande
[shaf te] must have a small breste, to go cleane awaye
oute of the bowe; the forehande muste have a bigge
breste, to bere the great myght of the bowe." Tox-
ophilus, 1545, ed. Arber, p. 126. And again, as
cited by Dr W. Hand Browne, of Johns Hopkins
University: " Men doubt yet, in looking at the mark,
what way is best, above or beneth hys hand"; "a
byg brested shafte for hym that shoteth under hande,
bycause it will hobble." Upon which Dr Browne re
marks, " As he is here speaking only of taking aim,
under-hand shooting would seem to be done when
the archer raised his bow high, and looked at the
mark under the arrow-hand."
under night, I, 100, l: in the night.
vndergoe, II, 59, 33: undertake.
undertaking, be your, IV, 152, 6; 153, D 7: will under
take, manage for you.
vnfaine, III, 355, 14: not glad.
unfriends, III, 470 b: enemies.
vngoodly, III, 322 a: unhandsome.
vnhappie, V, 82, 29: ill-conditioned, having bad tricks.
unhappy, IV, 64 a: mischievous.
unhappy, V, 86, 32: unlucky (as speaking inoppor
tunely). (The on of horson occasioned the omission
of un-.)
unkensome, III, 495 B b 7: not to be known.
unkent, IV, 435, 12: unknown.
vnketh, vnkouth, vnkuth, III, 56, 6; 57, 18; 66, 209;
79, 6, 18; 82, 6, 18; 85, 6: uncouth, unknown, stranger.
vnmackley, II, 59, 30 : misshapen. (Scott, makly, well
proportioned, mackerly, Northumberland, shapely.
Halliwell.)
vnneth, unneath, III, 73, 358; 171, 17: with difficulty,
scarcely.
vnready, V, 81, 10: indirect, or, attended with difficul
ties.
unright(e), I, 294, 7; III, 339, 5; IV, 503, 5: wrong,
unruly, IV, 383, 1: should probably be unseally, as in
IV, 378, i.
unseally, IV, 378, l: unlucky,
vnsett, III, 358, 71 : surrounded, invested. (A. S.
ymbsettan.)
unshemly, V, 215, 14: unseemly,
unthought, unthocht, onthought lang, haud, keep,
I, 478, 13; 482, C b 16, 20; II, 139, 3; III, 492, 5; IV,
260, 10: keep from thinking long, wearying, from
ennui. See think lang.
vnthrift, V, 81, 16: spendthrift,
until, untill, I, 221, D 3, 4; III, 488, 35, 36: unto, to.
unto, IV, 170, ll; 467, ll; V, 262, 19: into, in.
vnto the same, I, 284, 12: after the same fashion,
vntyll, gates shut them vntyll, III, 25, 52: to, against,
vnwieldie, V, 82, 29: unmanageable,
vowsed, uowsed, V, 79, 14: used, practised.
vp chaunce, III, 57, 18; 66, 209: on, for, the chance.
up stark, IV, 378, 5; 380, ll: (came, blew) up strong,
as still common, with the like ellipsis, V, 51, 68; 56,
45.
upgive, V, 193, 59: avow, acknowledge, own up.
vpon, vppon, I, 271, 2; 433, 15, 16: on. stay upon,
wait upon, III, 450 b: for.
upper hand, II, 245, 29: upper tier, above,
upricht, I, 473, 3: right out.
upstart, II, 54, 56: sprang up.
us, I us gar, V, 267, 12: shall, will. See B, sign of
future,
used, V, 85, 23: frequented, used him in her company,
IV, 98, P 6: accustomed him to.
vtter, III, 361, b, c 52: outer.
utuer, IV, 506, 59. See beame.
vain, streams proud and vain, IV, 204, 8: repetition of
proud in the sense of fierce, etc.
valiant (of ladies), V, 119, l: of worth, estimation,
value (of an hour), IV, 514, 15, 16: amount,
value, va(l)low, v., II, 162, E 2: think important, make
ado about, stick, vallow not the feed, IV, 36, 3: value,
care not for the feud which will ensue; cf. B 3.
vance, spak wi a vance, IV, 465, 30: seems to be meant
for vaunt. It is hardly probable that the plural of
the old Scottish and English avant, vaunt (with
avauts*) can be intended,
vanitie, IV, 300, 2, is nonsense,
vawward, III, 284, 14; vanward, III, 285, 21, 34; 333,
27: vanguard, van.
veiwe, vew, vewe, III, 92, 15: yew.
velvaret, IV, 369, l: meant for velvet; not velveret.
venie (?), Ill, 219 b, note: vein,
venison, II, 59, 38: hunting (prerogative of),
vension, III, 196, d 4: venison.
388
GLOSSARY
vepan, weapon.
verament, III, 308, 26; 333, 26: truly.
vessell, pi., Ill, 65, 175, 179, 191 : vessels.
vew, your vew, V, 86, 40: sight of you.
vew, vewe, veiwe, III, 92, 15; 105, 27; 362, 78: yew.
(The v is not for u. The word is pronounced vewe
in Cheshire.)
vild, V, 53, 102: vile.
virgus, I, 420, 13: verjuice, a kind of vinegar (green
juice).
virr, I, 183, 16: vigor.
virtue, in virtue leave your lammas beds, II, 96, J 4:
corrupt. Cf. B i. Dr Davidson suggests, never tae
leave your lammie's, lambkin's beds (lammie's, inno
cent).
vo, vou, woe.
vogie, IV, 176, ll: vain, merry; no longer have you
cause for self-gratulation, to be demonstratively joy
ful.
vones, I, 334, 6: dwellest.
voss. a voss o, IV, 224, 8, 12: comparing G 8, 10, 21,
K 22, the voice of, this last seems to be meant. Oth
erwise, a corruption of, it was a (cf. A 11; C 15; D
17; E 19; H ll).
votes, IV, 114, C 2: for voters ? probably a corrup
tion.
vou 's me, V, 271, 16, 17, wo is me!
vouch it safe, III, 75, 381: grant, bestow (safe cor
rected from halfe).
voued, pret., V, 268, 17: viewed. *
vour. o vour, II, 25, P 13: half owre, as in C 18.
vow, wow, IV, 133 f., 12, 15; 136, 21; V, 118, C ll:
exclamation of surprise, emphasis, or admiration.
voyded, III, 26, 79: made off.
vue, v., V, 265, 17: view.
vyld, wild.
vy tout en nay, I, 334, 4: without, beyond, denial.
W
wa, wae, IV, 448 a, 3 d st.: wo.
waaf, II, 72, 2: waif.
wad, n., II, 63, 23; 172, 31, 32: pledge, in security. I,
340, 2; 343, 2; II, 376, 39; III, 455, 10: forfeit,
wad. I wad, I, 130, F 14, 15, 20: I wot, in a weak
sense, assuredly, truly. See a=I, and wat.
wad, wade, I, 71, 55, 56; 74, 76, 77; III, 465, 30; V,
299, 2: would. See wads,
wad, wade, v., IV, 18, 17; 185, 7; 384, 5; 385, 2, 7;
386, 2; V, 219, 23; 275 b, 6; 300, 14s wager. IV,
432, 4, 5: engage (to fight),
wadded, I, 272, 11: of woad color, blue,
wadded, V, 261, 6: wedded,
wadding, wadin, II, 131 f., ll, 16, 19, 20; IV, 470, 15-
17: wedding,
wade, wad, pret. of wide, wade, II, 97, 12, is; 283, 4;
461, 10; IV, 68, 6; 190, 27, 28; 438, 13; 455, 9.
waders, IV, 188, 20: miscopied by Skene for mideers,
mothers.
wadin. See wadding.
wads, II, 133, D 4, 6, 6: wishes (wad, would, treated
as a present tense).
wae, wa, I, 69, 48; 127, 28; 169, 3; 217, 3, 6; V, 306,
10: wo.
wae, adj., I, 367, ll; II, 70, 25; 89, 36; 129, 17: un
happy.
wael, IV, 443, 5: choice. See wale.
waely, IV, 59, d 3: a rhyme- word for wae, sad.
waesome, IV, 369 b: woful.
waft, I, 420, 15, 16; 422, 12, 13: weft, woof.
wafu, woful.
wainless, II, 72, 8: homeless (without a wane, habita
tion).
wair, II, 472, 24: bestow. See war.
wait, I wait, a wait, wate, IV, 128, 16, 17; 169, 3;
371, 2, 3, 5; 447, 6, 17; 470, 17; 510, W 2; 515, 12, 15;
517, 20: I wot, know, indeed. See wat, and a=I.
wait, IV, 456, 7:=wite, blame.
wait, wayte, III, 57, 18; 66, 209; 83, 202; 86, 202; 412,
21: watch, lie in wait, seek an opportunity, to do.
waith, steed, V, 176, 18: waif, stray, wandering.
waitmen, II, 424, 3: waiting-men (or possibly, wight
men, strong men).
wake, II, 327, 2, 4, 6: aperture, way. (Icel. vok, aper
ture, especially one cut in ice, or remaining in water
not completely frozen over; passage cut for ships in
ice; Swed. vak, hole in ice; Dutch vak, empty space.
"In Norfolk, when the 'broads' are mostly frozen
over, the spaces of open water are called wakes."
Wedgwood.)
wake, I, 107, 5; IV, 446, 5; 447, 5: watch (people set
to watch me), but the reading at I, 107; IV, 447,
is probably wrong; cf. I, 108, B 4. See wane.
wake, IV, 141, 12: merry-making, sport.
wake, v., V, 277, 2: walk.
wake, III, 88, 340, is an original misprint.
waken, I, 433, 24: waking.
wakerife. See waukrife.
wald, walde, I, 334, 6: would.
wale, wael, walle, IV, 265, A b 10; 477, 19; V,
256 a, 2: choice.
wale, weil, wile, wyle, I, 428, 14; IV, 169, 6; 300,
12; 461, 19; V, 105, B i: choose.
wale wight, I, 490, 13. See wall wight.
walker, I, 272, 14: fuller.
wall, I, 387, 2, 4; 440, 4, 6; V, 206 a, 3: well, spring.
The water at St Johnston's wall was fifty fathom
deep, II, 21, 14: an alleged deep place in the Tay;
cf . 24, 14, there 's a brig at the back o Sanct John's
toun, it 's fifty f adorn deep.
wall, green wall sea, green wall wave, V, 275 b, 7, 8:
apparently wave, despite tautology; cf. II, 22, 15,
green- waved sea. (haw sea, IV, 379, 10; 380, 19.
Prof. Murison informs me that when Mrs Murison
sings the ballad mechanically, or without attention,
she invariably sings haw.)
walle, V, 256 a, 2: wale, choice. See wale.
wallourt. See wallowt.
wallowd, II, 392, 10: rolled over (?).
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389
wallowit, II, 361, 32: withered.
wallowt, IV, 127, 3: drooped, grew pallid, was wal-
lourt, IV, 138, M: (misspelt) was pallid,
wall-wight, II, 123, 15; 403, 9; III, 10, 23; IV, 392,
II, 12; V, 37, 6; 41, 29, 32 (all from Buchan's ballads):
explained by Donaldson as waled wight, picked
strong men. Donaldson cites weild wightman from
Seinple of Beltrees. See well wight, wale wight
men, I, 490, is.
wallwood, swine, II, 299, 16: wild-wood, compare II,
144, 3, wild-wood steer (unhallowed swine, II, 154,
10).
waiting, IV, 312, 8: welting, edging.
waly, IV, 21, 13: fine large.
waly, wallie, wally, II, 363, l, line 1; IV, 109 f., 6,
8; 293, A 1, 2, 7, 9 (oh and a waly); V, 195, 8; 197,
9, 10, ll: exclamation of admiration. O braw wallie,
IV, 296, P l: literally, O good, lucky I or, O good
luck ! but, as before, an exclamation of admiration.
waly, wally, II, 363, l, line 3; IV, 92, l, 3; 94, l; 95,
I, etc.: interjection of lamentation (probably A. S.
wd 14 !). the wally o 't, IV, 290, D b l: sorrow, pity
of it! waly 's my love! V, 208, 1, 2, etc.
wamb(e), wame, II, 130, 2; 183, 24; 189, 27; 195, 33;
III, 437, 23: womb. See weam.
wan, one.
wan, dark-colored, pallid, colorless, white. II, 92, ,,
4, 9; 97, 11; 144, 13; 147, 10; 150, 14: dark-colored.
II, 74, E 6; 79, 28; 185, 33; 187, 16; 399, 2: pallid,
wan water (as contrasted with wine), II, 70, 17; 74,
D 7; 75, 10; 92, 4; 96, J 7, 8: colorless, far got ye
that water that washes ye so wan, II, 191, 23: white
(ye wad never be so white, 24).
wan, wane, pret. of win, I, 73, 53; II, 21, 4; 123, 22;
III, 474, 32; IV, 180, 7. he wan free, V, 300, ll: got
free.
wan, p. p. of win, IV, 385, 26.
wand, II, 146, 13; 147, 14; 150, B 9; 151, G 4: of
(willow) twigs, staff made of the wand, II, 118,
22 (very nearly verbiage) : made of a rod.
wane, I, 334, 7; III, 63, 148: habitation, in my bower
there is a wane, IV, 446, 5: wane, says Jamieson,
denotes not only a dwelling (Old Eng. wone), but
"different apartments in the same habitation;" if
so, in my house there is a room, is the sense here,
wan, in the wake there is a wan, IV, 447, 5: should
at least be, in the wane there is a wake, as the rhyme
shows, and as we have at 446, 5. In, at the wake
there is a wane, I, 107, 5, wane was meant by Scott
to be understood as a collection of people (wheen).
See wake.
wane, III, 309, 36: "quantity, multitude; a single
arrow out of a vast quantity." Skeat (quantity as
in Chaucer's wone, see wheen). This is to me
quite unsatisfactory, but I have no better interpreta
tion to offer. Wain, in the sense of a vehicle for a
missile, ballista, catapult, would be what is wanted,
but I have not succeeded in finding a case.
wanhappy, IV, 386, l: unlucky.
wanna, did not win, go.
wannelld, III, 488, 38: was unsteady, staggered. (A.
S. wancol, North Eng. wankle, unstable, Germ.
wankeln.)
wannle, IV, 491, 32: agile, vigorous, strong,
wanny, II, 261, 8, 9: small wand, rod.
want, IV, 196, 3; 268, 17, 22; 357, B 7; 358, 17: do
without, dispense with, sae soon as we 've wanted
him, IV, 359, 12: had to do without. Ill, 513 b, 2,
pret. : wanted,
wanton, HI, 452, l; 453, l: free and easy, frolicsome.
(rantin, 455, l.) Cf. Wanton Brown (a horse), IV,
17, l, etc.
wantonlie, -ly, HI, 488, 27; 490, u: gaily, merrily.
rode, lap, wantonly, IV, 146 f., 8, 38: in easy, spirited
style.
wap, horse will gie his head a wap, I, 182 f., 8, 14:
throw, toss.
wap, n., coost a wap on horse's nose, IV, 21, 9: noose,
wap, v., wrap, lap. wap cloth into ship's side, II, 27,
19: stuff, rouii ship's side, 20: wrap, wap halter
oer horse's nose, IV, 17, 4: lap, twine, perhaps throw,
wap, v., throw, wappin corn and hay oer to horse,
IV, 21, 18: throwing, wappit wings, II, 139 f., 7,
12, 22: beat, flapped,
war, ware, be war, ware, a, of, on, I, 273, 37; II, 46,
37; III, 66, 213; 109, 4; 296, 20; 307, 10: be aware,
have a sight of. was war wher, III, 98, 39.
war,waur, I, 388, A 10; 420, 12,13; 466, 22; II, 417, 6,
9; V, 193, 48: worse.
war, waur, I, 132, 1 1; 149, 1 1; 331, B 8: were,
war, ware, wair, I, 431, 3; 478, 7; II, 418, 22; 472,
24; V, 142, 11: expend, bestow, ware my dame's
cauf's skin on thee, IV, 7, 31 ; V, 250, 29: apply, use,
my wife's (mother's) whip,
waran, warran, warrand, warraner, warrant, III,
430, 15; 435, F 7; 436, 5, 7: sponsor for, security.
Ill, 405, 7; IV, 310, 4 (cf. warn): safeguard,
ward, warde, III, 404 b; 470 b: defence. Ill, 72,
332, 337; 449 a; IV, 11, 18: prison, confinement, enter
himself in ward, III, 447 b: voluntarily go into con
finement.
ward, IV, 446, l: corrupt. See weird,
warde, II, 273, 25; 340 b, line 8: forewarn, advise,
warden, I, 161, 4; V, 209 a, 4: guardian, tutor.
warden, IV, 317, F 3, 4: facing, edging (cf. the wait
ing, welting, of 312, A 8).
warden pies, III, 216, 35: made of large pears called
wardens,
wardle, I, 127, 14; V, 214 f., l, 6: world, wardle's
make, see warld.
ware, V, 169, ll: sea-weed, alga marina (used for
manure).
ware, V, 306, 2, 3: were,
ware, pret., V, 221, 20: wore,
ware. See war.
warison, waryson, III, 100, 74; 297, 43: reward,
warld, world, warld's make, 1, 129, 8; 348, 17; 351 f.,
40, 54; 353, H 12; wardle's make, I, 127, 14; warldly,
390
GLOSSARY
worldly, make, mate, I, 344, 30; II, 118, 6, 7; world's
make, I, 128, 11; 348, 11; wordlye make, II, 86, 18,
20: world's, earthly, mate, consort, world's mait, I,
508,9.
warldly. See warld.
warlock, II, 220, 11, 12; 223 f., 8, 14; IV, 472 ., 24, 25:
wizard.
warn, IV, 309, 2, 6: surety, safeguard. Cf. warran,
IV, 310, 4, and see waraii.
warn, p. p., IV, 445 b, 2, No 8: warnd (as 446, b 2).
warp, v., I, 312, 8; II, 503, 7: curl, twist.
warran, warrand. See waran.
warraner. See waran.
warsle, n., I, 438, A l: wrestle.
warsle, warsel, v., I, 438, A 2; 439, 2; 440, 3; 441,
1-3: wrestle, warsled, 1, 56, 14: wrestled, struggled,
bestirred herself.
warslin, a-warslin, I, 440, l, 2: a-wrestling.
warwolf, I, 311, 15, 16: werewolf, man-wolf, man
transformed into a wolf,
waryson. See warison.
wa's, ways.
was. See wash,
wash. pres. was, I, 494, 7; HI, 111, 41. pret. weesh,
wish, wush. p. p. washen (I, 304, E 5; II, 111, 10;
V, 102, B 15), wushen, which see.
wast, west.
waste, I, 349, F 9: seems to be nonsense (ride ex
pected).
wat, wate, wait, watt, weet, wet, wit, wite, wyte,
wis, wot, know. I wat, wate, a wat, a wite, etc.,
frequently nothing more than assuredly, indeed: II,
159, 11, 13, 15, 16, 19, 23; 160, 10-16, 18, 19; 161, 12, 13, 17;
in, 199, 23; 464 f., 10, 15, 34; 466, 43; IV, 175, M 7;
359, 4, 5, 7, etc.; 470, 17; V, 300, 2. pret. wist. p.p.
wist, west.
wat, pret. of weet, weit, to wet, I, 17, D 6; II, 21, 12,
13; 23 f., D 7, F 10, etc.; IV, 424, 5. p.p., 1, 55, B 7;
II, 23, E 8.
wate, knew. See wat, wait.
wate, pret. of wite, blame, II, 273, 25.
water, water-side, IV, 7, 25; V, 250, 24, 25: "the
banks of a river, in the mountainous districts of
Scotland the only inhabitable parts." Scott.
water-cherry, II, 186, 18: perhaps a species of cherry
used as a cosmetic.
water-gate, IV, 510, 6; V, 250, 12: street leading to
the water, way along the water.
water-kelpy, IV, 185, 10: water-sprite.
water-side. See water.
water-sluice, bored nine holes in her water-sluice,
V, 142, f 5, should mean in the gate or valve of
some vent for water; bored a watery sluice, or aper
ture for water, g 6, is a more rational reading.
water-stoups, V, 91, 7, 8: water-buckets or pitchers.
wather, wither, wuther, V, 107, 3, 5: wether.
watt, III, 199, 23: know. See wat.
waught, I, 299, 14: draught.
wauk, walk.
wauk, II, 139, 5, is: watch, be awake.
wauken, II, 139, ll, 13: waken, pret. waukenit, II, 79,
38: awoke.
wauken(e)d at, II, 162, 12: tried to waken; perhaps,
chid, expostulated with.
waukrife, wakerife, IV, 389 b: watchful, wakeful,
waur, war, I, 5, 13, 18; 422, 17; 475, 44; 476, J 6; II,
421, 26; IV, 26, 4, 5: worse.
waur, I, 147, C l; II, 61, 9; IV, 417, 5, 10: were,
wavers wi the wind, II, 266, B l: is as restless,
changeable (?).
wawis, IV, 196, 19: walls,
way, I, 4, A 13, 16; B 8, 9; 5, D 4, 9; V, 283, 7, 17-.
the Milky Way.
way. would I way or would I wight, I, 77, 13; 78, 42:
nonsense. See weight. Motherwell conjectures,
would I away, or would I wait. See wee.
waylawaye, alas,
ways, IV, 196, 15: in a direction,
wayte, wait, III, 57, 18; 66, 209; 83, 202; 86, 202; 412,
21: look out for ; watch, lie in wait, seek an oppor
tunity, to do. pret. wayted, III, 72, 331: lay in wait
for.
waythmen, III, 41 a: hunters. See wight-men.
we, V, 302 a, 13: with,
we an E an O me, we an E an O an O me, V,
275 a, 9, 10: these words have been treated as in
terjections. It is possible that they are corrupted
from something like, were a' foald in a yeir to me,
III, 370, 9; cf. II, 465, 9.
wea, see your body wea, V, 226 b, 7:= wae, suffering ?
(strange expression, see II, 305, 7, you red and blue.)
wead, would,
weal, III, 310, 60: "clench so as to leave marks, mark
with wales "(?). " Perhaps read wringe and wayle."
Skeat.
weame, IV, 505, 56: belly. See wamb(e), weme.
wean, II, 136 a, 16; III, 253, R; 397, A b 2: wee an,
little one, child,
wear, sare a man a wear, I, 301, 2: sair, supply, a
man, of, with, his wear, clothing,
wear, pret., V, 221, 21: wore.
Wearie, I, 55 f., 3, 4, 6, etc.: the Devil,
wearied, wearit. See wearyd.
wearifu, V, 115, 7: tiresome, vexatious, cursed,
wearin's wa, I, 333, 6: wearing his way, growing less
and less, slowly vanishing,
weary fa, IV, 389 b: a curse befall,
weary, wearie, I, 310, 16; II, 131 f., 11, 16; 231, 1;
III, 319, 24; IV, 56, A 3, B 3; 57, C 3, 6; 133, G 6;
V, 16, 1, 2, 5, 8; 192, 25: sad, unhappy, distressed. IV.
44, 6; 290, B c 5; 359, 6; 480, 3: vexatious, hateful,
horrid, cursed,
weary, weary high hat, III, 184, 13: monstrously,
deucedly.
wearyd, wearied, wearit, III, 261 f., 8, 10; IV, 128,
5; 132, 8: troubled, afflicted,
weary in for me in, V, 155, 6: longing to have me
indoors.
GLOSSARY
391
weate, III, 341, 47: corrupt. Possibly, I weate, wit,
know.
weather, IV, 213, 17, 18: storm of rain or snow.
wed, wedd(e), wad, III, 66, 214; 71, 298; 110, 7, 8, 12,
13; 356, 34: pledge, fine, forfeit (ley a wed, 110, 7, 8,=
leffe, leave a wed, 12, is), sette to wedde, III, 59,
54: put in pledge.
wed, v., I, 481, 42: wager. See wad.
wed, proudest wed, III, 4, 5: proudest dressed (from
wede).
wede, weed, II, 28, 28; III, 61, 97; 74, 368, 371; IV,
212, 2, 7; 213, 10, 15; V, 306, 13: clothing, garment.
wee, I, 163, J l, 2, etc.; 164, K l, 2, etc.: little. I,
203, 5; IV, 412, 15; 413, 18; 421, 25: short time.
wee. would I wee or would I way, I, 77, 12; 78, 41 :
would I (stay) wi (him) or (go) away, is all the
meaning this can have. Motherwell conjectures,
would I wait or would I away. See way.
weed. See wede.
weel, well. See well.
weel. the weel gae wi his body, IV, 129, 21, 23-25:
prosperity.
weel, well, weel fa! good luck befall, I, 388, B 5.
for my weel, II, 461, 8; 466, 24: well, advantage
(461, 9, for my better). Euphemism for God: weel
met thee save! I, 324, 3 (MS. thou); well met ye
(you) save! IV, 455, 4; V, 195, 9; well (weel, weill)
may ye (you) save! IV, 195, 13; 198 f., G 4, 21. So
III, 268, 3 1 , originally; the far better in the line
following, is nonsense.
weel, well, IV, 517, 19: a pot, deep place, or whirl
pool in a river.
weel that was her own, II, 73, 20: seems to mean
that the roses and ribbons were indeed hers by right.
weel-busked, hat, IV, 199, 9: handsomely adorned.
weel-fared, weel-fart, weil-faurit, etc.: well-fa
vored. See fared.
weel-worst, V, 214 a, l: very worst.
ween, II, 132, 21: whimper, whine, lament.
ween, heigh a ween and oh a ween (where a may be
7), II, 504, 27: exclamation of distress.
weep, n., V, 241 a, 4, 6: weeping, tears.
weer, I, 72 f., 6, 6i: weird, fortune.
weer, war. See weir.
weesh, pret. of wash, V, 213, 6.
weet, II, 293, is: know.
weet, n., Ill, 160, 6; IV, 379, 15: rain, shower of rain.
weet, weit, v. } III, 401, 7: wet.
weetie, weety, IV, 197, 9, 17; 258, 25: rainy.
weighed more, II, 455, 57: made more account.
weight, IV, 224, 23: wight, strong.
weight, was he weel or was he weight, I, 80, 9: non
sense; weight would be wight, strong, etc., which
has no pertinency. The same of, would I way or
would I wight, 77, 13. See way.
weil, weel, IV, 182, G 8: a pot, deep place, or whirl
pool in a river, weil-head, II, 153, 17: vortex of a
whirlpool.
weil, wile, V, 10, 2: wale, choose. See wale.
weil =: well, very. See well.
weir, weer, were, III, 480, 9; 491, 6; IV, 432, 14; V,
183, 21: war.
weir, bot weir, I, 140 N: without doubt. (Pinker-
ton.)
weir-window, wire-window, IV, 44, 10; 46, 11, 7:
seems to be a window grated with iron bars.
weird, wierd, weer, n., I, 69, 42, 47; 71, 37; 72 f., 6,
61; 77, 6; 309, B l; 482, E: fate, fortune, destiny.
weird, v., I, 311, 3: destine.
weird, I, 107, l: the reading at this place is com
pounded from, weird her a grit sin, IV, 445, 1, and
ward her in a great sin, IV, 446, l; the reading of
IV, 445, would mean, destined, put her in the way
of, a great sin; ward in of the other text does not
give an easy sense, and ward is perhaps a corruption
of weird.
weirdless, III, 391, H 3: unlucky.
weit, I, 140, N (Pinkerton): know.
welde, III, 112, 52: would.
well, euphemism for God. See weel.
well, III, 112, 48: will.
well, the well o wine gaed in, IV, 428, 16: perhaps
wale, choice, the best; but since the wine was poi
soned, this must be meant ironically.
well, weel, weil, very, right, well good, II, 46, 43; III,
132, 6; 478 f., 15, 34; V, 49, ll: very good, weil
gaucy, V, 152, 3. well warst, V, 180, 14, 16; 214 a,
1: very worst, well faire mayde, II, 439, 3, 8, should
perhaps be well-fared.
well and wells ome, II, 159, 16: should probably be
wae and waesome (sad and woful).
well o Spa, IV, 286, 6: a spring to the west of Aber
deen.
well or wae, was he well or was he wae, I, 80, 8:
whether he liked or disliked. (The passage is vari
ously corrupted, and the original reading probably
nowhere preserved.)
well-a-woo, III, 77, 438: a variety of well-a-way.
(A. S. wa-la-wa.)
well-bespoke, V, 149, 9-u : well spoken.
well-strand, I, 165, M 4; IV, 172, 15; 174, 16: stream
from a spring.
well-wight, III, 3 f., 12, 16, 21; 487, 6, 7; IV, 165, 7;
222, 9 (wiel-wight) ; 428, 4: very strong, sturdy, stal
wart; but, sometimes, brave, see III, 4, 16. See
wall-wight.
welt, pret. of wield, III, 74, 366: disposed of.
welth(e), III, 77, 436: either, simply, his money, or,
more probably, his well-being, his palmy days; so
III, 287, 65. Ill, 295, 5, 6; 296, 15, (rich) booty.
weme (of ring), III, 412, 21: belly, hollow. See weame.
wen, III, 200, 3: win, get, go. V, 256, 7: pret. of win.
wend, HI, 38, 104: gone (gone, b).
wend, went, V, 80, 42; 81, 14: weened.
weuion, with a, III, 138, ll: wanion, a curse, bad
luck (waniand, waning (of the moon). Skeat).
wenking, winking.
went. See wend. .-;..'
392
GLOSSARY
were, I, 334, ll: war. See weir.
were, vulgar English, he were, II, 4, 2; 8, 8.
werne, II, 139, 23: were.
werre, I, 327, 20: worse.
werryed, I, 273, 37: worried.
werschepyd, III, 109, 3: showed respect to.
west, ;>. jt>., Ill, 113, 70: wist.
west-airt lands, II, 73, 30: western. See airt.
westlan, westlin, westryn, II, 258, 34; III, 431, 20;
435, E 7; IV, 240, 18: western.
wet, wete, III, 63, I4i; 70, 287; 112, 60 : know,
wether, I, 210, 14; HI, 430, 2; 432, 19 (perhaps=
whether): whither.
wex, weks, n., V, 283, ll, 21: wax.
weynde, III, 297, 41 : wend, go.
wha, who.
wha 's (whae 's) aught. See aucht.
whall, white as whall, II, 478, 7: that is, whale's bone,
whang, I, 19, ll; II, 168, A 5: thong. In II, 217, l,
3, lace his middle with a whang, the reading should
no doubt be band as in other versions,
whang (of cheese), V, 115, 8: slice,
whar, whaur, I, 164, K l, 3, L l, 5: where,
whas, whose.
what an a, whaten a, whatna, whattna, whatten,
I, 169, B 4; 203, C 18; 441, 19; II, 195, 34; III, 433,
2; 434, 2; 453, 12, 13; V, 162, C 2: what sort? what
(in particular) ? what a ! So, what for a ? V, 160,
3; what like a ? V, 163, 5; 164, E b 2.
wheder, III, 57, ll: whither.
wheen, a wheen blackguards, IV, 67, 5, 6: number,
pack, etc.
whether, II, 455, 62; III, 92, 26: which of the two.
whether, whither.
whew, whue, whute, III, 440, 10: whistle,
whidderand, whither ing, V, 191, 16: (of arrows)
whizzing, moving with a whiz,
whight. See wight,
whikety whack, V, 304, 9: whick-whack (whick,
doublet of whack).
while, the other, 1, 414, 18: the remaining time, hence
forth (?).
while, I, 232, A 2: for a while,
while, whyll(e), II, 223, P l, 2; III, 201, 23, 31; 298,
60, 54; 309, 47: till.
whiles, I, 115, B l; C l; 131, G 9; 256, 2; II, 470, 59:
at times.
whiles, whilest, whileste, whilste, whyllys, the
whyles, HI, 87, 278; 107 b, 7; 357, 38, 45; 358, 83;
361, b, c 38, 43, c 4i: while,
whilk, IV, 373, 10; 476, l: which,
whin, whun, win, fun, II, 116, 10, 18; 117, 4, 12; 360,
6, 7: furze,
whirpled, V, 106, E 5: evidently whipped, stripped
(but I have not found the word elsewhere),
whistling (of ladies moving), II, 386, 19: whisking,
white bookes, III, 357, 58: clear of oppressive
charges.
white bread, II, 88, 15, 16, 22, 23: wheat bread, as
in 89, 4; 92, 5, 6 (white meal is contrasted with corn
and oats, II, 88, 17, 18). So 96, J 5, 6; fite bread,
whit bread, V, 220 f ., 6, 7, 9.
white-fish, II, 129, 8; IV, 436, 10, 18, 19; V, 122, l;
124, l; 274, 10 (fait fish): haddock, cod, ling, etc.,
as distinguished from gray-fish, coal-fish; in Banff,
as opposed to salmon, trout, herring.
white-fisher, IV, 436, 18, 19: one who fishes for had
dock, cod, etc. (as distinguished from salmon).
white-land, IV, 213, 14: wheat-land.
white meal and gray, II, 261, 12; IV, 494, 29; V,
238, 29: oat-meal as distinguished from barley-meal
(oat-meal and grey, II, 462, so). But white meal,
II, 88, 17, 18, being contrasted with corn (oats), must
there be wheat.
white money, monie, I, 464, 7; 471, 11, 12; 473, 12;
II, 352 f., E 5, 7; 473, 7, 8, 14; 475, 13, 14; 476, 10, 13;
III, 389, 17, 18, 20, 22: silver.
white rigs, IV, 131, 14: of grain (to distinguish from
crops which remain green).
whithering, whidderand, V, 191, 16; 199 b, 16: whiz
zing.
who would, III, 163, 87: if one would.
whorle, V, 116, 10; 118, 4; 119, 7; 120, 5: the fly of a
spinning-rock.
whue. See whute.
whummil, I, 255, 2: wimble, gimlet.
whun, fun, III, 5, D 7; 6, 12: whin, furze. See whin.
whunnie, IV, 69, 22: covered with whins, furze.
whute, fute, whue, whew, n. and ., Ill, 125, 29-31:
whistle. 126 B, b 29-31, whues.
why, V, 264, 5: whey.
whyles, the whyles, III, 70, 278: while. See while*.
whyll(e), till. See while.
whyllys, III, 309, 37: while. See whiles.
wiald, wield.
wicht. See wight.
wicker, wigger, III, 125, 20; 126 f., b, d-f : willow.
(Wycker, osier. Palsgrave. Swed. and Dan. dia
lects, vikker, vsegger, willow. Skeat.)
wicker, IV, 31, 6: twist.
wid, IV, 456, 15: would.
wide, I, 55 f., B 4, 6, 8; II, 88, B; 94, 3; 96, I 6; IV,
424, 11 : wade. (Spelt wade, but rhymed with -ide,
H, 462, 7; 465, 19; III, 493, 14.) pres.p. widen, IV,
68, 6. pret. wade, wad. p. p. wooden.
widifu, widdifu, widifau, widdefu, IV, 84, 7, 10, ll,
is; 85, 3; V, 253 f., No 203, D 2, 8: one qualified to
fill a widdie or halter.
widna, widne, would not.
wiel-wight, IV, 222, 9: bold, stanch. See well-wight.
wierd. See weird.
wigger. See wicker.
wight, wyght, wicht, whight, I, 330 f., A 3, B s,
C 3; 333, 4; II, 409, 16; III, 63, 152; 414, 49: strong;
but also, denoting bodily activity, brisk, as III, 117,
20; III, 63, 148, of John, who has shot well. Ill, 27,
97; 65, 195; 75, 389; 78, 448, Adam Bell, Glim, and
William, and Robin Hood's men are wight young
GLOSSARY
393
men. Ill, 91 f ., 6, 8, Guy of Gisborne is a wight yeo
man: sturdy. See well- wight, wighty, III, 94, 48,
has perhaps caught the y from the word following.
See wighty.
wightdom, III, 488, 26: weight.
wightlye, II, 58, 10: with vigor, or briskness.
wight-men, II, 433, 7: waith-men, hunters. (Icel.
veiSi-maSr, Germ, weidmann.) See waythmen.
wightsmen, IV, 432, l: wechtsmen, winnowers, wecht
is "an instrument for winnowing corn, made of
sheep's skin, in the form of a sieve, but without
holes."
wighty, III, 32, 46, 50; 94, 48; 362, 70:= wight, strong.
See wight.
wil, IV, 472 f., 24, 25: wild, perhaps vile.
wild, I, 334, 6: would.
wild-fire, III, 281, 12: ignis fatuus. (slack here is
marsh.)
wild-wood swine, steer, drunk as, II, 144, 3, 4; 368,
7: a popular comparison like, drunk as a dog.
wile, vile.
wilfull, III, 92, 24, wilfull of my way: (Scottish will,
Icel. villr) astray, lost ; and of my morning tyde may
be that he does not know the hour, or, he has lost
his time as well as his road. See will.
wile, wyle, weil, wale, I, 428, 13; 429, 7, 8; II, 344,
12 ; IV, 287, 14 ; V, 127, 20, 21; 157, 9: choose.
will, pret. wald, walde, wad, wade, wild, wid, wud.
will, would, ellipsis of. as muckle guid canvas as wrap
the ship a' roun, II, 28, 22. there 's nane come, win,
II, 89, 34; 99 b, 34. So, II, 26, 11; 375, 23; IV, 131,
13; 379, 11; 380, 7; 381, 8, 10; 382, 13; V, 177, 9; 184,
38; 276, 14.
will, V, 16, 10, 15, 20: bewildered, at a loss what to do.
will of his way, V, 70 b: lost, astray. See wilfull.
willinglye, I, 272, 22: at will, freely.
williwa, IV, 19, C 6: wellaway, interjection of (af
fected) reluctance.
willy, willow.
wilsome, IV, 235, 3: erratic, intricate.
win, I, 72, 22, 23: whin, furze, gorse. See whin.
win, wynne, won, wonne t hay, III, 295, l; 299, B
l, C 1; V, 243, 1: dry by airing.
win, wine, wynne, wen, won, make your way, ar
rive. Ill, 71, 314; IV, 314, 15: get, go. IV, 189, 2,
4, 6: arrive, get there, win down, I, 481, 39. win
frie, III, 453, 11. lat me win in, II, 148, 25: get in.
win up, I, 368 f., 34, 36, 44, 47: get up. win on, I,
388, A 7: go on, keep on. win through, I, 21 b, 4:
transitively, allow, cause, to pass through, win to,
I, 466, 13; V, 262, 17: get to, arrive at. pret. wan.
p. p. wone, wan, win, wine, wen.
win, p. p. of win, I, 101, 15; IV, 189, 15; 220, 3; 446,
17; 467, 8, 9.
win your love aff me, II, 207, B 2: detach your
love from me.
wine, p. p. of win, V, 276, 22.
winder, I, 430, l: wonder, wondrous. See wonder.
windie, II, 362, 3: window.
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windling sheet, III, 245, B 13: winding-sheet,
winking, II, 463, 16: with eye closed as if blind,
winn, in your barn, IV, 323, 6: do harvest work gen
erally, dry corn, etc., by exposing to the air. (unless
meant for winna, winnow.)
winna, IV, 326, 7: winnow,
winna, winne", will not.
winten, V, 248, 7: (wanting) without,
winter, wynter, III, 58, 47; 64, 162; 285, 20: year(s).
wir, I, 217, 9: our.
wire-window. See weir-window,
wis, I, 217, 9: us.
wis, you wis, IV, 233, 13: know,
wis, III, 319, 20, 24; V, 206 a, No 2, 4: WM.
wish, pret. of wash, V, 36, 14.
wiss, n., I, 420, 12; II, 194, 8: wish,
wiss, wis, v., I, 22, 6, 8; 217, 3; III, 463, 3; IV, 168,
E 15; 169, 12; 461, 8, 9: wish. pret. wist, II, 423,
A l; III, 434, 20; V, 248, 18.
wiss, I wiss, HI, 223, 10: perhaps for I wot (not
i-wiss). wist, III, 187, 32; 222, 34: know. (I wist,
187, 32= assuredly.)
wist, pret. of wiss, wish. See wiss.
wiste, vriBt,pret. of wat, etc., I, 243, 6; 334, 6; 368, 23;
413, 37. p. p. west, III, 113, 70.
wit, witt, n., Ill, 393, 22, 23; 419, 8, 12; IV, 509 a, 11;
512, 16, 17: knowledge, information.
wit, wite, wyte, I, 334, 6; II, 307, 34; III, 67, 230;
385, 15, 16; 396, M 8; IV, 98, 2; 221, 5; 508, 10, 11;
513, 6, 7; V, 81, 7; 82, 23: know. p.p. wit, IV, 98, 2.
wite, I wite, II, 160, 18; IV, 260, 12; 277, 6: I know=
indeed. See wat, wyte.
wite, wyte, witt, n., I, 350, 12; II, 145, 25; 146, 8;
312, 30; IV, 33, 2S; 127, l; 207, 21; V, 171, 6; 247,
11: blame,
wite, wyte, v., I, 397, 13; II, 271, 19; 273, 26; III,
357, 53: blame, pret. wate, II, 273, 25.
with, I, 334, 7: wit, know (orthography doubtful),
with, wyth, III, 297, 42; 358, 75; 434, 23: by.
with that, II, 478, 5; III, 76, 414; V, 298 a: on condi
tion that.
wither, wather, V, 105, B 7, 8: wether,
witherlands, witherlins, IV, 378, 6; 380, ll: (-lins,
-lingis as in Scottish backlingis, backlins, English
sidelins, sidelong; -lauds a corruption of -lins) in a
contrary, unwished-for, direction,
withershins, II, 318 a, 2: (M. H. Germ, widersinnes)
in the wrong direction, in a direction contrary to the
usual, or the desired (contrary to the course of the
sun, often, but not necessarily here),
within me, lept, III, 127, Play 12: inside of my
guard (?).
withouten, withowghten, I, 425, f 9, 10; III, 272, 6;
296, 18: without. See wythowtten.
witt, knowledge. See wit.
witt, n., blame, V, 247, ll. See wite.
witted, V, 132, 2: minded,
witter, I, 399, A b 8:= wittering, information,
wittering, I, 394, 8: information, indication.
394
GLOSSARY
witty, III, 131, 3: corruption of wight, wighty.
wo, woo, woe, II, 59, 33; 86, 16; 139, 20; III, 23, 23;
27, 101; 70, 297; 97, 19: sad, unhappy, a woe ses me,
II, 504, 27: exclamation of distress; perhaps corrup
tion of, woe is.
wobs, I, 305 a, A 3: webs (of cloth).
wod, wode, mad. See wood.
wode, III, 54, 3: went.
wode, V, 283, 9, 19: wood.
wode-shawe. grene-wode shawe, greenwood shaw,
in, 57, 14; 70, 284; IV, 427, l: thicket of the wood,
(wood-shaw is of rather frequent occurrence and Hal-
liwell cites, under the shawe of the wood, Morte
d' Arthur, 1, 374).
wodewale, woodwele, woodweele, I, 326, 2; III,
91, 2: wood-lark (?).
woe. See wo.
wol, ., V, 283, l, etc.: will.
wolt, v., V, 283, 4: wilt.
wolwarde, III, 77, 442: with skin against wool, that is
wearing a woolen fleece directly against the skin.
won, wone, one.
won, I, 18, 1 1; 174, 1; 246, 1; 299, 6, 17; II, 419, 44,
51; III, 71, 315; IV, 19, C 5; 26, 15: dwell.
won, wonne, win, hay, III, 293 a; IV, 432, l; 499,
l: dry by airing.
won, win, I, 464, 15; 506, 7; II, 89, 32; 140, 22; 172, 24;
256, K 2; 407, 12; IV, 242 a; 259, 21, 23: get, go,
come, arrive. II, 316, 3, 7; IV, 115, D 9: gain, earn,
(spelt one, IV, 284, 23; corrected to win.) p. p.
wone, V, 276, 20. See wun.
wonder, III, 411, 2: bewilderment ? disaster ?
wonder, V, 283, l: wondrous. See winder.
wone, III, 98, 25: number, plenty.
wone, withowtyn, withowt wone, V, 78 f., 9, 23: fail.
wonige, I, 334, 7: dwelling. Qy. wonninge ?
wonynge, wonning, III, 63, 148; 86, 148: dwelling.
woo, wool.
woo. See wo.
wood, woode, wode, wod, wud, I, 242, 7; 244, 9;
328,51; 348, 12, 18; II, 183, 26; 242, 30; 245, 27; V, 80,
42: mad.
woodcock(e), III, 199, 27; 201, 31 : tropically, fool
(from the bird's reputation for folly). (A proverb,
perhaps.)
wooden, p. p. of wide, wade, I, 324, B 6.
woodweele, wodewale, III, 91, 2 (MS. woodweete):
wood wale, woodlark ? (generally explained as wood
pecker; sometimes as thrush, red-breast).
woon, won, v., Ill, 146, 16: dwell.
woone, III, 358, 77; domicile.
woot, V, 82, 26, 41: wolt, wilt.
word, att a, I, 411, 9: in short.
wordie, III, 269, 12: worthy.
wordlye make, II, 86, 18, 20: earthly mate, consort.
See warld.
wordy, IV, 135, 16: worthily.
worrie, worry, v., (of smoke, flame) III, 434, 15; 435,
14; 437, 24; IV, 514, 20: choke.
worselaid, V, 217, H 2: wrestled.
worset, worset lace, III, 11, J l: worsted; lace must
be meant for web; it cannot mean cord, and seems
quite out of place.
worth, wat sal worth of, I, 334, li: come, come to pass,
wo the worth, worth the ! Ill, 65, 189; 70, 296; 400, l:
come, be, to thee. woe worth you, wae worth ye, II,
245, 27; V, 247, 10; 248, ll. wae mat worth, IV, 236,
28 ; 428, 6; V, 166, 10; 306, 10: may wo come to.
won, I, 244, 13: how.
wouche, III, 308, 26: (A. S. wdh, Scott, wouch) evil,
harm.
would, ellipsis of, II, 375, 23; IV, 131, 13; V, 177, 9;
184, 38; etc. See will.
wound, pret., II, 148, 4; IV, 15, 19; 392, 19: wounded.
wow, I, 101, 20; 299, 8, 10, 12; II, 260 f., l, ll, 14: ex
clamation of distress. IV, 65, l; V, 272 a, 9: excla
mation of admiration, sorrowful surprise. II, 282
2; IV, 271, A 3, 4, 7, 9; V, 197, 6: of confirmation,
(vow!). See vow.
wrack, ruin.
wrack, V, 122, ll: mischief ! devil !
wraft, I, 424, b 12, 13: waft (woof) misspelt.
wraikit, III, 427, note J: wrecked, destroyed.
wraith, wroth.
wraith, 1, 134, N 15; in, 505, 12: apparition.
wreck, sea-wreck, IV, 442, 7: whatever is thrown up
by the sea.
wreke, p. p., I, 243, 6: avenged.
wril, V, 73 a: a drinking-word, in response to pril.
wrist, III, 179, 4; 181, 16; 188, 3: ankle, instep. (Icel.
rist, instep, ristar-liSr, instep-joint; Germ, rist, instep
or wrist; fotwerst, fotwriust, hondriust, Richthofen,
Altfriesisches Wbrterbuch.)
writer, writter, IV, 131, 18; 135, 25: scrivener. IV,
180, D 2, 3; 181, 3; V, 256 a, 2, 3: attorney (?).
writhe of, III, 413, 34: ( pret. of writhe, twist) twisted
off.
writs (things written), papers.
writter. See writer.
wrobbe, I, 326, 4: wrabbe, warble ? or Scottish wra-
ble, warble, wriggle ? J. A. H. Murray.
wrocht, wrought.
wrocken, wroken, jj. ^)., Ill, 91, 3: avenged.
wrongeoua, II, 129, 25: unjust.
wrought, p. p., II, 46, 40: rought, recked.
wrought, pret., I, 286, 51 : raught, reached.
wrthe, I, 243, 5: worthy.
wruched, I, 286, 47: thrown up (ruck, a heap, to
gather in heaps) ; perhaps, thrown ashore as wrack
(Icelandic rek, originally vrek, reki, originally vreki,
a thing drifted ashore).
wrye, I, 326, 4: twist.
wud, II, 249, 19: mad. See wood.
wud, I, 78, 53: would.
wuddie, IV, 69, 18: widdie, withy, a rope of willow-
twigs.
wuman, V, 304 b, l, 2: woman.
wun, n., II, 315, E 6: wind.
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395
wun, v., II, 190, 4, 10: win, gain. See won.
wundouten nay, I, 334, 9: without, beyond contra
diction, truly.
wus, V, 304 b, i: was.
wush, pret. of wash, III, 386, 20; IV, 166, C 7. p. p.
wushen, I, 490, 22.
wuther, V, 304 b, 3, 4: wether.
wyght, adj., strong, sturdy, active. See wight.
wyjth, n., V, 283, 14: wight.
wyld, III, 307, 6: (like Germ, wild) deer; or, perhaps,
an adjective with noun to be supplied, of which there
are several cases in the ballad.
wyle, choose. See wile.
wyled, they wyled the bonny lassie by, IV, 205, 26:
the meaning cannot be that they (a troop of gentle
men) enticed the lassie aside. Mr. Forbes suggests,
very plausibly, wyled (waled, took) their way past
the lassie.
wyliecot, V, 107, 2: under-vest.
wynd, alley, lane.
wynke, III, 77, 441 : shut the eyes.
wynne, III, 296, 22: joy, pleasure.
wynne, v. See win.
wynter, winter, III, 58, 47; 64, 162; 285, 20: year(s).
wyse in, V, 156, B after 16: show the way in (?), let
in.
wystly, III, 76, 410 : observingly, thoughtfully.
wyte, I wyte, I, 332, G 3; II, 376, 25; IV, 32 f., 6, 17,
19, 27; 136, is; 278, 21; 410, 25; V, 299 b, l, 300, 14,
17, 18: (I know) indeed, assuredly. II, 307, 34: I
know, simply. See wit, wyte.
wyte, n. and v., blame. See wite.
wyth, with, III, 297, 42; 358, 75; 434, 23: by.
wythe, I, 334, 11: wight, strong. (Orthography ques
tionable.)
wythowtten, drede, III, 296, 8: without, beyond
doubt, withowghten naye, 296, 18: beyond denial,
wythowghten (withouten) stryffe (strife), 295, 2; 299,
B 2: beyond contestation. See withouten.
acal, I, 242, 8, 9; III, 13 f., 7, 10-12, 14: shall,
acalt, III, 13 f., 9, 16, 17: shalt.
xul, sing. and^Z., Ill, 13, 4, 12: shall,
xuld, I, 415 b: should.
(See also under $, at the end of G and I.)
y, first y, III, 3, 15: ae, one. See a, ae.
yad, III, 483, 5, 9: jade, mare.
yae, I, 446, 8, 9: ae, only. II, 183, 17: every. See
a, ae.
yard, yerde, I, 287, 63; III, 75, 397: rod, stick.
yard o stane, I, 466, B 23: perhaps, garden stane,
something being meant equivalent to the fountain
stane of A 23, at which the lady was christened.
yare, jare, II, 261, 6; III, 98, 24: ready.
yate, yeat, yett, I, 68 f., 23, 69; II, 336, P 2; III, 268,
15; V, 28, 60: gate, jates, jatis, III, 99, 61, 62.
yatid, I, 334, 10: granted. (A. S. ge"atan).
ychon, III, 101, 88: each one.
ydrawe, III, 91 a: drawn.
ydyght, idyght, III, 62, 131, 132: prepared, made, fab
ricated, adjusted. Ill, 75, 392: made ready.
yeaman. See yeman.
yeard-fast, yird-fast, II, 88, 11; 94, 8; 97, 15: fixed
firmly in the earth.
yearl, II, 191, 20: earl. See yerl.
yeat, IV, 68, D i: gate. See yate.
yebent, III, 308, 25: bent.
yede, yeede, yeed, yed, jede, yode, yod, pret. of
gang, gae, go, I, 211, 37; III, 73, 346; 76, 408; 83 and
86, 160; 99, 60; 110, 18; 163, 69: went.
yee, III, 297, 39: eye.
yeen, I, 333, 2: towards, on.
ye feth, i faith.
yeff, yeffe, V, 79 f., 17, 51, 53, 54: if.
yeffell, III, 109, 6; 111, 34: evil, ill.
yeffor. See yeuer.
yeft, III, 70, 295: gift.
yeldyde, surrendered.
yellow-fit, yellow-foot[ed].
yeman, yeaman, III, 22, 4; 24, 43; 25, 51; 28, 121; 30,
165, 170; 56, 1, 3, etc.: yeoman.
yemanr(e)y, yemenrey, yeomanry, yeomandree,
yeomandrie, yeomendry, III, 58, 45; 110, 23; 113,
83; 123, 19; 157, 31; 186, 14; 192, 23; 204, 31: class or
company of yeomen; what is in accordance with a
yeoman's principles, idea or character.
yend, III, 110, 17: yond, yon.
yenoughe, enough.
yeomanry, yeomandrie, etc. See yemanr(e)y.
ye'r, V, 306 b, 2: ye are.
yerde. See yard.
yerl, yerle, yerlle, yirl, yearl, III, 298, 52, 60; 308,
19; 309, 33; IV, 298, G c ll: 354, 7: earl.
yerly, III, 307, 7: early.
yerning, I, 334, 10: desire.
ye'se, ye shall. See s.
yestreen, II, 20, 7; 21, 7; 22, 6; 23, 7, etc.; V, 299 a, l:
yesterday even, yesternight. See streen.
yet, yett, I, 204, ll; 207, 20; 465, 11, 15; 472, 17, 18, 21;
III, 269, ll ; 270, 15: gate. See yate.
yett-pin, IV, 483 b: bolt, or latch, of a gate.
yeuer, yeffor, III, 113, 82; V, 79, 33; 80, 52: ever.
ygeve, V, 298 a: given.
yield, IV, 514, 9: grant, concede.
yill, III, 449, 8; IV, 481, 6; V, 99, 9: ale.
yird-fast. See yeard-fast.
yirl, IV, 69, 9: earl. See yerl.
ylk a, I, 328, 45: each, every. See ilka.
ylke, III, 61, 95: same. See ilk.
yll, with grete, III, 26, 90: in much distress.
ymet, III, 85, 72: measured.
ympe tree, I, 216 a: a grafted fruit tree; here, per
haps, apple, see I, 340 a.
396
GLOSSARY
ynowe, III, 113, 80: enough.
yo, V, 296 a: you.
yo, V, 296 a: your.
yode, yod, youd, pret. of gang, gae, go, I, 333, l;
II, 138, 12; 265, 9; 483, 7; III, 110, 25: went, good,
III, 464, 4. gude, V, 153, 1. See yede.
yolden, III, 282 b: surrendered.
yon, such a blast as yon, III, 4, 7: that.
yonders, III, 187, b 13; 193, b 17; 259, 16, 17; 264, A
b, c 17: yonder,
yont, I, 431, 3; II, 82, 61: beyond, lie yond, yont, II,
82, 49; 168, 12; IV, 345, ll; 494, 40: further off.
you, yowe, IV, 195 f., l, 4, 10, 12, 17; 198, P 6; 206, l;
261, 20: ewe.
youd, II, 138, 12: went. See yode.
young son, of a babe just born, I, 183 f ., 32, 45, 47; II,
89, 35; 91, 30, 33, 35, D 29; 92, 22; 93, 9-12, etc.; called
auld son, being the oldest because the only one, I,
184, 3, 8, 9. See auld son, old son.
yowe-bucht. See bucht.
yowre, V, 78 f., 7, 15: our. (But otore twelve times
in the same piece, howre six.)
y-slaw, p. p. of slay, III, 28, 140.
SOURCES OF THE TEXTS
OF THE ENGLISH AND SCOTTISH BALLADS
MANUSCEIPTS.
MS. B. 14. 39, Library of Trinity College, Cambridge,
13th century. Recently recovered (see V, 288).
(No 23.)
Kawlinson MS. D. 328, 15th century (before 1445).
Bodleian Library. (No 1.)
MS. F. f . 5. 48, Library of the University of Cambridge,
c. 1450. (No 119, a.)
One leaf of MS. in Bagford Ballads, vol. i, art. 6,
British Museum, c. 1450. (No 119, b.)
Sloane MS. 2593, British Museum, c. 1450. (Nos 22,
115.)
MS. E. e. 4. 35, Library of the University of Cambridge,
C. 1500. (No 121.)
Rawlinson MS. C. 813, beginning of the sixteenth cen
tury. Bodleian Library. (No 111.)
Cotton MS. Cleopatra, C. iv., British Museum, c.
1550. (No 161, A, a.)
MS. Ashmole 48, Bodleian Library, Oxford, 1550, or
later. (No 162.)
MS. in York Minster Library, 16th century. (No 167,
C, IV, 503.)
Cotton MS. Vespasian, A. xxv, British Museum, end
of 16th century. (No 178.)
Harleian MS. 293, leaf 52, British Museum, about 1620.
(No 161 A, b.)
Percy MS., British Museum, Additional MSS, 27879,
C. 1650.
Philiphaugh MS. of No 305, Edinburgh, 1689-1708 (?).
Not now accessible : printed by Aytoun. A sup
posed transcript extant among the Philiphaugh pa
pers is not older than 1848. (V, 191.)
Fly-leaf of a volume printed at Edinburgh, 1670. Laing
MSS, Div. II, 358, Library of the University of Ed
inburgh. (Fragment, V, 202 b.)
Elizabeth Cochrane's Songbook, Collection of Songs
English and Scots, 1730(?). Harvard College Li
brary. (Nos 5, E, I, 76 ; 76, A, II, 215 ; 144, B,
III, 195 ; 293, A, V, 160.)
Mrs Cockburn's MS. of No 305, used by Scott, and
described by him as "apparently of considerable
antiquity." Edinburgh. Not now accessible. (V,
191.)
Bishop Percy's papers. MS. copies of ballads from
Rev. P. Parsons of Wye, Miss Fisher of Carlisle,
Principal Robertson of Edinburgh, the Dean of
Derry, George Paton of Edinburgh, Rev. Robert
Lambe of Norham, Roger Halt, the Duchess Dowa
ger of Portland, and others. In all about 33. 1766-
80. Harvard College Library.
David Herd's MSS, two volumes folio, the second vol
ume duplicating a portion of the first. 1776. British
Museum, Additional MSS, 22311-12. (See Mr H.
L. D. Ward's Catalogue of Romances, I, 531.*)
MSS of Mrs Brown of Falkland. 1783-1801.
(1) Jamieson-Brown MS., mostly taken down from
the mouth of Mrs Brown by Professor Scott of
Aberdeen about 1783. Laing MSS, Library of
the University of Edinburgh.
(2) William Ty tier's Brown MS. Fifteen ballads,
with the airs : thirteen being revisions of pieces
in (1). Presented by Mrs Brown to W. Tytler in
1783. Described by Anderson in a letter to Percy,
Nichols's Illustrations, VII, 176 ff. The MS. has
disappeared, but, excepting one, all the pieces it
contained are substantially known from (1) or other
sources.
(3) Alexander Fraser Tytler's Brown MS. Nine
ballads sent A. F. T. by Mrs Brown in 1800 ; with
the airs. Anderson, as above, VII, 179 f. Aldourie
Castle, Inverness-shire.
Sir Walter Scott's collection, Abbotsford. 1783-1830.
(1) Small folio without title, Library, L 2 (Catalogue,
p. 57). Two fragments.
(2) 'Scottish Songs,' 1795. Library, N 3 (Cata
logue, p. 104). Seven ballads with airs and three
fragments. All the ballads appear to be Mrs
Brown's copies altered.
(8) Letters addressed to Sir Walter Scott, 1796-
1831. Ballads enclosed have in most cases been
removed, but some seven remain.
(4) 'Scotch Ballads, Materials for Border Min
strelsy,' a folio volume made up at a recent date
from detached pieces to the number of above eighty.
(5) ' North Country Ballads ' in a quarto volume
* Mr Macmath drew up for the Edinburgh Bibliographical
Society a bibliography of Scottish Popular Ballads in Manu
script (Session 1891-2, and a supplement, 1893-4), which may
be advantageously consulted for details, as I myself have found.
398
SOURCES OF THE TEXTS
with the title ' Miscellanea Curiosa,' Library B 5
(Catalogue, p. 15).
(6) ' Miscellanies,' a folio with one ballad and a frag
ment.
Glenriddell MS., 1791. In vol. XI of Robert Riddell's
collection of Scottish Antiquities. (There is an ear
lier transcript of one of the ballads in vol. VIII.)
Library of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
MS. described by Scott as the ' collection of an old
lady's complete set of ballads.' In two portions, the
first in 53 pages, on paper of 1805-6-7; the second
in 10 pages, on paper of 1818. Contains thirty-two
popular ballads and gives the titles of others known
to the compiler. Obtained by Skene of Rubislaw in
the north of Scotland (but obviously not so early as
1802-3 as endorsed by Scott on the cover of the
Skene MS.), turned over to Scott by Skene, and in
1823 by Scott to C. K. Sharpe. In the possession of
Mr Macmath.
Skene MS., nine separate quires, amounting in all to
125 pages, and containing thirty- six pieces. Almost
all of these are found in the Old Lady's Collection,
from which they appear to have been transcribed,
but with misreadings and changes. 118 pages in the
possession of Mr Alexander Allardyce of Edinburgh ;
the remainder in the possession of Mr Macmath.
Pitcairn's MSS, 1817-25. Three volumes in the writ
ing of Robert Pitcairn ; partly from printed sources.
In the possession of the representatives of Mr James
L. Mansfield, Edinburgh.
Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe's Collection (besides the
Old Lady's MS. and the Skene MS.). (1) ' Songs,'
12mo, in Sharpe's handwriting. (2) MS. of 32 pages,
small 4 to, on paper of 1822, not in Sharpe's hand.
(3) MS. of 12 pages, on paper of 1820, not in Sharpe's
hand. (4) An independent transcript by Sharpe of
the pieces entitled by Scott ' North Country Ballads.'
(5) Letters from Motherwell to Sharpe, enclosing
ballads. (6) Single copies of ballads, not in Sharpe's
hand. All in the possession of Mr Macmath.
Motherwell's MS., 1825 and after. A folio, almost en
tirely in Motherwell's hand, containing, besides some
pieces not indexed, 228 indexed ballads. Most of
these are from the West of Scotland, but not a few
were given Motherwell by Buchan and are dupli
cates of copies which occur in Buchan's MSS. In
the possession of Mr Malcolm Colquhoun Thomson,
Glasgow.
Motherwell's Note-Book, c. 1826-27. A small octavo
containing various memoranda referring to ballads,
including the whole, or a portion, of several copies.
Formerly in the possession of Mr J. Wylie Guild.
Kinloch MSS, 1826 and after. Seven volumes, the
fourth being an interleaved (printed) copy of Kin-
loch's Ancient Scottish Ballads with additions and
variations. Vols I, II, III, VII, are almost wholly
in Kin loch's hand ; V, VI are mostly in the writing
of James Beattie, John Hill Burton, and Joseph
Robertson. Harvard College Library.
Peter Buchan's MSS, about 1828. Two volumes, folio.
British Museum, Additional MSS, 29408-9. For
a description, see Mr Ward's Catalogue of Romances,
etc., I, 537.
Mr. David Scott of Peterhead possesses a volume
entirely in Buchan's writing " which contains all
[the ballads] that Buchan ever collected except
some ' high-kilted ' ones in another volume." [The
two volumes here mentioned are now in the Child
Memorial Library of Harvard University. The
" high-kilted " volume is entitled Secret Songs of
Silence.']
Joseph Robertson's MSS, 1829-32. Four small note
books, one entitled * Journal of Excursions ; ' an
other, Adversaria ' ; also an annotated copy of The
New Deeside Guide [1832]. In the possession of Dr
Robertson's representatives.
John Hill Burton's MSS, 1829-30. Mostly in the
Kinloch collection, but his daughter, Mrs Rodger,
Aberdeen, has a small volume containing portions of
two ballads.
Alexander Laing of Brechin's MS., 1829-35. * An
cient Ballads and Songs, etc., etc., from the recita
tion of old people ; never published, 1829.' Three
ballads and a fragment. Harvard College Library.
Robert White's Papers, 1829 and after. Ballads se
lected from his collectanea by Mr White of New-
castle-on-Tyne. Harvard College Library.
British Museum, Additional MSS, 20094. 1829. (No. 4.)
Campbell MSS, 1830 or earlier. ' Old Scottish Songs
collected in the counties of Berwick, Roxburgh, Sel
kirk and Peebles.' 2 volumes. Collector unknown.
At Marchmont House, Berwickshire.
' Scottish Songs and Ballads,' copied probably before
1830, by a granddaughter of Lord Woodhouselee,
mostly from print or from A. F. Tytler's Brown MS.,
but containing two or three versions of popular bal
lads not found elsewhere.
Harris MS. Ballads learned by Amelia Harris in
her childhood from an old nurse in Perthshire (the
last years of the 18th century) ; taken down by her
daughter, who has added a few of her own collect
ing. With an appendix of airs. Harvard College
Library.
Joseph Robertson. An interleaved and annotated copy
of The New Deeside Guide [1832] (of which J. R.
was the author).
Gibb MS., 1860. Twenty-one ballads written down
from the recitation of his mother by Mr James Gibb
of Joppa, representing the form in which ballads
were recited about the beginning of the century in
Angus and Mearns. Harvard College Library.
David Louden's MS., 1873. Contains four popular
ballads derived from reciters in Haddingtonshire.
Harvard College Library.
Murison MS., about 1873. Some forty pieces collected
by Mrs A. F. Murison in Old Deer, among which
there are several traditional popular ballads. Har
vard College Library.
SOURCES OF THE TEXTS
399
A few detached ballads collected by Dr Alexander
Laing of Newburgh-on-Tay. About 1873.
Findlay MSS. Two volumes, the first (only) contain
ing several ballads and many fragments gathered
from recitation by Rev. William Findlay, of Saline,
Fifeshire, 1865-85. In the hands of the collector.
Macmath MS. Ballads and songs recently collected
by Mr Macmath. In the possession of the collector.
" Common Place Book filled with a collection of Old
Ballads of the 17th century," a MS. formerly be
longing to J. Payne Collier, now in the British
Museum. Contains thirty ballads written in a forged
hand of the 19th century, some of the pieces being
also spurious. Nos 8 C, 137, 168 are in this MS.
Communications, noted in their places, of a single bal
lad or of several ballads, taken down or remembered
by friends or correspondents in Europe and America,
and several taken down by myself. [Child MSS,
Harvard College Library.]
PRINTED SOURCES.
A Gest of Robyn Hode. Fragment without printer's
name or date, but of the end of the 15th or begin
ning of the 16th century : the eleventh and last piece
in a volume the other contents of which are nine
pieces printed by Walter Chepman and Andrew Myl-
lar three of these purporting to be printed at Ed
inburgh in 1508 and one other piece the printer of
which is also unascertained. Advocates' Library,
Edinburgh.
A Lytell Geste of Robyn Hode, etc. Wynken de
Worde, London, n. d. (1492-1534). Library of the
University of Cambridge.
Three fragments (one of which was attributed to Wyn
ken de Worde by Ritson). Douce, Bodleian Library.
A Mery Geste of Robyn Hoode, etc. London, Wyl-
lyam Copland, n. d. (1549-69). British Museum.
A Merry lest of Robin Hood, etc. London, Printed for
Edward White, n. d. (1 5 7 7-1 6 1 2) . Bodleian Library.
The sources of the later Robin Hood ballads may
more conveniently be entered here, than in regular
course. Articles n. d. may of course not be in
strict chronological order.
Broadside copies in the Wood, Pepys, Douce, Rox-
burghe, and Rawlinson collections.
Martin Parker, A True Tale of Robbin Hood. Lon
don, 1634 ( ?). British Museum, C. 39, a. 52. The
same. By Clark, Thackeray, and Passinger. Lon
don, 1686. Bodleian Library.
Robin Hoods Garland; or Delightful Songs, Shewing
the noble Exploits of Robin Hood, and his Yeomen-
drie. With new Edditions and Emendations. Lon
don, Printed for W. Gilbertson, at the Bible in Gilt-
spur-street without Newgate, 1663. (17 ballads.)
Wood, Bodleian Library.
Robin Hoods Garland. Containing his merry Ex
ploits, and the several Fights which he, Little John,
and Will. Scarlet had, upon several occasions. Some
of them never before Printed. [London,] Printed for
F. Coles, T. Vere, and J. Wright. 1670. (16 bal
lads.) Douce, Bodleian Library*
Robin Hood's Garland. Printed by C. Dicey in Bow
Church Yard, n. d. (before 1741).*
Robin Hood's Garland, without place or printer. 1749.
Percy Papers, Harvard College Library.
Robin Hood's Garland. Printed by W. & C. Dicey,
in St. Mary Aldermary Church Yard, Bow Lane,
Cheapside, and sold at the Warehouse in Northamp
ton, n.d. (c. 1753).*
The English Archer . . . Robin Hood. Paisley, printed
by John Neilson for George Caldwell, Bookseller,
near the Cross, 1786.*
The English Archer, or . . . Robin Hood. York, printed
by N. Nickson in Feasegate, n. d.*
Robin Hood's Garland. Printed by L. How in Peti-
coat Lane, n. d.*
Robin Hood's Garland. London, J. Marshall & Co., Al
dermary Churchyard, n. d. Harvard College Library.
Robin Hood's Garland. London. R. Marshall, in Al
dermary Church Yard, Bow Lane, n. d. Harvard
College Library.
Captain Delany's Garland. In a collection of folio
sheet - ballads mostly dated 1775. Edinburgh (?).
British Museum, 1346. m. 7. (9.)
Robin Hood's Garland. York, T. Wilson and R. Spence,
n. d.*
Robin Hood's Garland. Preston, Printed and sold
by W. Sergent, n. d.*
Robin Hood's Garland. Wolverhampton, Printed and
sold by J. Smart, n. d.*
Adventures of ... Robin Hood. Falkirk, Printed
and sold by T. Johnston, 1808.*
The History of Robin Hood and the Beggar. Aber
deen. A. Keith (1810-35).*
Adam Bell, Clirn of the Clough, and William of Clou-
desly. Two fragments of an edition by John Byd-
dell. London, 1536. Library of the University of
Cambridge.
A fragment by a printer not identified, formerly in the
possession of J. Payne Collier. (No 116.)
Adambel, Clym of the cloughe, and Wyllyam of clou-
desle. William Copeland, London, n. d. (1562-69.
See Arber, Transcript, V, 25). British Museum.
Adam Bell, Clim of the Clough, and William of Clou-
desle. London, Printed by James Roberts, 1605.*
[Thomas Ravenscroft.] Deuteromelia, or, The Second
Part of Musicks Melodie or Melodius Musicke, etc.
London, 1609.
[Thomas Ravenscroft.] Melismata, Musicall Phansies,
fitting the Court, Cittie, and Countrey Humours.
London, 1611.
Thomas Deloney. Pleasant History of John Winch-
comb, in his younger years called Jacke of New-
berie : reprint of the 9th edition, of London, 1633,
by J. O. Halliwell. London, 1859.
* Bodleian Library, Oxford.
400
SOURCES OP THE TEXTS
The History of the Houses of Douglas and Angus, writ
ten by Master David Hume of Godscroft. Edin
burgh, 1644.
Broadsides : mostly of the second half of the 1 7th
century.
Wood, Rawlinson, Douce collections. Bodleian Li
brary. Here from the originals.
Pepys collection. Magdalen College Library, Cam
bridge. Mostly from the originals.
Roxburghe collection. British Museum. Here some
times from originals, sometimes from The Rox
burghe Ballads, Ballad Society. Vols I, IE, edited
by William Chappell, London, 1871-80. Vols
IV-VII, edited by J. W. Ebsworth, 1883-93.
Bagford Collection. British Museum. Here from the
Bagford Ballads, Ballad Society, edited by J. W.
Ebsworth, 2 vols. Hertford, 1878.
Osterley Park Library, British Museum, c. 39, k. 6
(60). 1690(?).
Laing (Scottish) Broadsides, c. 1700. In the pos
session of Lord Rosebery.
A Scottish Broadside formerly in the possession of
J. Maidment, c. 1700. (No 162.) Harvard Col
lege Library.
" Ballard's Collection" (so cited by Percy).
Pepys Penny Merriments. Magdalen College Library,
Cambridge.
The King's Pamphlets. British Museum, 669. f. 20,
55. 1657.
Wit Restord, in several select poems not formerly pub-
lisht. London, 1658 (in Facetise, Musarum Deliciae,
1656, Wit Restord, 1658, and Wits Recreations,
1640. 2 vols. London, 1817).
Wit and Drollery, Jovial Poems. Corrected and
amended, with New Additions. London, 1682.
Wit and Mirth, or, Pills to Purge Melancholy, being a
collection of the best Merry Ballads and Songs, etc.,
[with airs]. London. [Ed. by Henry Playford,]
four editions, London, 1699-1714, 5 vols. ; [ed. by
T. D'Urfey,] 6 vols. London, I-V, 1719, VI, 1720.
True Love Requited, or, The Bayliff's Daughter of
Islington. Printed and sold in Aldermary Church
yard, Bow Lane, " 1700 or a little later."
A Collection of Old Ballads, corrected from the best
and most ancient copies extant. With introductions
historical, critical, or humorous. 3 vols. London,
I, H, 1723; m, 1725.
Allan Ramsay. The Ever Green, being a collection of
Scots Poems, wrote by the ingenious before 1600. 2
vols. Edinburgh, 1724.
Allan Ramsay. The Tea-Table Miscellany, or a collec
tion of Choice Songs, Scots and English. (Vol. I,
Edinburgh, 1724 ; vol. II, 172-? ; vol. HI, 1727.
3 vols in one, Dublin, 1729; London, 1733. 9th
edition, enlarged with a fourth volume, London, 1740.
llth edition, four volumes in one, London, 1750.
David Laing's notes in the Musical Museum, ed.
1853, pp. 108* f., 382*, 393* f.) London, 1733, 3
vols in one; 1763, 4 vols in one.
W. Thomson. Orpheus Caledonius, or, a Collection of
the best Scotch Songs. [London, 1725.] 1 vol.
fol. Orpheus Caledonius, or, a Collection of Scots
Songs. 2 vols, 8, London, 1 733.
Gill Morrice. An Ancient Scottish Poem, 2d ed.
Robert & Andrew Foulis, 1 755.
Young Waters. An Ancient Scottish Poem, never be
fore printed. Robert & Andrew Foulis, Glasgow,
1755.
Edom of Gordon. An Ancient Scottish Poem, never
before printed. Robert & Andrew Foulis, Glasgow,
1755.
Letter of Thomas Gray, June, 1757? (Gray's Works,
ed. Gosse, II, 316. London, 1884.)
Thomas Percy. Reliques of Ancient English Poetry :
consisting of Old Heroic Ballads, Songs, and other
pieces of our Earlier Poets, together with some few
of later date. 3 vols. London, 1765, 1767, 1775.
4th ed., 1794, ostensibly edited by Percy's nephew,
with restoration of some original readings.
Garlands, etc., of the second half of the 18th century :
The Brown Girl's Garland. British Museum. 11621
c. 3. (10.)
The Duke of Gordon's Garland. British Museum.
11621 c. 2. (15.) Also, Harvard College Library.
The Glasgow Lasses Garland. British Museum.
11621 c. 3. (68.)
The Jovial Rake's Garland. (No 104.) Bodleian
Library.
Lord Roslin's Daughter's Garland. (No 46.)
Lovely Jenny's Garland. (No 91.)
Sir James the Rose's Garland. Harvard College
Library.
The Rambler's Garland. B. M. 11621 c. 4. (57.)
A chap-book of Four New Songs and a Prophecy.
1745? (Here from The Sects Musical Museum,
1853, IV, 458.)
The Merry Cuckold and Kind Wife. Broadside.
Printed and Sold at the Printing Office in Bow
Church- Yard, London.
Five Excellent New Songs. Edinburgh, 1766. B.
M. 11621. b. 6. (8.)
The Duke of Gordon's Daughter, 1775, in a collec
tion of folio ballads. B. M. 1346. m. 8.
Sir James the Rose, stall-tract of about 1780. Ab-
botsford Library.
The Duke of Gordon's Daughter. C. McLachlan,
Dumfries, 1785 (?).
Lord Douglas Tragedy, stall-copy of 1792.
[David Herd.] The Ancient and Modern Scots Songs,
Heroic Ballads, etc., now first collected into one
body from the various Miscellanies wherein they
formerly lay dispersed, containing likewise a great
number of Original Songs from Manuscripts never
before published. Edinburgh, 1769.
[David Herd.] Ancient and Modern Scottish Songs,
Heroic Ballads, etc., collected from memory, tradi
tion and ancient authors. The second edition. 2
vols. Edinburgh, 1776.
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401
John Pinkerton. Scottish Tragic Ballads. London,
1781.
John Pinkerton. Select Scotish Ballads. 2 vols.
(vol. I, Tragic Ballads ; vol. II, Comic Ballads). Lon
don, 1783.
[Joseph Bltson.] A Select Collection of English
Songs, with their Original Airs, and a historical
essay on the Origin and Progress of National Song.
3 vols. London, 1783. (The second edition, with
Additional Songs, and occasional Notes. By Thomas
Park. 3 vols. London, 1813.)
[Joseph Ritson.] " The Bishopric Garland, or Dur
ham Minstrel. Being a choice collection of Excel
lent Songs relating to the above county. Stockton,
1784. A new edition, corrected, 1792." Reprinted
by J. Haslewood in, Northern Garlands, edited by
the late Joseph Ritson, Esq. London, 1810.
[George Caw.] The Poetical Museum. Containing
Songs and Poems on almost every subject. Mostly
from periodical publications. Hawick, 1784.
James Johnson. The Scots Musical Museum, in six
volumes. Consisting of Six Hundred Scots Songs,
with proper Basses for the Piano Forte, etc. Edin
burgh, [1787-1803]. (Second Edition, 1839.) Third
Edition, with copious Notes and Illustrations of the
Lyric Poetry and Music of Scotland, by the late
William Stenhouse, [and] with additional Notes and
Illustrations [by David Laing]. 4 vols. Edinburgh
and London, 1853.
[Joseph Ritson.] Ancient Songs, from the tune of
King Henry the Third to the Revolution. London,
1790. ("Printed, 1787; dated 1790; published
1792." Second Edition. Ancient Songs and Bal
lads from the Reign of King Henry the Second to
the Revolution. Collected by Joseph Ritson, Esq.
2 vols. London, 1829.)
Joseph Ritson. Pieces of Ancient Popular Poetry :
from authentic manuscripts and old printed copies.
London, 1791. 2d ed., London, 1833.
[Joseph Ritson.] "The Northumberland Garland, or
Newcastle Nightingale. A matchless collection of
Famous Songs. Newcastle, 1793." Reprinted by J.
Haslewood in, Northern Garlands, edited by the late
Joseph Ritson, Esq. London, 1810.
[Joseph Ritson.] Scotish Song. In two volumes.
London, 1794.
[Joseph Ritson.] Robin Hood : A Collection of all
the Ancient Poems, Songs, and Ballads, now extant,
relative to that celebrated English Outlaw. To which
are prefixed Historical Anecdotes of his Life. In
two volumes. London, 1 795. (Second edition, Lon
don, 1832.)
[J. Currie.] The Works of Robert Burns, with an
Account of his Life, etc. 4th ed., 4 vols. London,
1803.
John Leyden. The Complaynt of Scotland, written in
1548. With a Preliminary Dissertation and Glos
sary. Edinburgh, 1801.
Walter Scott. Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border:
VOL. v. 51
consisting of Historical and Romantic Ballads col
lected in the Southern Counties of Scotland, with a
few of modern date, founded upon local tradition.
3 vols. Vols I, H, Kelso, 1802 ; vol. Ill, Edin
burgh, 1803. 2d ed., Edinburgh, 1803; 3d, 1806 ;
4th, 1810. 4 vols, edited by J. G. Lockhart, with
airs. Edinburgh, 1833.
The Edinburgh Magazine, or, Literary Miscellany.
Edinburgh, 1803.
The Scots Magazine, vol. LXV, 1803 ; vol. LXXX,
1817 ; vol. LXXXIX, 1822. Edinburgh.
The Sporting Magazine, vol. XXV. London, 1805.
Robert Jamieson. Popular Ballads and Songs from
Tradition, Manuscripts, and Scarce Editions ; with
translations of similar pieces from the Ancient Dan
ish Language, and a few Originals by the Editor.
2 vols. Edinburgh, 1806.
John Finlay. Scottish Historical and Romantic Bal
lads, chiefly ancient. 2 vols. Edinburgh, 1808.
R. H. Cromek. Remains of Nithsdale and Galloway
Song : with Historical and Traditional Notices rela
tive to the manners and customs of the Peasantry.
London, 1810.
R. H. Cromek. Select Scottish Songs, Ancient and
Modern ; with Critical Observations and Biograph
ical Notices, by Robert Burns. 2 vols. London, 1810.
Gammer Gurton's Garland, or, The Nursery Parnassus.
London, 1810.
John Bell. Rhymes of Northern Bards, being a curious
collection of Old and New Songs and Poems peculiar
to the counties of Newcastle upon Tyne, Northum
berland, and Durham. Edited by John Bell, Jun.
Newcastle upon Tyne, 1812.
[John Fry.] Pieces of Ancient Poetry from unpub
lished manuscripts and scarce books. Bristol, 1814.
H. Weber, R. Jamieson, W. Scott. Illustrations of
Northern Antiquities, etc. Edinburgh, 1814.
Sir Egerton Brydges. Restituta, vol. I. London.
1814.
Alexander Campbell. Albyn's Anthology, or, a select
collection of the Melodies and Local Poetry peculiar
to Scotland and the Isles, hitherto unpublished.
2 vols. 1816, 1818.
R. H. Cromek. Reliques of Robert Burns. 4th ed.
London, 1817.
James Hogg. The Jacobite Relics of Scotland, be
ing the Songs, Airs, and Legends of the adherents
to the House of Stuart. 2 vols. Edinburgh, 1819-
21.
R. A. Smith. The Scotish Minstrel, a selection from
the Vocal Melodies of Scotland, ancient and modern.
6 vols. Edinburgh, [1820-24].
John Struthers. The British Minstrel, a selection of
Ballads, ancient and modern, etc. 2 vols. London,
1822.
Robert Trotter. Lowran Castle, or, The Wild Boar of
Curridoo, with other Tales, illustrative of the Su
perstitions, Manners, and Customs of Galloway.
Dumfries, 1822.
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[Alexander Laing.] Scarce Ancient Ballads, many
never before published. Aberdeen, 1822.
Alexander Laing. The Thistle of Scotland, a selection
of Ancient Ballads, with notes. Aberdeen, 1823.
[Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe.] A Ballad Book. Ed
inburgh, 1823.] Reprinted by E. Goldsmid, Edin
burgh, 1883.
Davies Gilbert. Some Ancient Christmas Carols, with
the Tunes to which they were formerly sung in the
West of England. Together with two ancient Bal
lads, a Dialogue, etc. 2d edition. London, 1823.
William Hone. Ancient Mysteries. London, 1823.
[James Maidment.] A North Countrie Garland. Ed
inburgh, 1824. Reprinted by E. Goldsmid. Edin
burgh, 1884.
The Common-Place Book of Ancient and Modern Bal
lad and Metrical Legendary Tales. An original
selection, including many never before published.
Edinburgh, 1824.
John Mactaggart. The Scottish Gallovidian Encyclo
pedia, or, the original, antiquated, and natural Curi
osities of the South of Scotland. London, 1824.
David Webster. A Collection of curious Old Ballads
and Miscellaneous Poetry. Edinburgh, 1824.
The Gentleman's Magazine. Vol. XCV, Part I. Lon
don, 1825.
Peter Buchan. Gleanings of Scotch, English, and
Irish scarce old Ballads chiefly tragical and historical,
etc. Peterhead, 1825.
Allan Cunningham. The Songs of Scotland, ancient
and modern, with an introduction and notes, his
torical and critical, etc. 4 vols. London, 1825.
Stall copies, etc., mostly of uncertain date :
The Song of Bewick and Grahame. B. M. 11621.
e. 1. (4.)
Bewick and Graham's Garland. M. Angus & Son,
Newcastle.
A Jolly Book of Garlands collected by John Bell in
Newcastle. Abbotsford Library.
Curious Tracts, Scotland. B. M. 1078. m. 24. A
collection made by J. Mitchell at Aberdeen in
1828.
The Unfortunate Weaver, etc. (for No 25). Green-
ock, [1810]. B. M. 11621. b. 7. (43.)
Stall or chap-book copies by M. Randall & C. Randall,
Stirling ; John Sinclair, Dumfries ; W. Fordyce,
Newcastle ; T. Johnston, Falkirk ; P. Buchan,
Peterhead ; Aberdeen, printed for the booksellers.
Recent Broadsides of Catnach, Pitts, Such.
Peggy Irvine. Stall-copy printed by J. Morren,
Cowgate, Edinburgh.
Robert Chambers. The Popular Rhymes of Scotland,
with illustrations, chiefly collected from oral sources.
Edinburgh, 1826, 1870.
George R. Kinloch. Ancient Scottish Ballads, recov
ered from tradition and never before published, with
notes, historical and explanatory, and an appendix
containing the airs of several of the ballads. Lon
don and Edinburgh, 1827.
[George R. Kinloch.] The Ballad Book. Edinburgh,
1827. Reprinted by E. Goldsmid. Edinburgh,
1885.
Thomas Lyle. Ancient Ballads and Songs, chiefly
from tradition, manuscripts, and scarce works, etc.
London, 1827.
William Motherwell. Minstrelsy, Ancient and Mod
ern, with an historical introduction and notes. Glas
gow, 1827. (A copy with MS. entries by Mother-
well).
Peter Buchan. Ancient Ballads and Songs of the
North of Scotland, hitherto unpublished, with ex
planatory notes. 2 vols. Edinburgh, 1828.
The Paisley Magazine, or, Literary and Antiquarian
Miscellany. Paisley, 1828.
Robert Chambers. The Scottish Ballads, collected and
illustrated. Edinburgh, 1829.
Sir N. H. Nicolas. History of the Battle of Agincourt.
2d ed. London, 1832.
[Joseph Robertson.] The New Deeside Guide, by
James Brown. Aberdeen, [1832].
Andrew Picken. Traditionary Stories of Old Families.
2 vols. London, 1838.
William Sandys. Christmas Carols, Ancient and
Modern, including the most popular in the West of
England, and the airs to which they are sung, etc.
London, 1833.
William Sandys. Christmastide, its history, festivities,
and carols. London, [18 ].
Sir Cuthbert Sharpe. The Bishoprick Garland, or a
collection of Legends, Songs, Ballads, etc., belonging
to the county of Durham. London, 1834.
The Universal Songster, or, Museum of Mirth, forming
the most complete, extensive, and valuable collection
of Ancient and Modern Songs in the English lan
guage. 3 vols. London, 1834.
The Songs of England and Scotland. 2 vols. London,
1835.
Fisher's Drawing-Room Scrap-Book. London, 1835.
[E. V. Utterson.] A Little Book of Ballads. [Printed
for the Roxburghe Club.] Newport, 1836.
J. E. Tyler. Henry of Monmouth, or, Memoirs of the
Life and Character of Henry the Fifth. 2 vols.
London, 1838.
The Loving Ballad of Lord Bateman. Illustrated by
George Cruikshank. London, 1839.
Sir N. H. Nicolas. The Poetical Works of Rob
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M. A. Richardson. The Borderer's Table Book, or,
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English and Scottish Border. 8 vols. Newcastle-
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James Paterson and Charles Gray. The Ballads and
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Frederick Sheldon. The Minstrelsy of the English
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John Matthew Gutch. A Lytyll Geste of Robin Hode,
with other Ancient and Modern Ballads and Songs
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The Scottish Journal. Vol. II, 1848.
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J. O. Halliwell. Ballads and Poems respecting Hugh
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Abraham Hume. Sir Hugh of Lincoln, or, an examina
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London, 1849.
Notes and Queries. London, 1850 -.
Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
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J. S. Moore. The Pictorial Book of Ancient Ballad
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John Miller. Fly-Leaves, or Scraps and Sketches,
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William Chappell. Popular Music of the Olden Time.
A collection of Ancient Songs, Ballads, and Dance
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Jabez Allies. The British, Roman, and Saxon Anti
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Robert Bell. Ancient Poems, Ballads, and Songs of
the Peasantry of England, taken down from oral
recitation, and transcribed from private manu
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William E. Aytoun. The Ballads of Scotland. 2
vols. Edinburgh and London, 1858 ; 2d ed., re
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James Maidment. Scotish Ballads and Songs. Edin
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R. Chambers. The Romantic Scottish Ballads : their
Epoch and Authorship. London and Edinburgh,
1859.
Thomas Hughes. The Scouring of the White Horse.
Cambridge [England], 1859.
Joshua Sylvester. A Garland of Christmas Carols, an
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in any collection. London, 1861.
Mary (Wilson) Gordon. Christopher North. A Memoir
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William AUingham. The Ballad Book. A selection
of the choicest British Ballads. London, 1865.
Robert Hunt. Popular Romances of the West of Eng
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M. H. Mason. Nursery Rhymes and Country Songs,
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William Henderson. Notes on the Folk-Lore of the
Northern counties of England and the Borders.
With an Appendix by S. Baring-Gould. London,
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Llewellyn Jewitt. The Ballads and Songs of Derby
shire, with illustrative notes and examples of the
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John W. Hales and Frederick J. Furnivall. Bishop
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3 vols and a supplement. London, 1867-68.
James Maidment. Scotish Ballads and Songs, Histor
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W. H. Logan. A Pedlar's Pack of Ballads and Songs,
with illustrative notes. Edinburgh, 1869.
Robert Chambers. Popular Rhymes of Scotland. New
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Wm. Henry Husk. Songs of the Nativity, being
Christmas Carols, Ancient and Modern, several of
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Salopian Shreds and Patches. Vol. I. Shrewsbury,
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Jahrtmch fur Romanische u. Englische Sprache und
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W. Christie. Traditional Ballad Airs, arranged and
harmonized, etc., from copies obtained in the counties
of Aberdeen, Banff, and Moray, etc. Edited, with
the words for singing and with illustrative notes. 2
vols. Edinburgh, vol. I, 1876 ; vol. II, 1881.
Suffolk Notes and Queries, in The Ipswich Journal,
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H. 11. Bramley and J. Stainer. Christmas Carols,
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Folk-Lore Record. Vol. II. London, 1879.
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The Leisure Hour, February 14, 1880. London.
Walter W. Skeat. Specimens of English Literature,
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A Ballad Book. By Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe, Esq.
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unpublished MSS of Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe,
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David Laing. Edinburgh and London, 1880.
Aungervyle Society's Publications. A Garland of Old
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B. Harris Cowper. The Apocryphal Gospels. 5th ed.
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J. C. Bruce and J. Stokoe. Northumbrian Minstrelsy.
A collection of the Ballads, Melodies and Small-Pipe
Tunes of Northumbria. Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1882.
A. Nimmo. Songs and Ballads of Clydesdale. Edin
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Charlotte Sophia Burne. Shropshire Folk-Lore, a
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Letters from and to Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe, Esq.
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Mrs Graham R. Tomson. Ballads of the North
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The Monthly Chronicle of North-Country Lore and
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illustrating the history and language of the North
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Durham, 1890.
Blackwood's Magazine. Vol. CXLVII. Edinburgh,
1890.
Margaret Warrender. Walks near Edinburgh. Ed
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Journal of the Gypsy-Lore Society. Vol. H. Lon
don, 1890-91.
Frank Kidson. Traditional Tunes. A collection of
Ballad Airs, chiefly obtained in Yorkshire and the
South of Scotland, together with their appropriate
words from broadsides or from oral tradition. Ox
ford, 1891.
Lucy E. Broad wood and J. A. Fuller Maitland. Eng
lish County Songs, words and music. London and
New York, 1893.
County Folk-Lore. Printed Extracts. No 2. Suf
folk. Collected and edited by the Lady Eveline
Camilla Gurdon. Folk-Lore Society. London, 1893.
The Journal of American Folk-Lore. Vol. VII. Bos
ton, 1894.
H. A. Kennedy. Professor Blackie : his Sayings and
Doings. London, 1895.
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inburgh and London, 1895.
INDEX OF PUBLISHED AIRS OF ENGLISH AND SCOTTISH
POPULAR BALLADS
WITH AN APPENDIX OF SOME AIRS FROM MANUSCRIPT
THE oldest book of airs here referred to is Thomson's
Orpheus Caledonius, ed. 1 733. Earlier music-books or
manuscript notations were used in great number by
Chappell, Rimbault, and others, and the results are
accessible through their works as cited below. The
same air will frequently be found to have been repeated
in successive publications. Undoubtedly the cases in
which the original air of the older ballads has been
preserved are but few.
Of the airs from manuscript some are very likely to
have been published already ; the ascertaining of the
fact would have cost considerable labor, and was not
demanded for a list which avowedly includes repetitions
from printed books. The earliest noted down are, I
suppose, the five from the Abbotsford MS. entitled
" Scottish Songs," which appear to have been derived
from William Ty tier's unrecovered Brown MS. This
lost MS. was obtained by William Tytler in 1 783, and
contained fifteen ballads with the melodies as written
down by Professor Scott from Mrs Brown's singing ;
of which melodies it is said : " Being then but a mere
novice in music, he added in the copy such musical
notes as he supposed might give some notion of the
air, or rather lilts, to which they were sung." Twenty-
three airs are given from the Harris Ballad- MS. as
sung by Mrs Amelia Harris to her children about 1830.
Miss Jane Harris, one of them, says that the airs are
to be " orally and directly traced from my great father's
(Rev. P. Duncan, Tibbermore) manse from 1745."
Six airs are from a MS. of Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe
written on paper with a watermark of 1822. The re
maining airs are very recent communications from vari
ous duly registered sources, and were all but a very
few seemingly written down within a year or two.
The compilation of the list of printed airs was un
dertaken for me by my constant friend Mr William
Walker, of Aberdeen. Some additions have been made.
Mr Walker also furnished me with several melodies
from the north of Scotland. Revision of the manu
script airs was required in some cases to correct obvious
errors of notation, and this was performed for me by
Mr W. R. Spalding, of Harvard College, who has not
gone beyond the amendment of self-evident errors of
transcribers.
ABBREVIATED INDICATIONS OF BOOKS REFERRED TO
Baring-Gould. S. Baring-Gould, English Minstrelsie.
Edinburgh, 1895-. 8 vols (7 published.)
Baring-Gould, S. Baring-Gould and Sheppard, Songs
and Ballads of the West. London, [1889-91]. Four
parts.
Barsanti. Francis Barsanti, A Collection of Old Scots
Tunes. Edinburgh, [1742?].
Bramley. H. R. Bramley and J. Stainer, Christmas
Carols, New and Old. London, [187-?].
Broadwood. L. E. Broadwood and J. A. F. Maitland,
English County Songs. London, 1893.
Bruce. J. C. Bruce and J. Stokoe, Northumbrian
Minstrelsy. Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1882.
Burne. Charlotte Sophia Burne, Shropshire Folk-
Lore. London, 1883-6.
Campbell. Alexander Campbell, Albyn's Anthology.
Edinburgh, 1816, 1818. 2 vols.
Chambers. Robert Chambers, Twelve Romantic Scot
tish Ballads. Edinburgh, 1844.
Chappell. W. Chappell, Popular Music of the Olden
Time. London, [1855, 1859]. 2 vols.
Christie. W. Christie, Traditional Ballad Airs. Edin
burgh, 1876, 1881. 2 vols.
Cruikshank. The Loving Ballad of Lord Bateman.
London, 1839.
Dauney. Wm. Dauney, Ancient Scottish Melodies,
from a Manuscript of the reign of King James VI.
Edinburgh, 1838.
Gilbert. Davies Gilbert, Some Ancient Christmas
Carols, with the tunes. London, 1823.
Gordon. Mrs. Gordon, Christopher North, A Memoir
of John Wilson. Edinburgh, 1862. 2 vols.
Graham. G. F. Graham, The Songs of Scotland.
Edinburgh, [1854-561 3 vols.
Husk. Wm. Henry Husk, Songs of the Nativity.
London, [187- ?].
Jewitt. Llewellyn Jewitt, The Ballads and Songs of
Derbyshire. London and Derby, 1867.
Johnson. James Johnson, The Scots Musical Museum.
Edinburgh and London, [1787-1803]. 6 vols.
Journal. Journal of American Folk-Lore. Vol. VIH.
Boston and New York, 1895.
Kidson. Frank Kidson, Traditional Tunes. Oxford,
1891.
Kinloch. G. R. Kinloch, Ancient Scottish Ballads,
Appendix. London and Edinburgh, 1827.
406
INDEX OF PUBLISHED AIES
Mason. M. H. Mason, Nursery Rhymes and Country
Songs. London, n. d. [1877],
Mother-well. Wm. Motherwell, Minstrelsy Ancient and
Modern, Appendix. Glasgow, 1827.
Rimbault. Edward F. Kimbault, Musical Illustrations
of Bishop Percy's Reliques of Ancient English
Poetry. London, 1850.
Rimbault, C. E. F. Rimbault. (Chappell's Christmas
Carols.) A Collection of Old Christmas Carols with
the tunes to which they are sung. London, n. d.
Rimbault, G. E. F. Rimbault, Musical Illustrations of
the Robin Hood Ballads, in J. M. Gutch's Robin
Hood Garlands and Ballads. London, 1850. 2 vols,
the second.
Ritson, A. [Joseph Ritson,] Ancient Songs. London,
1790.
Ritson, E. [Joseph Ritson,] A Select Collection of
English Songs. London, 1783. 3 vols. Cited by
pages of 2ded., 1813.
Ritson, S. [Joseph Ritson,] Scotish Song. London,
1794. 2 vols.
Sandys, C. C. W. Sandys, Christmas Carols, Ancient
and Modern. London, 1833.
Sandys, C. T. W. Sandys, Christmastide, its history,
festivals, and carols. London, [18 ?].
Scott. Walter Scott, Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border.
Edinburgh, 1833. 4 vols.
Smith, R. R. A. Smith, The Scotish Minstrel. Edin
burgh, [1820-24]. 6 vols.
Smith, S. J. Stafford Smith, Musica Antiqua : a Col
lection of Music from the 12th till the 18th Century.
London, 1812. 2 vols.
Sussex. Sussex Songs, arranged by H. F. Birch Rey-
nardson. London, [1891?].
Thomson, G. George Thomson, The Select Melodies
of Scotland, etc. [1793-1841. 6 vols. fol.] Lon
don, [1822-25]. 6 vols. 8vo.
Thomson, W. W. Thomson, Orpheus Caledonius, or,
A Collection of Scots Songs. 2d ed. London, 1733.
2 vols.
INDEX
[The figures in the left-hand column refer to the numbers of the ballads in this collection.]
1. Riddles Wisely Expounded. Gilbert, 65 (B); 25.
Cbappell, 531 (A) ; Mason, 31 (E) ; Bruce,
76 (A). 26.
2. The Elfin Knight. Bruce, 79; Kidson, 43, 172;
Broad wood, 12.
3. The Fause Knight upon the Road. Motherwell,
No 32 (B). 27.
4. Lady Isabel and the Elf-Knight. Smith, R., IH, 33,
92 (C b); Motherwell, No 24 (D c); Christie, 37,
n, 236 (D); Bruce, 48 (B); Burne, 652; Kid- 38.
son, 27 (E), 172; Broadwood, 164 (E).
5. Gil Brenton. Motherwell, No 5 (P b) ; Christie,
II, 10 (D). 39.
7. Earl Brand. Scott, III, 1 (B); Smith, R., Ill, 41.
86 (B); Chambers, 17 (B); Bruce, 31 (A). 43.
9. The Fair Flower of Northumberland. Motherwell, 45.
No 2 (D); Kinloch, to p. 131 (Bb); Christie,
n, 46 (C) ; Bruce, 51 (A). 46,
10. The Twa Sisters. Motherwell, No 20 (P b);
Christie, I, 40 (C, B), 42 (O); Bruce, 61 (C); 47.
Broadwood, 118 (R c). 52.
11. The Cruel Brother. Gilbert, 68 (P); Christie, I,
108 (A). 53.
12. Lord Randal. Johnson, No 327 (P); Campbell,
H, 95 (D); Smith, R., IH, 58 (D); Chambers,
21 (D) ; Graham, II, 74. 64.
14. Babylon, or, the Bonnie Banks o Fordie. Mother-
well, No 26 (A c); Kinloch, to p. 210 (E).
16. Sheath and Knife. Johnson, No 461 (C). 56.
17. Hind Horn. Motherwell, No 13 (B) ; Christie,
H, 252. 58.
18. Sir Lionel. Christie, I, 110 (B).
20. The Cruel Mother. Johnson, No 320 (B) ; Smith,
R., IV, 83 (L); Kinloch, to p. 44 (D) ; Christie, 61.
I, 104 (P); I, 106 (I); Burne, 651 (Q).
Willie's Lyke-Wake. Motherwell, No 17 (D);
Christie, I, 120 (B), 122 (E).
The Three Ravens. Ritson, A., 155 (a); Mother-
well, No 12 (b); Chappell, 59 ; Kidson, 17.
[The Twa Corbies. Campbell, H, 26 ; Chambers,
15.]
The Whummil Bore. Motherwell, No 3 (b).
Kempy Kay. Motherwell, No 33 (C).
Thomas Rymer. Scott, IV, 117 (C).
The Wee Wee Man. Ritson, S., II, 139 (A) ; John-
son, No 3 70 (A); Smith, R., IV, 70 (A); Gra
ham, HI, 64.
Tarn Lin. Johnson, No 411 (A); Smith, R., I, 2.
Hind Etin. Christie, II, 156 (A).
The Broomfield Hill. Kinloch, to p. 195 (D).
King John and the Abbot of Canterbury. Rim
bault, 73; Chappell, 350 (B), 352 (B).
Captain Wedderburn's Courtship. Christie, II,
48 (B, A).
Proud Lady Margaret. Christie, I, 28 (B a).
The King's Dochter Lady Jean. Motherwell, No
23 (A b) ; Christie, I, 228 (C).
Young Beichan. Kinloch, to p. 260 (H) ; Cruik-
shank (L) ; Christie, I, 30 (H) ; Bruce, 64 ;
Burne, 651 (L) ; Kidson, 33 (L) ; Sussex, 48.
The Cherry-tree Carol. Sandys, C. C., No 10
(A a) ; Rimbault, C., 22 (B) ; Husk, 194 (B a) ;
Bramley, 60 (C).
Dives and Lazarus. Bramley, 84 ; Broadwood,
102.
Sir Patrick Spens. Johnson, No 482 (A) ; Camp
bell, II, 62, 2 airs ; Smith, R., IV, 60 (A a) ;
Rimbault, 47 (A) ; Christie, I, 6 (H, I), 8.
Sir Cawline. Christie, II, 18 (King Malcolm and
Sir Colvin, No 61, H, 62).
INDEX OF PUBLISHED AIRS
407
64. Fair Janet. Graham, I, 92 (A). HO.
65. Lady Maisry. Motherwell, No 14 (I a).
68. Young Hunting. Motherwell, No 8 (F b), No 11 ;
Kinloch, to p. 1 (B) ; Chambers, 9. 112.
69. Clerk Saunders. Motherwell, No 16 (A) ; Kin-
loch, to p. 233 (C) ; Christie, II, 112 (G).
72. The Clerk's Twa Sons o Owsenford. Chambers, 114.
7 ; Christie, I, 212.
73. Lord Thomas and Fair Annet. Johnson, No 535 116.
(A) ; Smith, R., VI, 58 (A) ; Sandys, C. C., No
18 (D); Rimbault, 94 (D), 112 (A) ; Chappell, 118.
145 (D) ; Christie, II, 26 (A), 196 (B) ; Burne,
651 (D) ; Kidson, 40 (D). 119.
74. Fair Margaret and Sweet William. Chappell, 383 120.
(A d). 122.
76. The Lass of Roch Royal. Johnson, No 5 (I) ;
Graham, I, 54. 123.
77. Sweet William's Ghost. Ritson, S., II, 201 (A) ;
Johnson, No 363 (A) ; Chambers, 11 (A) ; Rim- 124.
bault, 98 (A) ; Christie, I, 118 (A).
78. The Unquiet Grave. Burne, 651 (F) ; Baring- 125.
Gould, S., I, 12.
79. The Wife of Usher's Well. Scott, III, 262 (A). 126.
81. Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard. Mother-
well, No 21 (M) ; Rimbault, 92; Chappell, 170
(A). 128.
83. Child Maurice. Ritson, S., II, 157 (F a) ; John
son, No 203 (F a) ; Smith, R., II, 106 (F a) ;
Thomson, G., V, 33 ; Motherwell, No 6 (C) ; 131.
Rimbault, 96 (F a) ; Christie, 1, 158 (F).
84. Bonny Barbara Allan. Ritson, S., n, 196 (A a) ; 132,
Johnson, No 221 (A a) ; Thomson, G., 111,35 133,
(A a) ; Smith, R., II, 80 (A a) ; Rimbault, 98
(B), 99 (A a) ; Chappell, 538 (B d) ; Graham, 135,
II, 16 (A) ; Christie, I, 86, 88 (A), 283 ; Kidson,
37, 38 (three airs). 136,
85. Lady Alice. Mason, 46 (C). 138,
88. Young Johnstone. Motherwell, No 18 (F) ; Cham
bers, 19 ; Christie, I, 156 (E). 140,
89. Fause Foodrage. Christie, I, 1 72 (A).
93. Lamkin. Smith, R., II, 94 (F) ; Christie, I, 60 141.
(A).
94. Young Waters. Smith, R., II, 30. 142.
95. The Maid Freed from the Gallows. Broad wood,
112 (K). 143.
96. The Gay Goshawk. Christie, n, 124.
97. Brown Robin. Christie, I, 136 (B). 144,
99. Johnie Scot. Motherwell, No 15 (B).
100. Willie o Winsbury. Kinloch, to p. 89 (H). 145.
101. Willie o Douglas Dale. Christie, II, 32.
102. Willie and Earl Richard's Daughter. Christie, 146.
I, 128.
103. Rose the Red and White Lily. Kinloch, to p. 148.
65 (C).
105. The Bailiff's Daughter of Islington. Rimbault, 150.
100 (two airs) ; Chappell, 203-4 (two airs) ;
Sussex, 10 ; Baring-Gould, I, 50. 155.
106. The Famous Flower of Serving-Men. Thomson,
G., IV, 39 ; Smith, R., V, 73 ; Rimbault, 95.
The Knight and Shepherd's Daughter. Kinloch,
to p. 25 (H) ; Rimbault, 94 (A) ; Chappell, 127
(A) ; Christie, 1, 184 (F b) ; Kidson, 20.
The Baffled Knight. Ritson, A., 160 ; Johnson,
No 477 (Da); Rimbault, 81 (C) ; Chappell,
68 (A a), 520 (C) ; Bruce, 81 (D, see IV, 495).
Johnie Cock. Motherwell, No 22 (F) ; Cham
bers, 13.
Adam Bel, Clim of the Clough and William of
Cloudesly. Rimbault, 48.
Robin Hood and Guy of Gisborne. Chappell,
397 (?).
Robin Hood and the Monk. Chappell, 542 (?).
Robin Hood's Death. Rimbault, G., 435 (B).
Robin Hood and the Butcher. Rimbault, G.,
433 f. ; Chappell, 392.
Robin Hood and the Curtal Friar. Rimbault, G.,
436; Chappell, 393 (B), 542(?).
The Jolly Finder of Wakefield. Chappell, 203 (?),
394 (A).
Robin Hood and Little John. Rimbault, G.,
433 f. ; Chappell, 392.
Robin Hood and the Tanner. Rimbault, G.,
433 f. ; Chappell, 392. (Air also of 122, 125,
128, 131, 133, 142 B, 143, 146, 150.)
Robin Hood Newly Revived. Rimbault, G., 433 f.
(Air also of Nos 122, 125, 126, 131, 133, 142 B,
143, 146, 150.) Chappell, 392.
Robin Hood and the Ranger. Rimbault, G.,
433 f. ; Chappell, 392.
The Bold Pedlar and Robin Hood. Jewitt, 8.
Robin Hood and the Beggar, I. Rimbault, G.,
433 f. ; Chappell, 392.
Robin Hood and the Shepherd. Rimbault, G.,
435.
Robin Hood's Delight. Rimbault, G., 485.
Robin Hood and Allan a Dale. Rimbault, G.,
439.
Robin Hood Rescuing Three Squires. Rim
bault, G., 438 (B).
Robin Hood rescuing Will Stutly. Rimbault, G.,
435.
Little John a Begging. Rimbault, G., 433 f. (B) ;
Chappell, 392.
Robin Hood and the Bishop. Rimbault, G.,
433 f. ; Chappell, 392.
Robin Hood and the Bishop of Hereford. Chap
pell, 895 (A).
Robin Hood and Queen Katherine. Rimbault,
G., 435.
Robin Hood's Chase. Rimbault, G., 433 f. ; Chap
pell, 392.
The Noble Fisherman, or, Robin Hood's Prefer
ment. Rimbault, G., 436 ; Chappell, 393 (?).
Robin Hood and Maid Marian. Rimbault, G,
433 f. ; Chappell, 392.
Sir Hugh, or, The Jew's Daughter. Smith, S,
L, 65 ; Johnson, No 582 (B) ; Motherwell, No
7 (R) ; Rimbault, 46 (B) ; Mason, 46 (T).
408
INDEX OF PUBLISHED AIRS
156. Queen Eleanor's Confession. Motherwell, No 208.
27 (P); Rimbault, 65 (P) ; Chappell, 174 (A). 209.
157. Gude Wallace. Johnson, No 484 (C).
161. The Battle of Otterburn. Scott, I, 368 (C) ;
Rimbault, 45 (C). 210.
162. The Hunting of the Cheviot : Chevy Chase. 211.
Ritson, E., Ill, 315 ; Rimbault, 56 ; Chappell, 212.
(see 196), 198, 199, 201 ; Bruce, 2, 3, 145 ; Kid-
son, 19. 213.
164. King Henry Fifth's Conquest of France. Jewitt, 214.
2,3.
169. Johnie Armstrong. Ritson, S., II, 7 (C) ; John- 215.
son, No 356 (C) ; Scott, I, 416 (C) ; Dauney,
222.
170. The Death of Queen Jane. Kinloch, to p. 116
(B). 216.
178. Captain Car, or, Edom o Gordon. Chappell,
226 (A) ; Christie, I, 56. 217.
181. The Bonny Earl of Murray. Thomson, W., II,
No 4 (A) ; Barsanti, 14 ; Ritson, S., II, 29 (A) ;
Johnson, No 177 (A) ; Smith, R., IV, 100 (A) ;
Rimbault, 68 (A) ; Christie, I, 202 (A).
182. The Laird o Logic. Motherwell, No 25 (A) ; 218.
Christie, II, 170 (B). 219.
185. Dick o the Cow. Campbell, H, 30 (c) ; Scott,
II, 62. 221.
186. Kinmont Willie. Campbell, I, 78. 225.
187. Jock o the Side. Campbell, II, 28 (B b) ; Cham- 226.
bers, 22 (B) ; Bruce, 37 (B).
188. Archie o Cawfield. Christie, I, 98 (C) ; Journal,
VIH, 256 (P). 227.
191. Hughie Grame. Johnson, No 303 (B) ; Smith,
R., IV, 29 (B) ; Chambers, 24 (B) ; Graham, 228.
H, 44 (?) ; Christie, II, 82 (B) ; Bruce, 34 (C). 229.
192. The Lochmaben Harper. Johnson, No 5 79 (A b). 231.
193. The Death of Farcy Reed. Bruce, 42 (B). 232.
195. Lord Maxwell's Last Goodnight. Scott, II, 140 233.
(B).
196. The Fire of Frendraught. Dauney, 218, No 4 (?); 235.
Christie, I, 58. 236.
199. The Bonnie House o Airlie. Smith, R., H, 2 (A) ;
Thomson, G., I, 34; Kinloch, to p. 100 (D) ; 237.
Graham, II, 130 (A b) ; Christie, II, 276 (Cd).
200. The Gypsy Laddie. Barsanti, 6 ; Ritson, S., II,
176 (A); Johnson, No 181 (A); Smith, R., 238.
III, 90 ; Thomson, G., IV, 35 (A) ; Dauney,
228, No 30 ; Graham, I, 114 ; Burne, 652 (H); 239.
Baring-Gould, S., H, 52, 54.
201. Bessy Bell and Mary Gray. Thomson, W., I, No 240.
2 ; Thomson, G., VI, 41 ; Smith, R., IV, 21 ;
Graham, H, 96. 241.
203. The Baron of Brackley. Christie, I, 20 (C b).
204. Jamie Douglas (" O waly, waly "). Mother- 243.
well, No 9 (O) ; Christie, II, 158 ; Thomson,
W., I, No 34 ; Johnson, Nos 158, 446 ; Ritson, 245.
S., I, 156 ; Graham, I, 100 ; Rimbault, 102 ; 247.
Smith, R., II, 1, VI, 62 ; Thomson, G., I, 19. 248.
206. Bothwell Bridge. Smith, R., IH, 62 ; Scott, H,
246 ; Chambers, 26.
Lord Derwentwater. Motherwell, No 4 (A).
Geordie. Johnson, No 346 (A) ; Smith, R., H,
68 (A) ; Kinloch, to p. 187 (E b) ; Christie,
I, 52 (J), II, 44 (H) ; Kidson, 25.
Bonnie James Campbell. Smith, R., V, 42 (C).
Bewick and Graham. Bruce, 25.
The Duke of Athole's Nurse. Christie, I, 80
(Fb).
Sir James the Rose. Christie, I, 16.
The Braes o Yarrow. Scott, III, 150 (B b) ;
Kidson, 22 (Q).
Rare Willie Drowned in Yarrow. Thomson, W.,
H, No 49 (A) ; Ritson, S., I, 142 (A) ; John
son, No 525 (A) ; Smith, R., VI, 76 (A) ;
Christie, I, 64, 66 (E).
The Mother's Malison, or, Clyde's Water. Chris
tie, II, 250 (C).
The Broom of Cowdenknows. Thomson, W.,
I, No 10 ; Barsanti, 18 ; Ritson, S., I, 118 ;
Smith, R., H, 45 ; Thomson, G., Ill, 32 ;
Motherwell, No 10 (D) ; Christie, I, 126, 284 ;
Chappell, 461.
The False Lover won Back. Christie, 1, 144 (B).
The Gardener. Kinloch, to p. 74 (A) ; Christie,
n, 206 (B) ; Baring-Gould, S., IV, 52, No 108.
Katherine Jaffray. Christie, II, 16.
Rob Roy. Smith, R., I, 32 (G-).
Lizie Lindsay. Johnson, No. 434 ; Smith, R.,
II, 100, 101 ; Graham, n, 82 ; Christie, n, 88 ;
privately printed, Brighton, 1895 (H).
Bonny Lizie Baillie. Johnson, No 456 (d) ;
Smith, R., IV, 90 (f).
Glasgow Peggie. Christie, I, 70 (E).
Earl Crawford. Christie, I, 68 (A).
The Earl of Errol. Christie, I, 206 ; II, 40.
Richie Story. Christie, I, 72 (G- d).
Andrew Lammie. Motherwell, No 28 (C b) ;
Christie, I, 48 (C).
The Earl of Aboyne. Christie, I, 22 (B a).
The Laird o Drum. Kinloch, to p. 199 (A b) ;
Christie, I, 24.
The Duke of Gordon's Daughters. Johnson,
No 419 (a) ; Smith, R., IV, 98 (a) ; Christie,
1,2.
Glenlogie, or, Jean o Bethelnie. Smith, R., IV,
78 (I b) ; Christie, I, 54 (E b), 282.
Lord Saltoun and Auchanachie. Christie, I, 10
(Bb).
The Rantin Laddie. Johnson, No 462 (A a) ;
Smith, R., IV, 6 (A) ; Christie, I, 210 (A b).
The Baron o Leys. Johnson, No 237 (The Lin-
kin Ladie).
James Harris (The Daemon Lover). Motherwell,
No 1 (P) ; Christie, I, 188.
Young Allan. Christie, I, 252.
Lady Elspat. Christie, I, 102.
The Grey Cock, or, Saw you my Father ? John
son, No 76 ; Smith, R., VT, 54 (a) ; Chappell,
731 (b) ; Graham, I, 102 (a).
INDEX OF PUBLISHED AIRS
409
250. Henry Martyn. Kidson, 30 (B c), 31 (B b) ;
Baring-Gould, S., Ill, 2.
251. Lang Johnny More. Christie, I, 44.
252. The Ritchie Boy. Christie, I, 14.
253. Thomas o Yonderdale. Christie, I, 96 (b).
254. Lord William, or, Lord Lundy. Motherwell, No
19 (A).
255. Willie's Fatal Visit. Christie, I, 218.
257. Burd Isabel and Earl Patrick. Christie, II, 34
(B).
260. Lord Thomas and Lady Margaret. Christie, IT,
12 (B).
265. The Knight's Ghost. Christie, n, 238.
266. John Thomson and the Turk. Christie, II, 52.
267. The Heir of Linne. Christie, I, 112 (B o).
269. Lady Diamond. Christie, II, 218.
270. The Earl of Mar's Daughter. Christie, II, 38.
271. The Lord of Lorn and the False Steward. Chap-
pell, 230 (B).
273. King Edward the Fourth and a Tanner of Tarn-
worth. Chappell, 392 (?), 542 (?).
274. Our Goodman. Johnson, No 454 (A) ; Smith,
R., IV, 66 (A).
275. Get up and Bar the Door. Ritson, S., I, 226
(A a) ; Johnson, Nos 300 (A a), 365 (C);
v. 52
Smith, R., I, 62 (A) ; Thomson, G., II, 8 ;
Graham, II, 62 (A a) ; Christie, II, 262 (A a).
276. The Friar in the Well. Chappell, 274 (A).
279. The Jolly Beggar. Thomson, W., I, 95, App.
No 43 ; Ritson, S., I, 168 ; Johnson, No 266
(Ba).
280. The Beggar Laddie. Christie, I, 100 (D).
281. The Keach i the Creel. Motherwell, No 29;
Bruce, 82 (A).
282. Jock the Leg and the Merry Merchant. Christie,
I, 130.
283. The Crafty Farmer. Chappell, 554 (c) ; Mason,
43 (f) ; Kidson, 141 (b) ; Baring-Gould, S., L.
38 (c).
284. John Dory. Ritson, A., 164 ; Chappell, 68.
286. The Sweet Trinity (The Golden Vanity). Gor
don, II, 317 (B a) ; Christie, I, 238 (C c) ; Bar
ing-Gould, S., IH, 24 (C d) ; Broadwood, 182
(C).
289. The Mermaid. Motherwell, No 30 (B b) ; Chap
pell, 743 (B).
293. John of Hazelgreen. Kinloch, to p. 206 (B);
Christie, I, 124.
298. Young Peggy. Christie, II, 20.
299. Trooper and Maid. Christie, II, 210 (A).
411
BALLAD AIES FROM MANUSCRIPT
3C. THE FAUSE KNIGHT UPON THE ROAD.
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9 G. THE FAIR FLOWER OF NORTHUMBERLAND.
SHABPE MS.
Slow.
10 Be. THE TWA SISTERS.
ABBOTSFOBD MS. "SCOTTISH SONGS."
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412
BALLAD AIKS FROM MANUSCRIPT
10W. THE TWA SISTERS.
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12 P. LORD RANDAL.
413
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414
BALLAD AIRS FROM MANUSCRIPT
42. CLEEK COLVILL.
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42. CLEEK COLVILL. (EEVISED.)
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53. YOUNG BEICHAN.
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BALLAD AIRS FROM MANUSCRIPT
68 C. YOUNG HUNTING.
Mrs HAKKIS.
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J.s aunjrtn -46erdeen above forty years ago.
W. WALKER.
speed, . And wished Lord Lov- el much speed.
77. SWEET WILLIAM'S GHOST.
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417
95 L. THE MAID FREED FROM THE GALLOWS.
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98 B. BROWN ADAM.
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418
BALLAD AIRS FROM MANUSCRIPT
99 A. JOHNTE SCOT.
ABBOTSFOED MS., " SCOTTISH SONGS.
99 O. JOHNIE SCOT.
Miss M. MACMATH.
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100 J. WILLIE O WINSBURY.
Miss M. MACMATH.
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in the north coun-trie, And her cloth - ing it was the
green ; And she's looked ower her fa - ther's cas - tie wa', For to
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419
114 G. JOHNIE COCK.
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163. THE BATTLE OF HARLAW.
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173 J. MARY HAMILTON.
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222 (V, 261). BONNY BABY LIVINGSTON.
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By came the Laird of Glen - lion And took her quite a - way.
226 H. LIZIE LINDSAY.
As sung by George Mitchell, Edgell Castle, Forfarshire.
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247 b. LADY ELSPAT.
ABBOTSFORD MS., " SCOTTISH SONGS.
247 b. LADY ELSPAT. ( REVISED. )
How brent is . . your brow, my la - dy Els - pat ; How . . gold -
en yel - low is your
Scot - land There . . is . . none like . . la - dy Els - pat fair.
BALLAD AIRS FROM MANUSCRIPT
423
250 E (V, 302). ANDEEW BARTIN.
Miss L. P. HASKELL, South Carolina.
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Miss M. MACMATH.
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424
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BALLAD AIKS FEOM MANUSCRIPT
281. THE KEACH I THE CREEL.
W. WALKER, Aberdeen.
286 Ba. THE SWEET TRINITY. (THE GOLDEN VANITY.)
MACMATH MS.
From a copy in the handwriting of P. S. FBASEB (slightly corrected).
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286 Cg. THE SWEET TRINITY. (THE GOLDEN VANITY.)
Miss M. MACMATH.
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low, low, low, She was sail - ing in the Low - Lands low.
299 D (V, 306). TROOPER AND MAID.
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INDEX OF BALLAD TITLES
English and Scottish.
The Abashed Knight, II, 480.
Abduction of Nelly Symon, V, 264.
ADAM BELL, CLIM OF THE CLOUQH, AND WILLIAM
OF CLOUDESLY (No 116), III, 14-39, 518; IV,
496 ; V, 297. in, 90, 95, 96, 121 n., 334; IV,
391, 516 n.
Adambel, Clym of the cloughe, and Wyllyam of
cloudesle, III, 14.
Adam Bell, Clim of the Clough, and William of
Cloudesle, III, 14.
Adam Bell, Clime of the Cloug[he], and William off
Cloudeslee, III, 14.
Adam Bell, The Second Part of, HI, 34-39. Ill,
214.
Airlie (=The Earl of Errol), V, 268.
ALISON AND WILLIE (No 256), IV, 416 f.
Allan Water, or, A Lover in Captivity, IV, 184.
Allan Water, or, My Love Annie 's very Bonny, IV,
184.
ALLISON GROSS (No 35), 1, 313-5; III, 504; V, 214.
I, 315, 339 n.
Ainang the blue flowers and yellow, I, 247.
Andrew Bartin, V, 302 f.
Andrew Bodee, IV, 393.
ANDREW LAMMIE (No 233), IV, 300-8. IV, 92.
Annan Water, IV, 184 f. IV, 179.
Annie Livingston, IV, 231.
ARCHIE o CAWFIELD (No 188), in, 484-95; IV,
516 f . Ill, 476 n.
Archie of Cafield, III, 484, IV, 516.
Archie of the Cawfield, IH, 484.
Armstrong and Musgrave, IV, 432.
Arthur's Seat shall be my Bed, or, Love in Despair,
IV, 105. IV, 93.
As I went out ae May morning, IV, 332.
Auld Carle Hood, or, Earl Brand, I, 489, 491.
The Auld Harper, IV, 16.
Auld Ingram, H, 126. H, 113 n.
AULD MATRONS (No 249), IV, 391 f. 11,406; IH,
15 n.
Aye as the Gowans grow gay, I, 22.
Baby Livingstone, IV, 231.
BABYLON, OR, THE BONNIE BANKS o FORDDE (No
14), 1, 170-7, 501; II, 499; HI, 499 f.; IV, 450;
V, 209, 287. 1, 121 n.
VOL. v. 54
THE BAFFLED KNIGHT (No 112), n, 479-93; HI,
518; IV, 495; V, 239 f., 296. H, 378; HI, 258 n.
The Baffled Knight, or, the Lady's Policy, II, 479.
THE BAILIFF'S DAUGHTER OF ISLINGTON (No 105),
II, 426-8; in, 518; V, 237.
Ballade of the Scottysche Kynge, IV, 499.
The Banished Man, I, 170.
The Banks of Italy, IV, 360.
The Banks of Omey, IV, 270.
Bar aye your bower door weel, I, 300.
Barbara Allan, II, 276.
Barbara Allen's Cruelty, II, 276, 278.
Barbara Livingston, IV, 231.
THE BARON OF BRACKLEY (No 203), IV, 79-89,
522; V, 253 f., 298. II, 240; IV, 309 n.
The Baron of Braickly, IV, 309 n.
THE BARON o LEYS (No 241), IV, 355-8; V, 275.
The Baronne (Barrone) of Braikley (Braikly), IV, 79.
The Barren of Breachell, V, 253 f .
The Battle of Agincourt, V, 245.
The Battle of Alf ord, IV, 78.
The Battle of Balrinnes, III, 317, and n.
THE BATTLE OF HARLAW (No 163), III, 316-20;
V, 245.
The Battle of Loudon Hill, IV, 105.
THE BATTLE OF OTTERBURN (No 161), HI, 289-
302, 620; IV, 499-502; V, 243 f., 297. HI, 304,
305,332.
THE BATTLE OF PHIUPHAUGH (No 202), IV, 77-9.
Bauld Rankin, II, 320.
The Beautifull Shepherdesse of Arcadia, II, 457,
476 f.
THE BEGGAR-LADDIE (No 280), V, 116-20, 305.
The Beggar's Bride, V, 116.
The Beggar's Dawtie, V, 116.
Benorie, I, 493 f .
THE BENT BAE BROWN (No 71), H, 170-3; IH,
509; IV, 469; V, 223; II, 167, 240.
Bertram the Bauld Archer, IH, 1; IV, 495.
BESSY BELL AND MARY GRAY (No 201), IV, 75-
77, 522; V, 253.
The Betrayed Lady, I, 111.
BEWICK AND GRAHAM (No. 211), IV, 144-50, 522.
Bewick and Grahame, the Song of, IV, 144-8.
Billie Archie, III, 484.
Binnorie, 1, 118, 493, 495.
Binnorie, O an Binnorie, 1, 118.
426
INDEX OF BALLAD TITLES
The Birth of Robin Hood, LT, 412. 1, 178, 182; II,
406, 411, 416.
The Bishop of Hereford's Entertainment by Robin
Hood and Little John, etc., Ill, 196.
BLANCHEFLOUR AND JELLYFLORICE (No 300), V,
175 f.
The Blende Harper, etc., IV, 16.
The Blind Harper, IV, 16.
The Blind Harper of Lochmaben, IV, 16.
Bloody Lambkin, II, 513.
Blow the winds, heigh, ho ! II, 479.
Blue Flowers and Yellow, I, 247.
The Blue Flowers and the Yellow, I, 247; IV, 453.
The Blynde Harpers, with the Answere, " a ballet,"
IV, 16.
Bob Norice, II, 263.
Bold Burnet's Daughter, I, 450.
Bold Dickie, III, 495.
THE BOLD PEDLAR AND ROBIN HOOD (No 132),
LU, 154 f.; V, 240. LU, 130, 137, 144 n., 168;
V, 126.
Bold Rankin, LT, 320.
Bondsey and Maisry, LT, 281.
BONNIE ANNIE (No 24), I, 244-7; IV, 452 f. I,
182; H, 499.
Bonnie Annie Livieston, V, 261.
BONNY BABY LIVINGSTON (No 222), IV, 231-9,
523; V, 261 f. IV, 423.
THE BONNY BANKS o FOBDIE (No 14). See BABY
LON.
BONNY BARBARA ALLAN (No 84), LT, 276-9; LLT,
514. V, 166.
BONNY BEE HOM (No 92), H, 317-9; V, 229. I,
200 f.; H, 156, 234.
THE BONNY BIRDY (No 82), II, 260 f. LT, 243.
The Bonny Bows o London, 1, 118.
The Bonny Braes of Yarrow, IV, 160.
The Bonny Brown Girl, V, 166.
The Bonny Earl of Livingston, LT, 309.
THE BONNY EARL OF MURRAY (No 181), HI, 447-
9; IV, 515. IV, 44.
Bonny Foot-Boy, IV, 400. H, 441; IV, 451 a.
Bonnie George Campbell, IV, 142.
THE BONNY HIND (No 60), I, 444-7; V, 218. I,
178, 185, 283 n.
The Bonny Hind Squire, I, 425.
THE BONNIE HOUSE o AIRLIE (No. 199), IV, 54-60;
V,252. IV, 161 n.
The Bonnie (Bonny) House o (of) Airlie (Airly,
Airley), IV, 64.
The Bonny Hyn (Heyn), I, 444, 447.
BONNIE JAMES CAMPBELL (No 210), IV, 142-4.
Bonnie Jean o Bethelnie, IV, 338.
Bonnie John Campbell, IV, 142.
BONNY JOHN SETON (No 198), IV, 51-4; V, 251 f.
Bonnie Johnie Scot, II, 377.
THE BONNY LADS OF ANGLESEY (No 220), IV, 214 f .
The Bonnie Lass o Englessies Dance, IV, 214.
The Bonnie Lass o Fyvie, V, 172.
The Bonnie Lass o the Hie Toun End, V, 153.
The Bonny Lass of Lochvoyan, or Lochroyan, II,
213.
BONNIE LIZIE BAILLEE (No 227), IV, 266-70; V,
265.
Bonny Lizie Lindsay, IV, 255.
Bonny (Bonnie) May (=The Broom of Cowden-
knows); IV, 191; (=The Reach i the Creel), V,
121.
The Bonnie Mermaid, V, 148.
The Bonnie Milldams o Binnorie, I, 118.
Bonny Molly Stewart, II, 317 n.
- Bonny Peggy, IV, 270.
Bonny Peggy Irvine, IV, 311.
Bonnie Rantin Laddie, IV, 351.
Bonnie Susie Cleland, II, 112.
The Bonnie Wee Croodlin Dow, 1, 151.
Bony Catrain Jaffry, V, 260.
Bothwell, I, 62.
BOTHWELL BRIDGE (No 206), IV, 108-10. IV, 106.
THE BOY AND THE MANTLE (No 29), I, 257-74,
507; n, 502; LU, 503; IV, 454; V, 212 f., 289.
^-THE BRAES o YARROW (No 214), IV, 160-77,
622 f.; V, 255 f. IV, 276.
The Braes of Yarrow, Logan's, IV, 161, 178; Ham
ilton's, IV, 163.
The Brave Earl Brand and the King of England's
Daughter, I, 88.
The Bridal Sark, I, 7.
The Bridegroom Darg, I, 7.
The Bride's Testament, I, 141, 496.
Brig. Macintosh's Farewell to the Highlands, or,
Macintosh was a Soldier Brave, IV, 117.
The Broom blooms bonnie (bonie) (= Leesome
Brand), I, 177.
The Broom blooms bonnie (= Sheath and Knife), I,
185; V, 210.
The Broom o the Cathery Knowes, LT, 346.
THE BROOM OF COWDENKNOWS (No 217), IV, 191-
209, 523; V, 257 f. I, 446; III, 451; V, 153.
The Broom of the Cowdenknowes, IV, 191.
THE BROOMFIELD HILL (No 43), I, 390-9, 508; LT,
506; III, 506; IV, 469; V, 290. I, 335; IV,
389.
Broomfield Hills, I, 390.
The Brothers-in-Arms, IV, 145.
BROUGHTY WA'S (No 258), IV, 423 f.
BROWN ADAM (No 98), II, 373-6. V, 234.
Brown Adam the Smith, II, 373.
The Brown Bride and Lord Thomas, II, 179.
Brown Edom, II, 373.
THE BROWN GIRL (No 295), V, 166-8.
The Brown Girl (=Lord Thomas and Fair Annet),
HI, 509 f .
BROWN ROBIN (No 97), LT, 368-73.
Brown Robyn and Mally, LT, 368.
BROWN ROBYN'S CONFESSION (No 57), II, 13-6,
510; III, 508; IV, 462 f.; V, 220, 292. I, 245,
and n., 436; II, 17.
INDEX OF BALLAD TITLES
427
The Buchanshire Tragedy (=Sir James the Ross),
IV, 156.
Burd Alone, II, 83.
Burd Bell, IV, 417.
Burd Ellen, II, 83.
BURD ELLEN AND YOUNG TAMLANE (No 28), I,
256, 507; III, 503.
Burd Helen (=Fair Annie), II, 63.
Burd Helen (= Child Waters), H, 83. I, 23 n.
Burd Hellen, or, Browghty Wa's, IV, 428.
BDRD ISABEL AND EARL PATRICK (No 257), IV,
417-23; V, 278 f.
Burd Isbel and Sir Patrick, IV, 417.
Burning of Auchindown, III, 456.
The Burning of Frendraught, IV, 39.
The Burning o Loudon Castle, III, 423.
The Burning of the Tower of Frendraught, FV,
521 f.
The Cambrick Shirt, I, 6.
CAPTAIN CAR, OR, EDOM o GORDON (No 178), III,
423-38, 520; IV, 513-5; V, 247 f., 299. IV, 44,
64.
Captain Glen, II, 16 ; IV, 463.
CAPTAIN WARD AND THE RAINBOW (No 287), V,
143-5, 305.
CAPTAIN WEDDERBURN'S COURTSHIP (No 46), I,
414-25; II, 507; III, 507; IV, 459; V, 216 f.,
291. I, 1, 2 n., 3 n., 20, 426.
Captain Wederburn, V, 216.
Carle of Kelly-Burn Braes, V, 107.
THE CARNAL AND THE CRANE (No 55), II, 7-10,
509 f.; Ill, 507; IV, 462; V, 220. I, 233, 235.
A Carol for St. Stephen's Day, I, 233.
The Carpenter's Wife, IV, 360.
The Carrying-off of the Heiress of Kinady, FV, 309,
and n.
Castle Ha's Daughter, I, 450.
Catharine (Catherine) Jaffery (Janferry), FV, 216.
Catherine Johnson (Johnstone), IV, 216.
Cathrine Jaffray, IV, 216.
Charles Graeme, IV, 475 f.
CHARLIE MACPHERSON (No 234), IV, 308-10 ; V,
301.
The Cherry-Tree, II, 1.
THE CHERRY-TREE CAROL (No 54), II, 1-6, 509;
V, 220.
Chevy Chase, III, 303, 314. IH, 293, 317.
Chield Morice, II, 263, 274.
Chil Brenton, I, 62.
Child Brenton, I, 62.
CHILD MAURICE (No 83), H, 263-75; ITI, 614;
FV, 478. H, 127, 303, 377, 378; V, 284.
Child Noryce, II, 263; IV, 478.
Child Nourice, Buchan's MSS, II, 264.
The Child of Ell, I, 88.
CHILD OWLET (No 291), V, 156 f., 305.
Child Rowland to the darke tower came, fragment,
V, 201.
Child Vyet, II, 126.
CHILD WATERS (No 63), II, 83-100, 511; III, 508;
IV, 463; V, 220-2. I, 23 n., 49 n., 112 n.; II,
127, 406, 430, 458, 499; IV, 186, 423.
Chirstie Graeme, IV, 144.
CHRISTOPHER WHITE (No 108), II, 439 f.
Clark Colven, I, 371 f.
Clerk Colin, V, 215.
CLERK COLVILL (No 42), I, 371-89; II, 506; III,
506; IV, 459; V, 215 f., 290. II, 143; IV, 187;
V, 284.
Clerk Colvill, or, The Mermaid, I, 371.
Clerk Sandy, n, 156; IV, 468.
CLERK SAUNDERS (No 69), II, 156-67, 512; III,
509; IV, 468 f.; V, 223, 293. 11,100,167,170,
173, 226, 240, 244, 317, 406; IV, 39, 163, 276,
415, 474; V, 91, 166.
Clerk Tamas, IV, 426.
Clerk Tamas and Fair Annie, IV, 426.
The Clerks of Owsenfoord, II, 173.
THE CLERK'S TWA SONS o OWSENFORD (No 72),
n, 173-91, 512; III, 509; FV, 469, 293. II, 112
n., 156, 238, 264, 417.
The Clerks Two Sons of Oxenfoord, II, 173.
CLYDE'S (GLIDE'S) WATER (= THE MOTHER'S MAL
ISON) (No 216), IV, 185-91; V, 256 f., 301. IV,
117, 415, 471 b.
Clyde's Water (= Young Hunting), II, 142.
THE COBLE o CARGILL (No 242), IV, 358-60.
Cold blows the wind, III, 512.
Cold blows the wind, sweetheart, IV, 474.
The Cooper of Fife, V, 104.
Cospatrick, I, 62; V, 283 n.
A councell brave [grave] our king did hold, ballad
on Agincourt, HI, 321.
The Countess of Errol, IV, 282.
Courteous King Jamie, Lewis's ballad, I, 297.
The Courteous Knight, I, 425.
The Courtier and Country Maid, II, 483.
The Covering Blue, V, 121.
THE CRAFTY FARMER (No 283), V, 128-31.
The Crafty Miller, V, 128.
The Crafty Ploughboy, V, 129.
The Creel, or, Bonny May, V, 121.
The Croodin Doo, I, 151; V, 209.
The Croodlin Doo, I, 151.
CROW AND PIE (No 111), H, 478 f.
The Crowdin Don, I, 498.
THE CRUEL BROTHER (No 11), I, 141-51, 496-8;
H, 498; IH, 499; IV, 449; V, 208, 286. I, 66 n.,
155, 383 n., 436; II, 298.
The Cruel Brother, or, the Bride's Testament, I,
141.
The Cruel Knight, II, 288.
Cruel Lammikin, II, 320.
THE CRUEL MOTHER (No 20), I, 218-27, 604 f.; H,
500 f.; Ill, 502; IV, 451; V, 211 f., 287. I, 230.
The Cruel Sister, I, 118; IV, 447.
Cruel William, H, 83.
428
INDEX OF BALLAD TITLES
The Cruelty of Barbara Allen, II, 276.
The Cunning Clerk, V, 121.
THE DAEMON LOVER (No 243). See JAMES HARRIS.
The Dainty Downby, V, 153.
Dame Oliphant, or, Willie o Douglass-dale, II, 406.
Davie Faw, IV, 61.
Dead Maid's Land, V, 259.
Death and the Lady, II, 204.
The Death of John Seton, IV, 51.
Death of Lord Rannal, V, 209.
Death of Lord Warriston, IV, 28.
THE DEATH OF PARCY REED (No 193), IV, 24-8,
520 f.
THE DEATH OF QUEEN JANE (No 170), HI, 372-6;
V, 245 f., 298.
The Death of the Countess of Aboyne, IV, 309 n.,
311.
The Deil's Courting, I, 6.
The Deil's Courtship, I, 6.
Dernie Hughie, II, 480.
The Devil and the Scold, V, 305.
Devonshire's Noble Duel with Lord Danby, in the
year 1687, IV, 110.
Diabolus et Virgo, V, 283.
DICK o THE Cow (No 185), III, 461-8. HI, 475
n.; IV, 1.
Dick of the Cow, An excelent Old Song cald, HE,
461.
The Disconsolate Lady, II, 424.
A Discourse betwixt (between) a young Woman and
the Elphin Knight, I, 6, 20.
The Distressed Ship-Carpenter, IV, 360, 369.
Diverus and Lazarus, II, 10.
DIVES AND LAZARUS (No 56), II, 10-12, 510; LTI,
507 f.; IV, 462; V, 220, 292.
Donald M'Queen's Flight wi Lizie Menzie, V, 305 f.
Donald of the Isles (= Glasgow Peggie), IV, 270.
Donald of the Isles (= Lizie Lindsay), IV, 255.
The Douglas Tragedy, I, 88, 91, 96, 99, 489, 492;
H, 170 n., 457 n.; in, 497; IV, 64, and n., 426.
Douglass Dale, II, 406.
Dowie Banks of Yarrow, IV, 160.
The Dowie Den in Yarrow, IV, 160.
The Dowie Dens, IV, 160.
The Dowy Dens, non-traditional ballad, IV, 163.
The Dowie Dens o Yarrow (= The Water o Gamrie),
IV, 178.
The Dowie Dens of Yarrow, IV, 160, 522.
The Dowie Downs o Yarrow, IV, 160.
The Dowie Glens of Yarrow, IV, 160, 177 b.
The Dowy Houms o Yarrow, IV, 160.
The Dragoon and Peggy, V, 172.
The Drowned Lady, I, 118.
The Drowned Lovers, I, 372, and n., 435; LI, 240;
IV, 185.
Drowsy Lane, I, 300.
DBUMCLOG (LOUDON HILL) (No 205), IV, 105.
The Drunkard's Legacy, V, 12, 19 f.
DUGALL QUIN (No 294), V, 165 f., 305 f.
The Duke of Athol, IV, 299.
Duke of Athole's Gates, IV, 150.
(The) Duke (o) of Athol's Nourice, IV, 150.
THE DUKE OF ATHOLE'S NURSE (No 212), IV,
150-5. IV, 161, 178.
The Duke of Bedford, V, 298.
THE DUKE OF GORDON'S DAUGHTER (N 237), IV,
332-8; V, 273.
The Duke of Gordon's Daughters, IV, 332.
The Duke of Gordon's Three Daughters, IV, 332, 335.
Duke of Perth's Three Daughters, I, 170.
The Duke's Daughter's Cruelty, II, 500, 501.
DURHAM FIELD (No 159), III, 282-7; V, 297. Ill,
352.
Earl Bichet, IV, 460.
Earle Bodwell, III, 399.
EARL BOTHWELL (No 174), III, 399-401; V, 247.
Earl Bran, I, 88; IV, 444.
EARL BRAND (No 7), I, 88-105, 489-93; II, 498;
in, 497 f.; IV, 443-5; V, 207, 285 f. I, 67,
93, 95, and n., 106, 178, 496; II, 170 n., 240;
IV, 64.
EARL CRAWFORD (No 229), IV, 276-80; V, 301.
Earl Lithgow, II, 457.
Earl Marshall, III, 257; IV, 498.
THE EARL OF ABOYNE (No 235), IV, 311-21; V,
270-2, 301 f. IV, 355.
Earl of Aboyne, IV, 311.
The Earl o Boyn, IV, 311.
The Earl o Bran, IV, 443 f.
The Earl of Douglas and Dame Oliphant, LT, 406.
THE EARL OF ERROL (No 231), IV, 282-91; V,267-
70.
Earl of Errol and Lady Catherine Carnegie, Ballad
of Gilbert, IV, 289.
Earl of Essex, V, 145.
Earl of Hume, IV, 270.
THE EARL OF MAR'S DAUGHTER (No 270), V,
38-42.
The Earl of Rosslyn's Daughter, I, 414.
THE EARL OF WESTMORELAND (No 177), III, 416-
23, V, 299. HI, 402, 408.
Earle of Westmorelande, HI, 416.
The Earl of Winton's Daughter, IV, 291.
Earl Patrick, IV, 375.
Earl Patrick and Burd Isabel, IV, 417.
Earl Patrick Graham, II, 17.
Earl Patricke Spensse, II, 17.
Earl Richard (= Young Hunting) II, 142.
Earl Richard (=The Knight and Shepherd's Daugh
ter), 1,67 n.; 11,457.
Earl Richard's Daughter, IV, 400.
Earl Richard, the Queen's Brother, H, 457.
Earl Richmond, IV, 492.
Earl Robert, II, 284.
EARL ROTHES (No 297), V, 170.
Earl Walter, ballad of Mrs Hampden Pye, II, 83.
INDEX OF BALLAD TITLES
429
Earlington's Daughter, IV, 445 b.
Earlistown, IV, 109.
Eastmuir King, II, 296.
The Eastmure King and the Westmure King, II,
51 n., 296.
Edinburgh castle, towne and tower, fragment, V, 202.
Edom of Achendoon, V, 247.
EDOM o GORDON (CAPTAIN CAR), (No 178), III,
423-38, 520; IV, 513-15; V, 247 f. IV, 44, 64.
EDWARD (No. 13), 1, 167-70, 501; II, 499; III, 499;
V, 209, 287. I, 143, 155, 437, 446.
The Egyptian Laddy, IV, 61.
The Elfin Knicht, I, 6.
THE ELFIN KNIGHT (No 2), I, 6-20, 484 f.; II, 495
f.; Ill, 496; IV, 439 f.; V, 205 f., 284. I, 23 n.,
178 n., 283.
Elfrida and Sir James of Perth, IV, 156.
Elisa Bailly, V, 265.
The Enchanted Ring, II, 317.
EPPIE MORRIE (No 223), IV, 239 f.; V, 262. IV,
232, 245.
Eppie Norrie, V, 262 b.
ERLINTON (No 8), I, 106-11; III, 498 f.; IV, 445-7.
I, 88, and n., 93, 178.
Errol's Place, IV, 282.
FAIR ANNIE (No 62), II, 63-83, 511; IV, 463; V,
220. II, 180 n.; IV, 409.
Fair Annie and Sweet Willie, II, 179.
Fair Annie of Lochroyan, II, 17, 100.
Fair Anny, II, 213.
Fair Eleanor's Tragedy, II, 180; III, 509 b.
Fair Ellen, V, 220.
THE FAIR FLOWER OF NORTHUMBERLAND (No 9),
I, 111-18, 493; II, 498; III, 499; V, 207 f. I,
49 n., 432, 456 n.; 111,351.
Fair Helen of Kirconnell, II, 429.
Fair Isabell of Rochroyall, II, 213.
FAIR JANET (No 64), H, 100-11; III, 508; IV,
464-6; V, 222, 292. I, 96; II, 113, and n., 137,
499; III, 381, 497 b; IV, 39, 411, 471.
Fair Janet and Sweet William, II, 100.
Fair Mabel of Wallington, II, 309.
Fair Margaret ( = Child Waters), II, 83.
Fair Margaret (= Proud Lady Margaret), I, 425.
FAIR MARGARET AND SWEET WILLIAM (No 74) , II,
199-203; V, 224 f., 293. I, 96; II, 156, 180, 204,
205, 214, 288.
Fair Margaret's Misfortune (Misfortunes), II, 199,
and n., 203.
FAIR MARY OF WALLINGTON (No 91), II, 309-17,
513; III, 515; IV, 479 f.; V, 227-9. II, 126 n.,
127, 377.
Fair Orange Green (= Jamie Douglas), IV, 90.
A fair pretty maiden she sat on her bed, IV, 439.
The Fairy Court, I, 335.
The Fairy Knight, I, 6, 178 n.
The False Knight, I, 20, 485.
The False Knight Outwitted, I, 22.
THE FALSE LOVER WON BACK (No 218), IV, 209-
11.
False Sir John, I, 22.
THE FAMOUS FLOWER OF SERVING-MEN (No 106),
II, 428-32; III, 518; IV, 492. II, 501.
The Famous Flower of Serving-men, or, The Lady
turned Serving-man, II, 431.
The Famous Sea-Fight between Captain Ward and
the Rainbow, V, 145.
The Famous Victories of Henry Fifth, ILT, 322 n.
THE FARMER'S CURST WIFE (No 278), V, 107 f.,
305.
The Farmer's Old Wife, V, 107.
Fa'se Footrage, II, 296.
FAUSE FOODRAGE (No 89), II, 296-301, 513; III,
515; IV, 479. II, 51 n., 303; III, 430.
THE. FAUSE KNIGHT UPON THE ROAD (No 3), I,
20-22, 485; II, 496; III, 496; IV, 440.
The Fause Lord, II, 63.
The Fause Lover, IV, 209.
Fause Sir John and May Colvin, I, 22.
Fine Flowers in the Valley, I, 218, 227.
Fine Flowers of the Valley, I, 141.
THE FIRE OF FRENDRAUGHT (No 196), IV, 39-49,
521 f.; V, 251, 300.
Flodden Ffeilde, Ffloden Ffeeld, Flowden Feilde,
III, 353, 361.
FLODDEN FIELD (No 168), III, 351-62; IV, 507; V,
298. Ill, 294, 332; IV, 36.
The Flower of Northumberland, I, 111.
The Flowers of Edinburgh, V, 153.
For I '11 cut my green coat a foot above my knee,
fragment, V, 202.
The French Galley, V, 135.
The French Gallic (Galolee), V, 135.
Frennet Hall, non-traditional ballad, IV, 39.
The Friar, V, 100.
The Friar and Fair Maid, V, 100.
THE FRIAR IN THE WELL (No 276), V, 100-3. HI,
122.
The Fryar and the Maid, V, 100.
The Fryer servd in his kind, V, 100.
The Fryer well fitted, V, 100, 103.
The Gaberlunyre Man, V, 109, 115, 116.
The Gaberlunzie Laddie, or, The Beggar's Bride,
V, 116, 305.
Galla Water, IV, 270.
The Gallant Grahams, IV, 78.
THE GARDENER (No 219), IV, 212-14; V, 258-60.
IV, 210.
The Gardener Lad, IV, 212.
Gay Gos Hawk, IV, 483 b.
THE GAY GOSHAWK (No 96), II, 355-67; LTI, 517;
IV, 482-6; V, 234, 296. I, 247; V, 6.
GEORDIE (No 209), IV, 123-42. IV, 55, 351, 370.
Geordie Lukely (Lukelie), IV, 123, 127.
THE GEORGE ALOE AND THE SWEEPSTAKE (No 285),
V, 133-5. V, 136.
430
INDEX OF BALLAD TITLES
George of Oxford, The Life and Death of, IV, 126,
141 f.
George Stoole, a lamentable new ditty made upon
the death of a worthy gentleman named, etc., IV,
126 f., 140 f.
A GEST OF ROBYN HODE (No 117), III, 39-89, 518
f.; IV, 496 f.; V, 240, 297. I, 257 n.; U, 13; III,
16, 22, 96, 103, 108, 109, 116, and n., 121 n., 129,
130, 159, 191, 194, 197, 220, 223, 227.
GET UP AND BAR THE DOOR (No 275), V, 96-9, 281,
304.
The Ghost and Sailor, II, 234.
Gight's Lady, IV, 123.
GIL BRKNTON (No 5), I, 62-81, 489; II, 498; III,
497; IV, 442 f.; V, 207, 285. I, 268; IV, 214,
276
Giles Collins (Collin), III, 515; V, 225.
Giles Collins and Lady Annie, III, 514.
Giles Collins and Proud Lady Anna, II, 279.
Gill Morice, Gil Morrice, II, 263, 377.
Gillnokie, III, 363.
The Gipsey Davy, IV, 61.
The Gipsy Countess, IV, 62.
Give him flowers enow, palmer, give him flowers
enow, fragment, V, 202.
GLASGERION (No 67), II, 136-42, 611 f.; HI, 509;
IV, 468; V, 293. II, 101, 144; V, 220.
GLASGOW PEGGIE (No 228), IV, 270-5; V, 266 f.
Glen Skeeny, IV, 468 a.
Glenkindie (-kindy), II, 136, 368; IV, 468. I, 23 n.
GLENLOGIE, OR, JEAN o BETHELNIE (No 238), IV,
338-46; V, 273, 302.
Glenogie, IV, 338.
God be wi the, Geordie, IV, 454.
God sen the Due hed byddin in France, fragment, V,
202.
The Golden Ball, H, 346; V, 201, 233.
The Golden Key, II, 346.
THE GOLDEN VANITY; OR, THE Low LANDS Low
(THE SWEET TRINITY) (No 286), V, 135 ff., 305.
The Gordons and the Grants, IV, 49.
The Goulden Vanitie (-tee), V, 135, 305.
The Gowans sae Gay, I, 22.
Greeme and Bewick, IV, 144.
The Great Bull of Bendy-law, V, 203.
THE GREAT SILKIE OF SULE SKERRY (No 113), II,
494; III, 518; IV, 495. H, 496.
The Green Broomfield, I, 390 n.
Greenland, V, 148.
THE GREY COCK; OR, SAW YOU MY FATHER? (No
248), IV, 389 f.; V, 302. IV, 415.
Gude Earl Brand and Auld Carle Hude, I, 489 f.
GUDE WALLACE (No 157), in, 265-75; V, 242 f.,
11,513; 111,179, 191.
Guye of Gisborne, III, 89.
The Gypsie Loddy, IV, 61.
THE GYPSY LADDIE (No 200), IV, 61-74, 622; V,
252 f., 300. IV, 266; V, 306.
The Hagg Worm, II, 503.
The Hangman's Tree, V, 296.
Hardyknute, II, 296.
The Haughs o Crondale, HI, 317 n. ; IV, 78.
The Haughs o Yarrow, recent ballad, IV, 163.
Hayrlau, The Battel of the, III, 317.
He steps full statly on ye stre[et], fragment, V,
202.
He took a sword in every hand, fragment, V, 203.
The Heir of Lin, V, 11.
THE HEIR OF LINNE (No 267), V, 11-20. I, 455.
The Heiress of Northumberland, V, 207.
Helen, IV, 423.
HENRY MARTYN (No 250), IV, 393-6; V, 302.
Hero and Leander, Tragedy of, IV, 186.
Hey wi the rose and the lindie, O, I, 218.
The High Banks o Yarrow, I, 244.
The Highwayman Outwitted, V, 129.
HIND ETIN (No 41), I, 360-71, 508; II, 506; HI,
606; IV, 459; V, 215. I, 340, 450, 488 a; IV,
440.
Hind Henry, II, 302.
HIND HORN (No 17), I, 187-208, 502-4, 508; II,
499 f.; Ill, 501 f.; IV, 450 f.; V, 210 f., 287.
I, 255, 455, 456 n., 459; II, 317 ; III, 179, 188;
IV, 401.
Hindhorn, I, 187.
HOBIE NOBLE (No 189), IV, 1-4 III, 476, and n.
Hold up, hold up your hands so high (=Maid freed
from the Gallows), IV, 482 a.
THE HOLY NUNNERY (No 303), V, 179-81.
The Honour of a London Prentice, III, 608.
The House-Carpenter, IV, 361.
Hugh of Lincoln, III, 233.
Hugh Spencer, III, 275. II, 377, 439.
HUGH SPENCER'S FEATS IN FRANCE (No 158),
HI, 275-82; IV, 499; V, 243. H, 441; IV,
231 b.
Hughie Graham, IV, 8.
HUGHIE GRAME (No 191), IV, 8-15, 618-20; V, 300.
HI, 367 n., 471 n.; IV, 126.
Hughie the Graeme, IV, 8.
THE HUNTING OF THE CHEVIOT (No 162), HI,
303-15; IV, 502; V, 244, 297. HI, 292 n.,
295.
Huntingtower, IV, 299.
Hunttis of Che vet, III, 292 n., 303.
Hynd (Hynde) Horn, I, 187, 503.
Hynde Etin, I, 360.
I had six lovers over the sea (= Captain Wedder-
burn's Courtship), HI, 507 a.
1 11 no ly neist the wa, I, 414.
I 'U wager, I '11 wager, I, 390.
I sowd the seeds of love, V, 259.
Inter Diabolus et Virgo, V, 283.
Irish Dragoons, V, 172.
Isaac-a-Bell and Hugh the Graeme, I, 208.
It 's braw sailing here, V, 259.
INDEX OF BALLAD TITLES
431
It was an old tale, ten thousand times told, frag
ment, V, 202.
It was the friar of orders gray, fragment, V, 201.
Jack, the Little Scot, II, 377.
Jacky, my son, V, 209.
James V and the Tinker, V, 73 n.
JAMES GRANT (No 197), IV, 49 f.; V, 251.
JAMES HARRIS (THE DAEMON LOVER) (No 243),
IV, 360-9, 624.
James Hately (Hatelie), IV, 370.
JAMES HATLEY (No 244), IV, 370-5.
James Herries, IV, 360. IV, 390.
JAMIE DOUGLAS (No 204), IV, 90-105. IV, 276.
Jamie o' Lee, II, 441; III, 518; IV, 370.
Jamie Telfer in the fair Dodhead, V, 249.
JAMIE TELFER OF THE FAIR DODHEAD (No 190),
IV, 4-8, 518; V, 249-51, 300.
Janet, II, 112.
JEAX o BETHELNIE (No 238). See GLEKLOGIE.
Jean o Bethelnie's Love for Sir G. Gordon, IV, 338.
JELLON GRAME (No 90), II, 302-8, 513; III, 515;
IV, 479; V, 226 f., 295. II, 240, 298, 368, 378,
412; IV, 35 n.
Jellon Grame and Lillie Flower, II, 302.
THE JEW'S DAUGHTER. (SiR HUGH) (No 155),
HI, 233. II, 13; V, 241.
Jo Janet, II, 457.
Jock of Hazeldean, Scott's, V, 160.
Jock o Hazelgreen, V, 159.
JOCK o THE SIDE (No 187), III, 475-84. n, 240;
III, 472 n., 485, 486; IV, 1 n.
Jock Sheep, II, 480.
Jock Sheep, or, the Maiden Outwitted, II, 480.
JOCK THE LEG AND THE MERRY MERCHANT (No
282), V, 126-8.
The Jockey's Lamentation, I, 7.
John a Side, III, 475.
John and William, I, 435.
John Armstrong, The Death of, III, 363.
John Arm-strongs last Good-Night, III, 362, 371;
IV, 36.
John (Johnie) Blunt, V, 96.
JOHN DORY (No 284), V, 131 f.
John Lankin, V, 295.
John o Cockielaw, IV, 495.
JOHN OF HAZELGREEN (No 293), V, 159-64.
John o the Side, III, 475.
John Tamson, V, 1.
John the Little Scot, IV, 491 ; V, 234.
JOHN THOMSON AND THE TURK (No 266), V, 1-10,
279 f.
John Tom sou and Jakaman his wife, A merry jest
of, V, 8.
Johnie Armstrang, III, 362.
JOHNIE ARMSTRONG (No 169), HI, 362-72, 520;
IV, 507; V, 298. IV, 10, 80; V, 187 n.
Johnny Annstrong's last Good-Night, III, 362, 372.
II, 276.
Johnnie Barbour, II, 398.
Johnnie Brad, III, 1.
Johnie Buneftan, II, 377.
JOHNIE COCK (No 114), III, 1-12; IV, 495 f. IV,
163.
Johny Cox, III, 1.
Johnnie Faa, IV, 522.
Johnnie Faa and the Countess o Cassilis, The rare
Ballad of, IV, 62.
Johnnie Faa the Gipsy Laddie, IV, 61.
Johnie of Braidisbank, III, 1; IV, 495.
Johnie of Breadislee, III, 1.
Johnie of Cockerslee, III, 1.
Johnie o Cocklesmnir, III, 1.
JOHNIE SCOT (No 99), II, 377-98; IV, 486-91; V,
234 f. IV, 111, 397; V, 284.
Johnston Hey and Young Caldwell, II, 288.
THE JOLLY BEGGAR (No 279), V, 109-116.
The Jolly Beggar-man, V, 109.
The Jolly Beggars, V, 109.
The Jolly Goshawk, II, 355.
The Jolly Harper, IV, 16.
The Jolly Hind Squire, I, 425.
Jolly Janet, I, 425.
THE JOLLY FINDER OF WAKEFIELD (No 124), III,
129-132. Ill, 121, 132.
Joseph was an old man, II, 1.
The Jovial Beggarman, V, 109.
The Jovial Hunter of Bromsgrove, I, 208.
The Jovial Tinker and Farmer's Daughter, V, 109.
JUDAS (No 23), I, 242-4; V, 288.
Kate Carnegie, IV, 282.
KATHARINE JAFFRAY (No 221), IV, 216-31, 523;
V, 260 f .
Katherine Jaffarie, IV, 216.
THE KEACH i THE CREEL (No 281), V, 121-6.
Kellyburnbraes, V, 107.
Kemp Owayne, I, 306.
KEMP OWYNE (No 34), I, 306-13; II, 602-5; III,
504; IV, 454; V, 213 f., 290. I, 315 f.
Kempion, I, 306.
Kempy Kane, I, 300.
KEMPY KAY (KAYE) (No 33), I, 300-6; V, 213,
289.
Kertonha, or, The Fairy Court, I, 335.
King Alfred and the Shepherd, III, 165; V, 73.
King and Shepperd, V, 73 n.
A King and a Shepherd, A merry songe of, V,
73 n.
King and Tanner, V, 68.
The King and the Bishop, I, 404; IV, 459 b.
The King and the Forrester, V, 74, and n.
The King and the Tanner, V, 68.
The Kinge and the Tanner, A merie songe of, V,
67 f.
The King and the Tinkler, V, 73 n.
KING ARTHUR AND KING CORNWALL (No 30), I,
274-88, 507; II, 502; in, 503. I, 67; H, 240.
432
INDEX OF BALLAD TITLES
King Edelbrode, V, 203.
King Edward the Fourth and a Tanner of Tamworth,
Percy's ballad, V, 68, and n.
KING EDWARD THE FOURTH AND A TANNER OF
TAMWORTH (No 273), V, 67-87, 303.
KING ESTMERE (No 60), n, 49-55, 510 f.; Ill, 508;
IV, 463. II, 57; III, 18 n.
KING HENRY (No 32), I, 297-300; II, 502 ; IV,
454; V, 289. I, 292, 301.
KING HENRY THE FIFTH'S CONQUEST OF FRANCE
(No 164), III, 320-6; V, 245.
KING JAMES AND BROWN (No 180), III, 442-6.
III, 400.
King James and the Tinker (Tinkler), V, 73, and n.
King James the First and the Tinker (Fortunate
Tinker), V, 73 n.
Kinge John and Bishoppe, I, 403.
King John and the Abbot, Percy's ballad, I, 404.
King John and the Abbot of Canterbury, I, 403.
1,1.
KING JOHN AND THE BISHOP (No 45), I, 403-14,
508; II, 506 f.; IV, 459; V, 216, 291.
King Knapperty, I, 300.
King Malcolm and Sir Colvin, II, 62.
The King of Fairies, I, 496 f .
The King of Scots and Andrew Browne, III, 445.
KING ORFEO (No 19), I, 215-17, 504; H, 500; III,
502; IV, 451; V, 211. I, 339.
King William and his Forrester, V, 74 n.
King William going a hunting, V, 74 n.
THE KING'S DISGUISE AND FRIENDSHIP WITH ROBIN
HOOD (No 151), III, 220-2. Ill, 133 n.
THE KING'S DOCHTER LADY JEAN (No 52), I,
450-4.
KINMONT WILLIE (No 186), III, 469-74; IV, 516.
II, 127, 240; III, 463; V, 187 n.
The Kitchen-boyes Songe, A ballett, V, 34.
THE KITCHIE-BOY (No 252), IV, 400-8; V, 277 f.
IV, 451; V, 11 n., 34.
The Knicht o Archerdale, I, 425.
The Knight and Lady, II, 479.
THE KNIGHT AND SHEPHERD'S DAUGHTER (No
110), II, 457-77; IV, 492^; V, 237-9. I, 67,
292, 340, 446; II, 84, 170 n., 399; III, 265 n.;
IV, 423.
Knight and a fair virgin, ballad, or " sonnet " of a,
I, 292.
The Knight and the Chief's Daughter, II, 497.
The Knight in Jesuite, V, 34 n.
THE KNIGHT OF LIDDESDALE (No 160), III, 288.
THE KNIGHT'S GHOST (No 265), IV, 437 f.
Knip Knap, V, 213.
THE LADS OF WAMPHRAY (No 184), III, 458-60,
520. IV, 34.
LADY ALICE (No 85), II, 279 f.; Ill, 514 f.; V,
225 f.
Lady Anne, recent ballad, I, 218 n., 227.
Lady Barbara Erskine's Lament, IV, 91 n.
Lady Daisy (Dayisie), V, 29.
LADY DIAMOND (No 269), V, 29-38, 303. II, 244.
Lady Diamond, the King's Daughter, V, 29.
Lady Douglas and Blackwood, IV, 90.
LADY ELSPAT (No 247), IV, 387 f.
LADY ISABEL (No 261), IV, 429-31. I, 432; IV,
426.
LADY ISABEL AND THE ELF-KNIGHT (No 4), I, 22-
62, 485-9; II, 496-8; III, 496 f.; IV, 440-2;
V, 206 f., 285. I, 13, 112 n., 113, 123 n., 432.
The Lady Isabella's Tragedy, V, 34, and n., 203.
Lady Jane (=Fair Annie), II, 63.
The Lady Jane (=The Death of Queen Jane), III,
372.
Lady Maiserye, V, 222 a.
LADY MAISRY (No 65), II, 112-26; III, 608; IV,
466-8; V, 222 f., 292. II, 100, 103, 204, 264, 309
n.,406; IV, 339 n.; V, 34.
Lady Maisry (=The Maid freed from the Gallows),
11,346.
Lady Maisry (=Mary Hamilton), III, 379.
Lady Margaret (=Earl Brand), I, 88.
Lady Margaret (= Child Waters), II, 83.
Lady Margaret has bound her silken snood, frag
ment, V, 203.
Lady Margerie (= Jellon Grame), II, 302.
Lady Margery, II, 112; IV, 466.
Lady Marjory, II, 112.
Lady Mary Ann, I, 226.
Lady Mazery, II, 309.
Lady Ouncebell, II, 204.
THE LADY OF ARNGOSK (No 224), IV, 241-3. IV,
232.
The Lady of Livenston, V, 227.
The Lady turnd Serving-Man, II, 429 n.
The Ladye o the Drum, IV, 322.
The Lady's Policy, or, The Baffled Knight, II, 479.
The Laidley Worm of Spindleston Heughs, I, 308,
311, 316; II, 502-5.
THE LAILY WORM AND THE MACHREL OF THE SEA
(No 36), I, 315 f.; V, 214 f., 290.
The Laird of Blackwood, IV, 90, 525 b.
THE LAIRD o DRUM (No 236), IV, 322-32; V,
272 f.
The Laird of Geight (Gigh), or Gae, IV, 123.
Laird of Gight, IV, 123.
The Laird of Kellary, V, 172.
The Laird o Keltic, V, 153.
The Laird of Knotington, IV, 191.
The Laird of Laminton, IV, 216.
Laird o Leys, IV, 355.
The Laird o Linne, V, 11.
The Laird o Livingstone, II, 309.
The Laird of Lochinvar, IV, 191.
Laird o Lochnie, IV, 191.
THE LAIRD o LOGIE (No 182), III, 449-56, 520;
IV, 515 f.; V, 299 f.
The Laird o Logie, or, May Margaret, III, 449.
(The) Laird of Ochiltree, IV, 191, 5 1 1>.
INDEX OF BALLAD TITLES
433
The Laird o Ochiltree Wa's, IV, 191.
The Laird of Roslin's Daughter, I, 414.
The Laird o the Dainty Downby, V, 153.
The Laird o the Drum, IV, 322.
THE LAIRD OP WARISTON (No 194), IV, 28-33.
III, 381.
(The) Laird of Waristoun (Wariestoun), IV, 28.
Lairde Rowlande, or Ronalde, V, 208.
Lambert Linkin, II, 320.
Lambkin, II, 320.
The Lament of the Border Widow, II, 429, 430.
Lament of the Queen's Marie, IV, 509.
The Lamentation of Quene Jane, III, 372.
The Lamenting Lady, etc., II, 68 n.
Lamerlinkin, II, 320.
LAMKIN (No 93), II, 320-42, 513 f.; in, 515; IV,
480 f.; V, 229-31, 295. I, 201; II, 243.
Lammikin, II, 320.
Lang Johnny Moir, IV, 396.
LANG JOHNNY MORE (No 251), IV, 396-400, 524.
II, 378.
The Lard of Drum, V, 272.
The Lass of Aughrim, II, 213.
The Lass of Lochroyan, II, 213; IV, 471.
The Lass of Ocram, III, 510 f .
The Lass of Philorth, IV, 309 n., 347.
THE LASS OF ROCH ROYAL (No 76), II, 213-26;
IH, 510-12; IV, 471-4; V, 225, 294. II, 288;
IV, 186.
The Leaves of Lind, I, 63.
LEESOME BRAND (No 15), I, 177-84, 501 f.; II,
499; III, 500; IV, 450; V, 209, 287. I, 33 n., 66,
90 n., 92; II, 101 n., 406, 412, 416; III, 501.
Leezie Lindsay, IV, 255.
The Life and Death of George of Oxford, IV, 141.
The Life and Death of Sir Hugh of the Grime, IV,
8.
The Linkin Ladie, IV, 355.
Little Harry Hughes and the Duke's Daughter, III,
233.
LITTLE JOHN A BEGGING (No 142), III, 188-90.
Little John and the Four Beggers, III, 188. Ill,
133.
The Little Man, I, 329.
Little Mousgrove and the Lady Barnet, II, 242, 259.
Little Musgrave (Massgrove), II, 242.
LITTLE MUSGRAVE AND LADY BARNARD (No 81),
II, 242-60, 513; IV, 476-8; V, 226. II, 137, 158,
240, 260, 264.
Little Musgrave and the Lady Barnard, II, 242.
Little Mushiegrove, II, 242.
Little Sir Grove, II, 242.
Little Sir William, V, 241.
Little wee toorin dow, I, 498, 500; IV, 450.
Lizie (Lizae) Baillie, IV, 266.
LIZIE LINDSAY (No 226), IV, 255-66, 524; V, 264 f.
II, 84; V, 116.
LIZIE WAN (No 51), I, 447-9. I, 167, 168, 437,
446.
VOL. v. 55
The Loch o the Loanie, I, 504.
Loch-in-var, IV, 216.
Lochinvar, Scott's ballad, IV, 218.
THE LOCHMABEN HARPER (No 192), IV, 16-23; V,
300.
Logan Water, or, A Lover in Captivity, IV, 184 n.
The Long-armed Duke, IV, 110.
Long Lankyn, II, 320; V, 295.
Long Lonkin (Longkin), II, 320.
Lord Aboyne, IV, 351.
Lord and Lady Errol, IV, 282.
Lord Arnwaters, IV, 115.
Lord Bangwell, I, 63.
Lord Barnabas' Lady, II, 242.
Lord Barnaby, II, 242.
Lord Barnard, II, 242.
Lord Barnett and Little Musgrave, II, 242.
Lord Bateman, II, 508. I, 455 n.
Lord Bateman, The Loving Ballad of, I, 454.
Lord Beichan and Susie Pye, I, 454.
Lord Beichim, V, 218.
Lord Bengwill, I, 62 f.
Lord Brangwill, I, 62 f.
Lord Darlington, II, 309.
Lord Delamare (Delaware), IV, 110.
LORD DELAMERE (No 207), IV, 110-15.
Lord Dernt water, IV, 115.
LORD DERWENTWATER (No 208), IV, 115-23, 622;
V, 254 f . IV, 466.
Lord Derwentwater's Death, IV, 115.
Lord Dingwall, I, 63 f.
Lord Donald, I, 151.
Lord Douglas, I, 88.
Lord Douglas, or, The Laird of Blackwood, IV, 90.
Lord Douglas' Tragedy, I, 489 b, 492; IV, 445 b.
Lord Dunwaters, IV, 115.
Lord Garrick, IV, 61.
Lord Gregory, II, 213.
LORD INGRAM AND CHIEL WYET (No 66), II, 126-
36, 511; in, 508 f.; V, 223, 292. II, 157 n., 264.
Lord Ingram and Childe (Viat) Vyet, II, 126.
Lord Ingram and Gil Viett, II, 126.
Lord Jamie Douglas, IV, 90. I, 437.
Lord John (=The Elfin Knight), I, 6.
Lord John (=The Broomfield Hill), I, 390.
Lord John ( = Johnie Scot), II, 377.
Lord John (= Young Hunting), II, 142.
Lord John and Bird Ellen, II, 83.
Lord Johnnie Scott (Scot), II, 377, 397.
Lord John's Murder, II, 288.
Lord Lavel, II, 204.
LORD LIVINGSTON (No 262), IV, 431-3. H, 156.
LORD LOVEL (No 75), II, 204-13, 512; III, 510;
IV, 471; V, 225, 294. I, 96; II, 200, 214, 279.
LORD LUNDY (LORD WILLIAM) (No 254), IV, 411-
415.
Lord Maxwell's Goodnight, IV, 34.
LORD MAXWELL'S LAST GOODNIGHT (No 195), IV,
34-8; V, 251.
434
INDEX OF BALLAD TITLES
Lord of Learne, V, 42. I, 455 n.; H, 510.
THE LORD OF LORN AND THE FALSE STEWARD
(No 271), V, 42-58, 280 f. V, 295.
The Lord of Lorn and the Fals Steward, A pretty
ballad of, V, 42.
Lord of Lome, V, 42.
The Lord of Lome and the False Steward, V, 42.
LORD RANDAL (No 12), I, 151-66, 498-501; II,
498 f.; Ill, 499; IV, 449 f.; V, 208 f., 286. I,
168, 496.
Lord Rannal, I, 498.
Lord Revel, II, 204.
Lord Robert and Mary Florence, LT, 284.
Lord Ronald, my son, I, 151, 498 f. I, 143.
Lord Roslin's Daughter, I, 414.
Lord Salton and Auchanachie, IV, 347.
Lord Saltoun and Annachie, IV, 347.
LORD SALTOUN AND AUCHANACHIE (No 239), IV,
347-50; V, 273 f.
Lord Saunders, II, 156.
Lord Soulis, Leyden's ballad, V, 1 n.
Lord Thomas (=Lord Thomas and Fair Annet), II,
197.
Lord Thomas (= Lord Thomas and Lady Margaret),
IV, 426.
LORD THOMAS AND FAIR ANNET (No 73), II, 179-
99, 512; in, 509 f.; IV, 469-71; V, 223 f., 293.
I, 54 n., 96; II, 65, 126 n., 200, 204, 240, 244,
288; III, 381; IV, 409; V, 166.
Lord Thomas and Fair Annie, II, 63.
Lord Thomas and Fair Ellinor (Eleanor), II, 179 f.,
195; III, 509; IV, 471; V, 166.
LORD THOMAS AND LADY MARGARET (No 260),
TV, 426-9.
Lord Thomas of Winesberrie (Winsberry, Wynnes-
bury), II, 398; III, 517.
Lord Thomas of Winesberry and the King's Daugh
ter, II, 398.
Lord Thomas of Winsbury (Wynnesbury), EC, 398;
III, 517 b.
LORD THOMAS STUART (No 259), IV, 425 f.; V,
279.
Lord Travell, II, 204.
Lord Wa'yates and Auld Ingram, II, 126.
Lord William (=Fair Janet), II, 100.
Lord William (= Young Hunting), II, 142.
Lord William (=Lord Lundy), IV, 411.
LORD WILLIAM, OR, LORD LUNDY (No 254), IV,
411-15. IV, 218.
Lord Willie Douglas, II, 406.
LOUDON HILL, OR, DRUMCLOG (No 205), IV, 105-7.
Loudoun Castle, III, 423.
Love Annie, IV, 391.
Love Gregory (Gregor), n, 213.
Love in Despair, IV, 105.
Love Johny, II, 377.
Love Robbie, II, 368.
The Lovely Northerne Lasse, IV, 208 f. IV, 192.
A Lover in Captivity, IV, 184, and n.
The Lovers' Quarrel, or, Cupid's Triumph, II, 441,
456.
The Lover's Riddle, V, 216 a.
Low in the Lowlands Low, V, 135.
The Lowlands Low, V, 135.
The Lowlands of Holland, II, 317; V, 229.
The Loyal Forrister, or, Royal Pastime, V, 74 n.
A Lytell Geste of Robyn Hode, III, 39, 79.
McNachton, II, 377.
McNaughtan, II, 377.
McNaughton's Valour, II, 398.
The Maid and Fairy, V, 201 n.
The Maid and the Magpie, I, 446.
THE MAID AND THE PALMER (THE SAMARITAN
WOMAN) (No 21), I, 228-33, 504; 11,501; III,
502; IV, 451; V, 212, 288. I, 218.
THE MAID FREED FROM THE GALLOWS (No 95), II,
346-55, 514, III, 516 f.; IV, 481 f.; V, 231-4,
296. Ill, 381.
The Maid of Rygate, V, 129.
The Maid o the Cowdenknows, IV, 191.
Maiden o the Cowdenknowes, IV, 191.
The Maiden Outwitted, II, 480.
The Maidens' Song (=The Fair Flower of North
umberland), I, 111.
The Maid's Answer to the Knight's Three Ques
tions, I, 1.
The Maid's Lamentation for the loss of her true
love, V, 229.
Margaret's Ghost, Mallet's ballad, II, 199; V, 294.
Marie Hamilton, III, 379.
Marjorie and William, II, 226.
THE MARRIAGE OF SIR GAWAIN (No 31), 1, 288-96,
507; II, 502; IV, 454; V, 213,*289. I, 297 f.,
301, 315; II, 458.
MARY HAMILTON (No 173), III, 379-99; IV, 507-
13; V, 246 f., 298. I, 436; II, 14 n., 346; IV,
30 n.
Mary Miles, III, 379.
Mary-a-Row, LI, 302.
May Collean, The Historical Ballad of, I, 23 n.
May Collin (Collean), I, 22; IV, 442.
May Colven (Colvin), I, 22.
May Colvin, or, False Sir John, I, 22.
May Colvine and Fause Sir John, IV, 440 b.
May Culzean, The historical ballad of, I, 485.
May Margaret, III, 449. See The Laird o Logie.
THE MERMAID (No 289), V, 148-152. H, 19.
The Mermaid (= Clerk Colvill), I, 371.
The Merry Broomfield, or, The West Country
Wager, I, 390.
The Merry Cuckold and Kind Wife, V, 88.
A Mery Geste of Robyn Hoode and of hys Lyfe, III,
39, 81.
Mild Mary, II, 309.
Mill o Tifty's (Tiftie's) Annie, IV, 301, 302 n.
The Miller and the King's Daughter (Daughters),
1, 118.
INDEX OF BALLAD TITLES
435
The Miller's Melody, I, 118.
The Minister's Daughter of New York, I, 218.
The Minister's Dochter o Newarke, I, 226.
Montrose he had a poor shepherd, IV, 330 f.
Moss Groves, IV, 478.
THE MOTHER'S MALISON, or, CLYDE'S WATER (No
216), IV, 185-91; V, 256 f., 301. IV, 117, 415,
471 b.
The Murder of the King of Scots, HI, 399.
Musleboorrowe ffeild, III, 378.
MUSSELBURGH FIELD (No 172), III, 378 f.; IV,
507.
My bonny Lizzie Baillie, IV, 266.
My lady ye shall be, V, 153.
My love Annie 's very bonny, IV, 184 a.
My love, she lives in Lincolnshire, IV, 416.
My Wee Croodling Doo, IV, 450 a.
Nanghton's Valour, II, 398.
THE NEW SLAIN KNIGHT (No 263), IV, 434 f.; V,
279.
The Noble Ffisherman, or, Robin Hoods great Prize,
III, 211.
THE NOBLE FISHERMAN, OR, ROBIN HOOD'S PRE
FERMENT (No 148), in, 211-13. Ill, 95, 208 n.,
227; IV, 393.
A Noble Riddle Wisely Expounded, or, The Maid's
Answer to the Knight's Three Questions, I, 1.
The Norfolk Maiden, V, 129.
Norham, down by Norham, 1, 493, 495.
A Northern Ballet (Ballad) (= Johnie Armstrong),
III, 362.
NORTHUMBERLAND BETRAYED BY DOUGLAS (No
176), III, 408-16; V, 299. II, 49 n.; Ill, 402,
406.
Northumberland Betrayd by Dowglas, III, 408.
The Nut-Brown Bride, II, 179.
O Alva hills is bonny, fragment, V, 202, 307.
O come you from the earth she said, fragment, V,
203.
O my bonie, bonie may, IV, 330.
O saw ye my father, IV, 389.
O, the twelfth day of December, IV, 507.
Ocbiltree Walls, IV, 207 b.
Of a Knight and a Fair Virgin, I, 292.
Oh, open the door, Lord Gregory, II, 213.
The Old Abbot and King Olfrey, I, 404; IV, 459.
The Old Man and his Three Sons, I, 208.
OLD ROBIN OF PORTINGALE (No 80), II, 240-2, 513;
III, 514; IV, 476; V, 225, 286 b, 295.
Old Wichet and his Wife, V, 88.
One king's daughter said to anither, III, 500.
OUR GOODMAN (No 274), V, 88-95, 281, 303 f. H,
158.
The Outlandish Knight, I, 22; V, 207 a.
THE OUTLAW MURRAY (No 305), V, 185-200, 307.
Outlaw Murray, an antient historical ballad, V, 185.
Outlaw Murray, An old song called, V, 185.
The Outlaw Murray, The Sang (Song), of, V, 185.
The Over Courteous Knight, II, 479.
A Paradox (= Captain Wedderburn's Courtship), V,
216.
Parcy Reed, IV, 520 b.
Parcy Reed and the Three False Halls, A song of,
IV, 24.
Peggie's gane oer the seas, a' dressed in red, V, 172.
Peggy Irvine, V, 301 f.
Perthshire Tredgey, V, 217.
The place where my love Johnny dwells, IV, 209.
The Politick Maid, n, 491. II, 480; V, 239 b.
The Politick Squire, or, The Highwaymen catch'd in
their own play, V, 129.
The Pollitick Begger-Man, V, 110, 113.
Pretty Peggy, V, 172.
The Prickly Bush, V, 233.
PRINCE HEATHEN (No 104), II, 424-6; V, 296.
PRINCE ROBERT (No 87), II, 284-7; V, 295. 1, 96.
PROUD LADY MARGARET (No 47), I, 425-31; IV,
460; V, 291. I, 1; II, 156, 227; V, 203.
The Provost's Dochter, I, 111.
QUEEN ELEANOR'S CONFESSION (No 156), HI, 257-
64; IV, 498 f.; V, 241 f., 297.
Queen Elizabeth's Champion, or, Great Britain's
Glory, etc., V, 145.
Queen Jeanie, III, 372.
The Queen of all Sluts, The Queen of Sluts, modern
"ballad," I, 301, and n.; V, 289.
THE QUEEN OF ELF AN 's NOURICE (No 40), I, 358-
60; II, 505 f.; Ill, 505 f.; IV, 459; V, 215, 290.
The Queen of England, III,. 257.
THE QUEEN OF SCOTLAND (No 301), V, 176 f
The Queen of the Fairies, III, 504.
Queen's Marie, III, 380.
The Queen's Marie (Mary), HI, 379; IV, 507, 513.
The Queen's Maries (Marys), HI, 379; IV, 611 f.;
V, 299.
Quin Mary's Marreys, V, 246.
The Rantan Laddy, V, 274.
THE RANTIN LADDIE (No 240), IV, 351-5; V, 274 f .
IV, 355.
RARE WILLIE DROWNED IN YARROW, OR, THE
WATER o GAMRIE (No 215), IV, 178-85; V, 256.
IV, 161.
Red-Cap, he was there, fragment, V, 203.
REDESDALE AND WISE WILLIAM (No 246), IV, 383-
6; V, 276 f. V, 25.
Reedisdale and Wise William, IV, 383.
Renowned Robin Hood, III, 196.
Ricadoo, V, 121.
Richard Storie (Story), IV, 291.
Richie Storie (Storrie), IV, 291.
RICHIE STORY (No 232), IV, 291-300; V, 270. H,
441; IV, 299.
Richie Tory, IV, 291.
436
INDEX OF BALLAD TITLES
Richie's (Ritchie's) Lady, IV, 291.
A Riddle Wittily Expounded, I, 1.
RIDDLES WISELY EXPOUNDED (No 1), I, 1-6, 484;
II, 495; III, 496; IV, 439; V, 205, 283.
THE RISING IN THE NORTH (No 175), III, 401-8.
II, 49 n.
Risinge in the Northe, III, 401.
Ritchie's Tory Laddie, IV, 291.
Rob Oig, IV, 243.
ROB ROY (No 225), IV, 243-54, 523; V, 262-4. IV,
232, 239; V, 165.
Rob Roy MacGregor, IV, 243.
Robin he's gane to the wude, V, 104.
Robin Hood ( = Henry Martyn), IV, 393.
Robin Hood and a Beggar, A pretty dialogue be
twixt, III, 158.
ROBIN HOOD AND ALLEN A DALE (No 138), III,
172-5. Ill, 49 n.
Robin Hood and Allin of Dale, III, 172.
ROBIN HOOD AND GUY OF GISBORNE (No 118),
III, 89-94. Ill, 42, 53, 95, 96, 102 n., 122, 141,
156.
ROBIN HOOD AND LITTLE JOHN (No 125), III, 133-
6; V, 297. Ill, 116, 130, 145.
ROBIN HOOD AND MAID MARIAN (No 150), III,
218 f., 519. Ill, 130, 133 n.
ROBIN HOOD AND QUEEN KATHERINE (No 145),
HI, 196-205. Ill, 122, 191, 194, 205, 227; V,
190.
ROBIN HOOD AND THE BEGGAR, I (No 133), III,
155-8. Ill, 116, 130, 133, 144, 178, 520.
ROBIN HOOD AND THE BEGGAR, II (No 134), III,
158-65. Ill, 130, 156, 170.
Robin Hood and the Beggar (II), The. History of,
III, 158.
ROBIN HOOD AND THE BISHOP (No 143), III, 191-3.
Ill, 133, and n., 144, 156, 178, 227.
ROBIN HOOD AND THE BISHOP OF HEREFORD (No
144), III, 193-6. Ill, 197.
ROBIN HOOD AND THE BUTCHER (No 122), III,
115-20. Ill, 108, 109, 120, 130, 133, and n., 156,
520.
ROBIN HOOD AND THE CURTAL FRIAR (No 123),
III, 120-8. Ill, 96, 108, 109, 126, 130, 178; V,
8, 126, 297.
Robin Hood and the Curtal Fryer, The Famous
Battel between, III, 120.
ROBIN HOOD AND THE GOLDEN ARROW (No 152),
III, 223-5; V, 241. Ill, 133 n., 220.
Robin Hood and the Jolly Tinker, III, 143.
ROBIN HOOD AND THE MONK (No 119), III, 94-101.
Ill, 13, 16, 42, 102, 159.
ROBIN HOOD AND THE PEDLARS (No 137), III,
170-2. in, 130, 133 n., 499.
ROBIN HOOD AND THE POTTER (No 121), III, 108-
15; IV, 497. Ill, 42, 49, 90, 95, 96, 115, 130,
137.
ROBIN HOOD AND THE PRINCE OF ARAGON (No
129), in, 147-50. Ill, 133 n., 144 n., 145.
Robin Hood and the Proud Pedlar, V, 240.
ROBIN HOOD AND THE RANGER (No 131), III,
152-4. Ill, 130, 133, 168.
ROBIN HOOD AND THE SCOTCHMAN (No 130), III,
150 f. Ill, 130, 133, and n., 145.
ROBIN HOOD AND THE SHEPHERD (No 135), III,
165-7. Ill, 109, 130, 137, 168, 198; V, 126.
Robin Hood and the Sheriff, III, 184 f.
Robin Hood and the Stranger, in, 116, 133, and n.,
144, and n., 145.
ROBIN HOOD AND THE TANNER (No 126), III, 137-
40. Ill, 121 n., 130, 133, 144.
Robin Hood and the Tanner's Daughter, I, 106, 109;
II, 416 f.
ROBIN HOOD AND THE TINKER (No 127), HI, 140-
3. Ill, 130, 137.
ROBIN HOOD AND THE VALIANT KNIGHT (No 153),
III, 225 f. UI, 104, 133 n., 220, 223.
Robin Hood, John, Scarlock, and Three Keepers, HI,
168.
ROBIN HOOD NEWLY REVIVED (No 128), III, 144-
7. Ill, 133, and n., 137, 147, 150, 154, 214.
Robin Hood rescuing the Three Squires from Not
tingham Gallows, III, 177.
Robin Hood rescuing the Widow's Three Sons from
the Sheriff, when going to be executed, III, 177.
ROBIN HOOD RESCUING THREE SQUIRES (No 140),
HI, 177-85. Ill, 122, and n., 156, 185, 188, 363
n.; V, 8, 126.
ROBIN HOOD RESCUING WILL STUTLY (No 141),
III, 185-7; IV, 497. Ill, 16, 198.
Robin Hood, Scarlet and John, III, 196.
Robin Hood, Will. Scadlock and Little John, III,
147. Ill, 144 n., 145.
ROBIN HOOD'S BIRTH, BREEDING, VALOR AND MAR
RIAGE (No 149), in, 214-17. Ill, 159, 197.
ROBIN HOOD'S CHASE (No 146), III, 205-7. Ill,
133, 198.
ROBIN HOOD'S DEATH (No. 120), III, 102-7; V,
240, 297. I, 274 n.; II, 499; III, 42, 49, 96.
Robin Hood's Death and Burial, UI, 102-7. 1, 185,
436; III, 107.
ROBIN HOOD'S DELIGHT (No 136), III, 168-70.
Ill, 130, 154, 170.
ROBIN HOOD'S GOLDEN PRIZE (No 147), III, 208-
10, 519. Ill, 122.
Robin Hood's Great Prize, III, 211.
ROBIN HOOD'S PREFERMENT. See THE NOBLE
FISHERMAN (No 148).
ROBIN HOOD'S PROGRESS TO NOTTINGHAM (No
139), III, 175-7. Ill, 49, 133, and n., 168, 198,
208.
Robin Oigg's Elopement, IV, 523.
Robin, the Kitchie-Boy, V, 29.
Robine Hood and Ffryer Tucke, III, 120. HI, 122.
Robine Hoode his Death, III, 102.
ROBYN AND GANDELEYN (No 115), III, 12-14.
ROOKHOPE RYDE (No 179), III, 439-41.
The Rose o Malindie, O, I, 218.
INDEX OF BALLAD TITLES
437
THE ROSE OF ENGLAND (No 166), III, 331-3. HI,
t 294.
Rose the Red and White Lilly (Lillie), II, 415.
ROSE THE RED AND WHITE LILY (No 103), II, 415-
24. 1, 182; II, 368, 407, 412, 499.
The Roses grow sweet aye, I, 496 f.
Rosie Ann, I, 447.
Roudesdales, IV, 383.
The Royal Frolick, or, King William and his Nobles'
Entertainment at the Farmer's House, V, 74, and
n.
The Royal Recreation (Second Part of The Royal
Frolick, etc.), V, 74, and n.
Saddle to Rags, V, 128.
The Sailor's Caution, V, 148.
The Sailor's Joy, V, 133 n.
ST. STEPHEN AND HEROD (No 22), I, 233-42, 505
f.; H, 501; III, 502 .; IV, 451 f.; V, 212, 288.
THE SAMARITAN WOMAN. See THE MAID AND
THE PALMER.
SAW YOU MY FATHER? (No 248). See THE GREY
COCK.
Scarborough Fair, II, 495 f.; IV, 440; V, 206. (Cf.
1, 17, 484 f.)
The Scotchman Outwitted, II, 483.
Scotish Field, ballad of, III, 307, 352, 354 n.
The Scottish Squire, II, 355.
The Seamans (Saylors) only Delight: Shewing the
brave fight between (the) George Aloe, the Sweep
stakes (Sweepstake), and certain French men at
sea, V, 134 f .
The Seaman's Sorrowful Bride, V, 229.
The Seamen's Distress, V, 148.
The Seamen's Song of Captain Ward, V, 143.
The Seamen's Song of Dansekar, V, 143.
The Seven Bluidy Brithers, II, 156.
Seven pretty sisters dwell in a bower, V, 207.
The Seven Sisters, or, The Leaves of Lind, I, 63.
She cares not for her daddy, V, 201.
She '11 no ly neist [the] wa, I, 414.
SHEATH AND KNIFE (No 16), I, 185-7; II, 499;
III, 500 f.; IV, 450; V, 210. I, 178.
The Shepherd and the King, V, 73.
The Shepherd's Bonny Lassy, V, 116.
The Shepherd's Boy, IV, 495.
The Shepherd's Daughter, II, 457.
Shepherd's Dochter, II, 457.
The Shepherd's Son, II, 479; IV, 495 a.
The Shipherd Boy, V, 116.
The Silly Old Man, V, 128.
SIR ALDINGAR (No 59), II, 33-48, 510; III, 508;
IV, 463; V, 292. II, 50.
Sir Andraye Barton, Knight, The Sonnge of, IV,
502.
SIR ANDREW BARTON (No 167), III, 334-50; IV,
502-7; V, 245. I, 54 n.; IV, 393; V, 143, 302.
Sir Andrew Barton, The Life and Death of, IIL, 334,
346 f.
Sir Andrew (Andro) Wood, II, 17.
SIR CAWLINE (No 61), H, 56-63, 511; III, 508;
IV, 463.
Sir Colin, II, 61.
Sir Hew, or, The Jew's Daughter, III, 233.
Sir Hugh, III, 233.
SIR HUGH, OR, THE JEW'S DAUGHTER (No 155),
III, 233-54, 519 f.; IV, 497 f.; V, 241, 297.
Sir Hugh in the Grime's Downfall, IV, 8, 15.
Sir Hugh le Blond, II, 33.
Sir Hugh the Graeme, IV, 8.
SIR JAMES THE ROSE (No 213), IV, 155-60. IV,
150; V, 245.
Sir James the Ross (de Ross), IV, 159 a.
SIR JOHN BUTLER (No 165), III, 327-330.
SIR LIONEL (No 18), I, 208-15; II, 500; IV, 451,
I, 274 n.
Sir Patrick, II, 17.
Sir Patrick Spence (Spensse), II, 17.
SIR PATRICK SPENS (No 58), II, 17-32, 610; V,
220. I, 35 n.; II, 13 n., 113 n.; IV, 376, and n.;
V, 148.
Sir Robert Bewick and the Laird Graham, A Re
markable and Memorable Song (History) of, IV,
144, 148 f .
Sir Thamas (=Erlinton), I, 111.
Sir Walter Raleigh sailing in the Low-lands, etc., V,
135, 139.
Sir William Stanley, I, 463.
Sir William Wallace, III, 265.
Sir William Wallace killed thirty Englishmen, An
old song shewing how, V, 242 f.
Sir William Wallace, On an honorable achievement
of, near Falkirk, III, 265.
Sister, dear Sister, I, 118.
Skipper Patrick, II, 17.
THE SLAUGHTER OF THE LAIRD OF MELLERSTAIN
(No 230), IV, 281 f . IV, 371.
Sleepest or wakest thou, jolly shepheard ? fragment,
V, 201 b.
The Sleepy Merchant, I, 393.
The Soldier and Peggy, V, 172.
The Sorrowful Lover's Regrate, or, The Low-Lands
of Holland, V, 229.
The Stirrup of Northumberland, V, 207 b, title due to
a misreading of Scott's hand (should be Heiress).
The stormy winds do blow, V, 148.
THE SUFFOLK MIRACLE (No 272), V, 68-67, 303.
V, 225.
Susan Py, or, Young Bichen's Garland, I, 454, 483 b.
Susan Pye and Lord Beichan, I, 454.
Susie Cleland, II, 112.
The Swain's Resolve, IV, 389.
The swan swims bonnie, O, I, 118.
Sweet Robin, V, 104.
THE SWEET TRINITY (THE GOLDEN VANITY) (No
286), V, 135-42, 305.
Sweet William, IV, 411. II, 101, 112 n., 113 n.,
356.
438
INDEX OP BALLAD TITLES
Sweet William and May Margaret (= Sweet Wil
liam's Ghost), II, 226.
Sweet William and the Young Colonel, II, 288.
SWEET WILLIAM'S GHOST (No 77), II, 226-34, 512;
IV, 474; V, 225, 294. I, 435; II, 156, 174, 204,
234, 240; IV, 390, 415; V, 60 n., 166.
Sweet Willie ( = Fair Janet), II, 100.
Sweet Willie (=The Famous Flower of Serving-
Men), II, 428.
Sweet Willie and Fair Annie (= Lord Thomas and
Fair Annet), II, 100, 179.
Sweet Willie and Fair Maisry (=Fair Janet), II,
100.
Sweet Willie and Lady Margerie (= Willie and Lady
Maisry), II, 167.
Sweet Willie and May Margaret (=The Mother's
Malison), IV, 185.
Sweet Willie of Salisbury, II, 399.
Sweet Willy (=Willie's Lady), I, 81.
TAM LIN (No 39), I, 335-58, 507 f.; II, 505; HI,
504 f.; IV, 455-9; V, 215, 290. I, 308, 320 n.,
360 n., 446, 450; III, 381; IV, 186 n.; V, 11 n.,
40 n., 223.
Tam-a-lin, or, The Knight of Faerylande, I, 335.
Tam-a-line, the Elfin Knight, I, 335.
Tamlane, I, 507; IV, 458 a. I, 256.
There livd a knight in Jesuitmont, V, 34 n.
There livd a wife in the wilds of Kent, IV, 439 a.
There was a jovial beggar, V, 113 n.
There was a knight in Jessamy, V, 34 n.
There was a knight was drunk with wine, II, 491.
There was a wife in yon town, V, 109.
There waur three ladies, I, 141.
There were aucht an forty nobles, IV, 338.
Ther wer three ravens, IV, 454.
There were three sisters going from home, III, 500.
The Thief Outwitted, V, 128.
Thomalyn, a ballett of, I, 336.
THOMAS CROMWELL (No 171), III, 377.
Thomas of Potte, II, 441.
THOMAS o YONDERDALE (No 253), IV, 409-11. II,
69.
THOMAS RYMER (No 37), I, 317-29; II, 605; III,
504; IV, 454 f.; V, 290. I, 330, 358; IV, 458.
Thomas Rymer and Queen of Elfland, I, 317.
Thomas the Rhymer, IV, 454.
The Three Brothers, III, 484.
The Three Knights, I, 141.
THE THREE RAVENS (No 26), I, 253 f.; IV, 454;
V, 212. II, 429.
The Three Sisters (= Riddles Wisely Expounded),
1,1.
The Three Sisters (=The Twa Sisters), 1, 118.
The Thyme Song, V, 258.
Tifty's Nanny, IV, 300.
The Tinker and Farmer's Daughter's Garland, V,
109.
Tiranti, my Son, 1, 151.
Tom Linn, I, 335.
TOM POTTS (No 109), IV, 441-56; III, 518. Ill,
276.
Tomaline, I, 335.
Tring Dilly, II, 432.
The Trooper, V, 172.
The Trooper and Fair Maid, V, 172. I, 437.
TROOPER AND MAID (No 299), V, 172-4, 306.
The Trooper Lad, V, 306 f.
True Love Requited, or, The Bayliff's Daughter of
Islington, II, 428.
A TRUE TALE OF ROBIN HOOD (No 154), III, 227-
33. Ill, 103, 220, 223.
True Tammas (=Erlinton), I, 106.
True Thomas and the Queen of Elfland, I, 317.
The Trumpeter of Fyvie, IV, 300.
The Tryal of the Laird of Gycht, IV, 309 n.
The Turkish Galley, V, 135.
The Turkish Lady, I, 463.
The Turkish Lady and the English Slave, I, 463.
The Twa Brithers, I, 435.
THE TWA BROTHERS (No 49), 1,435-44; II, 507; III,
507; IV, 460; V, 217 f. I, 167, 168, and n., 446,
448; II, 14 n., 137, 234, 288; III, 381; V, 291.
The Twa Brothers, or, The Wood o Warslin, I, 435.
The Twa Corbies, I, 253; IV, 454.
THE TWA KNIGHTS (No 268), V, 21-28. I, 67; IV,
383; V, 277.
THE TWA MAGICIANS (No 44), I, 399-403; II, 506;
III, 506 f.; IV, 459; V, 216.
THE TWA SISTERS (No 10), I, 118-41, 493-6; II,
498, 509; III, 499; IV, 447-9; V, 208, 286. I,
40 n.
'Twas on a Christmas Day, V, 95.
The Two Brothers, I, 435; IV, 460.
The Two Constant Lovers in Scotland. II, 441, 456.
The Unco Knicht's Wowing, I, 1.
The Unfortunate Forrester, or, Fair Eleanor's Tra
gedy, II, 180; III, 509 b.
The Ungrateful Knight and the Fair Flower of
Northumberland, I, 111.
THE UNQUIET GRAVE (No 78), II, 234-8, 512; III,
512 f.; IV, 474-6; V, 225, 294. V, 116.
Wakefylde and a grene, A ballett of, III, 129.
The Wakerife Mammy, IV, 389.
Wallace and his Leman, II, 513; III, 265.
WALTER LESLY (No 296), V, 168 f.
Warenston and the Duke of York's Daughter, II,
346.
A Warning for Maidens, or, Young Bate man, I,
455.
A Warning for Married Women, etc., IV, 360.
A Warning-Piece to England against Pride and
Wickedness, etc., Ill, 257.
THE WATER o GAMRIE (Gemrie, Garaery), IV,
178. See RARE WILLIE DROWNED IN YARROW.
The Water o Wearie's Well (Wells), I, 22.
INDEX OP BALLAD TITLES
439
A Waukrife Minnie, IV, 389.
We were sisters, we were seven, I, 62.
The Weary Coble o Cargill, IV, 358. II, 156.
The Weary Heir of Limie, V, 11.
The Wedding of Robin Hood and Little John, II,
415.
Wee Messgrove, II, 242.
THE WEE WEE MAN (No 38), I, 329-34. I, 335.
THE WEST-COUNTRY DAMOSEL'S COMPLAINT (No
292), V, 157-9.
The West-Country Wager, I, 390.
The Western Tragedy, I, 23 u.
What a bad luck had I (=The Queen of all Sluts),
I, 301 n.
THE WHITE FISHER (No 264), IV, 435-7.
Whittingham Fair, II, 495; V, 206.
THE WHUMMIL BORE (No 27), I, 255; V, 212. I,
187; V, 203.
The Widdow- Woman, III, 513.
THE WIFE OF USHER'S WELL (No 79), II, 238 f.;
Ill, 513 f.; V,294f. 11,173.
THE WIFE WRAPT IN WETHER'S SKIN (No 277),
V, 104-7, 304 f .
WILL STEWART AND JOHN (No 107), II, 432-8; V,
237.
Will ye go to the Hielans, Geordie ? IV, 123.
William and Marjorie, II, 226.
William Clowdisley, A ballad of, neuer printed be
fore, III, 34.
William Grismond's Dowufal, II, 16.
William Guiseman, II, 16.
Willie and Annet, II, 100.
WILLIE AND EARL RICHARD'S DAUGHTER (No
102), II, 412-15; III, 518. n, 296, 303, 406, 499.
Willie and Janet, II, 100.
WILLIE AND LADY MAISRY (No 70), II, 167-9.
II, 240, 244.
Willie and Margaret, IV, 185.
Willie and May Margaret, IV, 185. I, 372, 435.
Willie Doo, I, 151; IV, 450 a.
WILLIE MACINTOSH (No 183), III, 456 f.; IV,
516.
WILLIE o DOUGLAS DALE (No 101), II, 406-11;
III, 517; V, 235-7. II, 368, 377, 412, 416.
Willie of Duglass Daill, V, 235.
Willie of Winsberye, II, 398.
WILLIE o WINSBURY (No 100), II, 398-406, 514 f.;
Ill, 517; IV, 491; V, 296. II, 377, 406; V, 29.
Willie, the Kitchie-Boy, IV, 400.
Willie, the Widow's Son, n, 167.
Willie Wallace, III, 265.
Willie's drowned in Gamery, IV, 178.
WILLIE'S FATAL VISIT (No 255), IV, 415 f. IE,
406, 513; IV, 389.
WILLIE'S LADY (No. 6), I, 81-8; II, 498; in, 497;
V, 207, 285. I, 67.
WILLIE'S LYKE-WAKE (No 25), I, 247-52, 506 f.;
II, 502; III, 503; IV, 453; V, 212, 289. II, 356.
Willy's rare and Willy's fare, IV, 178. IV, 163.
Wilson, III, 496.
The Wind hath blown my Plaid away, or, A Dis
course betwixt a young [Wojinan and the Elphin
Knight, a proper new ballad entituled, I, 6.
The Wind hath blown my Plaid awa, or, A Discourse
between a Young Woman and the Elphin Knight,
I, 6, 20.
The Winsome Laird of Young Logic, IV, 516.
With that came out his paramour, fragment, V, 202.
The witty lass of Somersetshire, or, The fryer servd
in his kind, V, 100.
The Wofull Death of Queene Jane, wife to King
Henry the Eight, etc., Ill, 372.
The Wood o Warslin, I, 435.
THE WYLIE WIFE OF THE HIE TOUN HIE (No
290), V, 153-6.
The Yerle o Aboyne, V, 271.
The Yetts of Cowrie, IV, 160.
Yorkshire Bite, V, 129.
The Yorkshire Farmer, V, 128.
Young Airly, IV, 54.
Young Akin, I, 360.
YOUNG ALLAN (No 245), IV, 375-83; V, 275 f. II,
17, 19 n.
YOUNG ANDREW (No 48), 1, 432-4. 1, 113.
Young Annochie, IV, 347.
Young Beachen, V, 218.
YOUNG BEARWELL (No 302), V, 178 f.
YOUNG BEICHAN (No 53), I, 454-83; II, 508 f.;
Ill, 507; IV, 460-2; V, 218-20, 291. 1, 67, 279 n.;
II, 127, 204; III, 498, 514; IV, 5, 409.
Young Beichan and Susie Pye, I, 454.
Young Bekie, I, 454; V, 218.
YOUNG BENJIE (No 86), II, 281-3; IV, 478 f.
Young Betrice, II, 377.
Young Bicham, I, 454.
Young Bichen, I, 455 n.
Young Bichen's Garland, I, 454, 483 b.
Young Bondwell, I, 454.
Young Brechin, I, 454.
Younge Cloudeslee, III, 34.
THE YOUNG EARL OF ESSEX'S VICTORY OVER THE
EMPEROR OF GERMANY (No 288), V, 145-8.
Young Edward, V, 305.
Young Hastings, I, 360.
Young Hastings, the Groom, I, 360.
The Young Heir of Bakichan (Baleighan), IV, 156 n.
YOUNG HUNTING (No 68), II, 142-55, 512; III,
509; IV, 468; V, 223. II, 137, 406, 407; IV,
39.
Young Hyn Horn (Hynhorn, Hyndhorn), I, 187,
502.
Young Hyndford, III, 509 a.
YOUNG JOHNSTONE (No 88), II, 288-95.
The Young Laird o Keltie, V, 153.
The Young Laird of Ochiltree, III, 449.
Young Logic, III, 449, 520; V, 299 f.
Young Luiidie was in Brechin born, I, 455 n.
440
INDEX OF BALLAD TITLES
The Young MacLean, IV, 270.
Young Musgrave, II, 242.
Young Patrick, II, 17.
YOUKG PEGGY (No 298), V, 171.
Young Prince James, II, 112.
Young Ratcliffe, IV, 116.
Young Redin (Riedan), II, 142.
YOUNG RONALD (No 304), V, 181-4.
(The) Young Tarn Lane (Tainlane), I, 335, 507.
Young Tamlin, I, 335.
Young Tolquhon, IV, 48 f.
Young Tom Line, I, 335, 356 a.
YOUNG WATERS (No 94), II, 342-5; III, 516.
Albanian.
BoAo ^ 'E-x7J6A.il/es, La ballata di Angelina, I, 97.
Garentina, V, 65.
KoaraiT/vi I b6y&\id t Costanino il piccolo, I, 198 f.,
502 b.
Catalan.
La adiiltera castigada, II, 158.
La boda interrumpida, I, 462.
Las bodas, V, 293.
La bona viuda, I, 384.
Catarina de Lid, I, 144, 496 b.
La cautiva, II, 347.
El Conde Arnau, V, 286.
Don Joan j Don Ramon, I, 382 n., 384 f.
La donzella, II, 347.
Las dos germanas, hermanas, II, 69, and n.
Los dos hermanos, V, 285.
La esquerpa, I, 400.
Los estudians de Tortosa, II, 174.
Los estudiantes de Tolosa, II, 174.
La Fugida a Egipte, III, 507 b.
El guerrero mal herido, I, 385.
Herodes, II, 7.
L'infanta, n, 113.
La infanta seducida, II, 113, 406.
Magdalena, I, 504 b.
El mal rico, II, 10.
La mort de la nuvia, II, 206.
El peregrino, II, 427.
El poder del canto, II, 137, 511 b.
Lo reseat, II, 347.
Lo retorn soptat, II, 158.
Lo Rey Herodes, II, 7.
El Rey marinero, II, 137.
El romero, I, 236.
El romero acusado de robo, I, 236, 505 a.
S. Jaume de Galicia, I, 236.
Santa Magdalena, I, 231; III, 502 b.
El testamento de Amelia, I, 144, 496 b.
La tornada del pelegrf, II, 427.
Las transformaciones, I, 400.
La trapassera, V, 91.
Trato feroz, I, 496 b.
Los tres estudiantes, II, 174.
La viuda, I, 384.
La vuelta del peregrino, II, 427.
Celtic. Breton.
Ann Aotro ar C'hont, Le seigneur Comte, I, 378 f.
Ann Aotro Nann, Le seigneur Nann, I, 379.
Ann Aotro Rosmadek, Le seigneur de Rosmadek,
1,436.
Ann hini oa et da welet he vestrez d'ann ifern, Celui
qui alia voir sa maitresse en enfer, I, 426.
Aotrou Nann hag ar Gorrigan, Le seigneur Nann et
la Fe-e, I, 379, 387, 490.
Ar breur mager, Le frere de lait (ballad of Ville-
marque"s), V, 65.
Ar C'hont a Weto, Le Comte de We"to (Le Comte
de Poitou), IV, 464 a (II, 102).
Ar C'homt Gwillou, Le Comte Guillou, II, 102; IV,
464 a; V, 292.
Cloaregic ar stanc, Le jeune Cloarec du bord de
l'e"tang, IV, 471 b.
Ervoan Camus, Yves Camus, IV, 522 a.
Ervoanik al lintier, Ervoanik le lintier, I, 144.
Fillorez aim Aotrou Gwesklen, La filleule de du
Guesclin, I, 45.
Floc'h Loeiz Trizek, Le page de Louis XIII, I, 381.
Ar Ge"ant Lizandre*, Le Ge*ant Lizandrd, Le Ge"ant
Les Aubrays, II, 378 f .
Itroun Varia Folgoat, Notre Dame du Folgoat, I,
237.
Janedik ar Rouz, Jeanne Le Roux, I, 45.
Komt ar Chapel, Le Comte des Chapelles, I, 379 n.,
381.
Lezobre ha Maurian ar Roue, Les Aubrays et le
More du Roi, II, 378 f.
Ldzobre", II, 378; IV, 486 a.
Marc'harit Lauranz, Marguerite Laurent, I, 237.
Marivonnik, Marivonnic, I, 45; IV, 441 b.
Markiz Trede, Le Marquis de Coatredrez, I, 45.
Monsieur Nann, I, 379.
Ar plac'h hi daou bried, La femme aux deux rnaris,
V,65.
Ar plae'hik hag ine hi mamm, La jeune fille et Fame
de sa mere, II, 236; V, 303.
Pontplancoat, I, 144; II, 309.
Prinses ar Gwillou, La Princesse le Guillou, II, 102;
V, 292.
Renea ar Glaz, Rene'e le Glaz, I, 144.
Ar Rosmadek ha Baron Huet, Rosmadec et le Baron
Huet, I, 436.
Rozmelchon, I, 45.
Le sone de la fiance'e, II, 506 a.
Sonen Gertrud guet hi vam, Chant de Gertrude et
de sa mere, I, 379; III, 506 a.
Breton ballads cited without titles: I, 97; III, 498 b;
IV, 443 b, 495 a; V, 234 a.
Celtic. Gaelic.
Collun gun cheann, or, The Headless Trunk, I, 298.
The Death of Diarmaid, I, 8.
INDEX OF BALLAD TITLES
441
How Fingal got Graine to be his wife, and she went
away with Diarmaid, I, 8.
Neyn a wrata inn, The Maid of the White Mantle, L,
261, and n.; V, 289.
Celtic. Welsh.
Marchog Glas, or, Green Knight, III, 178.
Danish.
Aage og Else, II, 227.
Adelbrand, I, 143; III, 499; IV, 449.
Den afhugne Haand, II, 373.
Agnete i Bjserget, I, 361 f.; IV, 459.
Agnete i Havet, IV, 459 a.
Agnete og Bjsergmanden, I, 364 n.
Agnete og Havmanden, I, 364; III, 506 a; IV,
459 a; V, 215 b.
Albred Lykke, II, 137.
Angenede og Havmanden, III, 506.
Axel og Walborg, V, 287.
Barnefedsel i Lunden, IV, 450 a; V, 209 b.
Barnemordersken, I, 218 f.; Ill, 502 a; IV, 451 a.
Barselkvinden, I, 82; III, 497 b; V, 207 b.
Bjsergjomfruens Frieri, III, 504; V, 214.
Bolde Hr. Nilaus' L0n, I, 66, 178, 180.
Brodermordet, I, 168.
Brud i Vaande, I, 65; II, 127.
Brud ikke M0, 1, 64; IV, 442 b.
Den dyre Kaabe, II, 482; IV, 495 a.
Ebbe Gait (Hr. Tidemand), I, 446; II, 458; IV, 492.
Ebbe Skammels0n, II, 128; V, 292 f.
Ebbe Tygesen, I, 382 n. Ebbe Tyges0ns D0dsridt,
V, 290.
Ellen henter sin Faestemand, I, 459; IV, 460 b.
Den elskedes D0d, II, 205; III, 510 b; IV, 471 b;
V, 225 a.
Elvedansen, IV, 459; V, 216.
Elveh0j, II, 137.
Elveskud, I, 314, 374-378, 437, 496; II, 143; IV,
459 a; V, 216 a, 284, 290.
Esben og Malfred, II, 310.
Den farlige Jomfru, I, 89, 93, 417 n.; II, 51.
Folke Lovmandsan og Dronning Helvig, II, 342.
Den forgivne Datter, V, 286.
Den forgivne S0ster, IV, 449 b.
Den forstilte Vaagestue, I, 248.
Den fortryllende Sang, II, 137.
Fostermoder, I, 82.
Den Fredl0se, I, 112; II, 85.
Frillens Hsevn, I, 143, 378 n.; II, 143.
Fru Gundela, I, 156; V, 286.
Fru Gunder i Spire, II, 34, and n.
Fru Silleve (Kristensen), V, 8, 280.
Frsendehaevn, I, 27 n., 392; III, 367.
Den fule Bondedreng, n, 137.
Faestemanden i Graven, II, 227.
Germand Gladensvend, II, 13 n.
Giftblandersken, V, 286.
Greve Genselin, I, 298, and n., 301.
VOL. v. 56
Greven og lille Lise, III, 510 b; IV, 471 b; V, 225 a,
Grevens Datter af Vendel, II, 68 n.
Guldsmedens Datter, I, 54 n., 64 n., 66.
G0de og Hillelille, IV, 471.
Harpens Kraft, I, 435; II, 137; IV, 441 a, 451 a;
V, 211 b.
Hellig-Olavs Vseddefart, IV, 377.
Henrik af Brunsvig, I, 194 n., 195.
Hr. Adelbrand, I, 143; IV, 449 a.
Hr. Adelbrant og Jomfru Lindelil, III, 499.
Hr. Essendal, IV, 218.
Herr Find og Vendelrod, I, 65; II, 511 b.
Hr. Gronnevold, III, 508 b.
Herr Helmer Blaa, I, 142; IV, 164.
Herr Hjselm, I, 94 n.; IV, 164, 469 a.
Herr Jon som Fugl, V, 39.
Herr Lave og Herr Iver Blaa, V, 25.
Herr Lave og Herr Jon, II, 511 b.
Herr Lovmand, I, 193, 502 a; III, 501 a; IV, 450 b.
Herr Lovmand og Herr Thor, I, 193.
Herr Magnus og Bjeergtrolden, I, 314.
Hr. Magnuses D0dsridt, V, 290.
Herr Medelvold, I, 182.
Hr. Mortens Klosterrov, IV, 453 b.
Herr Olufs D0d, I, 378 n.
Herr Peder og bans S0ster, I, 447.
Herr Peder og Liden Malfred, II, 310.
Hr. Peder og Mettelille, I, 142.
Herr Peders Hustru, IV, 442 b.
Herr Peders Kjsereste, IV, 471 b.
Herr Peders Slegfred, II, 180.
Hr. Peters Stalddreng, III, 508 b.
Hr. Ribolt, III, 498 a; V, 207 b.
Herr Samsings Nattergale, I, 64.
Herr Thors Bern, I, 171.
Hr. Tidemand (Ebbe Gait), 1, 446; II, 458; IV, 492.
Hr. Truelses D0ttre, 1, 171; IV, 450 a; V, 209 b, 287.
Herr Tures D0tre, IV, 450 a; V, 209 b.
Hr. T0nne af Als0, II, 137.
Hertug Frydenborg, V, 31, 207.
Hertugen af Skage, I, 249.
Hildebrand og Hilde, I, 66, 89-93, 99, 180; III,
498 a.
Holger Danske og Burmand, II, 50.
Det (de) hurtige Svar, II, 158; IV, 468 a.
Hustru og Mands Moder (Fostermoder, Stifmoder),
I, 82, 143; III, 367 n., 497 b.
Hustru og Slegfred, I, 82 f.
Hyrde og Ridderfrue, V, 292.
HsBvnersvserdet, I, 96; III, 367.
I D01gsmai, III, 502 a.
I Rosenlund, II, 482.
Hdpr0ven, II, 113.
Ingefred og Gudrune, I, 64.
Ingelilles Bryllup, I, 65, 67.
Iver Hr. Jonson, I, 66.
Iver Lang og bans S0ster, I, 142.
Jesusbarnet, Stefan og Herodes, I, 233 f.
Jomfru Ellensborg og Hr. Olof, I, 142.
INDEX OF BALLAD TITLES
Jomfru Giselmaar, I, 142.
Jomfru i Hiudeham, IV, 450.
Jomfru og Stalddreng, II, 84, 430; HI, 508 b; IV,
463 b.
Jomfrue Ellensborg, I, 459.
Jomfrueu i Bjierget, V, 215.
Jomfruen i Hindeham, I, 178.
Jomfruen i Linden, I, 307; III, 504 a; IV, 454 a.
Jomfruen i Ormeham, I, 307.
Jomfruen i Skoven, I, 142; II, 170; IV, 164.
Jomfruen og Dvsergekongen, I, 361-4, 375 n.; Ill,
506 a; IV, 459 a; V, 215 b.
Jomfruen og Dvsergen, III, 506.
Jomfruens Br0dre, II, 170; III, 509; IV, 469 a;
V, 223.
Jomfruens Harpeslaet, I, 66.
Jomfruens Udlesning, III, 516 b.
Jon Riunaardsens Sejlads, IV, 463.
Jon Rimaardss0ns Skriftemaal, II, 13.
Karl Grevens sen, III, 429.
Karl HiHebarn, V, 223 b.
Kjaerestens D0d, III, 510 b.
Kjserligheds Styrke, II, 170.
Klosterranet, I, 247 f., 249.
Kong David og Solfager, V, 8, 280.
Kong Valdemar og haus S0ster, I, 143; II, 101, 157;
IV, 464 a.
Kvindelist, II, 356.
Kvindemorderen, I, 26, 90, 112 n., 362 n.; II, 86;
III, 497 a; IV, 440 b; V, 206 b.
Kaellingen til Barsel, I, 298 n.
Liden Ellen og bendes Broder, I, 447.
Liden Engel, II, 298; III, 430, 515 b; IV, 479 b.
Liden Grimmer og Hjelmer Kamp, II, 57.
Liden Kirsten som Stalddreng, III, 508 b.
Liden Kirstins Dans, I, 66; IV, 214.
Liden Malfreds Vise, II, 310.
Lille Lise, V, 225 a.
Lille Villum, II, 297.
Limgrises Vise, I, 210.
Lindormen, I, 298, 307, 314; IV, 454.
Livsvandet, V, 34.
Lodkastningen, II, 13.
Magnus Algots0n, II, 127; IV, 218.
Malfred og Sadelmand (Sallemand), II, 458 n.; IV,
193, 492 b.
Malfreds D0d, II, 310; III, 515 b.
Maria Magdalena, I, 228-30.
Mimering, II, 34 n.
Den mislykkede Flugt, III, 498.
Moderen under Mulde, V, 203.
M0en paa Baalet, I, 143; II, 113.
Munken i Vaande, V, 101.
Nattergalen, I, 316, 336, 340; V, 215.
Naevnet til D0de, IV, 443; V, 207.
N0kkens Svig, I, 23 n., 27 n., 362 n.; IV, 441.
Oluf og Ellinsborg, I, 65.
Den onde Svigermoder, V, 208 b.
Orm Ungersvend og Bermer Rise, II, 35 n., 49 f ., 67.
Peder og Malfred, I, 65; III, 497; IV, 442 b.
Raven gaard og Memering, I, 49; II, 34 ff.
Redselille og Medevold, I, 33 n., 50 n., 66, 178-80,
182, 382 u.; Ill, 500 b.
Den rette Brudgom, IV, 442 b.
Ribold og Guldborg, I, 27 n., 32 n., 60 n., 88-93,
94 n., 99, 106, 112 n., 144, 178, 180, 378 n.; II,
85, 170 n.; Ill, 498 a; IV, 443 a.
Ridder Oles Lud, V, 25 n.
Ridderen i Fugleham, V, 39.
Ridderens Hjserte, V, 31.
Ridderens Runeslag, V, 25 n.
Roseuelle og Hr. Agervold, III, 500 b.
Rosenelle og Hr. Medervold, III, 600 b.
Rosmer, I, 47.
Den saarede Jomfru, I, 143.
Samson, I, 50 n.
St. Jorgen og Dragen, III, 294.
Sankt Steffan, I, 234.
Sejladsen, II, 13; V, 220 a.
Signild og hendes Broder, III, 122.
Skj0n Anna, II, 65; V, 220 b.
Skj0n Medler, IV, 450 a.
Slegfred og Brud, II, 69.
Stalbroders Kvide, I, 179 f.
Stifmoder, I, 82.
Stjsernevisen, V, 212.
Stolt Ellen henter sin Faestemand, I, 459; IV,
460 b.
Stolt Ellensborg, I, 459.
Stolt HedeliJ, III, 498 a.
Stolten Hellelille, II, 205 n.; IV, 471 b.
Store Fordringer, I, 7; III, 496; IV, 439 a; V,
205 b.
Svend af Vollersl0v, IV, 479 b.
Svend i Rosensgaard, I, 168; III, 499 b; V, 287.
Svend Ranild, IV, 377.
Svend Vonved, I, 2 n., 405 n., 437.
Synderinden, I, 228; III, 502 b; IV, 451 b.
S0nnens Sorg, I, 66, 179, 180, 182.
Sevnerunerne, I, 391.
De talende Strenge, IV, 447.
Den talende Strengeleg, I, 119; ILT, 499 a; IV,
447 b.
Thors Hammer, I, 298.
Tord af Havsgaard, I, 298, and n.
Torkild Trundes0n, I, 67.
Den trofaste Jomfru, I, 27 n., 90, 112; n, 85.
Trolden og Bondens Hustru, I, 307.
Troskabspr0ven, IV, 434.
Tule Slet, Ove Knar, og Fru Magnild, V, 286.
Tserningspillet, II, 458; IV, 492.
Den ulige Kamp, V, 223.
Umulige Fordringer, V, 205.
Ung Villum, II, 297 f., 513 b; IV, 479 b.
Unge Hr. Tor og Jomfru Tore, I, 193.
Ungen Essendal, IV, 218.
Utro Fsestem0 vil forgive sin Fsestemand, V, 286,
295.
INDEX OF BALLAD TITLES
443
Vaagestuen, I, 249; III, 503 a.
Verkel Vejemands0n, II, 281.
Vise om Caroline Mathilde, V, 297.
Void og Mord, II, 297.
Vseddemaalet, V, 25, 277.
Dutch, Flemish, and Frisian.
Brandenborch, Van, V, 31 f .
Brennenberg, V, 31 f., 223.
Brunenborch, V, 32.
Halewijn, I, 24; II, 496 b; V, 285.
Halewyn en het kleyne Kind, I, 25 n. ; IV, 440 b.
Den Hertog van Brunswyk (Heinrich der Lb'we), I,
195.
Isabelle, I, 154.
Jan Alberts, I, 485 b.
De kreupele Bedelaer (Ein schoner Kriippel), V,
110.
Een Liedeken van den Heere van Haelewyn, V,
285.
Een Liedeken van Sint Jacob, I, 236.
List der Bedrukte, II, 483.
Madel, II, 66, 67.
Die Maeget, I, 394.
Des Markgraven Zoon, I, 38.
Mi Adel en Hir Alewijn, I, 26 n.
Mijn Man komt thuis, V, 88.
Mijnheerken van Bruindergestem, IV, 440 b.
Mooi Aeltje en Koning Alewijn, II, 66.
Roland, I, 25, 26 n., 54.
De Ruiter en Mooi Elsje, I, 181.
Schbn Adelheid, II, 66.
Ein schoner Kriippel, De kreupele Bedelaer, V,
110.
Skuin over de Groenelands Heide, III, 502 b.
Van Brandenborch, V, 31 f .
Van Heer Halewijn, V, 285.
Van den Hertog van Brunswijk, I, 195.
Van Mijnheerken van Bruindergestem, IV, 440 b.
De Vlucht naar Egypten, II, 1, 7.
Esthonian (see also Finnish).
Anne laeb meilta sodaje, V, 232 a.
Armuta omaksed, Heartless Kinsfolk, V, 232 a.
Die Ausgeloste, II, 349. See The Maid freed from
the Gallows.
Die Harfe, 1, 124.
Kallewisohnes Tod, I, 46.
Lilla lunastamini, V, 231 b.
The Maid freed from the Gallows, Finnish and Es
thonian versions, II, 349; IV, 482 a; V, 231-3.
Orja laul. V, 220 a.
Esthonian ballads cited without titles: V, 225 a,
231-3.
Faroe.
Arngrlms Synir, II, 50, and n.
Asmundur Skeinkjari, I, 281 n.
Ebbin kail, IV, 492 b.
FaSir og ddttir, II, 157 ; III, 509 a; IV, 468 a.
Frfsa visa, II, 347 ; III, 516.
Galians kvseSi, I, 257 n.
Gatu rlma, I, 405.
Geipa-tattur, I, 275, and n., 280-2.
Geyti Aslaksson, III, 17.
Gongu-Rdlvs kvseSi, I, 508 b.
Harpu rlma, I, 119 ; II, 498 b.
Harra Psetur og Elinborg, I, 459b; III, 507 b.
Kail og Svein ungi, III, 496.
Margretu kvseSi, I, 444, 446.
Mariu visa, I, 228; II, 501 b.
(3luvu kvaeSi, II, 40, 510 b.
Reji Smiur, Regin SmiSur, II, 513 b.
Rudisar visa, I, 234 ; II, 501.
Sveinur f VallaliS, H, 513 b.
Torkilds Rum, eller St Cathariiue Vise, I, 54 n.,
172; II, 499 a.
Torkils detur, II, 499 a.
Finnish (see also Esthonian).
Kojosen poika, Kojoin's Son, I, 46.
Lunastettava neiti, II, 349.
The Maid freed from the Gallows, Finnish and Es
thonian versions, II, 349; IV, 482 a; V, 231-3.
Mataleenan vesimatka, I, 228, 230.
Morsiamen kuolo, II, 205 b, n., 512 b.
Velisurmaaja, Brother-Murderer, I, 168.
Werinen pojka, The Bloodstained Son, I, 168, 446.
Finnish ballads cited without titles : V, 231-3.
French and Provencal.
A la ronde, mesdames, IV, 495 a.
Adiu, Margaridoto, I, 400.
Allons, inie, nous promener, I, 43.
L'amant discret, II, 481 b; III, 518 a; IV, 495 a.
L'amant timide, V, 297.
Apres ma journee faite, IV, 495 a.
Arnaud, IV, 459. See Renaud.
L'Arnaud 1'Infant, I, 380.
Au Chateau de Belfort, V, 296.
Au jardin des olives, IV, 482.
L'autre jour, II, 481.
La bateliere, La bateliere ruse'e, II, 483; V, 297.
Le beau D6on, II, 356; III, 517 a.
Du beau marinier, I, 44.
Belle, allons nous e"promener, I, 43; II, 497 a.
La belle dans la tour, IV, 482 a; V, 234 a, 296.
La belle et Termite, IV, 495.
Belle Idoine, IV, 482 a; V, 234 a.
Belle Isambourg, II, 355.
La belle qui fait la morte, V, 234.
La belo Marioun, V, 208.
La bergere ruse'e, II, 482.
La biche blanche, II, 156.
Lou bouiaje, IV, 462.
Lou cabalier discret, IV, 495 a.
Le cavalier, II, 482.
C'est trois garcjons de'payse's, V, 209.
444
INDEX OF BALLAD TITLES
La chanson de la bergere, V, 90.
La chanson de Reuaud, V, 216.
Chanson de voyageur, I, 400.
Chanson du brave Altizar, II, 497.
Le chant de 1'alouette, IV, 390.
Chante, rossignolet, II, 181.
Chasseur, mon beau chasseur, V, 239 b.
Les chevaux rouges, II, 612.
La concubine, I, 426.
Les conditions impossibles, V, 284.
Les coumpagnons, V, 209.
Lou Counte Arnaud, I, 380; IV, 459.
Lou Cros de* Proucinello, IV, 441.
La damnde, I, 4:16.
De Dion et de la fille du roi, I, 42 ; II, 356, 497.
La delaissee, III, 510 b; IV, 469 a.
Derrier' la Trinite", II, 512 b; III, 510 b.
Le de*serteur, III, 381.
Dessous le rosier blanc, IV, 482.
Les deux amoureux, IV, 443.
Les deux maris, II, 499.
La doulento, III, 500.
En allant au bois, II, 481.
En chevauchant mon cheval rouge, II, 512 b.; Ill,
510 b.
En reveuant de la jolie Rochelle, I, 43, 488 a.
En revenant de Saint-Francois, II, 481.
L'enfant noye", IV, 507.
Eutre Paris et Saint-Denis, I, 463.
L'e'pe'e libe"ratrice, I, 44.
Et qui vous passera le bois ? II, 481.
La feinme abandonee, I, 463.
La fausse morte, I, 502.
La fiancee du prince, III, 497 b (No 5); V, 222 a.
Lou fil del rey et sa mio morto, IV, 471 b.
La filho doou ladre, II, 481.
La ftlle bien avise"e, II, 481.
La fille dainne"e, V, 291.
La fille dans la tour, III, 517 a; IV, 482 a.
La fille d'honneur, II, 482.
La fille d'un boulanger, II, 406.
La fille d'un cabaretier, II, 499 a; III, 500; V, 287 a.
La fille d'un prince, II, 356.
La fille de Saint Martin, III, 497; IV, 441.
La fille de Saint-Martin de 1'Ile, I, 43.
La fille des sables, I, 44.
La fille du due de Montbrison, V, 234.
La fille du le*preux, II, 481.
La fille du patissier, I, 44.
La fille du prince, I, 44 n.
La fille du roi et le Prince de Guise, II, 356; III,
517 a; IV, 482; V, 234 a.
La fillette et le chevalier, I, 43.
Le fils Arnaud, II, 506.
Le fils du Roi d'Espagne, II, 499.
Le fils Louis, I, 380.
Las finesses de la Marioun, V, 89.
La Fuite en gypte, II, 7; IV, 462.
La Fuito en Egypto, II, 1, 7, 509.
Lou galant, V, 89.
Le galant maladroit, II, 481.
Germaine, II, 215; V, 294.
L'honnete garcon, II, 481.
II e*tait un chasseur, II, 481.
II fallait plumer la perdrix, V, 296.
L'infidele punie, V, 292.
J'ai fait un reve, II, 181.
J'ai fait une maitresse, I, 400; IV, 459.
J'ai fini ma journe'e, IV, 495 a.
Lou jalous, V, 89.
Le jaloux, V, 89, 304.
Jean Renaud. See Renaud.
Jeannetoun, V, 89.
J'entends le rossignolet, I, 181.
La jeune coutouriere, IV, 495.
La jolie bateliere, II, 483; V, 240 a.
La jolie couturiere, V, 240.
La jolie fille de la Garde, II, 356.
Lou jolous, V, 89.
La-bas, sus ces grands champs, V, 209.
Lazare et le mauvais riche, II, 10; V, 220.
La le"gende de Pontoise, II, 512 a; IV, 469 a.
Lise et Mainfroi, II, 459.
Le lourdand moine, V, 101.
Ma pauvre Elise, II, 499.
La maitresse captive, II, 356.
La maitresse gagne"e, I, 400.
La marchande d'orauges (pornmes), II, 481; III,
518 a.
Margarideto, IV, 459. ,
Margueridette, II, 481.
Le mari assassin, IV, 441.
Le mari de Marion, V, 89.
Le mari jaloux, V, 89.
Le mari soupgonneux, V, 90.
Le mariage tragique, V, 293.
Marie-Madeleine, I, 231.
Marie Magdeleine, I, 231.
Marion, V, 89, 281 a.
Le mauvais riche, IV, 462 ; V, 220 a.
Les metamorphoses, III, 506.
Mignonne, II, 506.
Le moine Nicolas, V, 101.
Monsieur de Savigna, II, 497.
La mort des deux amants, III, 498.
La mort de Jean Raynaud (Renaud), V, 216,
290.
L'occasion manque"e, II, 481.
Le passage du bois, III, 500.
Lou pastour bre*gountsous (trop discret), IV,
495.
Lou pastour et la pastouro, II, 482.
Lou pastre, II, 481.
La pauvre Madeleine, I, 231.
Les pelerins de Saint Jacques, II, 510 a.
Des pelerins de Saint Jacques, La grande chanson, I,
238, and n.
Petite Rosalie, I, 463 n.
INDEX OF BALLAD TITLES
445
Le plongeur, III, 381.
La poursuite d'amour, I, 400.
Praube moussu, II, 481.
Lou premier jour de Mai, II, 181.
Lou premier miracle, II, 1.
Le prince qui torture sa fille, V, 296.
La priucesse, II, 356.
La princesse de la Grand' Tour, II, 356.
La prisonniere, III, 517.
Las rebirados de Marioun, V, 89.
La religieuse, I, 506.
Renaud, I, 379-82; II, 506 a; HI, 506 a; IV,
459 a; V, 216 a.
Renaud et ses t'emmes, IV, 441 b. See Renauld et
ses quatorze fortunes.
Renauld et ses quatorze femmes, and other related
French ballads, I, 42 f., 44, 488 a; II, 497 a; III,
497 a; IV, 441 b.
La recontre, II, 481.
Le rendez-vous, IV, 390.
Les re'pliques de Mario(u)n, V, 90, 304.
Las respounsos de Marioun, V, 90.
Un retour de guerre, IV, 450.
Le retour du mari, I, 198, 502 b; II, 499 b; IV,
450 b; V, 210 b.
Le Roi He"rode, II, 7.
Le Roi Le'ouis, III, 506 a.
Le Roi Loys, V, 296.
Le Roi Renaud, La ballade du Roi Renaud, I, 380.
See Renaud.
La ronde du battoir, III, 381.
Rosine, I, 43.
Le rossignolet, IV, 469; V, 223.
La rusade, V, 89, 304.
Saint Joseph avec Marie, IV, 462.
Le serpent vert, III, 367 n.
Siffle, berger, de mon haleine! II, 498.
Le Sire de Cre*qui, I, 198; II, 215.
Le soldat au convent, I, 506.
Lo surprero, V, 89.
Le testament de Marion, I, 144, V, 208 a.
Tout au milieu de Paris, IV, 460 b. See I, 462 f.;
II, 508 a.
Le traitre noye*, I, 43.
Les transformations, I, 400; II, 506 b; III, 506 b;
IV, 495 b; V, 216 a.
La triste noce, III, 510.
Les trois capitaines, II, 356; III, 517 a; IV, 482 b;
V, 234 a, 296.
Les trois clercs, II, 512 a; III, 509 a.
Les trois e*coliers, II, 512.
Trois pelerins de Dieu, I, 236; IV, 451 b; V, 212 a.
Lou tsalous, V, 89.
Tsanno d'Oyme, IV, 440.
Veux-tu venir, bell' Jeanneton, I, 42.
La villageoise avisde, II, 482; HI, 618 a.
Le voltigeur fidele, V, 302.
Youp ta deritou la la, IV, 495 a.
Zjean et Mariou, V, 89.
German.
Ach Wunden liber Wunder, I, 181.
Adelger, I, 29.
Der Ahornbaum, I, 493.
Der Albrecht uud der Hanselein, I, 30.
Alle bei Gott die sich lieben, I, 97; II, 206 n.,
310.
Als die wunderschone Anna (auf dem Brautstuhle
sass), V, 207, 285.
Alte Ballade die in Entlebuch noch gesungen wird,
1,29.
Der alte Halter und das Kind, I, 504.
Annele, I, 29.
Das ausgesetze Kind, I, 504.
Der Bauer und sein Weib, V, 89.
Das Begrabniss im Walde, V, 287.
Die Betrogene, II, 137.
Der betrogene Ehemann, V, 89.
Der Bettelman, V, 110.
Der Bettler, I, 502.
Bie wriie it auv der rittergman, I, 29.
Der bose Bruder, II, 101.
Der Brautmb'rder, I, 29.
Brautmorder, I, 38.
Der Bremberger, V, 31.
Christinchen, II, 101.
Curt Mundel, I, 486.
Die drei Spielleute, I, 493.
Des Ehemaunes Heimkehr, V, 89.
Ehestandsaussichten, I, 484.
Eitle Dinge, I, 7.
Der Erbgraf, II, 204 n.
Die Erie, I, 493.
Erlkonigs Tochter, I, 376 n.
Der ernsthaf te Jager, I, 393.
Es blies ein Jager, I, 97.
Es gingen zwei Liebchen durch einen griinen Wald,
V, 287.
Es hiitet ein Schafer an jenem Rain, V, 287.
Es reitet ein Ritter durch Haber und Klee, I, 29.
Es ritt ein Rauber wohl iiber den Rhein, V, 285.
Es schlief ein Graf bei seiner Magd, V, 225.
Es sitzt gut Ritter auf und ritt, I, 29.
Es spielte ein Ritter mit einer Madam, V, 294.
Es trieb ein Schafer mit Lammlein raus, II, 500 a.
Es war ein Jager wohlgemut, V, 294.
Es wollt sich ein Markgraf ausreiten, I, 29.
Das falsche Mutterherz, I, 219.
Der falsche Sanger, I, 29.
Frau von der Lowenburg, I, 144; V, 286.
Die Frau zur (von) Weissenburg, I, 144; V, 286.
Gemalte Rosen, I, 7.
Die Gerettete, I, 29 f.
Gert Olbert, I, 29 f., 47.
Graf Friedrich, I, 33 n., 97, 142, 143, 436, 496; IV,
449 a.
Graf Hans von Holstein und seine Schwester Ann-
christine, II, 101 f.
Der Graf im Pfluge, I, 459 n.
446
INDEX OP BALLAD TITLES
Der Graf von Rom, I, 459 n.
Der Graf und das Madchen, V, 225.
Der Graf und die Bauerntochter, II, 206 n., 310.
Der Graf und sein Liebchen, V, 225.
Der grausame Bruder, II, 101 f . ; V, 34.
Der grobe Bruder, II, 101 f.
Grossmutter Schlangenkb'chin, I, 153.
Das Gugibader-Lied, I, 29.
Hammen vou Reystett, III, 367 n.
Hans Markgraf, II, 206 n., 310, 513 b.
Hans Steutlinger, I, 144; V, 286.
Hansel June, I, 506 a.
Herr Olof, I, 376 n.
Der Herr und seine Dame, II, 205 n.
Hdllisches Recht, I, 219.
Der Jager, I, 393 f., 508 b; II, 506 a.
Der Jager und die reine Jungfrau, I, 393.
Jagers Trauer, II, 206 n.
Des Jagers Verdruss, I, 393.
Jagerslied (Jager-Romanze), V, 290. See Der Jager.
Die junge Mutter, II, 206 n.
Jungfer Ddrtchen (ist todt), II, 206 n., V, 294.
Jungfrau Linnieh, I, 29, 31.
Junker Hans Steutlinger, I, 144; V, 286.
Der Junker und das Madchen, II, 483.
Junkernlust und Madchenlist, II, 483.
Kind, wo bist du denn henne west ? 1, 154.
Die Kindesmorderin, I, 219.
Eyn klegliche Mordgeschicht, von ey' m Graven
vnnde eyner Meyd, II, 204 n.
Konigs Tochterlein, I, 38 n.
Kranzsingen, I, 2 n.
Kurz gefasst, I, 508.
Lazarus, II, 10.
Liebchens Tod, II, 206 n.
Liebe ohne Stand, I, 26 n., 37.
Liebes-Neckerei, I, 7.
Liebesprobe, II, 348.
Liebesspielereien, I, 7.
Des Liebsten Liebe die grosste Liebe, II, 348.
Das Lied vom Herren und der Magd, II, 204 n.
Das Lied vom Pfalzgrafen, II, 101.
Das Lied von dem falschen Rittersmann, I, 30.
Das Lied von der Lowenburg, I, 144; V, 286.
Die Losgekaufte, II, 348; V, 296.
Das losgekaufte Madchen, II, 348.
Loskauf, II, 348.
Die Machte der Thranen, II, 235.
Des Mannes Heimkehr, V, 89.
Das Mantelein, II, 482.
Die Morners Sang, I, 29.
Miillertiicke, I, 39.
Der Mutter Fluch, I, 37 n.; II, 310; IV, 187.
Die Nixenbraut, I, 38 n.
Nun schiirz dich, Gredlein, I, 39.
O Schipmann, II, 348.
O Wind, O Wind, O Wind! V, 89.
Der Pfalzgraf vom Rhein, II, 101 f.
Des Prinzen Reue, II, 204 n.
Die Rabenmutter, I, 219; V, 287.
Rathsel, I, 2.
Rathsel um Rathsel, I, 1.
Rathselfragen, I, 2, and n.
Rathsellied, I, 1, 2.
Der Reiter und die Kaiserstochter, V, 285.
Der Reiter und seine Geliebte, V, 287.
Der Ritter im Walde, V, 285.
Der Ritter und das Magdlein, II, 204 n.
Der Ritter und die Konigstochter, I, 37; V, 207.
Der Ritter und die Magd, II, 406.
Der Ritter und die Maid, I, 96, 486; II, 204 n., 205
n., 512 b; IV, 471 a; V, 225 a.
Der Ritter und seine Dame, II, 204 n.
Der Ritter und seine Geliebte, I, 502 a.
Der Schafer und der Edelmaun, II, 349.
Die Schaferstochter, III, 502.
Schlangenkochin, I, 153.
Das Schloss in Oesterreich, II, 174 n.; V, 293.
Schbn Adelheid, II, 66.
Schon-Aennelein, I, 30.
Schon Anneli, III, 497.
Schon Elselein, II, 406 b.
Schon Hannchen, V, 206.
Schon Ullerich und Hauselein, I, 30.
Schon Ulrich, I, 486.
Schon Ulrich und Rautendelein, I, 30.
Schon Ulrich und Roth-Aennchen, I, 30.
Schondili, I, 486 a.
Schondilie, I, 29.
Die schbne Agnese, I, 365; n, 506 a. .,
Die schone Agnete, I, 365.
Die schone Agniese, I, 365.
Die schone Angnina, I, 365.
Die schone Anna, V, 207.
Die schbne Dorothea, I, 365; IV, 459 a.
Die schone Hannale, I, 365.
Die schone Hannele, I, 365.
Ein schoner Bremberger, V, 31.
Das Schwabentochterlein, II, 406.
Die schwarzbraune Hexe, I, 97.
Soldatenlohn, V, 225.
Stiefmutter, I, 153.
Stolz Heinrich, I, 38 n., 113.
Stolz Sieburg, I, 38.
Siideli, II, 127.
Der Teufel und die Miillerstochter, I, 219.
Der todte Freier, II, 228, and n., 240; V, 225 a,
294.
Die Todtenbraut, V, 63.
Der Todwunde, I, 97.
Traugemundslied, I, 2 n.
Die traurige Begegnung, II, 205 n.
Ulinger, I, 29-39, 47, 93, 486 a; III, 497 a; IV,
441 a; V, 206 f.
Ulrich, I, 30.
Ulrich und Aennchen, I, 30.
Ulrich und Annie, I, 30.
Die ungliickliche Braut, I, 38 n.
INDEX OF BALLAD TITLES
447
Unmogliche Dinge, I, 7.
Unmogliches Begehren, I, 7.
Unmoglichkeiten, I, 7.
Die unschuldig gehangene und gerettete Dienstmagd,
V, 288.
Der unschuldige Tod des jungen Knaben, II, 174 n.
Das unverdiente Kranzlein, II, 206 n.
Van ideln unnaoglichen Dingen, I, 7.
Das vergiftete Kind, I, 154.
Der verschlafene Jager, I, 393.
Die Verschmitzte, II, 483.
Die verwundete Dame, I, 437.
Der verwundete Knabe, I, 437.
Vom Judenmord zu Deggendorf, III, 240 n.
Vom jungen Markgrafen, II, 206 n.
Von dem Markgrafen Backenweil, V, 291.
Von den Juden zu Fassau, III, 240 n.
Von der jungen Markgrafin, II, 613 b.
Von einem gottlosen Zauberer und seiner unschul-
digen Kindlein wunderbarer Erlosung, I, 402.
Von einem frechen Rauber, Herr Ulrich geheissen,
1,30.
Von einem wackern Magdlein, Odilia geheissen, etc.,
I, 29, 31.
Von eitel unmoglichen Dingen, I, 7.
Von Farbe so bleich, I, 181.
Der Vorwirth, II, 235.
Die Waisen, I, 181.
Der Wasserman, I, 38 n., 365; IV, 441 a.
Wassermans Braut, I, 38, and n., 39 n., 365.
Die Weismutter, V, 288.
Wettgesang, I, 7.
Wind iiber Wind, V, 89.
Wunderbare Aufgaben, I, 7.
Die wunderschone Anna auf dem Rheinsteine, V,
285.
Der Zimmergesell und die junge Markgrafin, III,
109 n.
Zu Frankfurt steht ein Wirtshaus, V, 288.
Zu spate Reue, II, 204 n.
Gypsy.
(Transylvanian etc.) ballads cited without titles: III,
517; V, 63.
Icelandic.
Asu kvseSi, I, 28, 53; II, 496.
Eyturbyrlunar kvseSi, I, 156.
Gunnhildar kvseSi, II, 34 n.
Horpu kvsetSi, I, 119, 122.
KvseSi af Loga i Vallarhlffi, II, 297.
Kvseol af 6lafi Liljurds, I, 374.
MalfrfSar kvseSi, II, 310.
Margretar kvseSi, I, 445.
Marteins kvseSi, I, 249.
6lafs kvatfi, I, 374.
tflafur og alfamser, I, 374.
(3lofar kvaeft, II, 157.
Ormars rfmur, II, 49 n.
Ribbalds kvatfi, I, 91 ; II, 127.
Rika alfs kvseSi, I, 362.
Sfmonar kvsetSi, IV, 492.
Soffm kvseSi, II, 101, 102.
Sonar harmur, I, 179, 180.
Ssetrolls kvseSi, II, 13 n.
Tristrams kvseSi, I, 98.
JriSriks kvseSi koutings, II, 406.
J?orkels kvaeoi J?raudarsonar, II, 498 a.
Vallara kvsetJi, I, 173.
Italian.
L' adultera, II, 103 n.
L'amante avvelenato, III, 499.
L' am ante deluso, I, 393.
Ambrogio e Lietta, III, 508 b.
Amor costante, III, 517.
Amor di fratello, IV, 186.
Amore inevitabile, III, 506.
L' avvelenato, I, 152 f., 498 b; 208 b.
La ballerina, V, 231.
La bella Brunetta, I, 393; III, 506; IV, 459.
La bella Inglese, IV, 441.
Bennardo, III, 501.
La bevanda sonnifera, I, 393; III, 506 b; IV, 459 b.
Bombarion, V, 90.
(La) Brunetta, I, 393; V, 296.
Buonasera, vedovella, IV, 186.
Canto marinaresco di Nicotera, IV, 481.
La canzdne de 'nucdnzie, I, 496.
n Castello d' Oviglio, HI, 498.
Catarine, III, 516.
II cavaliere della bella spada, I, 382 f.; II, 506 a.
II cavaliere ingannato, III, 506.
U cavalieru traditu, IV, 449.
Che mestiere e il vostro ? Ill, 496.
La contadina alia fonte, I, 393, 488.
II conte Angiolino, I, 382, 383.
Conte Anzolin, El conte Anzolin, I, 382; V, 216 a.
II conte Cagnolino, I, 270, 382.
U corsaro, I, 44; III, 497.
Danze e funerali, III, 510 b.
De lu cavalieri e figliu de re, I, 498.
Donna Lombarda, I, 156; III, 499 b; V, 286.
Le due tombe, III, 498.
Un' eroina, III, 497; IV, 441.
La fandell e lu cavale're (cavaljiere), I, 393; III,
497, 506.
La fidanzata infedele, II, 103 n.; Ill, 497 b, 508 b;
V, 292.
La figlia del conte, I, 44.
La figlia del re, II, 482.
La figlia disobbediente, IV, 186.
La figlia snaturata, III, 516.
II finto (falso) pellegrino, III, 501.
Fior di tomba, III, 498.
Flavia, V, 30.
La fuga, III, 497.
La fuga e il pentimento, III, 517.
448
INDEX OF BALLAD TITLES
H furto amoroso, IV, 390.
II galante burlato, III, 518 a.
II Genovese, I, 250; in, 503 a; V, 212 a.
Giovanina, V, 207.
Inglesa, IV, 441.
La Inglese, I, 44.
Laura, I, 44.
La lavandaia, I, 382.
Leggenda marinesca, V, 231.
Leggenda napitina, IV, 481.
La liberatrice, I, 44; III, 497.
Luggieri, I, 383 n., 496.
La Mad al en a, I, 505 a.
La Madonna e il riccone, II, 10.
La madre indegna, I, 393.
Mai ferito, III, 506.
La maledetta, I, 44; IV, 186.
Maledizione della madre, IV, 186.
La maledizione materna, IV, 186.
Mamma e figghiolo, III, 499.
Maria Maddalena, IV, 451; V, 288.
Marinai, IV, 186.
II marinaro e la sna amorosa, IV, 186.
El mariner, V, 207.
Marion, V, 304.
II marito geloso, V, 90.
La mpglie fedele, III, 501.
La monacella salvata, III, 518 a.
Monchisa, I, 43 f.
La Monferrina, I, 44; III, 497.
La Monferrina incontaminata, I, 44, 488; III, 497;
IV, 441.
Montiglia, IV, 441.
Moran d' Inghilterra, I, 462; III, 507 b.
Morando, I, 462.
La Moraschina, HI, 506.
Morte occulta, I, 382 f.; H, 506 a; III, 506 a; V,
216 a.
Mosettina, V, 296.
La 'nfantina e lu cavalieri, III, 506.
O Violiua, tu hai le gote rosse, V, 90 n., 304.
Occasione niancata, III, 518 a.
L' onore salvato, III, 517.
H padre crudele, V, 29.
II penitente, III, 520.
Poter del canto, III, 509 b.
La prigioniera, III, 516 a; V, 296.
II primo amore, II, 181.
Lu pringepe de Melane, III, 497.
La prova, II, 426; III, 518 a.
La prova d' amore, II, 426; III, 518 a.
La ragazza assassinata, III, 500.
La ragazza ed i soldati, II, 426.
La ragazza fantina, III, 506.
La ragazza onesta, I, 393.
II re Carlino, I, 382.
Le repliche di Marion, V, 90.
Ricardo e Germonda, V, 303.
II rieco epulone, III, 507; V, 292.
II riconoscimento, II, 426.
Risguardo belo e Rismonda bela, V, 30.
Rissiala, V, 208.
II ritorno, II, 426; in, 518 a.
II ritorno dalla guerra, II, 426.
H ritorno del soldato, III, 501.
Rizzardo bello, I, 142, 383 n., 496 a; III, 499 a; IV,
449 a; V, 208 b.
Rizzdl d'amor, I, 496.
La rondine importuna, IV, 390.
La rondinella, IV, 390.
Ruggiero, III, 499.
Rusiue e Ddiamdre, II, 426.
Sant' Alessio, III, 520.
S. Maria Maddalena, I, 504 f.
Scibilia nobili, II, 346 f.; in, 516 a; IV, 481 a; V,
231 a; 296.
Gli scolari di Tolosa, II, 174; IU, 509 a.
Soldatino, II, 507.
La sposa colta in fallo, V, 90.
La sposa morta, III, 510, 613; V, 291.
Testameuto dell' avvelenato, III, 499.
Testamento della moglie, III, 499.
I tre tamburi, IV, 439.
La vendicatrice, I, 44.
La vergine uccisa, III, 500.
Violina, V, 296.
La visita, IV, 390.
Ladin.
Who is the younker that goes afield ere dawn, I,
400.
Lettish.
Das Lied von der Jiingsten, I, 493 b.
Die Lindenharfe, I, 493 b.
Der losegekaufte Soldat, II, 349 n.
Lithuanian.
Berne'lio rauddjimas (Die Elage des Jiinglings), I,
124.
Lithuanian ballads cited without titles: I, 124, 418
f ., 504 a.
Magyar.
Aspis kfgyd (Die Aspschlange), HI, 616 b.
Darvas Kis Clement, II, 103.
Janos, I, 499.
Ki veszi ki a kigydt ? (Wer nimmt die Schlange
heraus ?), Ill, 516 b.
A mege'tett Janos (Der vergebene Johann), I, 154,
498 f.; Ill, 499 b.
Molnar Anna, I, 45, and n., 487 n.
Palbeli sze"p Antal (Schon Anton), I, 249 f., 606 a.
Sa>ga merges kfgyd (Die gelbe giftige Natter), III,
616 b.
Sarig kiesi kigyd (Gelbe kleine Natter), in, 616 b.
Sasi ke-ny6, III, 516 b.
Sasi kigyd, HI, 516 b.
INDEX OF BALLAD TITLES
449
Szildgyi 4s Hagym&si (Szilagyi und Hagymasi), I,
107 b, 463; III, 498 b.
Two Princes (Hero and Leander), I, 98.
Magyar ballads cited without titles: I, 98, 437, 463
(see III, 498 b); II, 406, 498 a; III, 516; V, 89.
Norwegian.
Antonetta, I, 362.
DJB bur ein Mann hser utnife Aa, I, 119.
Ebbe Skammels0n, V, 292 f.
Far aa Ddtter, II, 157; IV, 468 a.
Grivilja, I, 179.
Harald Kongin og Hemingen unge, III, 17.
Hemingjen aa Harald Kungen, III, 518 b.
Herr Nikelus, I, 112; II, 85.
Herr Stragi, II, 204 n., 205.
Herre Per i Riki, I, 459.
Herre Per og GjoSaliu, II, 143.
Herre Per og stolt Margit, I, 112; II, 85.
Ivar Erlingen og Riddarsonen, II, 513.
Lfti Kersti, I, 90.
Liti Kersti som Stalldreng, II, 85.
Liti Kersti, som vart inkvervd, I, 362.
Liti Kerstis Hevn, I, 54 n.; II, 180.
Malfri, I, 362.
Maalfrf, II, 310.
Maarstig aa bass Moy, II, 205.
Margit Hjuxe, som vart inkvervd, I, 362.
Maria, I, 228 f.
Nykkin beolar til Heiemo, I, 39 n.
Olaf Liljukrans, I, 374.
Opsaug, I, 7.
Pa GronaliSheiSi, I, 404.
Reven og Bjoimen, I, 144.
Reven og Nils Fiskar, I, 144.
Rikeball og stolt GutJbjorg, I, 91.
Rullemann og Hildeborg, I, 28.
Signelill aa hennes Synir, I, 156.
S61fager og Ormekongin, V, 7.
Svein NorSmann, I, 28.
Die tvse Systa, I, 119.
Die tvo Systar, I, 119.
Unge herr Peder pa Sjoen, II. 13.
Unge Ingelbrett, II, 298, 303.
Utro Faestema, V, 286.
Veneros og stolt Olleber, I, 91.
Portuguese.
A bella infanta, III, 501.
Bella infanta, I, 503; II, 427.
Bernal Francez, V, 291.
Branca-Flor, Romance de, II, 69 n.
Bravo-Franco, Estoria do, I, 488 a.
O cacador, II, 481.
O ca<jador e a donzilla, II, 481.
O caso de D. Ignez, IV, 441.
O cego, V, 110.
Conde Nillo, I, 97.
Conde Nino, I, 97.
VOL. v. 57
Dom Alberto, II, 512 a.
Dom Carlos de Montealbar, II, 113.
Dom Diniz, I, 97.
Dom Doardos, I, 97.
Dom Duarte e Donzilha, II, 498.
Dom Franco, Romance de, I, 45.
Dom Pedro e Dona Leonarda, I, 385.
Dona Aldonga, II, 113.
Dona Ausenda, II, 113 and n.
Dona Branca, II, 512 a.
Dona Catherina, I, 503; II, 427.
Dona Helena, I, 144.
Dona Inez, I, 45.
Dona Infanta, I, 503; II, 427.
Donzella encantada, II, 481.
A encantada, II, 481.
A ermida no mar, I, 97.
Filha Maria, I, 97.
Flor de marilia, II, 512 a.
Gallo-frango, I, 488 a.
Gerinaldo, II, 127 n.
Infantina, II, 481.
A Infeiticada, II, 481.
Miragaia, V, 6.
Rainha e captiva, II, 69 n.
A romeira, I, 45 n.
Romeirinha, Romance de, I, 45 n.
(Many of these ballads occur in the Galician dialect :
see Antonio de la Iglesia, El Idioma Gallego, III,
114-17.)
Romaic.
'H alxna\<o<rla, I, 199.
'H a\cii(Tis rrjs K.uvffravrtvovir6\fus, I, 241.
'H avayvdpiffis, II, 215, 427.
I A.vayvupi(r/j.6s, I, 199 ; II, 427 ; V, 210 b.
H avdrn, II, 483.
'H apva-yft, I, 200.
"'Afffut TIO.VVO.KOV, I, 199.
''A.fffjM rov Tlvtyfifvov, III, 381.
La Belle Augiranouda, V, 294.
'H Bovpyapoirov\a Kal T\ KCIKJ) ireOepd, I, 157.
II Compito, IV, 439.
Ti yvpifffM, II, 427.
'O rv<prdKiis, dvaros rov PvQrditi), ToO Tixprdmi, III, 64.
'O ATJ/WS, 'O rdtyos rov A-fifjiov, III, 104.
'O Awvvs Kal fi KaK)) ireBepd, I, 157.
Tek eitarbv Aoio, I, 416.
'O Upwras 's rkv rd<po, II, 206.
Ti EvyevdKi, II, 206.
'H Evyfvov\a, 'H Evyevov\a Kal 6 Xdpos, 'H Evyvov\a ^
Tdpos Kal |<^Si, II, 206.
Qdvaros rov rvQrdKt), III, 54.
To KaKa ireOepiKd, I, 156.
Tb Kv&ovpi riov appa&wviaff/ji^vtD, II, 206.
Ktoffravrlvos Kal 'Aper^. See 'O veKpbs a$e\<p6s.
'O \a{l<on4vos K\e<f>Ti)s, III, 104.
'H ftdyiffffa, III, 381.
Tow yiavpiav(nrov\ov t V, 21.
450
INDEX OF BALLAD TITLES
'O yiavpiavbs K' 6 j8a<nA.eas, V, 21.
'O Maupiaybs ita.1 6 j8a<n\ei$s, V, 21.
Maurogeue, V, 22.
'O MiKpoKtaffravrlvos ' ^ pdyiffffa, III, 381.
'H povoBvyartpa, II, 206.
'O 1/e/cpbs a$e\<(>6s, Kuffravrivos (KworTcwHjs) ical '
('Aperd, EvSoKta), V, 65.
'O vi6vavTpos ffK\d/3os, I, 199.
'H wto-T^ <7t5/7os, II, 427.
Quarante ans j'ai travaille', V, 290.
'H 'Pjuaioiroi5A.a, I, 400.
'O 2ravpiavbs KO.} 6 fiaffi\ias, V, 21.
Tb oro/x^a, V, 21.
Tb <rrolx'n(*-<* TOW /3a<riA.ia /cal roC MaupiavoC, V, 21.
2ro/x^M a A ifli/5 /cal lavTo-apA?}, V, 22.
'O rd<f>os TOV A^/uou, III, 104.
Les Transformations, V, 290.
'O Xapos KoL fi K6py, II, 206.
Romaic ballads cited without title (besides some of
which the title is here supplied): I, 97, 437; II,
215, 406, 498 a, 507 b; V, 210 b, 285 b.
Roumanian.
Cucul si turturica (Cuckoo and turtle-dove), I, 400;
II, 506.
Giurgiu, III, 517.
Inelul si naframa, Anelulu si nafram'a (Ring and
handkerchief), I, 97, 201 ; III, 498 a.
Mihu Copilul, II, 137.
Miorita, IV, 460.
alga, II, 137.
Vidra, II, 137.
Roumanian ballad cited without title, I, 437.
Slavic. Bohemian.
Herman a Dornicka, I, 386 ; IV, 459 a.
Klas z hrobu, Voice from the Grave, II, 228.
Nevesta nest'astnice, The Unhappy Bride, I, 487.
Oklaman^ Turek, The Turk Duped, II, 356 ; IH,
517 b.
Sestra travicka, The Sister a Poisoner, I, 156.
Zabite* devce, The Murdered Maid, I, 487.
Zabitd sestra, The Murdered Sister, I, 487.
Zakleta dcera, The Daughter Cursed, I, 493 b.
Zenich umrlec, Dead man for Bridegroom, V, 63.
Slavic. Bulgarian.
Chozdenie mertveca po belomu svetu, The Ghost's
wandering over the white world, V, 64.
Elin Dojka, V, 64.
Elin Dojna, V, 64.
Jana, V, 64.
Koga nevestata se klanjat na kumot, When the
Bride makes her Curtsey to her best-man, III,
501 b.
Lazar i Jovana, V, 64.
Lazar i Petkana, V, 64.
Markokralevic verolomnym obrazom ubivaet junaka
ditja semi mesjacev imejuscago konja semi me-
sjacev, Markokralevic treacherously kills the hero,
a child of seven months having a seven months
old horse, IV, 463 b.
Markokralevic verolomnym obrazom ubivaet junaka
bolee sil'nago cem on, ditja Dukatince, Marko
kralevic treacherously kills a hero stronger than
himself, the child Dukatince, IV, 463 b.
Marko i dete Dukadince, Marko and the child Duka-
dince, IV, 463 b.
"Momtchil," Le baiser fatal, I, 496 b.
Prevzemanie na Carigrad, The Taking of Constanti
nople, IV, 452 a.
Respel Georgia, IV, 463 a.
Simon i negova nevesta, Simon and his Bride, III,
501 b.
Son moglenskoj korolevy. . . . Zenid'ba ich syna
Pavla Junaka, The dream of the Moglen queen,
etc. The marriage of their son, Paul the Valiant,
III, 501 b.
Stojan i Bojana, Stojan and Bojana, III, 503 a.
Stojan vojnik, Stojan the Soldier, III, 501 b.
Temisvar Gjuro, Marko Kraljevike, Jankulja Voj-
voda i dete Goljomese. T. G., M. K., J. V., and
the child G., IV, 463 b.
Vojnik Stojan i kralica, Soldier Stojan and the Queen,
IV, 450 b.
Slavic. Croatian.
Dar i uzdarje, Present and return present, V, 284.
Ive umira za Marom, John dies for Mary, V, 289.
Jnnak vu madjarski vuzi, Young man in Magyar
Prison, V, 296.
Majcina kletva, The Mother's Curse, V.
Marko Kraljevic i brat mu Andrijas, Marko Kral-
jevic and his brother Andrew, III, 507 b.
Parapaticev brig, The Parapatic shore, III, 503 a.
Popijevka od Svilojevica, A Song about Svilojevic,
IV, 497 a.
Vojvoda Janko i mlada Andjelija, Vojvoda Janko
and young Andjelija, V, 296.
Slavic. Great Russian.
Begstvo vo Egipet, Flight to Egypt, II, 7.
Brat'ja-razbojniki i sestra, The Robber-Brothers and
their Sister, II, 499 a.
Car Konstantin ; Vzjatie Carjagrada, Emperor Con-
stantine ; The Taking of Constantinople, II, 501 b.
Devjat' bratcev i sestra, Nine little Brothers and
their Sister, II, 499 a.
Djuk Stepanovic (bylina), III, 501 b.
Dobrynja i Alesa (bylina), I, 199 n., 200 ; II, 499 f.,
511 b.
Dobrynja i Vasilij Kazimirovic (bylina), IV, 499 a.
Lazari : Lazar ubogoj, Lazaruses : Lazarus the beg
gar, II, 10.
Rodici oslyseny milau wyslysen, Rejected by Parents,
Accepted by his Sweetheart, II, 349 b.
Sadko Kurec, bogatyj gost', (bylina) Sadko Kurec,
the Rich Merchant, II, 15.
INDEX OF BALLAD TITLES
451
Slavic. Little Russian.
Cernomorskaja burja, The storm on the Black Sea,
II, 15.
Lazar; O Lazare, Lazarus; Of Lazarus, III, 508 a.
Vdova otravljaet nevestu, The Widow poisons her
Son's Wife, V, 295.
Vykup kozaka miloju iz tureckoj nevoli, The Ran
som of the Cossack from Turkish Servitude by his
Sweetheart, II, 514 a.
Slavic. Moravian.
Dorada, Good Advice, IV, 439 b.
Hrisnice, The Sinner, III, 502 b.
Lazar a bohatce, Lazarus and the Rich Man, LI, 10.
The Magdalen, I, 230.
Maruska a Jandsek, I, 493 a.
Matka travicka, The Mother a Poisoner, I, 496 b.
Nest'astna" svatba, The Doleful Wedding, I, 386,
496 a.
Prvnf milejsf, The First Love, I, 502 b; II, 127 b.
Sestra travicka, Sister a Poisoner, I, 156 b.
Umrlec, The Dead Man, I, 487 n.; V, 63.
Utek Marife Panny, Flight of Virgin Mary, III,
607 b.
Vrah, The Murderer, I, 487.
Vyminov^ni, Excuses, IV, 439 b.
Zaklet.l dcera, The Daughter Cursed, I, 493 b.
Zbojce, The Murderer, I, 487.
Slavic. Polish.
Helene, V, 63.
JaS i Kasia, I, 39-41, 486 b; IV, 441.
Ucieczka, The Flight, V, 63.
Slavic. Servian.
Braca i sestra, The Brothers and the Sister, V, 64.
Dete Lovzar i majka mu, The Child and his Mother,
V, 294.
La fanciulla assediata, I, 401.
Jani i Miljenko, I, 496 b.
Jovan i Jelica, V, 64.
Jovan i Mara, V, 64.
Jurisid Janko, IV, 497 a.
Kletve djevojacke, The Maiden's Curses, II, 236.
Koja majke ne slusa, She who does not obey her
Mother, I, 42.
Lukava cobanka, Tricky Shepherdess, V, 297.
Marko Kraljevic i kci kralja arapskoga, Marko Kra
ljevic and the Daughter of the Arab King, III,
499 a.
Marko Kraljevic u azackoj tamnici, Marko Kraljevic
in the Azak Prison, II, 357.
Mudra devojka, Shrewd Lass, V.
Nachod Simeun, Simon the Foundling, V.
Prelja i car, The Spinster and the Tsar, IV, 439.
Prelja i kujundzija, The Spinstress and the Gold
smith, IV, 439.
Riba i djevojka, The Fish and the Maid, I, 2, n.
Sestra otrovnica, The Sister a Poisoner, I, 156.
Ti si nioja svakojako, You are mine for all that,
^ L'amante inevitabile, I, 401.
Zenidba Jaksica Mitra, Marriage of Jaksic Mitar, V,
212.
2enidba Stojana Jankovica, The Marriage of Stojan
Jankovic, III, 501 b.
Slavic. Slovak.
Same nesnadnosti, Sheer Impossibilities, I, 8 a.
Sestra a brat, Sister and Brother, III, 499 b.
Wyswobozeny Janjik, John set free, III, 516 b.
Slavic. Slovenian.
Cudna bolezen, Strange Sickness, I, 250.
Neve>nost, Unfaithfulness, II, 158.
Povoduji mdsh, The Merman, I, 366.
Rodbina, Kinship, II, 350.
Sve*ti Ureh, Saint Ulrich, I, 14, and n.
Wendish.
Aria, dzjeci mofdafka, Aria the Child-Murderess, I,
230.
Helska reja, Der Hollentanz, Hell Dance, I, 220.
Judasowa pserada, The Judas Treachery, I, 242.
Knez a holicka, Der Herr und die Maid, II, 205
b, n.
Lubcicka wuplaci, Die Liebste lost aus, II, 349.
Marine ceknenje, Mary's Flight, II, 7.
Na psemd, The Contest, I, 8.
Plakajuca newesta, The Weeping Bride, I, 386.
W<5dny muz, Der Wassermann, The Water-Sprite, I,
366.
Wojbesneny korcmaf, The Tavern-keeper hanged,
I, 236 f .
Wumdzenje, Die Erlosung, II, 349.
Zjesi husmersniea, Die Kindesmorderin, I, 230.
Z jjedora zawdaty Hindrask, Poisoned Henry, 1, 154.
Zrudny kwas, The Doleful Wedding, I, 386.
Slavic. White Russian.
Pesn' o gresnoj deve, Song of the Sinful Girl, V, 288.
Slavic ballads cited without titles: 1, 2 and n., 39, 41,
97, 124, 155 f ., 230, 386, 400 f ., 437 b, 484 a, 487-
90, 499 a, 502 b, 506 a; H, 14, n., 228, 240, 349 f.,
406, 495 a, 496 f., 498 a, 499 a, 502 a, 511 b; III,
104, 367 n., 498 f ., 501 b, 502 b, 503 a, 506 b, 507 b,
509 a, 516 f.; IV, 439, 441, 443 b, 447 b, 450 b,
451 b, 452 a, 459 b, 474 b, 481 a, 497 a, 499 a; V,
63 f.; 284, 285, 287, 288, 290, 292, 295, 296, 304.
Spanish.
A cazar va el caballero, II, 480.
La Ausencia, V, 237 a.
El caballero burlado, II, 480 ; III, 518 a.
Caballero de lejas tierras, II, 427.
Cdmo el conde don Ramon de Barcelona libr<5 la
emperatriz de Alemaua que la tenian para quemar,
Romance de, II, 42.
452
INDEX OF BALLAD TITLES
Conde Amaldos, II, 137.
Conde Claros de Montalvan, II, 113, and n.
Conde Guarinos, Romance del, I, 469 n.
Conde Lombardo, Romance del, II, 158.
El Conde Sol, I, 461, and n.
De Blanca-Nina, II, 158; V, 91.
De Francia partio" la niiia, II, 480.
De la infanta y don Galvan, II, 113, and n.
De la infanta y el hijo del rey de Francia, II, 406.
Don Bueso, II, 481 n.; Ill, 510 b; V, 207 a.
Don Pedro, IV, 459 a.
Dona Alda, III, 506 a.
Dona Ana, Romance de, I, 384.
Las dos hermanas, II, 69, and n.
Espinelo, II, 67 n.
La Esposa infiel, III, 509 a.
Estando un caballerito, II, 158.
Galancina, III, 508 b; IV, 466 a.
Galanzuca, III, 508 b.
Gerineldo, I, 462; II, 127 n.; Ill, 507 b, 509 a; IV,
460 b.
La Hija de la viudina, III, 497 b.
La Infanta encantada, II, 480.
La Infanta y Don Galvan, De, II, 113, and n.
La Infantina, II, 480.
Mananita, mananita, IV, 468 a.
Marque's de Mantua, Romance del, II, 197.
El penitente, III, 520 a.
La Princesa Isabel, IV, 441 b.
Rico Franco, Romance de, I, 44.
Tiempo es, el caballero, V, 110.
Las tres adivinanzas, II, 507 b.
Venganza de honor, III, 497 b.
Swedish.
Agneta och Bergamannen, I, 362; II, 511 b.
Agneta och Hafsmannen, I, 364.
Bergkonungen, I, 362.
Den Bergtagna, I, 362.
Den Bortsaida, II, 347 f.; IV, 481 a.
The Bride Drowned, IV, 440 f.
Deielill och Lageman, I, 194.
Den dode Brudgummen, II, 228.
Elf-Qvinnan och Herr Olof, I, 374, 376.
Ellibrand och Froken Gyllenborg, IV, 443 a.
Elvehoj, II, 137.
Falkvard Lagermanson, II, 342.
Den falske Riddaren, I, 27.
Froken Gyllenborg, I, 489 b.
Fru Gundela, I, 156.
Fru Malin star ute och borstar sitt bar (The Bride
Drowned) IV, 440 f.
Fru Margaretha, II, 127; III, 508 b.
Fastmon, III, 510 b.
Den fortrollade Jungfrun, I, 502 a.
Den fortrollade Prinsessan, I, 336; IV, 465 b.
Den grymma Brodern, II, 157.
Hafsfrun, I, 54 n.
Harpans Kraft, II, 137. See Harpens Kraft, under
Danish ballads.
Helena och Hafsmannen, I, 364.
Helleman Unge, II, 297.
Herr Axel, I, 168 n., 447.
Herr Balder, I, 92.
Herr Carl, eller Klosterrofvet, I, 249, 506 a; III,
503 a; IV, 453 b.
Herr Elver Bergakonungen, I, 362.
Herr Hjelmer, Helmer, Hjelman, I, 94 n.; II, 170
n.; IV, 164.
Herr Lagman och Herr Thor, I, 194.
Herr Magnus, II, 143.
Herr Magnus och Hafstrollet, I, 314.
Herr Malmstens Drbm, II, 205.
Herr Olof i Elfvornas Dans, I, 374.
Herr Olof och Elffrun, I, 374.
Herr Olof och Elf vorna, I, 374.
Herr Peder, II, 13.
Herr Peders Sjoresa, II, 13; IV, 462 b.
Herr Peder och liten Kerstin, II, 180.
Herr Peder och Malfred, II, 310.
Herr Radibrand och lilla Lena, IV, 449 a.
Herr Redebold, I, 91, 92.
Herr Redevall, I, 179.
Herr Riddervall, IV, 450 a.
Herr Samsing, II, 143.
Herr Aster och Froken Sissa, I, 64 n., 65.
Herren Bald, 1, 144.
Hertig Frojdenborg och Froken Adelin, V, 30.
Hertig Henrik, I, 194.
Hertig Henrik och Konungen, IV, 482 b.
Hertig Hillebrand och hans Syster, II, 356 b.
Hertig Magnus och Elfvorna, I, 314.
Hertig Nils, II, 205, 206 n.
Herting Liljebrand, I, 92.
Hildebrand, I, 489 b.
Hillebrand, I, 91.
Husarerna, V, 89.
Jungfru Adelin, I, 228.
Jungfru Maja, I, 228.
Jungfru Solfager, V, 7, 280.
Jungfrun och Bergakonungen, I, 362.
Jungfrun och Bergamannen, I, 362.
Jungfruns Dbd, II, 205, and n.
Koloregris, I, 210.
Krist' lilla och Herr Tideman, I, 179.
Kung Valdemo, IV, 443 a; V, 207.
Kung Vallemo, I, 91.
Kung Vallemo och liten Kerstin, III, 498 a.
Kung Walrnon, I, 92.
Kampen Grimborg, V, 207.
Lageman och hans Brud, I, 194.
Det lef vande Liket, I, 249.
Lilla Lisa och Herr Nedervall, III, 500.
Den lillas Testamente, I, 154.
Linden, I, 307.
Liten Kerstin och Dane-Peter, II, 85.
INDEX OP BALLAD TITLES
453
Liten Kerstin och Drottning Sofia, II, 101, 102.
Liten Kerstin och Fru Sofia, II, 101 f.
Liten Kerstin Stalldrang, II, 84.
Liten Kerstins Fb'rtrollning, I, 84.
Liten Kerstins Haind, II, 180.
Magdalena, I, 228.
Moder och Son, I, 179.
Necken, I, 366 n.
Naktergalsvisan, V, 290.
En Naskonung bodde pa Illvedens f jail, I, 493 b.
Olof Adelen, III, 610 b.
Peder och liten Stina, IV, 469 a.
Peder Palleson, II, 205, 206.
Pehr Tyrsons Dbttrar i Wange, I, 172.
Prins Olof, II, 506 a.
Eibbolt, I, 92.
Ridborg, V, 207 b.
Riddar Lage och stolts Elensborg, I, 66.
Riddar Ola, I, 54 n., 64 n.
Riddar Olle, I, 63, and n.
Riddar Olof, I, 64 n.; IV, 442 b.
Riddaren och Torpardrangen, IV, 468 a.
Riddaren Tyne, II, 137.
Risa lill, I, 501 b.
Rosa lilla, I, 179, 501 b.
Rosen lilla, I, 96; IV, 443 b.
Rofvaren Brun, I, 27.
Rbfvaren Rymer, I, 28.
Sankt Staff ans Visa, I, 235.
De sju Gullbergen, I, 112; H, 85.
Skbn Aniia, II, 65; IV, 463 b.
Skbn Anna och Hafskungen, I, 364.
Skbn Anna och Herr Peder, IV, 463 b.
Skbn Helena och Riddaren Hildebrand, IV, 449.
Sorgens Magt, II, 227.
Staffans Visa(n), I, 234; II, 7.
Stolt Ingrid, I, 194.
Stolts Botelid Stalldrang, II, 84.
Stolts Elins Fbrtrollning, I, 84 (C).
Stolts Karin, I, 54 n.
Stolts Signild, III, 122.
Den stridbare Munken, I, 298 n.
Sven i Rosengard, 1, 167, 501 b; III, 499 b; V, 209 b,
287 a.
Systermordet, I, 119.
Sbmn-runorna, I, 391.
Den Sbrjande, II, 205.
There och bans Syster, II, 158.
Torpardrangen, II, 137.
De tva Systrarne, I, 119; IV, 447.
Den underbara Harpan, I, 119.
Ung Hillerstrbm, II, 170.
Unger Sven, H, 170.
Ungersveunens Drbm, II, 205 u.
TITLES OF COLLECTIONS OF BALLADS, OH OF BOOKS
CONTAINING BALLADS,
WHICH ARE VERY BRIEFLY CITED IN THIS WORK
Albanian.
Camarda, D. Appendice al saggio di grammatologia
comparata sulla lingua albanese. Prato, 1866.
de Grazia, Demetrio. Canti popolari albanesi tradi-
zionali nel mezzogiorno d' Italia, riordinati, tra-
dotti, e illustrati da . Noto, 1889.
de Rada, Girolamo. Rapsodie d' un poema albanese
raccolte nelle colonie del Napoletano, tradotte da
e per cura di lui e di Niccolb Jeno de' Coronei
ordinate e messe ia luce. Firenze, 1866.
Breton.
Luzel, F. M. Gwerziou Breiz-Izel. Chants popu-
laires de la Basse-Bretagne. 2 vols. Lorient,
1868-74.
Soniou Breiz-Izel. Chansons populaires de la
Basse-Bretagne. 2 vols. Paris, 1890.
Quellien, N. Chansons et danses des Bretons.
Paris, 1889.
Taylor, Tom. Ballads and Songs of Brittany, trans
lated from the Barsaz-Breiz of Vicomte Hersart de
la Villemarqne'. London and Cambridge, 1865.
Villemarque', Le Vicomte Hersart de la. Barzaz
Breiz, chants populaires de la Bretagne. 6 e e"d.
Paris, 1867.
Catalan.
Cansons de la terra. Cants populars Catalans, col-
leccionats per Francesch Pelay Briz y Candi Candi.
Barcelona, I, 1866; II, F. P. Briz y Joseph Saltd,
1867; 1II-V, F. P. Briz, 1871, 1874, 1877.
Mild y Fontanals, Manuel. Romancerillo Catalan.
Canciones tradicionales. Segunda edicion, refun-
dida y aumentada. Barcelona, 1882.
Observaciones sobre la poesia popular, con
muestras de romances catalanes ine"ditos, por .
Barcelona, 1853.
Miscelanea folk-ldrica per los Srs Almirall, Arabia,
et cet. Barcelona, 1887.
Danish.
Abrahamson, Nyerup og Rahbek. Udvalgte Danske
Viser fra MWdelalderen ; ef ter A. S. Vedcls og P.
Syvs trykte Udgaver og efter haandskrevne Sam-
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Knoop, Otto. Volkssagen, Erzahlungen, Aberglau-
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Zu besserer Gedachtniss und seinen Landsleuten
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INDEX OF MATTERS AND LITERATURE
Aaltje, Ethel, Adeline, Dutch representative of Fair An
nie, II, 66.
Abortion sought by eating of rose, I, 341, 343 f ., 354 ; savin
tree (abbey tree, deceivin tree), III, 387, 393, 396; IV,
610 ; sycamore tree, IV, 511 ; pile o the gravil, 1, 350 ;
an herb, leaf from the tree, flower, I, 349, 352 ; III, 386 ;
IV, 456.
Aboulcassem, tale of, I, 282.
Aboulfaouaris, tale of, II, 499.
Aboyne, Earl of, ballad, IV, 311 ff. ; V, 270 f., 301.
Acta Sanctorum, I, 239, and n. ; II, 510 a ; III, 237 n., 241 f.
Adam Bell maintained to be an historical or mythical per
sonage, III, 21 f.
Addison on Chevy Ghace ; his interest in traditional songs
and tales, HI, 305, and n., 306.
Adelheid, Dutch and German representative of Fair Annie,
H, 66 f.
Adland, King, father of lady sought in marriage by King
Estmere, II, 52 f.
Adler, II, 50-55; king, 50, and Estmere his messenger;
brother of King Estmere, 51-55, and his nuncio.
Adrian and Ritheus, I, 13 n.
L'Adroite Princesse, imitation of Basile, in, 4, I, 269.
Adultery, noble lady accused of, vindicated by champion or
by ordeal, H, 34-48, 510 b ; III, 508 a.
Les Adventures d'Abdalla fils d'Hanif, etc., I, 392.
Adventures of the Cauzee (J. Scotts's Arabian Nights), n,
43 n.
./Esop, Life of, I, 12, 13, and n. ; a clever fence of his, 13.
Af biskupi ok puka, Icelandic legend of Saint Andrew, I,
484 b.
Af Fru Olif ok Landres, Karlamagnus Saga, II, 40.
Af klerk ok gyolngum, legend, III, 240.
Afezzell, Histoire du devin, I, 489 a.
Agilulf, Decameron, m, 2, II, 137 a, 511 b.
Agolafre, V, 244 b.
Aiol et Mirabel, III, 508 a.
Air, importance of, for producing the proper effect of a
ballad, II, 204 a.
Airlie, House of, plundered, ballad, IV, 54 ff.
Ajax, flower from his blood, I, 99.
Aladdin, story of, I, 323 n. ; II, 127.
Alboazar, V, 4 f .
Alcon, the archer, III, 20.
Aldora, V, 4 f.
Alexander, romances of, III, 322 n. ; V, 226 a, 297.
Alexander of Metz, poem and tale, I, 268, 459.
Alfonsus of Lincoln, III, 239.
A"li, IV, 502 b.
Allan Water, a tune, Allan Water, or, My love Annie 's very
bonny, a song, Allan Water, or, a Lover in Captivity, a
song, IV, 184.
Allen a Dale married to his true-love by Robin Hood in
spite of the bishop, III, 173 f.
Alpthier, III, 498 a.
Als61, transformed by step-mother, I, 306 f.
Alvfasmal, I, 13, 419.
Amadas et Ydoine, romance, III, 508.
Amadis of Gaul, I, 267, 308 (Amadis d' Astra) ; III, 508 b.
Amasis, tasks given to and by, propounds riddles, I, 13,
and n.
Amis and Amilonn, Amis e Amiloun, II, 127, 511 b ; III,
^ 508 b.
Amis and the Bishop, in Pfaffe Amis, I, 406.
Ancrum Muir, Battle of, = Lilliard's Edge, HI, 306.
Andrius, the monk, I, 505 b.
L'Andromede et les demons, Lesbian tale, V, 294 a.
Annals of Burton, H, 236 f . ; of Waverley, II, 235 ; of Win
chester, II, 38 n.
Antonius Liberalis (Metamorphoses of Nicander), I, 84.
Anvar-i Suhaile', tale in, V, 14.
Apollodorus, I, 337, 338 n.
Apollonius of Tyana, I, 485 a.
Apollonius of Tyre, I, 1, 416 ; IV, 402 b ; V, 245.
Apologie pour He'rodote, story in V, 122.
Appetite, monstrous and revolting, of bewitched women, I,
290, 298 f., 301.
Apple, gold, thrown into woman's lap controls her will,
1,364.
Apple-tree, danger from fairies of sleeping under, I, 340,
350 ; IV, 455 f. See I, 319 b, and Ympe Tree.
Apuleius, Metamorphoses, I, 84 f .
Arabian Nights, Thousand and One Nights, Tausend und
eine Nacht, I, 11 n., 12 f., 269, 323 n., 402 ; II, 43 n., 127,
511 b ; V, 13.
Ardai Viraf, ArdS-Virai, H, 236, 506 f., 513 a.
Argyll. See under Family Names.
Arioald, H, 39.
Arm-ring, bribing to secrecy with, H, 51.
Arms, long arms seemingly regarded as a beauty, II, 168 ;
IV, 415 ; V, 160 f., 164. (Cf. Chaucer, Canterbury Tales,
v. 9476, Tyrwbitt.)
Armstrong, John (Gilnockie), said to have molested no
Scotsman, but to have levied tribute on the English from
the border to Newcastle, III, 364; makes King James
great offers for his life, 365, 370 ; appears to have been
apprehended by unfair dealing, 365 f. ; hanged, with
all his men, 365 ; is invited by the king to visit him, and
goes with eight score men gallantly attired, 368 f. ; the
king thinks him a king, as well as he, 369 f. ; refused
pardon, comes near to killing the king, but is finally
slain, with all his company, 368 f.
Armstrong, William of Kinmouth (Kinmont Willie), made
prisoner by the English hi violation of trace, taken by
470
INDEX OF MATTERS AND LITERATURE
force from Carlisle castle by Sir Walter Scott, laird of
Buccleuch, III, 469-74 ; his extraordinary and proverbial
rapacity, 471.
Armstrongs, their strength, HI, 363 ; ravage both the Eng
lish and the Scottish border, 364 a. See under Family
Names.
Arngosk, Lady of, ballad, IV, 241 8.
Arrow, bearing, IH, 29, 202, 341 ; broad, IH, 29, 160, 176,
199, 202, 341 ; IV, 505 f. ; letter sent on an arrow-head,
TIT, 223 f., 231 ; V, 241 a ; arrow shot to determine
place for grave, I, 185 (?) ; III, 106 ; to show where a
wife is to be sought, II, 499.
Arthour and Merlin, romance of, IV, 479 b.
Arthur, King, I, 257-67, 271-3, 283-91, 289-91, 293-6 ; his cus
tom of not dining until he had had or heard of an adven
ture, 1, 257, 263 ; III, 51, and n. So Robin Hood, III, 51.
Arthur a Bland, tanner of Nottingham, kinsman of Little
John, III, 137 ; the tune, 133, and n.
Arthur a Bradley, a ballad, IH, 215, 217.
Arthur's seat shall be my bed, song, IV, 105.
Artificial curiosities, wand with three singing living lavrocks
sitting thereon, etc., I, 201 f., 205, 503 ; IH, 501 b ; IV,
450 b.
Artiga, V, 4 f.
Atamulc, story of, V, 13.
Athelbrus, steward of King Ailniar, and tutor of Horn and
his comrades, I, 188 f.
Atherly. See John of Atherly.
Athulf, Horn's faithful friend, I, 188, 190.
Les Aubrays, Lizandre", Breton knight, kills a Moor by re
ceiving him on the point of his sword as the Moor leaps
in the air, H, 378 ; III, 276.
Audam and Doorkhaunee, Afghan poem, I, 98.
Augur (wimble) bore, lady first seen, or courted, through
an, I, 202, B, 205, F, 206, H ; first and only sight, I, 255.
Auld Man = Devil, I, 18, I.
Auld Robin Gray, a play, V, 88.
Die Ausgleichung, I, 265.
Austerities vowed by actors in tragic stories, as tributes of
grief, penances, etc., II, 156 f., 159, 162 f., 165 f., 175, 177,
179, 258, 318 f . ; IV, 97, 360, 433 ; V, 223 a.
Austrriki, I, 460 n.
The Avowynge of King Arthur, metrical romance, I, 209.
Ayrer's plays, V, 24 f., 97.
Baba-Yaga, I, 484 a.
Baffling malice with ready answers, I, 20-22, 485 ; IH, 496 ;
IV, 440.
Bahome, Bee Horn, II, 318 f.
Baillie Lunnain, Gaelic tale, I, 191 n.
Balcanqual, II, 337.
Balewise, bseliwis, I, 67 n.
Balfour, John, called Burly, IV, 106 f.
Bandello, Novelle, I, 269 ; H, 42 ; IH, 258 ; V, 23 n.
Banier, Sir (=Sir Beduer, Bedewere ?), I, 295.
La Barbe Bleue, I, 47.
Barberine, A. de Musset, I, 269.
Y Bardd Glas Keraint, II, 136, 511.
Der Barenhauter, tale, I, 198.
Barnard, Bernard, Barnet, Burnett, Burnard, Lord, H,
244-8, 251 f., 256-8, 266-74.
Barnsdale, HI, 50 f.
Barrel spiked, punishment of rolling or dragging in, H,
343; IV, 30 n., 32; V, 48.
Barton, Sir Andrew, maintained by the English to be a pi
rate, HI, 335 f ., 339, 345, 352 ; IV, 503 ; his dangerous
" beams," III, 337, and n., 338, 340 f., 344 f., 349 ; IV,
504 f. ; his ship brass within and steel without, III, 340,
344, 349 ; IV, 504 ; and magnificently ornamented, IH,
340, 342 ; boasts that he once salted thirty heads of the
Portuguese, and sent them home to eat with bread, IV,
505 ; 300 crowns (500 angels) tied about his middle, when
his body is thrown overboard, to secure burial, HI, 342 ;
IV, 506.
Basile, H Pentamerone, I, 269, 461 n. ; H, 127 ; V, 48.
Bastars de Buillon, Li, romance, V, 6.
Bathing for recovering human shape, I, 308, 338, and n. ; H,
505; HI, 505; V, 39 f .
The Battle of Harlaw, of Hara Law, a tune ; The Battle of
Hardlaw, a pibroch, HI, 318. See Harlaw.
Beating of daughters, I, 192 ; H, 435 ; V, 237 a.
Beaumont and Fletcher, Knight of the Burning Pestle, I,
105 ; H, 199, 243, 457 n. ; V, 201 f. ; The Spanish Cu
rate, I, 239 n.; Monsieur Thomas, H, 10, 243; HI, 294,
331; Bonduca, H, 243; V, 202; The Pilgrim, H, 457;
The Two Noble Kinsmen, H, 506 b ; V, 133, 202 ; Phi-
laster, HI, 129.
Beauty and the Beast, La Belle et la Bete, tale, I, 308,
313 f.
Becket, Gilbert, romantic story of, I, 457 f.
Becket, Thomas, stands by his votaries, I, 505 a.
Beeldwit, I, 67.
Beggar (palmer), Hind Horn changes clothes with, I, 189,
191 f., 202-7 ; Robin Hood, HI, 178-82, 184; Little John,
IH, 188 ; Wallace, HI, 271, 273 ; other disguises as beg
gar or pilgrim, V, 2, 4, 5, 279 f . ; beggar who receives
girl's favors turns out to be a person of high degree, V,
109 ff., 116 ff., 305 a.
The Beggar and the Five Muffins, Eastern story, V, 281.
Beggar and Robin Hood, HI, 156, 159 ; beggar (beggars)
and Little John, IH, 188 f.
Beggar's dress and equipment, II, 436 f. (61, 78).
Die beiden Fiirsten, Turkish tale, I, 10.
Beket. See Becket.
Le Bel Inconnu, Libeaus Desconeus, I, 308 ; II, 51, 510 b.
Bele Ydoine, romance, IV, 482 a.
Belewitte, I, 67.
La Belle et la Bgte, I, 308 n., 313 f.
Bellerophon's sons and Sarpedon, HI, 20.
Bells, numerous, on horses, I, 320 n. ; V, 290 a ; on every
lock of horse's mane, I, 323 ; H, 189, 191, 344; IV, 410,
413 ; mane and tail, II, 194 ; twenty-four on horse's mane,
H, 183, 185 ; hung at every corner of a ship, IV, 462 a ;
bell sewed to every stitch of a cap for a (supposed) dead
girl, III, 364; IV, 483; bells ring of themselves, I, 173,
231 ; HI, 235, 244, 519 f. ; bells rung backward as an
alarm, III, 26 ; girl sold for a new church-bell, I, 91 f .
Belly-blind. See Billie Blind.
Beloe's Oriental Apologues, V, 97.
Benbow, Admiral, V, 147.
Benediction in church, merman's (human) wife must not
stay till, or expose herself to, 1, 366 ; nix flies from, ib., n.
Bengwill, Benwall, Brangwill, Lord, I, 62, 76, 78 ; II, 253.
BeWulf, I, 50, 54 n. ; II, 56.
Der Berghiiter undeine kluge Tochter, Transylvanian tale,
1,8.
Berkeley, Witch of, V, 298 a.
Beraabb Visconti and the Abbot, tale of Sacchetti, I, 406.
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471
Bernard, Lord. See Barnard.
Bernard de Brusban, of the twelve peers, I, 278.
Bernardo del Carpio, III, 367.
Bertha im Wald, children's game, I, 33 n.
Berthold von Neuhaus, I, 198.
Bertrand, Nicolas, I, 237 f.
Bessy Bell, nursery song, IV, 75; Bessy Bell and Mary
Gray, ballad, 75 ff.
Der betrogene Betriiger, tale, I, 47.
Bewick and Graham, ballad, IV, 144 ff.
Bewsey, a poem, III, 329.
Bias extricates himself from tasks, I, 13, and n.
The Bible, I, 51 f., 245, 271, 282 n., 404, and n. ; II, 14 n.
Bier half gold, half silver, I, 506 ; II, 358 f., 362, 366 ; V,
224 ; with ae stamp o the melten goud, another o silver
clear, IV, 471.
Bil-eygr, bol-eygr, appellatives of Odin, I, 67.
Billie (Bellie) Blind (Blin), I, 63, 67, 73, 86, 466 f. ; H,
458, 464, 470, 472; IV, 494; V, 239.
Bilvfe, bilwiz, I, 67 ; V, 285 b.
Binyan's Bay, I, 24, 61 b.
Birds : bird takes a message or carries a letter, II, 113 n.,
356-60, 362 f., 365 f. ; III, 4, 8 ; IV, 412, 482, 484 f. ;
V, 234 ; bird (parrot, pyet, popinjay) comments on a
murder it has witnessed, murderess tries in vain to en
trap him, II, 144, 146-52, 154 ; testifies to the murder,
153, 155 ; warns maid of danger, I, 31-5, 37 ; II, 496 f. ;
IV, 441 ; V, 285 ; warns lover of mishap, II, 206 n. ;
warns mother that her son tarries long, III, 10 ; (nightin
gale, lark) reveals maid's death (being really the soul of the
dead), I, 180, 181 ; speaks to encourage Fair Ellen, I, 90,
92, 95 ; V, 221 ; bird informs knight of wife's infidelity,
H, 260 ; bribes or promises to birds for services, 1, 57-60 ;
n, 144, 146 f., 149-52, 154, 359 ; IV, 389 f., 416 ; par
tridge betrays the hiding-place of the Virgin, II, 8 ; quail
plays partridge's part, swallow befriends the Virgin, H,
509 f . ; birds call out in human voice at seeing a living
woman riding behind a dead man, V, 65 ; lover in bird-
shape (or coat), V, 39-42.
Birth arrested, I, 82-87, 489 ; III, 497. See Childbirth.
Bitte mette, Danish tale, I, 489 a.
Bjorner's Kampadater, I, 50, 259 ; H, 57 n.
The Black Bull of Norroway, tale, V, 201.
Blak, the horse, I, 96.
Blind Harry's Wallace, III, 109, 191, 265, 266.
Blind the Bad, Blindr inn bolvfei, I, 67, 95.
Blinde belien, I, 67.
Blindr inn bolvisi, I, 67, 95.
Blonde of Oxford and Jehan of Dammartin (Jehan et
Blonde), romance, I, 191 n. ; V, 287 b.
Blood : blood of children or virgins reputed a cure for lep
rosy, I, 47, 50 n. ; IV, 441 b ; V, 285 ; blood of Chris
tians in Hebrew rites, III, 240-3 ; IV, 497 a ; blood,
drinking to dissolve enchantment, I, 337, and n. ; blood,
emission of, from dead body on being touched or ap
proached by the murderer, II, 143, 146, 148, 153; IV,
468 a.
Blood stanched with a charm, II, 441, 445, 450.
Blood-relations refuse to ransom a captive woman, a woman
about to be hanged ; done by husband or lover, II, 346-9,
350-3; III, 516; IV, 481 f.; V, 23 1 -4, 296; the same
story, with parts shifted, of a man ransomed by his mis
tress, II, 349 f. ; in, 516 ; IV, 481 ; V, 233 f., 296 ; Fin
nish and Esthonian versions, V, 231-3.
Blow thy home, hunter, fragment of a song, I, 209 ; IV,
451.
Blue, fortunate in love matters, II, 182, 512 a ; symbolic of
good faith, thy coat is blue, thou hast been true, HI, 479
(6), 481 (6).
Bluebeard, La Barbe Bleue, I, 47, 49 n., 50 n., 54.
Boar, terrible, in romantic tales, I, 209-14; IE, 500 a.
Bocca della verita, I, 270 n.
Boccaccio, Decamerone, 1, 197 f., 457 n. ; H, 128, 137, 156 n. ;
HI, 258 ; V, 23 nn., 29, 30, and n., 31, and n., 32, and n.,
33, 303 a.
Bodman, I, 198.
Boiling to death, in a caldron, molten lead, in oil, or throw
ing into boiling oil, H, 321 n., 327; IV, 480 a; V, 53,
56, 230, 281.
Bol-eygr, I, 67.
Bolverkr (Odin), I, 67.
Bolvfs, I, 67. See Blindr.
Bone Florence of Rome, Le, romance, III, 235.
Bonny Lass o Livingston, song, IV, 232 n.
Books in church read without man's tongue, III, 244.
Boon of being allowed to fight at odds rather than be judi
cially executed (cf. No 141) in South Slavic songs, IV,
497 a.
Boots pulled off half-way, to embarrass a gallant, H, 482 ;
IV, 495 a.
Borde, Andrew, I, 237 n., 238.
Bore, Sir (= Sir Bors ?), I, 293, 295.
Bosworth Field, a history in ballad verse, HI, 307, 331 fc,
354 n.
Bothwell, Earl, ballad, III, 399 ff.
Bothwell Bridge, Battle of, ballad on, IV, 108 ff.
Bow, bent before swimming, H, 114, 116 f., 119, 121 f., 129,
177, 212, 257, 272, 313, 379, 395; IV, 229, 398; slacked
to swim, II, 250; slacked to run, II, 116f. ; IV, 229;
bent to leap wall, H, 115-17, 129, 177, 272, 313; IV,
229.
Bow shots : six score paces, to cleave apple on boy's head,
HI, 17, 29 ; twenty score paces to split a rod, IH, 29 ;
three score rood (330 yards), III, 93 ; a hundred rod, III,
176; fifteen score (300 yards), HI, 201, 203; (not to be
taken seriously) a mile, or half a mile and more, and
through an armed man at the end, HI, 54 ; two north-
country miles and an inch, HI, 215.
Bower, Scotichronicon, III, 41, 43, 96, 266, 282, and n., 292,
and n., 305, 316, 476 nn.
The Boy and the Mantle, ballad, I, 257 ff., etc. ; story in
Welsh, I, 265 nn.
Boy baffles carlin by ready answers, I, 21.
Brackleys, several, murdered, IV, 80-83, 522; Baron of
Brackley, ballad, 79 ff.
Brags, gabs, vows, I, 277 f., 281-3, 285 ; H, 502.
Brand and ring, choice given to maid, signifying the death
of violator or marriage with him, II, 469 ; IV, 493 ; V,
28, 238.
Brand, Right-hitting, HI, 43 n. ; V, 297 a.
Brandimarte, in Orlando Innamorato, I, 308.
Brangwain, Isold's maid, I, 67.
Bread. See Communion bread.
Bredbeddle, one of Arthur's knights, I, 280.
Bremor, king of Spain, demands the hand of King Adland's
daughter, II, 52-4.
Bride accidentally but fatally wounded by bridegroom's
sword while he is bringing her home (Graf Friedrich), I,
472
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142 f. ; bride assigned by dying man to his brother, I,
376, 378, and n. ; she will not give her troth to two bro
thers, I, 376, 378, and n. ; bride, wife, whose bridegroom,
husband, has died is put off with false explanations, I,
376-9, 381, 383-87 ; bride carried off by lover on the day
she was to wed a rival, IV, 218, 230 ; V, 260 f.
Bridegroom caressing bride while taking her home killed
by her brother, I, 142 ; bridegroom killed on his way to
fetch the bride, I, 386 ; bridegroom drowned on the way
to his wedding, IV, 179-183, 189 f . ; V, 257 ; lover
drowned on his way to visit his mistress, IV, 185.
Brome, brome on hill, song, I, 390.
The broom blooms bonny and says it is fair, I, 450.
The Broom of Cowden Knowes, O the broome, the bonny
bonny broome, tune, IV, 192, 208.
Brother's consent to a sister's marriage, importance of ob
taining, I, 142 ; brother whose consent has not been asked
Mils his sister as she is riding to or from the wedding, I,
145-50 ; brother flogs to death unmarried sister who has
had a child, II, 102.
Brown, Andrew, his services to James VI, III, 442-6.
Brown bride despised for her complexion, II, 182-97 ;
brown girl rejected for this reason, V, 167 f. See also
I, 120, 133 (M 10), 135 (1).
Brown Robin, II, 305 f., 368, 371, 418.
Bruce, David. See David Bruce.
Die Bruck zu Karidol, I, 267, and n.
Buccleuch, Sir Walter Scott of, rescue of Kinmont Willie,
III, 469 ff. See under Family Names.
Bulat and Ivan, tsar's son, Russian tale, V, 46.
Bunion Bay, I, 24, 57.
Burden, burden-stem, I, 7 n., 484 a ; II, 204 n.
Burial, gold bound round bodies thrown into the water, to
secure, II, 14; III, 342; IV, 502 b, 506 a; V, 245.
Buridan and the Queen of France, tale, IV, 502.
Burlow-beanie, a variety of Billy Blin (here a loathly fiend,
with seven heads), I, 286 f.
Bnrnet, Burnett. See under Family Names.
Burning, penalty for incontinence (in Danish ballads, for
incest), n, 41, 43 f., 46-8, 113-125 ; HI, 508 b ; V, 292 b.
Burns, Robert, author of Kellyburnbraes, V, 107 ; his Hal
lowe'en, V, 286 a.
Butler, Sir John, his murder and the ballad thereon, III,
327 ff.
Buttons bursting, as a consequence of violent emotion, II,
186; IV, 101, 302; waistcoat bursted, IV, 185; stays,
gown and all, IV, 320.
By Lands-dale, hey ho, song, III, 54.
Byliny, Russian popular epics, I, 200 (IE, 499 f.) ; LT, 15,
and n., 502; III, 122, 501 b; IV, 463, 497 a, 499 a; V,
2 ; Bulgarian, IV, 463.
Byron, Child Harold's Pilgrimage, III, 91 ; IV, 36.
Caberstaing, Guillems de, story of, V, 33.
Caesarian operation, three and five wives die successively
thereof, II, 309 f. ; six sisters (and the seventh doomed),
311-16, V, 227-9 ; in the case of Queen Jane, III, 373-6 ;
V, 245 f. ; in Danish ballad, I, 83.
Csesarius Heisterbacensis, Dialogus Miraculorum, 1, 197, 237.
Calaf , Prince, Persian story, I, 417.
Calender, tale of the Second, I, 402.
Campbell. See under Family Names.
Campbell, Bonny James, ballad, IV, 142.
La cana del riu de arenas, Catalan story, I, 126.
Cane (walking rod), ridiculously introduced. See the com
monplace of mantle and cane (under Commonplaces) ;
also, IV, 190, 421 ; V, 16 f .
Car, Ker, Captain, III, 424-7, 430-2.
Caradawc, I, 265 ; V, 289 a. See Carados.
Carados (Briebras, Brisie" Bras), I, 258, 261 n., 263-5 ; Ca
radawc Vreichvras, 265 ; variations of the name Carados,
I, 264 n. ; V, 289 a.
Carduino (Le Bel Inconnu), Italian romance, I, 308.
Carevic i ego Sluga, The Prince and his Servant, Russian
tale, V, 281.
Carl Blind, surnamed Bavis, I, 67, 95.
Carl Hood, old, I, 67, 92, 95, and n., 489 ; IV, 443 .
Carl of Carlile, rhymed tale, I, 290 n., 301 n., 316; V,
289 a.
Caskets, riddle of the three, I, 13.
Cassilis. See under Family Names.
Catharine I., Empress of Russia, III, 383.
Cawfield, Archie of, ballad, III, 484 ff.
Ce qui plait aux Dames, Voltaire's tale, I, 292.
The Ceabharnach, West Highland tale, III, 507.
Le Centi Novelle Antiche, V, 34.
Chains of gold, servants in waiting wear, I, 410.
Chambers, Robert, his contention that Lady Wardlaw was
the author of Sir Patrick Spens and other ballads, II,
20 n.
Champion, diminutive, successful against huge and danger
ous antagonist in judicial combat, II, 35-37, 37 n., 38,
39 ?, 43 n., 45 f. See Child-champion.
Change of clothes with beggar, palmer, I, 189, 191, 192,
202-207; III, 157, 179, 181 f., 184, 188, 271, 273 f.
Change of parts of man and woman in different versions of
the same or a similar tale, I, 142, 187, 455, Nos 17, 53 ;
298 ; II, 236, 349, 426 ; IV, 186 ; V, 34, 296.
Charcoal-burners, III, 109 ; V, 6. 70 f ., 75, and n.
Charlemagne's Journey to Jerusalem, 1, 274-9 ; III, 503 b.
Charles the Fifth (emperor) and a broom-maker; and a
peasant ; Belgian stories, V, 74.
Charles the Great and the charcoal-burner, rhymed tale, V,
70 f.
Charm : knight obliges lady to go off with him by sticking
a charm in her sleeve, I, 57 ; charm or rune employed to
induce sleep, I, 28, 48, 55, 391.
Charrois de Nymes, Li, chanson de geste, V, 298 a.
Charter of peace sought by outlaws, III, 27.
Chastity, or fidelity in love, tests of, I, 258-71, 507 a ; II,
502 ; HI, 503 ; IV, 454 a ; V, 212 f., 289 a.
Arch, sword and garland in Amadis which test the fact
and the measure of faithful love, I, 267.
(Talking) bed, blankets, pillows, rug, sheets, I, 64 f.,
68, 70.
Bridge in the younger Titurel which cannot be passed
by knight or lady faulty in matter of love, I, 267.
Brook which tests virginity, I, 269.
Chair, golden, in which none but a maid will sit till
bidden, I, 72 f . ; can sit, 75.
Crown that exposes the infidelity of husbands, I, 266 f .
Cup from which no man or woman can drink who has
been false to love, I, 264.
Cup of tears in Palmerin of England which tests the
best knight and most faithful lover, I, 267.
Flowers (lotus, rose) or evergreen which keep fresh as
long as wife or man and wife are faithful, I, 268.
Glove as test of virtue of man or woman, I, 266.
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Harp which playa out of tune and breaks a string on
the approach of a girl who has lost her maidenhead,
I, 269.
Horn, or drinking-cup, probation of wife's chastity by
husband's drinking from, I, 262-265, 273 ; by wife's,
264.
Jacinth will not be worn on the finger of an adulterer,
V, 289 a.
Knife, cuckold's knife cannot carve a boar's head, I,
273.
Mantle, probation of wife's fidelity by, I, 260-2, 265 ;
V| 289 a; this mantle preserved in some religious
house or at Dover, I, 261 n. ; Karodes's mantle which
would fit no woman who was not willing that her
husband should know both her act and her thought,
I, 261.
Mirror which indicates the state of a woman's fidelity,
I, 269.
Nightingales, I, 64 f.
Olive refuses to grow, V, 289 a.
Picture (wax image) which by its color indicates the
state of a wife's fidelity, I, 269.
Ring which by its color indicates the condition of a
woman's fidelity, I, 269.
Robe which will fit only the pure woman, I, 262.
St. Wilfred's needle, in Ripon Minster, V, 212 f.
Shirt (mantle) will not soil, spot, etc., as long as hus
band and wife, or wife, keeps faithful, I, 268.
Statue which shows whether a young woman is a maid,
I, 269 f .
Stepping stone at bed-side, if stepped on, reveals un-
chastity, I, 66.
Stone, Aptor, red to the sight of clean man or woman,
I, 269.
Stone which cannot be approached by one who is not as
clean as when born, I, 269 n.
Sword, given by husband to wife, will not spot as long
as he is faithful, I, 268.
Valley from which no false lover could escape till it
had been entered by a lover perfect in all points as
such, I, 267.
Clean paid can blow out a candle with one puff and
light it with another, make a ball of water, or carry
water in a sieve, I, 270.
Egyptian test (Herodotus), I, 271 ; V, 212 f.
Ordeals for chastity in Greek romances, brazier, cave,
Stygian water, statue of Diana, I, 270.
Test of chastity of women in Numbers and Apocryphal
gospels, I, 271.
Le Chat Botte", tale, I, 461 n.
Le Chatelain de Couci et la Dame de Faiel, romance, V, 33.
Chaucer, Wife of Bath's Tale, I, 291 f . ; II, 458 ; Squire's
Tale, II, 51 ; Prioress's Tale, HI, 239 ; Clerk's Tale, IV,
93 n. ; Sir Thopas, V, 287 b ; House of Fame, II, 136.
Cheese of Fyvie as a love potion, V, 305 b.
Chera, V, 13.
La Cheviuerie Ogier de Danemarche, I, 239, and n.
Du Chevalier a la corbeille, fabliau, V, 121.
Le Chevalier au Cygne, romance, III, 515 b.
Le Chevalier a I'Espe'e, fabliau, III, 508 a.
Li Chevaliers as Deus Espees, romance, HI, 505.
Du Chevalier qui fist sa femme confesse, fabliau, HI, 258.
Du Chevalier qui ooit la masse, et Notre-Dame estoit pour
lui au tournoieruent, fabliau, III, 96 n.
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Cheviot, Hunting of the, ballad, HI, 303 ff.
Child, children, living, buried with dead mother, I, 180,
185 ; IV, 450 a (No 15) ; child, young or unborn, speaks
miraculously, to save life, vindicate the innocent, or to
threaten revenge, IH, 367, and nn. ; IV, 507 a ; V, 298 a.
Child Rowland and Burd Ellen, tale, I, 322 ; V, 201.
The Child of Wane, boy who protects school-girls from the
assaults of his fellows, I, 308 n.
Childbirth, man's help rejected and presence forbidden at,
1, 179, 181-3, 245 f., 502 a; H, 98, 106 f., 414, 418, 422,
499; IV, 450 a, 464; V, 236 ; pains of woman in child
birth repeated in the person of the man, II, 109 ; V,
292 ; roddins (mountain-ash berries), juniper, desired by
a woman at the point of childbirth, II, 408 f ., 414 ; first
child, all the seven sisters of a family to die thereof, and
six have so died, H, 311-16 ; woman who has just borne a
child to a lover, forced to marry another man, dances
with her lover, and falls dead, H, 104-8, 110 ; IV, 465 ;
knots in woman's clothes, or knots in the house, to be un
tied at childbirth, I, 85 ; all locks to be shot during, II,
498; mortal midwives and nurses desired by fairies, I,
358-60 ; n, 505 f . ; IH, 505 f. ; IV, 459 a ; V, 215 b, 290 b ;
woman gives birth to child (children) in stable, among
the great horse feet, H, 85, 87, 89, 91 f., 94 f., 97-9; V,
221 ; top of tree as place for labor, II, 109.
Childbirth obstructed by spells, I, 82-7 ; V, 285 b ; seven,
nine days, three, seven, eight, twenty years, I, 82-85 ; by
the Fates and Ilithyia sitting down and folding their hands,
by Lucina's crossing knees and clasping hands over them,
84 ; by throwing an enchanted pitcher into a draw-well,
driving a nail into the roof-beam, placing folded hands
between the knees, 85 ; spells broken by persuading the
operator that birth has taken place, I, 82-87. See, fur
ther, 1,489; HI, 497.
Child-champions, marvellous valor of, H, 37, 43 n., 45 f. ;
V, 292 a ; in Slavic tales, IV, 463 ; cf. Growth, marvel
lous, etc. ; child (or dwarf) fights with huge or otherwise
formidable adversary, II, 35-37, 43 n., 46.
Children born seven, eight, twenty years old (in consequence
of obstructed parturition), I, 83-85.
Children of unwedded mother who has died in giving them
birth buried alive with her by the father, I, 180.
Children's game, ballads that have become, I, 33 ; II, 346.
Choice of sword or ring given maid, to stick him wi the
brand or wed him wi the ring, II, 469 ; IV, 493 ; V, 28,
238.
Chretien de Troyes, Cage's, III, 517 b ; V, 2, 6 ; Erec, TTI,
507 a; Perceval le Gallois, I, 257 n., 261 n., 263, 265 n.,
269; H, 51, 502 b, 510 b; HI, 503 b, 508 a; IV, 454 a;
V, 289 b.
Christian IV of Denmark and a countryman, Danish tale,
V,74.
Chronicles cited as authority in ballads, HI, 297, 333, 360.
Claverhouse, IV, 105-107, 109 f . ; accused of procuring
Monmouth's execution, 109 f.
Clergy accused of adultery with noble ladies, H, 34-36, 38.
The Clever Lass, Clever Wench, or Wise Daughter, I, 1,
8-13; answers king's puzzles, performs or offsets his
tasks, 9 ; answers questions or performs supposed impos
sibilities and is married for it, 9-11 ; solves difficult ques
tions and is elevated by king to the rank of his sister, 12.
See I, 409 n., 410 n., 484 a; II, 495 a; IV, 439 a; V,
284.
Clifton, assumed name (ineptly) for Scathlock, HI, 201, 204.
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Clitophon and Leucippe of Achilles Tatius, I, 270. -.
Clorinda, queen of the shepherds, espoused by Robin Hood,
III, 217.
Clothes kilted (cut) a little above (below) the knee, hair
braided (snooded, cut) a little above the brow, I, 341,
343 f ., 369 ; II, 86, 229, 417, 420, 423 ; IV, 457.
Clyde Water, I, 389 ; H, 32, 88 f., 92, 94, 97, 144-7, 151-5,
461 ; IV, 188-90, 203 ; V, 208, 227, 237, 257.
Coach and three, I, 476 f.
Cober, Cabinet-prediger, I, 408.
Cock (capon) crows Christus natus est ! I, 240-2, 505 f .
II, 501 b ; IV, 451 f. ; miracle of the roasted cock reani
mated, I, 233-242, 505 ; II, 8, 501 b ; HI, 502 f . ; IV,
451 f. ; V, 212 a, 288 a ; originally a feature in a legend
of Judas, I, 239 f .
Cock, unfaithful or remiss, IV, 389 f., 416.
Cocks (crowing in the night), three, white, red, black, n,
228 ; V, 294 a ; two, red, grey, II, 229, 239 ; milk-white,
grey, II, 233 ; IV, 474 ; white, red, in, 514.
Cognizances, parties in The Rose of England (a ballad of
Henry VII's winning the crown) mostly indicated by,
III, 331.
Cokwolds Daunce, English comic tale, I, 264.
Commonplaces (recurrent passages) :
When bells were rung and mass was sung,
And a' men bound to bed, I, 68, 70, 73 ; II, 70, 73,
75 f., 79, 88, 90, 129 f., 132, 191, 300, 370, 470, 472 ;
HI, 244-7, 254 ; IV, 44 f., 237 f., 240, 283, 327, 432,
470; V, 171,224,239.
Lord William was buried in St. Mary's Kirk,
Lady Margret in Mary's quire ;
Out o the lady's grave grew a bonny red rose,
And out o the knight's a briar.
And they twa met, and they twa plat,
And fain they wad be near, etc., I, 101 f., 492 ; II,
104, 108, 111, 183, 185, 190 f., 198, 201 f., 207 f.,
210-12, 219, 280, 285 f . ; HI, 515 ; IV, 465 ; V,
224, 226, 262.
Where will I get a bonnie boy,
Will win gold to his fee ?
O here am I, etc., H, 114, 116-19, 121, 123 f., 129, 131,
177, 186, 188, 190, 194, 212, 284-7, 311, 313, 316,
379, 394 f . ; IV, 229, 235, 398, 466 f ., 486, 488 ; V,
227.
O whan he came to broken briggs
He bent his bow and swam,
An whan he came to the green grass growin
He slackd his shoone (set down his feet) and ran,
H, 114 f., 117, 119, 121 f., 129, 177, 212, 247 f.,
250, 253, 257, 272, 287, 311, 313, 379, 395 ; IV,
229, 398, 466 f., 477 ; V, 228, 262.
whan he came to Lord William's gates,
He baed na to chap or ca,
But set his bent bow till his breast,
An lightly lap the wa ;
An, or the porter was at the gate,
The boy was i the ha, H, 115-17, 129, 177, 272, 313 ;
TV, 477; V, 228.
O is my biggins broken, boy ?
Or is my towers won ?
Or is my lady lighter yet
Of a dear daughter or son ?
Your biggin is na broken, sir, but , H, 1 15-19, 122 f .,
131 f., 212, 248, 250, 253-5, 257 ; IV, 467, 477.
O saddle me the black, the black,
Or saddle me the brown :
O saddle me the swiftest steed
That ever rade frae a town, H, 115-18, 120-13, 212,
216-18, 254, 312 f. ; IV, 234, 236, 467, 477 ; V, 228,
262.
O where is a' my merry young men
Whom I gie meat and fee ? I, 368 f., 396 ; II, 114,
123, 266-8, 403 ; HI, 10; V, 35, 37, 292.
O is your saddle set awrye ?
Or rides your steed for you owre high ? (saddle, bri
dle, stirrups, or something, not comfortable for
maid who is riding), I, 66, and n., 68, 70, 72, 75-7,
79 f ., 146, 179 ; IV, 450 a.
The first line that Sir Patrick red,
A loud lauch lauched he ;
The next line that Sir Patrick red,
The teir blinded his ee, H, 18 n., 20 f., 26 f., 29 f.,
381 f., 385, 387, 389 f., 392 f ., 395 ; IV, 117-121,
351-4, 413, 483, 486.
Gown narrow that was wont to be wide ; coats short
that were wont to be side, etc., II, 85, 122, 399, 401,
406 f., 409, 413 ; V, 36, 236.
I'm oer laigh to be your bride,
And I winna be your whore, II, 181, 188 ; IV, 323,
325, 327, 330-32 ; V, 272.
Janet has kilted her green kirtle
A little aboon her knee, etc., I, 341, 343 f., 369 ; H,
86, 229, 417, 420, 423 ; IV, 457 ; V, 202 a.
(Pretence that a maid is trespassing in a wood.)
She had na pu'd a double rose,
A rose but only twa,
Till up there started young Tarn Lin,
Says, Lady, thou 's pu nae mae, 1, 41, 341, 343, 345 i.,
349, 360, and n., 367, 369, 450-53 ; IH, 504 ; IV,
456 f.
He took her by the milk-white hand,
And by the grass-green sleeve, etc., I, 346, 349, 357 b,
387, 452 f.; H, 465, 468, 475 ; IV, 193, 195-200,
203, 205 f., 456; V, 239. Cf. IV, 219-22, 225-7,
229.
syne ye 've got your will of me,
Your will o me ye 've taen,
'T is all I ask of you, kind sir,
Is to tell me your name.
Sometimes they call me Jack, he said, etc., I, 346, 444,
446, 450 f. ; H, 458, and n., 459 f., 462, 465, 468,
471, 473-5, 478 f . ; IV, 196, 200 ; V, 153-6, 237, 239.
(Dower despised.)
1 'm seeking nane o your gold, he says,
Nor of your silver clear,
I only seek your daughter fair, etc., II, 380, 382 f., 385 f.,
388, 390 f., 393 f ., 396, 400 f ., 403-5 ; IV, 381 f.,
399, 413 f., 487 ; V, 184, 276.
Lord Wayets lay over his castle-wa,
Beheld baith dale and down,
And he beheld, etc., I, 183; H, 131, 175, 257, 343 f.;
IV, 235, 279, 403 f., 408, 433 ; V, 277 f.
Hold your tongue, my daughter dear,
And ye '11 lat a' your mourning be ;
I '11 wed you to a higher match, etc., H, 163, 166 ; IV,
96-103, 166-72, 174 f., 277, 279.
If this be true, a reward ; if a lie, hanging, II, 244 f .,
247-9, 251, 253-5, 257 ; HI, 299 ; cf. H, 114.
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475
Pfor because thou minged not Christ before,
Thee lesse me dreadeth thee, H, 59, 62 ; HI, 422.
Sheet (sark, smock) for the dead, one half cambric,
the other needlework (beaten gold and needlework ;
silk and cambric), bier one half gold, the other sil
ver, I, 506; H, 358 f., 362, 366; IV, 471 (IV, 485,
bier lacking ; V, 224, sheet or sark lacking).
Horse : Wi siller he is shod before,
Wi burning gowd behind, I, 341 ; IE, 183,
185, 191, 194, 266 f., 315, 343 f. ; V, 224.
The day ye deal at Annie's burial
The bread but and the wine ;
Before the morn at twall o'clock
They '11 deal the same at mine, II, 190 f., 193, 195,
201, 203, 208, 211 f., 217, 219, 295 ; IV, 236, 465,
471 ; V, 224, 262.
It 's kiss will I yer cheek, Annie
And kiss will I your chin, etc., II, 191, 212, 217,
219, 221 f., 269, 273 ; IV, 236 f ., 474.
She 's put it to her fause, fause cheek,
But an her fause, fause chin,
She 's put it to her fause, fause lips,
But never a drap went in.
He 's put it to his bonny cheek, etc., II, 284 f., 287; IV,
235, 427 f., 431.
The firstin kirk (town) that they came till
They gard the bells be rung,
At the nexten kirk that they came till
They gard the mass be sung, II, 358, 350 f., 367, 380,
385, 388 f., 391 f., 396, 469 ; IV, 487 f., 490.
Johnny Barbary used to be the first,
But now the last came he, II, 401, 403, 460 f., 463,
466, 469, 471, 473-6 ; IV, 491 ; V, 238.
She 's taen her mantle her about,
Her cane (pike-staff, rod) intill her hand, II, 223;
IH, 245, 248, 505 ; IV, 408 (6) ; of man, II,
370; IV, 408 (14). (Corrupted, also, HI, 250,
252.)
She 's taen her mantle her about,
Her coffer by the band, I, 350 ; III, 244 ; IV, 385.
Cf . IV, 456.
She 's taen her petticoat (petticoats) by the band,
Her mantle owre her arm, 1, 348, 349 (bis) ; II, 475.
The knight he knacked (wrung) his white fingers,
The lady tore her hair, II, 26, 312-15, 319 ; 111,455,
477; IV, 418,435; V, 227-9.
Will ye gae to the cards or dice, etc., II, 109, 154, 164,
409 ; IV, 391, 415.
(Wedding procession.)
Wi four-and-twenty buirdlie men
Atween ye and the wun,
And four-and-twenty bonnie mays
Atween ye and the sun.
Four-and-twenty milk-white geese,
Stretching their wings sae wide,
Blawing the dust aff the high-way,
That Mild Mary may ride, II, 315. See II, 132, 183,
195 a; IV, 470.
I '11 gae in at your gown-sleeve,
And out at your gown-hem, I, 508 ; II, 366.
Man and woman riding, no word spoken by either (or
by one of them) for a long distance, I, 41-44 ; III,
497 b ; V, 207 a, 285 a (in French, Italian, Spanish,
Catalan, Scandinavian, Slavic ; not English).
Communion-bread called " God," etc., HI, 103 n. ; V, 240,
299, 359 (under mood).
The Complaynt of Scotland, I, 336, 390 ; H, 51 n., 296 ;
III, 292, 303, 317, 362 f.; V, 202.
Compulsory marriage, woman carried off, III, 329; IV,
232-54, 308-10; V, 168 f., 261-264.
Confession, wife's, heard by husband disguised, HI, 258-64.
The Constant but Unhappy Lovers, chap-book, V, 33.
Constantine, Emperor, his leprosy miraculously cured, V,
285.
Conte du Graal, Gautier's, ugly lady in, V, 289 b. See also
Chre*tien.
Contes a rire, I, 268 n., 408 ; Nouveaux Contes a rire, I,
408.
Conversion, remarkably sudden, of Jean Livingston, IV,
29 f.
Copland, John of, takes David Bruce prisoner at Durham,
IH, 286.
Corgarf Castle, IH, 427, 434.
Cork-heeled shoon, II, 20, 22 f., 27, 29 f., 88; FIT, 393.
Corsabrin, King of Mont Oscur, V, 6.
Cort Mantel, fabliau, I, 257, 266.
Costumes enclosed in nut-shells or small bags, I, 260, and n.
The Cotter's Son, Gaelic tale, III, 507.
The Countess of Northumberland (Rising in the North),
III, 403-5, 410, 417.
La Coupe Enchanted, La Fontaine, I, 265.
Craddocke, I, 264 n., 272 f. ; V, 289 a (Welsh Caradawc).
Crawford, Earl, ballad, IV, 276 ff.
Crecrynbroghe Castle, III, 430.
Cre"qui, Sire de, I, 459.
Crescentia, II, 181.
Crichton. See under Family Names,
Cries, three (four), maid about to be murdered asks and is
allowed, I, 32-37, 39, 41 f ., 47, 487 b ; V, 207.
Cromlet's Lilt, reply to, II, 317 n.
Cromwell, Thomas Lord, ballad, III, 377.
Din Crone of Heinrich von dem Tiirlin, I, 264, 266, 279 a.
Cross burned or cut into the flesh, II, 240, 242, 513 a ; HI,
514; IV, 476; V, 225 b.
The Cruel Mother, German variations of (Die Rabenmutter,
Kindesmorderin, u. s. w.), I, 219 f., 504 a; II, 500 a ; HI,
502 b ; IV, 451 a ; V, 212 a, 287 b ; Slavic, Magyar, Croat,
variations, I, 220, 504 a ; III, 502 b ; V, 287 f .
The Cruel Mother, story of, blended with that of Magdalen
and Samaritan women, I, 230 ; with that of the Samari
tan woman simply, ib.
Cuchulinn, Cuculin, IV, 463 b, 479 b.
Culpepper, affair of the Earl of Devonshire with, IV, 111.
Cunigund, name of Gunhild, wife of the Emperor Henry
HI, after her marriage, II, 38.
Cunigund, St., wife of the Emperor St. Henry II, her ordeal,
H, 38.
Cunningham, Allan, his handling of Scottish ballads, I, 62
119 n., 142, 227, 436 ; II, 260, 302 f. ; IH, 265, 381 ; IV,
9,80; V, 107; etc.
Curse, mother's, I, 386; IV, 181, 186-9; V, 257, 301 a.
Cursor Mundi, I, 240, 505 ; II, 2, 7 nn.
Curtal Friar and curtal dogs, III, 121, 124 f.
Dactyliomancy, III, 411, and n. ; V, 299 b.
Aaiudiviov fjiffrifj.$fnv6v, IH, 505 f. See Mittagsfran and
Noon-sprite.
Dame Ragnell, I, 290.
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INDEX OF MATTERS AND LITERATURE
Damiani, Pietro, I, 237 n.
La damoisele hydeuse in Chretien's Perceval, II, 502 b ; IV,
454 a ; V, 289 b.
Damsel who prizes herself too highly marries and has a
litter of nine pups, a pig, and a boy, I, 210.
Dance, probation by, of young woman suspected of having
had a child ; she dies in consequence ; she dances with
all the men of the court, tires out successively all the
courtiers, the king and the queen ; dances seven hours
without breaking down, II, 102 (dance ordered, but
deprecated, 103) ; jealous or offended lover makes his
mistress dance till her boots are full of blood, II, 103 ;
young woman who has just borne a child, married against
her will, dances with her lover after the wedding and
dies of the exertion, II, 104-8, 110; IV, 465; girl tires
out fifteen partners (in Danish ballads), IV, 214; lass of
Anglesey, dancing on king's party against English lords,
tires out fifteen of them, 215.
Daniel von Bliihenthal, I, 257 n.
Dansekar, the pirate, V, 143.
Dark complexions in women, not in favor, I, 120, 133, M,
(10), 135 (1) ; H, 182-97 ; V, 167 f.
Darnley, Lord (Henry Stuart), III, 382, 384-7, 390, 392-4,
399-401, 442, 444, 446; IV, 507 f., 510, 512 ; murder of,
in revenge for his complicity in the murder of Rizzio, III,
399, 401 ; hanged on a tree, 401, 444.
Dasakumaracharitam, I, 14.
The Daughter of King Under-waves, Scottish-Gaelic tale
(Nighean Righ fo Thuinn), I, 297.
Davenant, Sir William, The Wits, II, 243.
David, King of Judah, gives hard questions to his sons to
determine his successor ; answered by Solomon, I, 13 n.
David Bruce, King of Scotland, can brook no opposition
and kills his own squire for warning him of the danger of
invading England ; distributes portions of English terri
tory among his chief men, before the battle of Durham,
III, 284 f . ; is taken prisoner by John of Copland, 286 ;
meets King John of France, also a captive, in London,
287.
De simplicitate viri et uxoris, tale of Sercambi, V, 97.
The Dead.
Dead body compromises the safety of a ship, I, 245 n.
Dead body lying in a river, expedients for discovering,
H, 143, 145, 147 f., 151, 155.
Dead body may be caused to speak by setting door
ajar or half open, H, 281, 282 (15) (Scott. Nothing
said of the door being ajar in B, p. 283, or in the ori
ginal of A, IV, 478).
Dead brother admonishes his sister for her pride of
dress, I, 428, 430 f.
Carlin's three sons come back from Paradise with hats
of birch, H, 238 f.
Dead corpse of boy makes appointment to meet mother,
HI, 244 f., 247 ; V, 241.
The dead, love tokens asked back by ; gifts returned
by, H, 228.
Grief for the dead detrimental to their comfort and
peace, II, 234-7, 512 f. ; HI, 513 ; V, 294 ; resent
ment for the disturbance occasioned by, V, 62 ; tears
for dead lover fill his coffin with blood ; cheerful
ness causes his grave to be hung with rose-leaves, II,
228.
Kiss from the dead fatal, I, 439 ; II, 229-32, 236 f. ;
HI, 512 f . ; IV, 474 f . ; bramble-leaf comes between
the lips of maid and lover, and her life saved, IV,
474.
Maid demands answers of her dead lover to questions
concerning state of the dead as condition of returning
his troth, II, 231-3.
Dead man coming on horseback to his mistress (wife,
sister) and taking her with him, V, 60 ; tales, 60-3,
303 ; ballads, 63-67, 303.
Dead mother revisits her daughter, and would have
torn her to pieces, V, 303 b.
Dead mistress admonishes her lover, I, 426.
Troth asked for and returned by maid to dead lover, or
resumed by her, II, 227, 229-33.
Father asks return of troth from his son, II, 512 b.
Dead lover (like the Devil, Elfin Knight) sets maid
tasks and would have taken her with him if she had
not ' answered well,' baffled him by requiring pre
liminary counter-tasks, IV, 439 f.
Death feigned by maid (who takes a draught which pro
duces insensibility) in order to get to her lover, II, 355 f.,
358-67 ; in, 517 ; IV, 482-6 ; V, 234 a ; save her honor,
avoid becoming a king's mistress, avoid marrying a Turk,
avoid a disagreeable suitor, or to move a lover, II, 356 ;
HI, 517; IV, 482 b; V, 234 a, 296 b; painful or dis
agreeable tests of her sensibility, II, 359, 361, 364-7 ; HI,
517 b ; IV, 485 ; V, 296 b.
Death feigned by wife to escape to lover, or apparent death
operated by sleeping draughts administered by lover
(woman is in some cases buried, disinterred and carried
off), V, 3 f., 6, 280 ; tests of sensibility applied, V, 3, 6.
Death feigned by lover in order to possess himself of maid
when she comes to his wake, or his funeral, I, 247-53,
506 f . ; II, 502 a ; HI, 503 a ; IV, 453 ; V, 212, 289 a.
(The maid in a convent in some cases, and the body intro
duced into the cloister ; nuns think it an angel that has
taken maid off, and they wish the like for themselves, I,
248 f.)
Death of bridegroom, husband, concealed from bride, wife,
by evasions, I, 376-9, 381, 383-7.
The Death of Keeldar, ballad by Sir W. Scott, IV, 25.
The Death of Robert, Earl of Huntington, play by Anthony
Munday and Henry Chettle, III, 129, 519.
Death-naming. See Naming.
The Debateable Land, HI, 363 n., 473.
Dee, Water of, H, 283, 468 ; HE, 360, 457 ; IV, 52 f ., 103.
Delamere, Lord, ballad, IV, 110 ff.
Deloney's Pleasant History of John Winchcomb (Jacke of
Newburie), I, 111, 113.
Demaundes Joyous, I, 13 n.
Demoniac character of the murderous knight in No 4, 1,
49 f.
Derby, Earl of, incurs the anger of Henry VIII because
Lancashire and Cheshire are maliciously represented by
the Earl of Surrey to have failed to do their duty at
Flodden, III, 355-7; the next day a letter from the
queen gives all the credit of the victory to Lancashire and
Cheshire and the Earl of Derby, and the Stanleys are in
high favor, HI, 359.
Derwentwater, ballad by Allan Cunningham, IV, 116.
Derwentwater, Lord, ballad, IV, 115 ff.
Derwentwater's Lights, IV, 117.
Les deux Fiance's, tale of French Brittany, V, 64.
Devil appears to counsel and take part in a murder, IV, 31.
Devil gives riddles, I, 4 f., C, D, and tasks, 14 ; (represented
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477
as auld man) imposes tasks and is baffled by the maid,
18 f., I ; the devil express, V, 283 ; seeks to nonplus boy,
1, 22, 485 b.
Devil takes lover to hell and shows him his mistress in tor
ment, Breton ballad, I, 426.
Devil would be a maid's leman, V, 283.
Devonshire, Earl of, fights with a French or Dutch lord in
defence of Lord Delamere, IV, 111-115.
Diarmaid allows a hideous woman to come near his fire and
under his blanket, she is transformed into the most beau
tiful creature in the world, Gaelic tale, I, 298 ; cf . Irish
story, V, 289 b.
Diarmaid and Grainne, West Highland Gaelic tale, I, 8.
Diarmaid and the Magic Boar, West Highland tale, H, 500.
Diarmaid's wife tries the robe which is a test of chastity,
Gaelic ballad, I, 261 f. ; V, 289.
Dicing for prisoners, III, 378 f.
Diderik, King, and Gunild, II, 36.
Dietrichs Flucht, IV, 463 b.
Dietrichsaga, I, 49.
Dieu vous saue, Dame Emme, song or ballad, II, 38 n.
Disenchantment effected by drinking of blood, or by draw
ing blood from the bewitched, I, 178, 337, and n. ; by
kisses given (or received from) a disgusting or terrible
creature, or by touching the same, I, 307-11, 313, 338 n. ;
U, 502 b, 504 f . ; IH, 504 a ; IV, 454 a ; V, 214, 290 a ;
not completed without, often operated by, immersion in
milk or water, I, 308, 338, and n., 339 n., 342, 344 ; II,
505 b; HE, 505 b; V, 39 f. ; other processes or condi
tions, I, 313, 315 ; V, 215.
Disenchantment of hideous woman effected by obtaining
absolute sovereignty over a man's will, I, 290-2, 295 f.,
299 ; by finding a man who would accept his life at her
hands, kiss her, and share her bed, 293 ; by being ad
mitted to a king's or hero's bed, 297 f . ; V, 289 b ; by
getting king's brother for husband, 1, 507 a ; disenchant
ment of seemingly ugly old man effected by gaining the
love of a beautiful girl, V, 213 a ; of linden-worm, snake,
by being admitted to maid's bed, 1, 298 ; IE, 502 b ; IV,
454 a (cf. V, 289 b) ; of crocodile by girl's licking his face,
V, 215 b.
Disguises of outlaws, Fulk Fitz-Warine, Hereward, Eustace,
Wallace, Robin Hood, in, 109 f., 117 f., 178-82, 184,
191, 271, 273 f. ; other disguises, as beggar or pilgrim, V,
2, 4, 5, 279 f. ; as charcoal man, V, 6.
Dish made from ashes and bones of murdered man de
nounces the murderers, I, 126.
Dissawar, Disaware, name borne by Prince Roswall and the
Lord of Lorn after exchanging positions with the steward,
V, 44, 49, 55.
Dobrynya, Russian epic hero, V, 295 a.
Dodhead, the, IV, 5 f., 518 b ; V, 249-51.
Dog who could indicate pregnant women, adulterers, etc., I,
270 n.
Dole-day, H, 436.
Dolopathos, Latin (and French) romance, I, 392.
Don Bueso, Catalan representative of Young Beichan, I,
462.
Don John of Austria meets the Earl of Westmoreland on
the sea, takes him to Seville and recommends him to the
queen, III, 420 f .
Doon I'Alemanz, chanson de geste, II, 40.
Doors and windows thrown on a combatant to take him
prisoner, III, 24.
Douglas. See under Family Names.
Douglas, Northumberland betrayed by, ballad, III, 408 ff.
Douglas, tragedy by Home, II, 263, and n., 264.
Douglas, Gavin, Palice of Honour, II, 136, V, 69 n.
Douglas, James, Earl, in the Scottish Otterburn alleged to
have been stabbed before the battle by one of his own
men, or a boy whom he had offended, III, 294, 299 ; V,
244 ; in another version, to have gone into battle without
his helmet, III, 300 ; challenges Percy to single combat
in The Hunting of the Cheviot, III, 308 ; dreams that a
dead man wins a fight and thinks that man is he, III, 300,
IV, 501.
Douglas, Jamie, ballad, IV, 90 ff.
Douglas, Lady, of Lochleven, tries to protect the Earl of
Northumberland from the treachery of William Douglas,
III, 411-3 ; shows his chamberlain his English enemies
waiting for him 150 miles off through the hollow of her
ring, 412.
Douglas, William, Earl of Angus, his encounter with the
English at Piperden, III, 305.
Douglas, William, knight of Liddesdale, III, 282 f., 284 f.,
288.
Douglas, William, of Lochleven, HI, 409, 411-14, 443 f.,
446.
Douns LioS, IE, 506 a; IIE, 518 b.
D'Ouville, L'Elite des Contes du Sieur, I, 408 ; V, 96.
The Downfall of Robert, Earl of Huutington, play by A.
Munday, HI, 46, 122, 129, 130 n., 179, 218, 220, 227,
519 b ; V, 100.
Dramatic representation of ballads by young people, I, 249 ;
IV, 439 b ; V, 90.
Dreams : of bower full of red swine and bride-bed full of
blood, IE, 200 ; room fu o red swine and bride's bed
daubd wi blude, II, 292 ; chamber full of swine and bed
full of blood, IV, 426 ; bowr lin'd with white swine and
brid-chamber full of blood, II, 202, B, 11 ; chamber full
of wild men's wine and bride-bed stood in blood, II, 202,
C, 4 ; bower full of milk-white swans and bride's bed
full of blood, IV, 433 ; of pulling green heather, IV, 164,
167-9, 171-5, 180 (heather bell), 522; V, 255; green
birk, IV, 176 ; apples green, IV, 523 ; other dreams, II,
33 n., 41, 45, 205 ; to dream of blood bodes ill, IE, 292 f. ;
to dream of ravens is the loss of a near friend, II, 293.
Die drei Briider, tale, I, 125, 493 b.
Drink which causes forgetfulness, I, 363, and n., 364.
Drinking formulas, challenge and response, V, 71-73.
Drinking to friends upon the eve of execution, IV, 30 n.
Drolleries, nonplussing, I, 20-2, 417 f ., 485 a ; II, 507 b ;
IV, 440 b.
Drowned bodies, mode of discovering, II, 143, 512 a ; HI,
509 a ; IV, 468 a.
Drum, Laird of, ballad, IV, 322 ff.
Drumclog, ballad, IV, 105 ff.
Drummond. See under Family Names.
Dsanglun, oder der Weise und der Thor, I, 11 n., 13.
Duel in which innocent boy of fifteen vanquishes false ac
cuser of thirty-three, IV, 371, 373. See Child-champion.
Dumfounding, fool wins a princess by, I, 20, 485 a.
Dunbar, William, Of Sir Thomas Norray, HE, 91 ; God gif
ye war John Thomsoneis man, V, 8.
Durham, Battle of, III, 282 ff.
Dwarf -king, hill-king, beguiles a princess ; she has children
by him, though remaining with her mother ; revealing
the condition of things she is forced to go to the hill,
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where she dies or drinks a Lethean draught which makes
her forget all her earlier history, I, 862, 363, and n. ;
woman lives iu the hill and there has her children ; after
eight or nine years is allowed to go home on terms ; vio
lating these, is compelled to return to the hill, where she
dies, or is given a drink which induces forgetfulness, I,
363 f. See Merman.
Dwarf Land, I, 259.
Dying man, woman, directs that father, mother, wife, etc.,
be kept in ignorance of his, her, death, I, 436-40, 442 ;
II, 14, and n. ; III, 380 f ., 507 b ; IV, 460, 508-10, 512 f. ;
V, 247.
Earl of Toulouse, romance, II, 33 n., 41 f., 43 n.
Eating and drinking, personal contact, exchange of speech,
etc., in Elfland, or any abode of unearthly beings, peril
ous, I, 322-5, 327 f. ; II, 505 ; IV, 455, 458.
Edda, the Elder (Smund's) : Voluspa, I, 21 ; )>rymskvioa,
I, 298 ; Vafpriionismal, I, 13, 283 n., 404 ; Grfmnismal,
I, 67 ; Alvissmal, I, 13, 419 ; HelgakviSa HjorvarSssonar,
I, 94, and n. ; HelgakviSa Hundingsbana, I, 67, 94 f. ;
H, 228, 235 ; III, 306 ; Faf nismal, I, 96, 392 ; Sigrdrff u-
mal, I, 392 ; Sigurdarkvioa Fafnisbana, HI, 2, 127 ; Fjbl-
svinnsmal, I, 281 n.
Edda, Snorri's : Gylfaginning, I, 283 n. ; Skaldskaparmal,
1, 94 n., 283 n. ; II, 127 ; IV, 479 b.
Der edle Moringer, I, 196, 459 ; V, 291 b.
Edward the III and the Tanner of Tamworth, play by T.
Heywood, V, 68 n.
Eger and Grime, Eger, Grime and Graysteel, romance, I,
209; II, 56; 111,306.
Egil's apple-shot, III, 16.
Egils Saga ok Asmundar, IV, 443.
Eildon Tree, I, 320 n., 324, 325, 327.
EindriSi, HI, 18, 20 n.
Der Eisenhans, tale, V, 46.
Der Eisenhofen, tale, I, 307 n.
Der eiserne Mann, tale, V, 46.
Eleanor, Queen of Henry II of England, IU, 257 ff. ; of
Edward I, 257.
Eleusinian priests, holy names of, V, 285 b.
Elf -dance, I, 375-77; IV, 459 a; V, 216 a.
Elfin knight haunts a hill, 1, 15-7 ; elfin knight sets a maid
tasks to be done before she can marry him, 1, 15-17.
Elf-knight, hill-man, excites love-longing by the sound of
his horn, I, 15-17, 23, 55, 367.
Elf-queen would have taken out Tarn Lin's eyes and have
put in eyes of wood, I, 343, 345, 356.
Elf -queen and witches take out the heart of man and re
place it with straw, stone, etc., I, 339, 345, 347 f., 353,
356.
Elf-rod controls the will, I, 362.
Elf-shot, elf -stroke (= Elveskud), I, 374-7, 382, 385.
Elie de Saint-Gille and Rosamonde, I, 458 n. ; in, 508 a, b.
Ellensborg, Stolt, Jomfrue (Ellen), Scandinavian represen
tative of Susie Pye, I, 459-61.
Elliot. See under Family names.
Elritch (eldrige) king haunts a hill in the night and fights
with any comer, II, 58 f . ; fighting with elritch or spec
tral knights, II, 511 a ; HI, 508.
Elves, mermaids, or water-nymphs: ballads in which the
results of dealing with or encountering them prove fatal,
I, 372-389 ; inconstancy in relations with elves, mermaids,
to., has fatal consequences, I, 372-5, 387-9 ; elf threatens
man with sickness, knives, death, if he will not dance
with her, I, 376 f . ; option of living with elves, marrying
an elf, or dying, I, 377, 379, 381, 383 f . ; poison grains in
drink given by elves, I, 375; elf, hill-maid, mermaid,
promises man wonderful gifts if he will plight himself to
her (dance with her), I, 314, 375, 376; III, 504 a; V,
214 b ; offers man shirt as love-token, V, 284 ; elves,
spirits and the like, reproaching or insulting, I, 21, 485 a ;
II, 496 b, 509 a ; IV, 440 b ; elves and water-sprites
desire help of mortal women at lying-in time and in nurs
ing, I, 358-60; H, 505 f.; Ill, 505 f . ; IV, 459 a; V,
215 b. See also Elf-dance, Elfin, Elf-queen, Elf-rod,
Elf -shot.
Emma, wife of Cnut the Great, her ordeal, and ballad con
cerning, II, 38, and n.
Enchantment, restoration from, after successive changes of
shape, by drawing blood, I, 337 ; by drinking blood, etc.,
337 n. ; victim of enchantment, inoffensive before, be
comes fierce and destructive, I, 289 f., 294 f., 316.
L'Enf ant de Chceur de Notre-Dame du Puy, legend, HI, 240.
Engelische Comedien und Tragedien, V, 97.
Englishmen warned not to come to Scotland for brides, IV,
219, 221 f., 224-8, 230.
Epithets (as Fair Margaret, Sweet William, Child Maurice) :
Bold, I, 453; 11,320.
Bonny, II, 276 ; III, 447 ; IV, 52 f., 143, 233.
Burd, I, 256 ; II, 71, 87, 91, 97, 140 ; IV, 418-421 ; V,
227-9.
Child, Chll, Chiel, I, 62 ; II, 85, 128, 133, 263 ; Child of
Ell, I, 103 ; child of Wynd, Childy Wynd = Child
Owyne, I, 312 f. ; II, 503 f. ; alternating with Gil, I,
62 ; II, 130, 263.
Clerk, I, 387-9; H, 158-161, 164 f. ; IV, 385 f., 428,
468.
Dove (Dow), II, 97.
Fair, I, 341, 343, 345, 431 ; H, 63, 92, 100, 179, 200,
207, 212, 213, etc.
Hind, 1, 187, 369 f. ; II, 305.
Kemp, Kempy, I, 300, 306.
Love, II, 216 f ., 220-3, 293, 369 f ., 389, 395.
May, I, 22, 369 ; II, 158, 164, 232, 305 ; III, 452, 455 ;
V, 257 ; Maid Marian, HI, 218.
Mild (Mile), II, 72, 315; III, 386, 395 f., 398; IV,
507 f., 510 f.
Sweet, I, 68 ; H, 97, 100, 168 f., 171, 179, 200, 226,
291, etc.
Young, I, 256, 367, 371, 432, 454; n, 51, 142,282,288,
343 ; III, 452, 454 f., etc.
Erl of Toulous, romance, II, 33 n., 41 f., 43 n.
Errol, Earl of, ballad, IV, 282 ff.
Essex, the young Earl of, V, 146.
Estmere, nuncio of King Adler, II, 50 ; King, and brother
of Adler, 51-5.
Ettrick Forest, V, 187-9, 191-7.
Eulenspiegel, I, 409.
Eulogium Historiarum, I, 157. . ~
Eustace the Monk, III, 43, 53, 109, 191, 211, 476 n.
Evils, a hundred, enter into a man who has proved false in
love, IV, 419.
Example-books, I, 292 n.
Fa, Faa, Faw, Foix, Faux, IV, 61-70 ; Johnie, Jockie, Faa,
61-6, 68-70; IV, 513 b, 522 a; V, 188; takes in one
manuscript the place of Captain Car or of Edom o Gor
don, IV, 513 b.
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479
Fabliaux : Le mantel mautaillie 1 , Cort Mantel, I, 257, 266 ;
La mule sanz frein, I, 417 n. ; Du povre mercier, III, 54 ;
Du chevalier qui ooit la messe, etc., Ill, 96 n. ; Du che
valier qui fist sa femme conf esse, III, 258 ; Le chevalier
a l'espe"e, III, 508 a ; Des tresces, V, 22 f., n. ; Du cheva
lier a la corbeille, V, 121.
Fdfnismal, I, 96, 392.
Fair Annie of Kirkland, ballad of A. Cunningham's, I, 436.
The Fair one of the Castle, Persian riddle poem, I, 417.
A fair pretty maiden she sat on her bed, IV, 439 b.
Fairies, euphemisms for, good damsels, good ladies, I, 314,
gude neighbors, I, 352 (cf. Romaic, I, 314 n.) ; failure of
a husband to rescue his wife who had been carried off by,
I, 336 ; ride white steeds, I, 216, 323, 325, 339 f . (Tarn
Lin mounted, but not the rest of the fairy train, 342, 344,
346, 348, 349, 351, 352, 355); ride dapple-gray steeds,
324, 326 ; fairies, water-spirits, etc., solicit help of mortal
women at lying-in time and as nurses, 1, 358-60 ; II, 505 f . ;
HI, 505 f. ; IV, 459 a ; V, 215 b, 290 b ; fairy, at first ap
pearance, taken for the Virgin, I, 319, 327 ; HI, 504 a ;
IV, 455 ; fairy salve applied to mortals' eyes gives power
of seeing fairies, but is dangerous to use, I, 339; II,
S05b; III, 505 b; V, 290 a.
False luve, and hae ye played me this, IV, 210.
Family names, the principal : -
Argyll, in, 397 ; IV, 55-60, 99, 131, 135, 271 ; V, 252,
266 ; Gleyd Argyle, IV, 55, 57-60, 135.
Armstrong, III, 363-71, 409, 419, 461-7, 469-83, 485 n. ;
IV, 432; V, 298.
Barnard, Bernard, Barnet, Burnett, Burnard, Lord, II,
244-8, 251 f., 256-8, 266-74.
Burnet, I, 453; IV, 82, 355-8. (Burnett for Barnard,
n, 256.)
Campbell, m, 427, 435-8; IV, 56-59, 142-4, 514; V,
252. See Argyll.
Cassilis, Earl of, IV, 62, 64-7, 70, 124, 133 ; V, 301.
Crichton, III, 458-60 ; IV, 39-47.
Douglas, HI, 282-5, 288-301, 304 f., 307-14, 409, 411-
14, 443-6; IV, 36 f., 50, 90 f., 93-104, 499-501 ; V,
190, 227, 243 f.
Drummond, IV, 276, 282, 292.
Elliot, in, 370, 471, 473; IV, 5 f., 34; V, 249-51;
Martin Elliot, III, 409, 471 ; V, 249-51.
Fenwick (Fennick, Fenix, Phenix, Phoenix), II, 312,
442-55; IV, 140,371-5.
Forbes, IV, 48 f., 51-3, 83, 86 ; V, 254.
Gordon (Huntly, Aboyne), HI, 294, 296, 299, 301, 341,
345, 349. 378 f ., 400, 424-6, 432-8, 447-9, 456 f. ; IV,
39-47, /1-3, 80-7, 108 f., 124, 127, 129 f., 133-8, 295,
312-22, 333-8, 341 f., 344, 347-50, 500 f ., 505, 513 f . ;
V, 165, 243 f., 247 f., 254, 270-75, 301.
Graham (Graeme, Gryme), I, 211 ; HI, 299, 318 ; IV,
9-15, 76, 78, 105-7, 109 f., 146-8; IV, 157, 241 f.,
267-9, 500, 518-20; V, 265, 300. See Montrose.
Hall, HI, 485, 487-94 ; IV, 24-8, 517, 520 f.
Hamilton, HI, 285, 341, 382, 384-97, 428, 431, 442 ;
IV, 36, 38, 64, 106, 108, 163, 505-13; V, 187, 191,
193, 246 f., 298 f.
Hay, IV, 41 f., 45, 48, 127 f., 136, 233 f., 282-4, 286-
91 ; V, 267-9, 301.
Howard, HI, 335-7, 339-45, 348-56, 359, 377; IV,
503-7.
Hume, Home, HI, 409, 412 ; IV, 12 f., 272 f., 281,
293 f ., 296-8, 518 ; V, 270.
Lindsay, HI, 291, 299, 301 ; IV, 256-66, 276-9, 500 f.,
524 ; V, 243 f ., 264 f.
Livingston, H, 312, 314 f. ; HI, 381, 382 n., 389 f.;
IV, 29-33, 233, 235-8, 431-3 ; V, 227-9, 246, 261.
Macdonald (Macdonell), HI, 316-19 ; IV, 256-66, 271 f.,
274 f ., 524 ; V, 265-7.
Macgregor, Rob Roy, IV, 243, 246-53 ; V, 263 f. ; Rob
Oig, IV, 243-54 ; V, 262-4 ; James, IV, 243 f., 252 ;
Duncan, IV, 244 ; Glengyle, IV, 245, 252.
Maxwell, III, 292, 296, 298, 310, 313, 485 ; IV, 34-38.
Murray, IH, 298, 310 ; V, 185, 187-97, 307.
Neville, HI, 283 f ., 402-4, 406, 409, 417, 419-23.
Ogilvie, III, 316 ; IV, 55 f., 58, 333 f., 336-8 ; V, 252.
Percy, H, 383 f. ; IH, 282 f., 286, 289-301, 304 f., 307-
14, 402-6, 409-14 ; IV, 500 f . ; V, 243 f.
Scott, HI, 297 f., 469-74 ; IV, 5-8, 34, 163 f. ; V, 189,
249 f.
Scott of Buccleuch, HI, 410, 417, 469-74 ; V, 186, 189.
Stanley, HI, 328 f., 331-3, 354-9, 377 f.
Stuart, IH, 298, 316 ; IV, 109, 425 ; Charles Edward,
the Young Pretender, IV, 55, 57-60 ; V, 252 ; Fran
cis, Earl of Bothwell, III, 449 ; Henry, Earl of Darn-
ley, IH, 382, 384-7, 390, 392-4, 399-iOl, 442, 444,
446 ; IV, 507 f ., 510, 512 ; James, Earl of Murray,
Regent, III, 400, 409, 417, 442, 447; James, the
Bonny Earl of Murray, HI, 447-9 ; James Francis
Edward, the Old Pretender, IV, 116, 118-23 ; V, 255.
See Kings and Queens of England and Scotland.
Farce d'un Chauldronnier, V, 97 f.
The Farmer, his wife, and the open door, Indian tale, V, 281.
Farmer Weathersky, Norse tale, HI, 507.
Farrow cow's milk regarded as best, I, 224 ; II, 261.
Fascinating horn (harp), I, 15-17, 50, 55 ; IV, 441.
Fascinating song, I, 25, 28 b, 31-35, 37 f., 44, 485 ; IV, 441 ;
V, 285 a.
Les Favours et les Disgraces de 1' Amour, French tale from
Bandello, I, 269.
La Fe"e Urgele, melodrama of Favart, I, 292.
The Felon Sow and the Friars of Richmond, I, 209 n.
Fenwick. See under Family Names.
La Fiancee du Mort, Breton tale, V, 303 b.
Fiddle, parts of maid's body taken for, fiddle speaks, I,
494; IV, 449.
Fights, hand to hand, of Robin Hood or his men, duration
of: one hour, HI, 64, 219; two hours, 93, 138, 151 ; three
hours, 153 ; six hours, 125, 166, 169 ; a long summer's
day, 131.
Fikenild, Horn's false friend, I, 188-90.
Filer le parfait amour, tale of Se'nece', I, 269.
Fin, Finn, Finns, I, 21 ; II, 494, 496 b. See Finns.
Fin, a diabolic personage or warlock, his wit-contest witn
Harpkin, I, 21.
Finger cut off, of maid substituted for mistress, exhibited as
token of conquest of the mistress's virtue, V, 22-4, 27.
Fingers knacked, knocked, cracked, wrung, for grief, II, 26,
312-15, 319; III, 455, 477; IV, 418, 435; V, 227-9.
(Some passages corrupted.)
Finn, Gaelic hero, his wife tries the robe which is the test
of chastity, I, 261 f. ; cf. V, 289 a.
Finns, submarine, by donning seal-skin, enabled to ascend
to land, losing the skin become subject to the power of
man like swan-maidens, H, 494 ; HI, 518 ; IV, 495 a. See
Fin.
Finubury field, archery at, III, 197, 201, 203.
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INDEX OF MATTERS AND LITERATURE
Fionn's conversation with Ailbhe, I, 3.
Fionn's Questions, Gaelic tale, I, 3.
Fire will not burn a maid accused but innocent ; burns her
guilty mistress, II, 145 ., 148, 153, 155.
Fish, frying, fly out of the pan to attest the taking of Con
stantinople by the Turks, I, 241 ; H, 501 b ; IV, 452 a ;
V, 288 b.
Fitchers Vogel, tale, I, 47.
Fjolsvinnsmal, I, 281 n.
La Flauuto, French tale, I, 125.
La Fleur du Rocher, Breton story, HE, 504.
Floamanna saga, II, 35 n. ; V, 275.
Flodden, Battle of, III, 351 ff.
Floire et Blanceflor, Flor and Blancheflor, romance, I, 269 ;
H, 500 a, 502 a, 510 b ; V, 175.
La Flor del Lilild, Spanish tale, I, 125.
Florent, in Gower's Confessio Amantis, I, 291 f.
Florentina, De Historia van, I, 268, 459 n.
Florimel's girdle, I, 267, and n.
Das Flotenrohr, tale, III, 499.
Flowers, costume of, IV, 212-14 ; V, 258 f .
Flyting, baffling spirits by scolding, or by getting the last
word, I, 20-2, 485 a; II, 496 b, 509 a; III, 496 a; IV,
440 b.
Foiling mischievous sprites and ghosts by prolonging talk
till the time when they must go, IV, 440 b ; Thor detains
Alviss till after sunrise ; being above ground at dawn, he
is turned to stone, I, 419.
Folk-drama, etc. See Robin Hood, St. George.
Fool poses princess (and gets her in marriage), I, 20, 417 f.,
485 a; n, 507 b.
Foot-ball match, II, 434 f .
Forbes, family of Drumminor at the battle of Harlaw, III,
319 ; encounters of the Forbeses with Adam Gordon, III,
424-6 ; burning of the house of Towie (or Corgarf), 424 f.,
427 ; family of Craigievar, IV, 51-3. See under Family
Names.
Foresters, fosters, in, 3-11, 28, 152, 176, 215 ; V, 74,
and n.
Forgetfulness of earthly relations induced by draught ad
ministered to a woman by hill-folk, I, 363, and n., 364 ;
man made by magical or other means to forget a first
love, suddenly restored to consciousness and to his pre
dilection, I, 461, and n.
Fornsvenskt Legendarium, I, 14 n., 237 n. ; II, 2, 7 n.
Fortalicium Fidei of Espina, HI, 239.
Forty Viziers, Turkish tales, I, 402 ; V, 13, 97.
Fountain springs where maid has been murdered, V, 287 a.
Fountains Abbey, IH, 121, 123 f., 126.
The Four Elements, morality, H, 240 ; III, 42 n.
Frater i turski car, Croatian tale, I, 409.
Frau Tiisterat of Savoy, horn of, meistergesang, I, 263.
Frendraught, Fire of, IV, 39 ff., 521 f. ; V, 251, 301.
Frendraught, A Satyre against, etc., IV, 522.
Friar in the Well, The, ballad and tune, V, 100.
Friar of Orders Grey, Percy's ballad, and ballads like it, II,
426f.;V, 201.
Friar Tuck : not a member of Robin Hood's company in
any old ballad, EH, 43 ; but in both the plays, 91, 127 f.,
in the latter representing the Cnrtal Friar of the ballad,
who is even called Friar Fuck in the title of one version,
though not in the ballad, 122 ; simply named as of Robin
Hood's troop in two later ballads, 198, 209 ; a character
in the May-game, and perhaps the morris, 44-6 ; Friar
Tuck in Munday's play, The Downfall of Robert Earl of
Huntington, in, 179, 519.
Frio>j6fs saga, IV, 376.
Froissart, III, 283 n., 289-94, 337 n. ; V, 297 b.
Fruit, eating of in subterranean garden, entails going to
hell, I, 322, 324, 328 f.
Fulk Fitz-Warine, III, 40 n., 43, 49 n., 51, 53, 95, 109,
476 n., 519.
The Fuller's Son, Gaelic tale, HI, 507.
Le Fumeur de Hachich et sa femme, tale, V, 304 a.
La Furnarella, Italian tale = the ballad ' II Geuovese,' II,
502 a.
Fyvie, cheese of, as a love-potion, V, 305 b.
The Gaberlunyie man, V, 109 f., 115 f.
Gabs, brags, vows, I, 277, 281, 283, 285.
Galerent, romance, IV, 463 b.
Galien, romance, I, 274, 276 n., 278 n., 282 n., 507 a.
Gamble Gold, a pedlar, otherwise Gamwell of the green
wood, turns out to be Robin Hood's cousin (see Gam-
well, Young), HI, 155 ; V, 240.
Game-laws, offenders against (besides Robin Hood and his
men), III, 3-11, 13 (?), 22.
Gamelyn, tale of, III, 12, 22, 51-3, 144.
Games, ballads turned into, I, 33 n. ; II, 346 ; III, 516 b ;
IV, 439 b, 441 b.
Games : gallant rides at the ring ; plays at the ba, and
glove, III, 448 ; girl plays at ring and ba, IV, 354, A, b,
1,2.
Gamwel, Robin Hood's mother of that name, HI, 215.
Gamwell, Young, nephew of Robin Hood according to late
ballads ; afterwards called Scarlet, Scadlock, III, 146,
150 ; Gamwell of the green-wood, an apparent pedlar, is
discovered to be Robin Hood's cousin, V, 240. These,
and Gamble Gold, III, 155, are the same person.
Gandelyn, IH, 12-14.
Die Gansemagd, Grimms' German tale, V, 47; Russian
form, 281.
Garrett, Sir (= Sir Gareth), I, 295.
Garoariki, I, 460 n.
Gasozein, gives himself out as Guenever's first love, I,
279 n.
Gautier de Coincy, H, 13 ; HI, 52 n., 239.
Gautier de Doulens (Gaucher de Dourdan), Conte du Graal,
ugly lady (Rosette) in, V, 289 b.
Gawain, I, 285, 289 f., 294-296 ; V, 289 b.
Gaya, Ramiro's wife, V, 5 f.
Geiplur, Icelandic " rune," I, 275, and n.
GelS, IV, 443 a.
Genovefa, Die Legende von der Pfalzgrafin, H, 41, and n.
Genoveva, falsely accused of adultery, H, 41.
George a Greene, the Pinner of Wakefield, a play by Robert
Greene, IH, 129, 130, and n. ; George a Green, a prose his
tory, HE, 130.
Gerhard, the Good, I, 197, 459.
Geruth, the giant, I, 323.
Gervase of Tilbury, I, 339 n., 359; H, 56, 511.
Gesta Romanorum, I, 8, 13, 191 n., 268, 391, 393, 406, 416,
418 n., 458 n. ; II, 137, 502; HI, 122.
Gestr the Blind (Odin) and King HeioYekr, give each other
riddles, I, 405.
Der getheilte Trauring, tale, I, 198.
Die getreue Frau, tale, I, 268 b, 4-6.
Le Geu des Trois Roys, mystery-play, II, 7 f.
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481
Geyti shoots a nut from his brother's head, HI, 18.
Ghismonda and Guiscardo, in the Decameron, V, 29 ff., 303.
Ghost tears to pieces lover going from his mistress, and
hangs a bit over every seat in church, IV, 416 ; ghost of
mother would have torn daughter to pieces, V, 303 b.
Giant with five heads, II, 59 ; with three on his neck and
three on his breast, V, 184 ; giant with three spans be
tween his brows and three yards between his shoulders,
II, 394 ; span between the eyes (brows) and three ells be
tween the shoulders in ' The Wee Man,' I, 332.
Gifts offered by elf, hill-troll, mermaid to obtain young
man's love, I, 314, 375 f., 384 ; HI, 504 a ; V, 214.
Gigantic Scotsmen, IV, 397-9.
Gilbert of the White Hand, one of Robin Hood's troop in
the Gest, HI, 70, 76.
Gilbert Beket, his legend, I, 457.
The Gipsie Laddie, ballad made over by Percy, IV, 62.
Giraldi Cinthio, Hecatommithi, V, 13.
Giraldus Cambrensis, Itinerarium Gambriae, I, 320 n. ; II,
513 a ; Speculum Ecclesiae, V, 72 f .
Girl enticed into an inn by the hostler's wife and put at a
man's disposal, V, 153-6.
GlammatSr, berserkr, IV, 443 a.
Glascurion (Chaucer), II, 136.
Glove, a game for braw gallants, III, 448, A, 5.
Glove, woman being unfit to dance, lover says he will cut
his glove in two and dance for both, II, 105, st. 18.
Gloves, golden-knobbed, n, 133 ; siller-knapped, 134.
Gmipr, IV, 502 a.
God be with thee, Geordie, a tune, IV, 126 n., 454.
God offered as security, IH, 52 n., 53 f., 519 a ; IV, 497 a.
Golagros and Gawane, romance, I, 279 n.
Gold castles promised by knight to lady, I, 112.
Der GoldUpf elbaum und die Hollenfahrt, Greek tale, II,
509.
Golden apple thrown into the lap of a woman who has been
made to consort with hill-man or merman, and who has
been granted leave to visit her mother, to remind her of
her obligations or to enforce her return, I, 364 f .
The Golden Key or Ball, tale, with verses from the ballad
of the Maid Ransomed from the Gallows, n, 353-5 ; V,
201, 233.
Golden Legend, I, 14 n., 229, 237, 242 n., 245 n., 505 ; H,
235,507; IH, 51, 294 n.
Der goldene Apfel, tale, I, 125.
Das goldene Horn, meistergesang, I, 263.
Goldgerte, Greek tale, I, 338.
Goldsmith, Oliver, II, 276; HI, 367.
G6ngu-Hr61fs Saga, I, 393 ; H, 127 ; IV, 459 a, 502.
Goodnights, IV, 36.
The Goose Girl, German tale, V, 47, 281.
Gordon. See under Family Names.
Gordon, Adam, III, 424-6, 432-8 ; IV, 513 f. ; V, 247 f.
Gordon, Duke of Gordon's Daughter, ballad, IV, 332 ff.
Gordon, George, hero of the ballad of Geordie, IV, 124 ff.
Gordon, William, of Rothiemay, IV, 39 ff.
Gorm's visit to Guthmund, I, 323.
Gortmicheel, robber story, I, 488.
Gorvb'mb, Icelandic tale, I, 507.
Gosht-i Fryano, tale in ArdS-VirSf, H, 506 f.
Gospels, apocryphal : Nicodemus, I, 239, 240 n. ; Thomas,
Greek and Latin, II, 7 ; Protevangelium of James, I,
271 ; Pseudo-Matthew, 1, 271 ; H, 1, 2 n., 7.
Gower, Confessio Amantis, I, 10, 291, 292 n. ; V, 285.
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Graf Hubert von Kalw, German tale, I, 198.
Graham. See under Family Names.
Graham, Bewick and, ballad, IV, 144 ff.
Graidhne and Fionn, I, 3 ; Graidhne and Diarmaid, I, 8.
Gramarye, for magic, in King Estmere, H, 53-55, efficient
to make armor invulnerable, a man too formidable to be
undertaken (written on his forehead), and swords irresis
tible.
Gramatica Parda, Spanish story, I, 407.
Grame, Hughie, ballad, IV, 8 ff.
La gran conquista de ultramar, H, 43 n.
Grant, James, ballad, IV, 49 ff.
Grateful lion, I, 194 f.
Grave : boy directs that he shall be buried with Bible at his
head, chaunter at his feet, bow and arrows at his side, I,
438 ; arrows at head, bent bow at feet, sword and buckler
by his side, I, 440 ; Bible at head, Testament at feet, ITT,
247-50 (also pen and ink at every side, 247) ; Bible at
head, " busker " at feet, prayer-book by right side, Bible
at head, prayer-book at feet, HI, 252 ; Bible at head,
Testament at feet, prayer-book at side, IV, 497 f . ; prayer-
book at head, grammar at feet, V, 241 ; Robin Hood
wishes to be buried with sword at head, arrows at feet,
bow and metyard by his sides, HI, 105 ; cf . HI, 104 ; V,
297 b.
Grave (for two) : Lay my lady on the upper hand (upper
most), for she came of the better kin, H, 245, 247, 254.
Lay my lady on the sunny side because of her noble kin,
II, 251 ; IV, 477 ; Bury my bully Grahame on the sunny
side, for I 'm sure he 's won the victory, IV, 148 ; Lay
Munsgrove in the lowest flat, he 's deepest in the sin,
H, 258.
(Coffin for two), Lay my lady at the right hand, for she 's
come of the noblest kin, H, 253, 255.
Grave, living person descends into, and remains, V, 285 b.
Grave to be made where arrow falls, I, 185.
Graves, flowers from, in Miracles of the Virgin, I, 98 f .
Graves, lovers', plants and trees from, I, 93, 94, 96-8, 101 f.,
200, 489 f., 492, 506 a ; H, 104, 108, 111, 183, 185, 190 f.,
198, 201 f., 205-8, 210-12, 219, 280, 285 f., 498 ; HI, 498,7
510 b, 515 ; IV, 443, 450 a, 465 ; V, 31, 207, 224, 226,
262, 285 f.
Gray, Thomas, H, 264.
The great bull of Bendy-law, V, 203.
The Great Michael, a remarkably large and strong ship,
commanded by Sir Robert Barton, HI, 335 n.
Greek Anthology, V, 13.
Green, unlucky color, blue fortunate, H, 181 f ., 184, 512 ;
IV, 162 ; Fair Annie, nevertheless is dressed in green, H,
196, and her men and maids in green (in an Irish copy),
197 f.
The Green Knight (Bredbeddle), I, 286 f.
Die Greifenfeder, tale of Italian Tirol, I, 125.
Grief, excessive, for the dead destroys their peace, H, 228,
234-7, 512 f. ; HI, 513 b ; V, 62 f., 294.
Grimms, Kinder- und Haus-Marchen, I, 9, 14, 47, 125, 126,
198, 260 n., 408, 410 ; II, 127, 235, 502 ; IV, 17 ; V, 46 f.
Grfmnismal, Edda, I, 67.
Grlmr and Loptluena, I, 292 f . ; Grfmr consenting to three
demands of a hideous woman, she turns into his beautiful
true-love, Lopthama, who had been transformed by her
step-mother (Grfms saga LoCinkinna).
Grfms saga LoSinkinna, I, 292 f.
Der Grindkopf , Italian tale, H, 513 b.
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INDEX OP MATTERS AND LITERATURE
Gromer, Sir, Sir Grummore Grummorsum, Gromer Somer
Joure, etc., I, 289, and n., 290, and n. ; V, 289 b.
Growth, marvellous, and other pre'cociousness, especially in
heroes of tales and romances, II, 303, 305 f., 513 b ; III,
515 b ; IV, 35 n., 80, 479 b ; V, 226 a, 295 a.
Guapos, Spanish ballads of, III, 49.
Gudeman of Ballengeigh. I, 404.
Gudrun, I, 94 n., 95 n. See Kudrun.
Guenever, Arthur's queen, I, 257 f., 260-3, 271-3, 279 n.,
283, 293, 296 ; II, 43 n.
Guerino, son of the King of Sicily, tale of Straparola, V, 46.
Guillaume d'Orenge, V, 298 a.
Guillaume de Palerne, romance, III, 505.
Guinevere. See Guenever.
Guingamor, Lay of, V, 290 a.
Guiscardo and Ghismonda, Boccaccio's tale, V, 29.
Gull-}>6ris saga, IV, 502 a.
Gun charged with nine yards of chain beside other great
shot, less and more, III, 341 ; IV, 505.
Gundeberg, wife of King Arioald, accused of adultery, vin
dicated by champion, II, 39.
Gunhild, daughter of Cnut the Great, H, 37.
Gunild, Gunder, wife of Henry, Duke of Brunswick, II, 34-
36; Gunhild, daughter of Cnut the Great, wife of the
Emperor Henry III, 37.
Gunnlaugs saga, II, 35 n. ; V, 298 a.
Gustav Adolf und der Abt von Benediktbeuern, tale, 1, 408.
Guthmund, I, 323.
Gwion and Koridgwen, Welsh tale, I, 402 ; H, 506 b ; HI,
507 a; V, 216.
Gypsies, IV, 62-74 ; V, 190.
Gypsy Davy, IV, 67, 72, 74 ; Gypsy Geordie, 70.
Die Hahnkrahe bei Breslau, Silesian tale, I, 196 n.
Haig, James, IV, 281.
Hair, worn loose or in a braid by maid, bound up by married
woman, II, 64 n., 69, 74 (D 3, E 3), 78 (5).
Hair, woman's, added to a rope to lengthen it, I, 40 ; man's,
III, 516 b ; sea-king's daughter makes a rope of sixty
ells' length with her hair ; maid with hair a hundred fath
oms long, I, 486 (both used to draw a man out of a well
or pit) ; maid's hair long enough to climb up by, I, 486 f . ;
woman's hair five quarters long, III, 437 ; IV, 167 f. ;
man's hair three, five, quarters long, IV, 172-4.
Hair : woman ties her hair ronnd her dead husband's, lover's,
waist, hand, and carries, draws, him home, IV, 166-8;
V, 255 ; ties his 'hair (five quarters long) to her horse's
mane and trails him home, IV, 173 ; twines his hair (five
quarters long) round her hand and draws him out of a
river, 174 ; twines her hair about his waist and draws him
out of a river, 179.
Hair of maid substituted for mistress cut off and exhibited
as token of conquest of the supposed mistress's virtue, V,
22, and u.
Half's, King, ship saved from foundering by man jumping
overboard (and drowning), II, 15.
Halfs saga, I, 95.
Hall. See under Family Names.
Hall, Dicky, delivers his brother Archie from jail, III, 487-
9,492-4 ; he is assisted by JockyHall, III, 487-9 ; Jocky
is the leader and Dick second, 489 f., 491 f.
Hall, knights and others riding into, II, 51, 54, 510 b ; III,
508 a ; horses stabled in hall or bed-room, II, 51, 510 f. ;
HI, 508 a.
Halloween, I, 342, 25, 344, 24, 345, 6, 346, 16, 347, 8, 349,
9, 351, 30, 352, 8, 507, 1, 2 ; IH, 505, ll ; IV, 456, 458
(eve of All Saints, when fairy folk ride) ; hemp-seed sown
by girls for a vision of their true love, V, 59, 286 a.
Hamilton. See under Family Names.
Hamilton, John, Archbishop of St Andrew's, III, 442, 445 f.
Hamilton, Mary, maid of honor to Catharine, Tsar Peter's
wife, her history, III, 382 f . ; agreements with the Scottish
ballad, 383.
Hamilton, Mary, in the ballad, scorns the offer of life after
having been put to public shame, HI, 386, 388 ; historical
foundation for the ballad of Mary Hamilton (No 299),
views of Andrew Lang, the affair of the Frenchman and
the Queen's apothecary, V, 298 f .
Hamiltons in Russia, IH, 382 f .
Hanpang and Ho, Chinese story, II, 498.
Hans ohne Sorgen, tale, I, 408, and n., 409 n.
Hans Sachs, I, 196 a, 267 ; II, 40 n., 42 ; III, 258 ; V, 210.
Haraldr HartSraSr, III, 17.
Hardy, Spence, Manual of Buddhism, I, 11 n.
Harlaw, Battle of, ballad, IH, 316 ff.
Harp, power of, I, 216 f., 439; H, 137, 139 f., 511 f. ; V,
220 b, 293 a ; everybody harped to sleep but the king's
daughter, etc., I, 55 ; II, 137, 139 f. ; V, 220 b ; all the
lords harped asleep, IV, 18-21 ; Quintalin's harp decoys
women, I, 50 ; harp, viol, or fiddle made from drowned
maid's body, I, 121 f., 126-35 ; or from tree into which
the drowned girl had grown up, 121, 124, 493 b ; the
instrument of itself, or when played upon, reveals that
the girl was drowned by her sister, 122, 126-35.
Harpkin, I, 21.
Harribie (Harraby Hill, about a mile from Carlisle, for
merly the place of execution), HI, 463 f., 472.
Hass-Fru, Swedish tale, I, 461 n.
Hatherof = Athulf, Horn's faithful friend, I, 192.
Hawk, riddle of : if not in good order, lady has been un
faithful, I, 191, and n.
Head, Halewijn's, Roland's, Gert Olbert's, Jan Albert's,
SchSn-Albert's, speaks after it is cut off, I, 25, 26, 30, 49,
485 f.
Heads of men who have failed in an enterprise displayed
on castle walls, or on palisades of stakes, with one place
left, pour encourager les autres, I, 417 n. ; II, 507 b ;
HI, 507 a ; IV, 459 b ; V, 291 a (three stakes for three
adventurers, V, 216).
Heads of thirty Portuguese sent home, salted, by Sir An
drew Barton, to be eaten with bread, IV, 502, 505.
Heart, lover's heart cut out and sent to his mistress by her
father, or husband, V, 29-38, 303; the heart is sent
cooked and is eaten by the lady, 31-34 ; heart (stewed)
of a girl given her husband by jealous wife, 34 ; heart
served by twelve husbands to their twelve wives, 34.
Hearts, children's, man who had devoured nine would have
power of flying, I, 34 n.
Hecatommithi of Giraldi Cinthio, ix, 8, V, 13.
Heimir, V, 243 b.
Heinrich von dem Tiirlin, Der Mantel, I, 259 f . ; Din Crone,
264, 266, 279 a.
HeiSreks saga, V, 8.
Heinz der Kellner, his Turandot, I, 418 a ; n, 507 b ; V,
291 a.
Helgakvio"a HjorvartSssonar, I, 94, and n.
Helgakvioa Hundingsbana, n, I, 67, 94 f . ; II, 228, 235 ;
in, 306.
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483
Helgi and Sigrrfn, H, 228, 235.
Heliodorus, Aethiopica, 1, 270.
Hemingr and King Haraldr contend in feats : Hemingr
shoots a nut from his brother's head, III, 17 f., 518 b.
Hemings J>attr, HI, 17, 19 n.
Hemp-seed sown by girls on the eve of All-Hallows to ob
tain a sight of their true-love, V, 59, 286 a.
Henning Wulf 's apple-shot, III, 17.
Henri IV, La Partie de Chasse de, Colly's drama, V, 75.
Henry V, of England, his conquest of France, ballad, HI,
320 ff.
Henry, Duke of Brunswick, and his wife Gunild, II, 34-6.
Henry of Brunswick (Henry the Lion), Reinfrid of Bruns
wick, I, 194-6, 197 n., 459, 502 b.
Hereward the Saxon, IH, 43, 109, 476 n. ; V, 287 b.
Herod and St. Stephen, I, 233 ff.
Herodotus, I, 271 ; V, 212 b.
Herr Peder den rige, Scandinavian representative of Young
Beichan, I, 459-61.
Der Herr von Falkenstein, tale, I, 459 n.
Hervarar saga, I, 405 ; II, 50 n., 127.
Das Herz, Das Herzmare, rhymed tale of Konrad von
Wurzburg, V, 33, 303 b.
Herzog Ernst, I, 197 n.
Herzog Heinrich der Low, Historia, of Hans Sachs, I, 196 ;
V, 210.
Hey trollie lollie love is jolly, from a Yule medley, IV, 93.
Heykar, Geschichte des weisen, I, 11 n., 12 f.
Heywood's Hierarchy of the Blessed Angels, I, 85.
Hideous woman will answer questions for Arthur (or other),
whose life is at stake if he does not give the right reply,
only on condition of her marrying Gawain, or the young
man who is in danger, I, 289, 291, 292, 294 ; she turns
into a beautiful young girl on being allowed to have her
own way, 290, 291, 292, 295 f. ; hideous woman, magically
transformed, restored to her proper beauty by being al
lowed to have her whole will, I, 293, 297-9; hideous
woman converted to beautiful one on being married to
her will, I, 507 a. See V, 289 b.
Highlander induces a Lowland lass to marry him in spite of
the opposition of her parents, IV, 256-75, 524 ; he pre
tends that his father is a shepherd, his mother a dey, etc.,
but after putting her to a severe trial turns out to be a
gentleman of wealth and importance, a Macdonald, 255-
66, 524 (Donald, Earl of the Isle of Skye, 271 f., 274 f.) ;
Highlander preferred by girl to Lowland man or English,
IV, 267 ; Highlander induces girl to go with him regard
less of her father's opposition, V, 165 f., 306.
Hildebrandslied, I, 196.
Hildesage, I, 94, and n., 95 n.
Hildina, in Shetland ballad, I, 94 n. , 95 n.
Hill-king : see Dwarf -king, Merman, Hind Etin.
Hill-maid promises man wonderful gifts if he will plight
himself to her, I, 314, 375 ; IH, 504 a ; V, 214 b.
Hind to be spared by hunter, I, 178, 183, 502 a ; n, 156 f .
Hind Etin represents the dwarf -king, elf-king, hill-king of
Scandinavian and German ballads, I, 361 : Hind Etin
(Young Akin) seizes on a king's daughter in a wood,
keeps her seven years in a cave, where she bears seven
sons ; the eldest one day asks the father why his mother's
cheeks are always wet and learns her story ; hearing mu
sic while hunting he is moved to take his mother and
brother with him, and they come to the king's gate ; they
are kindly received, the wood is searched for the father,
who is found tearing his hair, and the family live happily
at court. See Dwarf-king, Merman.
Hirlanda, volksbuch, II, 33 n., 43 n.
Das Hirtenbublein, tale, I, 410.
L'Histoire de Moradbak, I, 11 n.
L'Histoire de Palanus, Comte de Lyon, prose romance, II,
42.
Histoire de Sinkarib et de ses deux Visirs, I, 11 n.
Historia de Nativitate Mariae et de Infautia Salvatoris, II,
1, 2 n., 7.
De Historia van Florentina, etc., I, 268, 459 n.
Hjalmar, Odd and Anganty, II, 50.
Hjalmte'rs ok Olvere saga, I, 306 f., 315, 489 b.
Hobby Noble, chief in the rescue of John o the Side, 131,
477-9; helper, 479-83; Hobie Noble betrayed to the
English by Sim o the Mains, IV, 1.
Hobby-horse, IH, 45, 47 f.
Hoccleve. See Occleve.
Hdd, H6de, the name, III, 47 n.
Holinshed, Chronicle of Scotland, H, 143 ; HI, 2, 517.
Holofernes : Professor Bugge's suggestion that the Halewyn
ballad (No 4) is derived from his story, I, 51-54.
Home. See under Family Names.
Homer, Iliad, I, 84 ; HI, 290 n., 306, 367 ; Odyssey, I, 322 n.,
338 n. ; H, 441 ; III, 510 b ; IV, 377 ; Hymn to the De-
lian Apollo, I, 84.
Homildon, the battle of, alleged to have been " done " to
requite the death of Percy in the Hunting of the Cheviot,
III, 304, 310, 313 f.
Hood = Odin, I, 95; old Carl Hood, I, 67, 92, 95, and n.,
489 ; IV, 443 f . ; Auld palmer Hood, IV, 445 ; SiShottr,
Deephood, I, 95.
Hood, Thomas, his Lost Heir, HI, 234 n.
Hoodening, Hood = Hooden = Woden (Kuhn), HI, 48.
The Hoodie, Gaelic tale, I, 290 n., 503.
Horn of elfin-knight inspires maid with longing for him, I,
15-17, 55 ; so Quintalin's harp, 50 ; boon of blowing on
horn (often asked by man in difficulty or about to be
executed, and often three blasts), IH, 122 f., 125, 166,
182 ; V, 2-6, 8, 127 (pipes, V, 3) ; see, also, III, 157 ; V,
279 ; witch's horn, 1, 315 ; V, 215 ; hornblower, hornblase
= witch, I, 314 ; horn which will furnish any liquor that
is called for, I, 266 ; horn filled with pure water, the
water turns to the best of wine, I, 263 ; horn out of which
no cuckold can drink, etc., I, 263 if. ; horn and lease, ten
ure by, HI, 360.
Horn, fastnachtspiel of the, I, 263.
Horn Childe and Maiden Rimnild, romance, 1, 188, 191-3,
200, 269, 502 a ; IV, 401 ; V, 287 b.
Horn et Rymenhild, French romance, I, 188, 190-3, 502 a.
Horn, Hind, ballad, I, 187 ff., etc.
Horn, King Horn, gest, I, 188-90, 192, 201 n. ; IV, 401.
Horse, high-mettled, I, 199, and n. ; horse shod with silver
before and gold behind, I, 341 ; II, 183, 185, 191, 194,
266 f ., 315, 343 f . ; V, 224 ; horse, old white cut-tail pre
ferred to a choice among thirty fine steeds, II, 444 f ., 450,
453 f . ; Walter of Aquitaine's worn-out charger, H, 441 ;
HI, 276.
Horses stabled by knights in hall or bed-room, II, 51, 54,
510 f . ; III, 508 a ; horses' shoes reversed to deceive pur
suers, III, 476 n., 479 f., 487, 489 ; youth torn by four
wild horses on the false charge of a woman, V, 157 ; pa
trons of horses, St. Stephen, St. Eloi, St. Antony, I, 235 f .
Horsley, William, a bowman employed by Lord Howard
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against Andrew Barton, HI, 339, 341-3, 345, 348-50 ;
IV, 503, 505-7.
Host, the consecrated. See Communion-bread.
House of Marr, IV, 157 ; of the Rhodes, III, 433 ; of Rothes,
V, 247 f .
Housekeeping : lady's preparations to receive her husband,
IV, 312-17, 319 f. ; V, 270 f., 301.
How Fraud made entrance into Russia, Russian tale, IV,
459 b.
How long and dreary is the night, air, IV, 302.
How the King of Estmure land married the King's Daugh
ter of Westmure land, title in The Complaint of Scot
land, H, 51 n., 296.
Howard. See under Family Names.
Howard, Katherine, said to have exerted herself to procure
Thomas Cromwell's death, HI, 377.
Hrafn and Gunnlaugr, V, 298 a.
Hr61fs saga Kraka, I, 290 n., 297 n., 393, 489.
Hro'mundar saga, I, 67, 95.
Hugdietrich, H, 50 ; IV, 463 b.
Huon de Bordeaux, I complement! della chanson d', 1, 502 a.
Hugh Spencer, the ballad, resembles in a general way Rus
sian bylinas, IH, 276 ; IV, 499. See Spenser.
Hugh Willoughby, a comrade of Hugh Spencer, HI, 279 f .
Hugo, Emperor of Greece, Charlemagne's visit to, I, 275-9.
Hume. See under Family Names.
Hume of Godscroft's History of the Houses of Douglas and
Angus, HI, 292 ; V, 202.
Hunt, an English captain, released on oath by Sir A. Bar
ton, joins Lord Howard in an attack on the Scot, trusting
that God will forgive his perjury, HI, 340 ; IV, 504.
Hunter's (J.) identification of Adam Bell, HI, 21 f.; of
Robin Hood, IH, 55 f.
Hunting of the Cheviot has the battle of Otterburn for its
foundation, EH, 304.
Hyacinthus, flower from his blood, I, 99.
Hysmine and Hysminias of Eustathius (Eumathius), I, 270;
H, 13 n.
Hystoria de la reyna Sebflla, Spanish tale, H, 40.
I cannot eat but little meat, song in Gammer Gurton's Nee
dle, V, 132 n.
I have a good old woman (wife) at home, tunes, HI, 518.
I have a Jong snster f er be^ondyn the se, riddle song, I, 415.
I have four sisters beyond the sea, riddle song, I, 415 n.
I sowed the seeds of love, song, V, 258 f.
H'ja of Murom, captain of the march-keepers, will allow no
one to pass ; has a fight with a young man who passes
nevertheless ; is worsted at first : cf. Robin Hood and the
Potter, IV, 497 a.
Images in church turn their backs when abandoned woman
enters, 1, 231 ; so when merman comes in, 1, 365 a ; every
thing bows when merman's (human) wife enters, I, 365 b.
Importance of asking brother's consent to marry, I, 497 f .
Incestuous connection, I, 185 f., 411-54 ; III, 500 f. ; IV,
450 ;V, 210.
Ingenuity a transcendental virtue of Mahayana Buddhism,
I, 11 n.
Innocent blood turns, every drop, to a burning candle, I,
172 ; n, 39 b.
Interest on loan not obligatory, but the security forfeitable
in case of non-payment, HI, 52, 60 (85-7), 62 (121) ; no
interest paid by the knight to the abbot for the loan of
400 for a twelvemonth, III, 62 ; present to Robin Hood
of 20 mark for the same loan and time (besides 100 bows
and 100 sheaf of long and handsome arrows), III, 62, 69.
louenn Kerme'nou, Breton story, III, 501.
Ipomydon, romance, II, 510 b ; V, 47.
Iron band forged round a man's waist as penance, I, 172 ;
man goes on pilgrimage, weighted with iron on hands and
loins, n, 128.
It was far in the night, and the bairnies grat, V, 203.
Italian (Talliant, Tailliant), a champion, leaps over his ad
versary's head and is spitted, II, 378, 383, 385, 387 f.
Ivan CareviS i Marfa Carevena, Prince John and Princess
Martha, Russian tale, V, 281.
Ivanhoe, Scott's, IH, 43 ; V, 72 n.
Jacinth, refuses to be worn by adulterer, V, 289 a.
Jacques de Vitry, III, 54, 258 n.
James, Protevangelium of, I, 271.
James IV of Scotland threatens his queen with death for
advising him not to make war with England, III, 351 f.
Jane (Seymour), Queen of Henry VHI, her death in child
bed, ballad, IH, 372 ff.
Jatakas, V, 292 a.
Jehan de Paris, Le Romant de, I, 191 n.
Julian et Blonde, Old French romance, I, 191 n. ; V, 287 b.
Jews charged with crucifying Christian boys in contempt of
Jesus, III, 235-9, 241 ; with murdering a boy for singing
the praises of the Virgin, 239 f . ; with murders to obtain
blood for use in Paschal rites, 240-243 ; IV, 497 a ; reason
not specified, IH, 243-54 ; IV, 497 f . ; V, 241 ; such mur
ders the reason for the expulsion of Jews from France
and Spain, V, 241.
Jhonne Ermistrangis dance. HI, 362 f.
Jock of Hazeldean, Scotfs, V, 160.
John H, the Good, of France, HI, 283, 287 ; V, 132.
John of Atherly, a comrade of Hugh Spencer, III, 279 f.
John o the Scales, V, 14 f.
John (Jock) o the Side, notorious thief, harbors the Count
ess of Northumberland, IH, 409, 419, 475 ; taken in a
raid and imprisoned at Newcastle, gallantly rescued by
Hobby Noble, 477-9 ; by the Laird's Jock, with Noble as
a comrade, 479-83.
John the Reeve, rhymed tale, V, 69, and n., 71 n., 72 n., 73.
John (Joan) Thomson's man, a history ; Scottish proverb,
V,8.
Johnstone, Willy, of Wamphray, the Galliard, HI, 458-60.
Johnstones, IH, 296 ; affray with the Crichtons, HI, 458-60 ;
with the Maxwells, HI, 485 ; feuds with the Maxwells,
IV, 34-8 ; Sir James Johnstone killed by Lord Maxwell,
35,51.
Joie des Bestes a la nouvelle de la naissance du Sauvenr, I,
240 f., 505 f. ; H, 501 b ; IV, 451 f . ; V, 288 a.
Jonah, story of, perhaps the source of tales of ships arrested
in their progress by having guilty persons on board, I,
245 ; II, 14 n.
Jonson, Ben, Bartholomew Fair, IV, 302 ; Discoveries, V,
285 ; Masque of the Metamorphosed Gipsies, HI, 45 ; his
admiration of ' Chevy Chase,' III, 305.
Josefs Gedicht von den sieben Todsiinden, II, 507 a.
Joseph, testy or suspicious towards Mary, II, 14, 6.
Joseph and Mary subjected to an ordeal of chastity, I, 271.
Joseph and the Angel, carol, II, 1.
Josephus, I, 404.
Joufrois, Old French romance, HI, 508 a.
Jonrdains de Blaivies, romance, IV, 502 b.
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485
The Jovial Crew, ballad-opera, II, 127 n. ; IH, 133 n.
Joy of the beasts at the news of the birth of Christ, 1, 240 f.,
505 f . ; H, 501 ; IV, 452 a ; V, 288 a.
Judas and the legend of the roasted cock, I, 240, 505 b ;
Judas took tithes of all money that came into his hands,
I, 242 ; legend of the thirty pieces, in Wendish ballad,
242 f . ; in English ballad, 243 f.
Judicial combats, H, 34-40, 42 f., 46, 48 ; HI, 508 a ; IV,
371-3 ; oath in, II, 35 n. ; IV, 463 b ; qualified perjury
in, II, 35.
Judith, the Old German, I, 51 n.
Judith and Holofernes, the relation of the story to Lady
Isabel and the Elf-Knight, I, 51.
Judith, wife of Louis le De"bonnaire, accused of adultery,
H, 43 n.
Der Jungherr und der treue Heinrich, rhymed tale, V,
39.
The Justice dealing with outlaws, III, 23-6.
Kalevala, I, 445 f. ; H, 506 b, 507 b, 511 b ; HI, 367.
KalidSsa, H, 235.
Kampa Dater, Nordiska, Bjb'rner's, I, 50, 259; II, 57 n.
Kanjur, Vinaya (Buddhist), I, 11 n., 12 n.
Karl der Grosse (Enenkels Weltbuch), I, 199 n.
Karl Meinet, II, 43 n.
Karlamagnus Saga, I, 275, and n. ; IE, 39 f .
Karodes, the mantle of, I, 261.
Katha-sarit-sagara, I, 200 n., 268; II, 495, 502 a; IV,
454 a, 463 a.
Kay, Arthur's steward, I, 245 f., 272 ; Kay's wife, I, 272.
Kay, Kempy, ballad, I, 300 ff., etc.
Ker, Captain. See Car.
Keraint. See Bardd.
Ketilbjorn, IV, 502 a.
Kidnapping women for compulsory marriage, IV, 232-54,
309 f., 424 (?) ; V, 261-4.
Kilhwch and Olwen, Welsh tale, I, 210, 279 n., 281 n.
King and subjects, meetings of, V, 69, 75, n. ; 69-86 ; king
harbored by reeve, collier, shepherd, etc., 69-74, 84-86,
303 b ; his hosts have made free with his deer, 70-72,
85 f. ; munificence of the king, V, 70 f., 73-5, 77, 80, 83,
86.
King found before his gate, II, 52, 4.
King (queen) lets in maid (or other) that knocks, n, 387,
393, 459, 461 f., 471, 474 f. ; Lady, Lord Bangwill, Lord
Barnard, Earl Percy, or some principal person, does this,
H, 150, 184, 186 f ., 187, 190, 253, 266 f., 284, 286, 383 ;
IV, 467.
King visits Robin Hood in the disguise of an abbot, I If,
74 ; serves Robin Hood with a buffet upon Robin Hood's
missing the mark, is recognized, and pardons the outlaws
on condition of their entering his service, 76.
King who regards himself as the richest, most magnificent,
etc., in the world is told that there is one who outstrips
him, and undertakes to see for himself whether this is
so, threatening death to the person who has affirmed his
inferiority in case this is disproved, I, 275, 279 n., 281,
282 f., 283, and n. ; HI, 17 n., 503 b. Cf. Robin Hood,
HI, 124.
King, young, nice about choice of wife (or his guardians),
and the princess proposed to him won with difficulty, II,
51-5; IV, 463 b.
The King and the Barker, rhymed tale, V, 68, 69 n., 78.
The King and the Cobbler, a prose history, V, 74, and n.
The King and the Miller of Mansfield, Dodsley's drama, V,
75.
King Alisaunder, romance, V, 297. See Alexander.
King Edward and the Hermit, rhymed tale, V, 72, and n.
King Edward Third and the Shepherd, rhymed tale, V, 71,
72 n.
King Edward the UUth and a Tanner of Tamworthe, A
merye, pleasant, and delectable history betwene, V, 68,
81.
King HeiSrekr and Gestr, their riddle-contest, I, 405,
and n.
King Henry H and the Abbot, story in Giraldus Cam-
brensis, V, 72.
King Henry H and the Miller of Mansfield, V, 69, and n.
King Henry the Eighth and the Abbot of Reading, The
pleasant History of, I, 404.
King Horn, gest, I, 188-91, 192, 201 n. ; IV, 401 ; V, 287.
King John and the Bishop, similar tales, I, 405-10 ; n,
506 f. ; IV, 459 b ; V, 216 a.
King Orfeo, romance and ballad, I, 215 ff . ; II, 500 ; HI,
502 ; IV, 451 ; V, 211.
King Rabssaldschal and his minister's daughter-in-law, Ti
betan tale, I, 12 f.
King Ramiro, Southey's ballad, V, 4 n.
Kinge and Miller, V, 69 n., 84.
King's armor, knight's wearing it in battle, HI, 283 a ; V,
297 b.
King's receivers plundered by Robin Hood, HI, 229. See
Robin Hood and Queen Katherine.
The King's Son, Kraljev sin, Bosnian tale, V, 45 f.
Kings and Queens of England :
Charles I, IV, 56, 58-60?
Edward I, HI, 43, 257 ; V, 69.
Edward II, IH, 43, 55.
Edward III, HI, 282, 284, 286 f . ; V, 71, and n.
Edward IV, V, 68, 77, 83.
Edward VI, HI, 378.
Edward, HI, 73, 75, 78 ; V, 72.
Henry II, HI, 257-64 ; IV, 498 f. ; V, 69, 72 f., 84, 242.
Henry HI, HI, 236-9.
Henry IV, III, 21, 310, 313 (see 304) ; V, 67, 75.
Henry V, HI, 21, 321-6.
Henry VH, HI, 328, 331-3, 356.
Henry VIH, I, 404 ; IH, 198-207, 335 f ., 338 f ., 342 f .,
345, 348, 350-52, 354-6, 358-60, 373-7, 401; IV,
503, 506 f . ; V, 74, 245 f .
Henry, IV, 17-22.
James I of England and VI of Scotland, IH, 442-6,
448-50, 452-6.
James H of England and VH of Scotland, IV, 111-15.
John, I, 410-14.
Richard I, HI, 220, 223, 227, 229-32, 508 b.
Richard III, III, 331-3, 356.
William III, V, 74.
Eleanor of Aquitaine, Queen of Henry H, HI, 257-64 ;
IV, 498 ; V, 241.
Eleanor of Castile, Queen of Edward I, HI, 257.
Elizabeth, HI, 406.
Jane Seymour, III, 372-6 ; V, 245 f .
Katherine, III, 198-204, 206 f.
Kings and Queens of Scotland :
Alexander HI, H, 19.
David Bruce, HI, 284-7.
James I, HI, 309, 313 (see 304) ; V, 73 n
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INDEX OP MATTERS AND LITERATURE
James HI, H, 19.
James IV, III, 351 f., 355, 359 ; V, 187 f.
James V, I, 404; HI, 364-71, 411; V, 73 n., 74, 109.
(See James I, II, of England).
Margaret (James IV), III, 351 f.
Mary Stuart, HE, 378, 381 f., 384-404, 424, 426, 442,
444, 446 ; IV, 508-13 ; V, 246 f .
(Stuarts :
Charles I, IV, 55 f .
James Francis Edward, IV, 116, 118-23 ; V, 255.
Prince Charlie, IV, 55-57, 60 ; V, 252.
Captain Stuart, IV, 109.
Lord Thomas Stuart, IV, 425).
Kinmont, Will Armstrong of, EH, 469 ff.
Ki6sut, Bulgarian tale, V, 281.
Kiss of courtesy, II, 435 ; three kisses, to disenchant, I,
307-11, 313, 338 n. ; n, 502 b, 504 f. ; HI, 504 a ; IV,
454 a; V, 214, 290.
Kissing of fairies, etc., puts one in their power, I, 322, and
n., 325.
Kit o Thirske, a pedlar, beats Robin Hood in fight, HI,
172.
Kitchie boy in ballads, II, 102, 114; IV, 403-5 (405, foot-
boy), 407 ; V, 34-8, 277 f.
Klephts, III, 49 ; Giphtakis, EH, 54; Dimos, HI, 104.
Die kluge Bauerntochter, Huge Dime, kluge Hirtentochter,
tales of The Clever Wench, I, 8-12.
Knife which will serve f our-and-twenty men at meat all at
once, I, 266 ; knife lost, figuring a lover, III, 501 a ;
sheath and knife for mother and child, I, 183 f ., 186 ; V,
210.
Knight who has forced a woman, to marry her if bachelor,
be hanged if married, II, 460 f ., 464, (466), 469, 471, 474 f. ;
IV, 493.
The Knight of Curtesy and the Fair Lady of Fagnell, ro
mance, V, 33.
Knight of the Swan, Elias, III, 515 b.
Knighthood, distraint of, III, 51, 58.
Knots loosed in Scotland at marriage ceremony and at the
approach of parturition, so among Laps and Norwegians,
1,85.
Koadalan, Breton tale, I, 401, 402.
Kongen og Bonden, Danish tale, V, 74.
Konig Artus mit der Ehbrecher-brugk, Historia of Hans
Sachs, I, 267.
Konig Rother, 1, 197 ; EV, 463 b ; V, 2.
Der Konigssohn und der Bartlose, Greek tale, V, 281.
Korolevid i ego Djad'ka, The prince and his Guardian, Rus
sian tale, V, 281.
Korrigan, Breton fairy, refused by man whom she asked to
marry her, gives him the choice of dying in three days or
languishing seven (three) years, I, 379.
Kraljev sin, The King's Son, Bosnian tale, V, 45 f.
Kranzsingen, riddles, I, 2 n.
Kristni saga, I, 96.
Kron, das vasnachtspil mit der, I, 266.
Die Krone der Konigin von Afion, meistergesang, I, 267.
Kudrun, II, 137 b. See Gudrun.
Kullervo, story of, in Kalevala, I, 445.
Kung Lindorm, Swedish tale, I, 290 n.
Die Kunigin von Frankreich, dy der Marschalk gegen dem
Kunig versagen wart, u. s. w., meisterleid, II, 40.
Diu Kunigin von Frankrich und der ungetriuwe Marschalk,
German metrical tale, II, 40.
Den kydske Dronning, poem of Jeppe Jensen, El, 42.
Kyng Alisaunder, romance, H, 511 b ; EQ, 306 ; V, 297.
Kyng of Tars, romance, II, 511 b.
Kyng Orfew, romance, I, 216.
Kynge Henry the IHJth and the Tanner of Tamowthe, The
story of, V, 67.
Kytice z basni, Polish tale, V, 60 b.
La Fontaine, I, 265 ; HI, 258 ; V, 13.
The Lad with the Skin Coverings, Gaelic tale, V, 216 a.
Lady goes in search of lover ; warned by Billy Blin or
fairy that that very day or the morrow is to be his wed
ding day, I, 456 ; lady leaps the castle-wall and is caught
by her lover, H, 407, 409 f., 413 ; lady solicited by knight
discovered to be his sister, H, 481.
Lady Bessy, a ballad-history of Henry VH's compassing
the crown of England, HI, 331, 354 n., 378.
Lai de Doon, II, 506 a ; HI, 518 b.
Lai de Guigemar, EV, 377.
Lai d'Ignaures, V, 34.
Lai de Lanval, I, 339 ; H, 510 b.
Lai d'Orphe"e. See Lay of Orfeo.
Lai de Tydorel, II, 505.
Lai d'Yonec, V, 39.
Lai de 1'Espine, II, 500 a, 511 a.
Lai del Fraisne, H, 67 f . ; old English version, Lay le Freine,
I, 216 ; II, 67 n.
Lai du Corn, I, 262 f. ; II, 43 n., 511 b.
The Laird's Jock (probable nephew of Johnie Armstrong)
IH, 462 f. ; rescues Jock o the Side, 479-83.
Lancelot, the Dutch, I, 260.
Lancelot, the French prose, I, 257 n., 267.
Lancelott, Sir, I, 295.
Lancilotto del Lago, I, 267.
Landres rimur, II, 40.
Lanet, I, 261, 266 f.
Lanethen Mantel, meistergesang, I, 261, 267.
Lanzelet, of Ulrich von Zatzikhoven, I, 260, 308, 338.
Lass o Livingston, a song, IV, 232 n.
Last word, importance of getting, when contending with
mischievous personages and in wit-contests generally, I,
II, 20-2, 485 ; HI, 496 a ; IV, 440 b.
Launfal, I, 320 n., 339 ; H, 510 b.
Lay of Orfeo, I, 216 ; H, 500 a.
Lay of the Reedwater Minstrel, Roxby's, IV, 25.
Layamon, I, 67 n.
Lazarus. See Dives and Lazarus, No 56 (II, 10 ff., etc.).
Leaf sent down a stream by a maid to warn mother, sister,
that she is in danger, I, 40 b, 487 a.
Learning unco lair (lear), H, 118 f., 174, 178; HI, 385;
EV, 411 ; 467.
Leather, corpses enclosed in, IH, 352 f . ; EV, 507 a ; V, 298 a.
Left shoulder. See Shoulder.
Legenda Aurea, I, 14 n., 229, 237, 242" n., 245 n., 505 a; H,
235, 507 a; HI, 51, 294 n.
Legitimacy of children, test of, by swinging or dipping them
in the Rhine, I, 271 n.
" Lenore," ballads and tales, I, 487 n. ; V, 59-67, 303 b.
Leper, black beggar, young lad, thrall, scullion, dwarf, put
into noble lady's bed, or introduced into her chamber, to
incriminate her, II, 39-42, 44, 47.
Leprosy, blood of children or virgins reputed a cure for, I,
47, 50 n. ; IV, 441 b ; V, 285.
Die Lerche, Kirghish lay, II, 506 b.
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487
Leys, Baron of, ballad, IV, 355 ff.
Libeaus Desconeus, romance, I, 308 ; V, 290 a ; its relations
to the ballad of the Earl of Westmoreland (No 177), V,
299 b.
Liddesdale, Knight of, ballad, III, 288.
The lie freely given in ballads, III, 367 ; V, 298 a.
Light kindles where innocent blood falls, I, 172 ; II, 39 b ;
V, 287 a.
Lilies spring from innocent man's grave, I, 143.
Lilliard at Ancrum Muir, III, 306.
Lin, Linn, etc., stock ballad-locality. See Lin, in the Glos
sary, V, 354.
Lincoln, Linkuni, stock ballad-locality. See Linkum, in
the Glossary, V, 543.
Lindsay. See under Family Names.
Lind-worm offers gifts to persuade a young woman to be
come his love, I, 314.
Lion killed by Sir Cawline without a weapon, by thrusting
mantle in lion's mouth and holding him to the wall, II,
60 ; tearing out of lion's heart by Richard Coeur de Lion,
HE, 508 b ; London Prentice, the hearts of two lions, III,
508 b ; Cuculin pulls liver and lights out of the throats of
two lions, IV, 463 b.
Lions in Scotland, II, 407, 409 ; m, 517 b.
Little Billee, Thackeray, I, 457 n. ; IV, 370 n.
The Little Boy with the Secret and his Little Sword, Ma
gyar tale, I, 11 n.
Little John : is Robin Hood's principal comrade, III, 41,
56 ff. ; brings in the knight to Robin Hood's lodge, 57 J
is lent to the knight as servant, 60 ; lent to the sheriff,
whom he plunders and decoys into the hands of Robin
Hood, 63-66 ; brings in the monk, 67 f . ; takes part in
the sheriff's shooting-match, is wounded in the subse
quent fight and carried off by Much, 70 f. ; roughly
treated by Robin Hood, leaves him, and is made prisoner
by the sheriff, 92 ; rescued by Robin Hood, 94 ; quarreled
with and struck by Robin Hood, leaves his service, 97 ;
is the only man that has his wits and courage when Robin
Hood is taken prisoner, 98 ; kills the monk who has in
formed against Robin Hood, and rescues his master, be
having with singular nobleness, 99 f. See, also, 124 f.,
127. Later ballads : beats Robin Hood in a fight and is
taken into his troop, III, 135 ; other fights of his, 137
(see, also, 228) ; Little John disguised as a beggar at
tempts to join himself to four beggars, is ill received by
them, beats them and takes 603 from them, III, 190 ;
Little John finds his match or superior, III, 109, 130, 155,
166 f., 169, 171. Little John appears in the May-game,
not apparently hi the morris-dance, III, 44-6.
Livingston. See under Family Names.
Loan miraculously restored, III, 52 n. ; V, 297 a.
Localizing of ballad-stories, I, 24, 99, 173, 210, 340; IE,
264, 321 ; V, 287 a.
Locksly, Nottinghamshire, the birthplace of Robin Hood,
IH, 215.
Logan Water, or, A Lover in Captivity, a song, IV,
184 n.
Logie, Laird of, HI, 449 ff., 520 ; IV, 515 f. ; V, 299 f.
Long Lonkin, tale, V, 295 b.
Lord Derwentwater's Goodnight, ballad by Robert Surtees,
IV, 116.
Lord Livingston, Pinkerton's ballad, IV, 432.
London Hill, ballad, IV, 105 ff.
Loudoun Castle, HI, 435-8.
Lousing of knight by maid, I, 27, 28, 32, 37, 46, 487, and
n., 488 ; IV, 440 b ; V, 285 a.
Lovely, Leeve, London, IH, 306.
Lover runs mad after the death of his mistress, H, 110,
124; throws himself into bonfire after his mistress has
been burned, H, 115, 121 ; woman goes mad after lover
and husband have killed one another, II, 130 f., 133 ;
after the death of lover, 169.
Lover's tryst with a lady anticipated by a low fellow, I,
137-41.
Lovmand, Lagman, representative of Horn in Danish and
Swedish ballads, I, 193 f.
The Lowlands of Holland, a song, H, 156, 317, and n. ; V,
229 b.
Loxly, assumed, or secondary, name of Robin Hood, HI,
197 f., 201, 209.
L. P., signature of No 147, IH, 208, 210 ; HI, 518 a, 519 a ;
indicating Laurence Price.
Lucian, De Lnctu, H, 236.
Lndie, daughter of the emir of Orbrie, V, 6.
Ludus Sancti Jacobi, Provencal mystery, I, 238.
Lnnet, Laneth, I, 261.
Der Luneten Mantel, fastnachtspiel, I, 261, 267.
Lyne, brig o, n, 290.
Lynn, stock ballad-locality. See Lin in the Glossary, V,
354.
Mabiuogion, I, 210, 266 n., 279 n., 281 n. ; II, 51 ; V, 24 n.,
216 a.
Mable, Book of, a prophetical book, HI, 420, 422.
Macaire, romance, II, 40.
Macdonald. See under Family Names.
Macgill of Lindores fights an Italian gladiator, II, 378.
Macgregor. See under Family Names.
Madel, Dutch representative of Fair Annie, II, 67.
Madonna substituted for Lazarus in the legend of Dives and
Lazarus, II, 10 ; Madonna and Jesus, III, 507 b.
Magdalen, legend of, I, 228 f. ; in southern ballads, I,
231 f ., 504 f. ; IH, 502 b ; IV, 451 b ; V, 288 a ; singular
episode from, in Golden Legend and in Digby Mystery of
Mary Magdalene, I, 245 n. ; legend of Magdalen blended
with story of the Samaritan woman and with that of the
Cruel Mother, I, 228-30, 232 ; H, 501 b ; III, 502 b ; IV,
451 b ; V, 288 a.
Magus saga, I, 283 n.
Mahabharata, II, 495 ; V, 294.
Maid cuts off her pap to release a man from a serpent and
heal the wound made in his body, the pap grows apace
when she bears a son, V, 177; maid leaps from castle
wall into lover's arms, II, 410, 413 ; maid solicited by a
man tricks him, and when safe jeers at him, II, 480-93 ;
maid (noble), to vex knight who has been adjudged to
marry her, pretends to be a carl's daughter, beggar's
daughter, II, 462-4, 467, 469 f., 471 f., 473 f., 476 ; IV,
494 ; V, 238 f . ; maid who has eloped with a pretended
lover forced by him to strip, I, 31-3, 39 f., 42 f., 50, 56 f.,
59, 433, 486 b, 488 ; II, 496 b, 497 ; III, 496 f . ; IV, 442 ;
maid will not give her faith to two brothers successively,
I, 89, 91, 376, 378 n.
Maid Marian, in ballads, HI, 43, 46; simply mentioned,
198, 209 ; disguised, fights with Robin Hood disguised,
219 ; in May-game and morris, 44-6 ; in the plays of The
Downfall and the Death of Robert Earl of Hnntington,
46, 519.
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Mallet, David, and his Margaret's Ghost, II, 199 f . ; V,
294 a.
Malleus Maleficanun, I, 489 ; III, 18.
Malory's King Arthur (Morte Darthur), I, 257 n. ; IV, 456 a ;
V, 289 b; 298 a.
Man in danger of his life dressed by landlady as woman
and set to baking, IV, 151-4 ; man preparing to hang
himself finds money, leaves the rope, with which the
owner of the money hangs himself, V, 13 ; man who flies
from home on account of enormous crime, in his despera
tion commits his relations to miserable fates, I, 169 f.,
445 ; man who has assaulted maid, to marry her, if bach
elor, be hanged, if married, II, 460 f., 464 (466), 469,
471, 474 f. ; IV, 493.
Mandeville. Sir John, his (fictitious) Voyage and Travel, I,
308 ; HI, 501 ; V, 209.
Les Manteaux, Caylus, I, 257.
Der Mantel of Heinrich von dem Tiirlin, I, 259 f.
Le Mantel Mautaillie', fabliau, I, 257.
Mantle and costumes enclosed between two nut-shells, I,
260, and n., 271.
Mantle, as chastity chest. See The Boy and the Mantle,
No 29, 1, 257 ff ., etc. ; Gaelic ballad of the mantle, 1, 261 f .;
V, 289 a ; the mantle of Karodes, I, 261.
Mantle Rhymes, see Skikkju Rfmur, I, 264 n.
Mar fights when both his hands are off, IV, 502 a.
Margaret Twynstoun, Twinslace, Vinstar, Weiksterne,
frees her lover, Wemyss of Logie, condemned to death,
by taking him through the royal bedchamber and letting
him down from a window, III, 449 f., 452-5.
Margaret's Ghost, David Mallet, II, 199 f . ; V, 294 a.
Le Mari Confesseur, conte of La Fontaine, III, 258.
Marie de France, Lai del Freisne, II, 67 f. ; Lanval, II, 510 ;
Guigemar, IV, 377 ; Yonec, V, 39.
Marineo, Lucio, I, 238.
Marfu saga, I, 98 ; III, 52 n., 240.
Markenfield (Martinfield), Thomas, IH, 418-22; knows
every banner, whether any man he has laid eyes on is
friend or foe, can speak any language, and has the gift
of prophecy, 419 f.
Marko Kraljevic, II, 357 ; HI, 499 a, 507 b ; IV, 463 b.
Marr, house of, IV, 157.
Marramiles, one of Arthur's knights, I, 279, 284, 287.
Marriage ceremony interrupted by lover, who takes the
bride, IV, 412-14.
Marriage, forced, justified as happiest, IV, 244.
Marriage: maid to wait, lover absent, seven (eight, nine)
years and not marry, 1, 189 f ., 192-4, 459, 502 b ; maid and
man parting, neither to marry for seven years, I, 191 n.,
464 f., 473, 477, 480 ; H, 508 ; IV, 461 ; man gives his
troth to woman to marry no other for seven years, I, 469
f . ; man parting with his wife engages her not to marry
again for seven years, I, 195 f., 198, 200 n., 462 (three
cases) ; for three, five, six, eight, nine or twelve years,
nine years and nine days, year month and day, I, 194,
197, 199, 200 (and 499), 461 ; Epirot and Albanian cus
tom of betrothing or marrying early in youth and parting
for long periods, I, 502.
Marriage, second, of wife prevented by sudden (often mirac
ulous) return of husband, I, 194-200, 502 f . ; II, 499 b ;
HI, 501 ; IV, 450 b ; V, 210 b ; betrothed maid arrests
marriage of lover to another woman, I, 502 f.
Marriage-contract, seigneur miraculously conveyed home
on the eve of his wife's marrying identifies himself by
producing one half of his marriage-contract, which fits
the other half left with his wife, II, 499 b.
Marriages, unequal : serving man preferred by Lord Arun-
del's daughter to Lord Phenix, II, 441-55 ; lady refuses
nine gentlemen for servant-lad, ploughman, IV, 172 f.,
522 ; V, 255 ; Earl of Wigton's daughter marries footman,
IV, 292-9 ; V, 270 ; lady of birth and fame loves a kitchen-
boy, IV, 403-8 ; V, 277 f .
Martial, Epigrams, IV, 186.
Mary, Mild, H, 309, 315 ; Mary Mild, Myle, Moil, H, 72 ;
HI, 386, 395 f ., 398 a ; IV, 507 f ., 510 f . ; Mary Miles
(corruptly), IV, 511 ; maidens mild, II, 312, 314, 316 ; V,
227.
Maseniny Dzjadok, White Russian tale, V, 281.
Mass, forced, exacted by Robin Hood, HI, 192, 199, 202,
228.
Massinger, The Picture, I, 269.
Matthew, apocryphal Gospel of, I, 271 ; II, 1, 2 n., 7.
Matthew Paris, Chronica Majora, H, 37, 143 ; HI, 235, 241,
519.
Matilda Fitzwalter, Maid Marian, HI, 56 n., 214, 218, 519.
Matildas, three, popularly supposed to have been persecuted
by King John, III, 519.
Maximilian H (Emperor) and a charcoal-burner, Bohemian
tale, V, 75.
Maxwells : affray with the Johnstones, IH, 485 ; feuds with
the Johnstones, IV, 34-8 ; Lord Maxwell kills Sir James
Johnstone, IV, 35 ; Lord Maxwell's Last Goodnight, bal
lad, IV, 34 ff. See under Family Names.
May-game, III, 41-4.6.
Meilyr, story of, in Giraldus Cambrensis, his ability to ex
pose lies, I, 320 n.
Meisterlieder der Kolmarer Handschrift, I, 269, 270.
Meldrum, Squire, III, 306 n.
Mellerstain, Laird of, ballad, IV, 281 f.
Melusine, romance, V, 226 a.
Mem and Zin, Kurdish poem, I, 98.
Memering, Mimmering, Mimmer, Mimecan, smallest of men,
champion of Gunild, H, 34-8.
La menta y'l Gaitx, Catalan tale, H, 510.
Merfolk apt to be ferocious, I, 366 n. (see 365 b, 366 a).
Merlin, Roman de Merlin, I, 257 n. ; II, 113 ; IV, 454 a
(English prose romance) ; (in Arthour and Merlin), IV,
479 b.
Mermaid, sight of, bad omen for ships, H, 19, 29 f., 32,
510 b ; V, 149-52 ; one has betrayed seven ships, H, 19.
Mermaiden affects man with some mortal ailment, I, 387-9
(probably incited thereto by his inconstancy : see 1, 372).
Merman entering church, all the images turn their backs ;
when woman who has perforce been the merman's consort
enters church, everything in it bows, I, 365.
Merman takes maid (princess) to the sea-bottom, where she
lives some eight years and has children ; hearing the bells
of home, she longs to go to her mother and is allowed to
pay her a visit, taking her children with her ; merman
comes for her, she refuses to return ; merman says they
must divide the children, three and three each, and half
of the seventh, I, 364 f . ; merman tears the children to
pieces and hangs himself, 366. See Dwarf-king.
Merman's human wife, allowed to visit her mother, must not
bow when the priest pronounces the holy name, or make
an offering, I, 364 ; must not stay for the benediction,
366.
Message (deceptive) from dying man or woman to father,
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mother, etc., or prohibition of information to these of
fact or manner of death, I, 436-40, 442 ; H, 14, and n. ;
HI, 381, 384 f., 387-93, 395-8, 507 b ; IV, 460 a, 508-10,
512 f. ; V, 247.
Message repeated, II, 265 f., 268 f., 270, 272, 366 ; message
sent down a stream by a leaf, or linden shavings, I, 40 b,
487 a.
Messer Guiglielmo Rossiglione and Messer Guiglielmo
Guardastagno, Boccaccio's tale of, V, 33.
Messer Torello, Boccaccio's tale, I, 197.
Messire Gauvain, ou la Vengeance de Eaguidel, romance, I,
257 n., 260; II, 51.
Mesterm0, Norse tale, Asbj0rnsen, I, 461 n.
Metyard, archer's, III, 103 n. ; V, 297 a.
Midge, the Miller's son, HI, 202, 204. See 197, and Much.
Mikkels Arvegods, I, 144 b.
Mild Mary. See Mary.
Milk running from reputed maid's breasts, 1, 102 f ., 179, 363.
Milk, wash my son in, I, 71, (and lay him in silk) 74, 79 f.,
(and dress in silk) 221 ; II, 89, 91, 100, 408, 425, (and
row in silk) 426.
Les Mille et un Jours, I, 282, 283 n., 417 ; IT, 43 n., 499 ;
V, 13.
Les Mille et un Quart d'heure, Contes Tartares, V, 13.
Miller, monk, without cares, sans souci, ohne Sorgen, utan all
sorg, senza pinseri, pensa, sem cuidados, 1, 408 f . ; II, 507.
Miller and King, V, 69 n.
The Miller of Mansfield, in Sherwood, and Henry the Sec
ond, King of England, The Pleasant History of, V, 69 n.,
84.
The Miller of Mansfield in Sherwood and K. Henry the Sec
ond, etc., a pleasant new ballad of, V, 69 n.
Millers, priests, shepherds, etc., nothing else left in Eng
land, at epoch of Durham and of Flodden Field, HI, 282,
and n., 284-6, 352.
Mjllq which grind sugar and cinnamon, mace and cloves, I,
113 ; cinnamon, II, 65.
Milon, steward, false accuser of Olif, wife of King Hugo,
H, 39 f .
Mimecan, dwarf, champion of Gunhild, II, 37 f.
Mint cursed for not -concealing Joseph and Mary, II, 8 n.
Miracle de la Marquise de Gaudine, II, 42.
Miracles. See Light, Fountain, Lilies.
Miracles following the murder of a Christian boy by the
Jews, HI, 235, 237-40, 244 f., 247 f., 252 ; V, 241 ; the
desecration of the Host, HI, 240, 242 n.
Miracles of the Virgin, H, 7 n., 8, 13, 16, 42; HI, 52,
239 f. ; V, 23 n.
Un Miracolo di tre Pellegrini, play, I, 238.
Miragaia, romance of Almeida-Garrett, V, 6.
Mittagsfrau, I, 484 a. See AaipAviov ne<rrin&piv&v, Noon-
sprite.
Mitton, bailiff of Shrewsbury, knows no king but him that
wears the crown, III, 332 f .
Modi of Reynes, accepted suitor of Rymenhild, I, 189.
Modun, Moging, to marry Rimild, Riminild, Horn's love, I,
191 f.
Money givsn by maid to lover with whom she is eloping, I,
183 ; H, 369, 371, 406 f., 410.
Monk, miller, without cares, I, 408 f. ; H, 507.
Monmouth, Duke of, IV, 108-10.
Montrose, IV, 51-3, 55 n., 57, 77-9.
Moon, new, with old moon in her arm, sign of storm, II,
20-27, 29, 30.
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Moradbak, 1'histoire de, I, 11 n.
Moran (Murando), Piedmontese representative of young
Beichan, I, 462.
Mordred, Arthur's nephew, his death, V, 298 a.
Moringer, Der edle, I, 196, 459 ; V, 291 b.
Morris dance, III, 44 f.
Morte Arthur, II, 510 b.
Morte Darthur, Malory, I, 257 n. ; IV, 456 a ; V, 982 b, 298 a.
Morton, Earl of, III, 443, 445 f.
Mottuls saga, I, 258-60, 261 n.
Mourning, excessive. See Tears.
Le Moyen de parvenir, IH, 159.
Much (the Miller's son), an original comrade of Robin
Hood, III, 56, 59 f., 66, 70; carries off the wounded
Little John on his back, 71 ; 97, 99 ; companion with
Little John in killing the monk and the rescue of Robin
Hood, 98-100; Midge, the Miller's son, III, 197, 202,
204 ; Much the Miller's son, made one of the party that
rescue John o the Side, III, 478 f., 483.
La Mule sanz frain, fabliau, I, 417 n.
Der Miiller ohne Sorgen, I, 409. See Miller.
Mummers' play of St. George, V, 291.
Munday, A., his play of The Downfall of Robert Earl of
Huntington, III, 46, 129, 179, 519 b ; V, 100; his pageant
Metropolis Coronata, V, 297 a.
Munday, A., and Chettle, H., play of The Death of Robert
Earl of Huntington, IH, 129, 519 b.
Murder, compensation in money for, II, 297 f. ; disclosed by
harp or fiddle made or furnished from parts of the body,
or by pipe made from bone, or from plant growing from
the body, I, 121-33, 135, 493-5; H, 498 b; HI, 499 a;
IV, 447-9 ; V, 208 b, 286 a.
Murder, revenge for, H, 297 f., 300 f., 304-7.
Murdered boy appears immediately as bird and reveals that
his brother had killed him, I, 126.
Murdered man's body will emit blood upon being touched
or approached by the murderer, II, 143.
Murray. See under Family Names.
Murray, Bonny Earl of, murder of at Doiiibristle, III,
447-9, 456.
Murray, The Outlaw, ballad, V, 185 ff.
Murray, Regent, IH, 400, 409, 417, 442, 447.
Murray, Morrow = Moor, black, V, 189 n.
Music, harp, pipe, flute, song, powerful effects of, on ani
mate and inanimate nature, II, 137 ; soporific influence, I,
55; H, 137, 139 f., 511 f. ; IV, 18-21 ; V, 220 b, 293 a ;
music, seductive, horn, harp or song, I, 15-17 ; 25, 28 b,
31-5, 37 f., 44, 50, 55, 367, 485 ; IV, 441 ; V, 285.
Muzicenko s Kulacenko, The little Peasant, Russian tale, V,
281.
Mythical interpretations of the story of Adam Bell, etc.,
and of Robin Hood, III, 21, and n. ; 47 f., and notes.
Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales, I, 265 n. ; HI, 498 a.
Maerpoll, Icelandic fairy tale, I, 392.
Naisi (Naois) and Deirdre, Gaelic story, HI, 498 b.
Naked man, injured husband will not Mil a, H, 245, 247-9,
251, 253-6, 258 ; IV, 477 f.
Naming, enfeebling or destructive effects of, on men en
gaged in fight, on the devil, trolls, nixes, the horse Blak,
a berserkr, the avenging sword, enchantment, etc., I, 3,
5, 89-92, 95 f., 489 b ; IH, 498 a ; IV, 443 a ; V, 207 b,
285 b.
Nashe, Thomas, HI, 461.
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INDEX OF MATTERS AND LITERATURE
Nasr-eddin Hodja, Les plaisanteries de, Turkish tale from,
I, 410.
Neh-Manzer, on Les Neuf Loges, Persian tale, I, 489 a.
Nereid, captured by resolute perseverance, despite changes
of shape, I, 337.
Nereids, Greek, likeness to northern elves and fairies, 1, 314 ;
euphemistic titles for, t6., and n. ; special trees endanger
taking by, for those who lie under them, I, 340.
Net, riddle of : if net has taken fish, lady has been unfaith
ful, I, 191 n.
Neville. See under Family Names.
Newborn (unborn) children speak, III, 367, and n. ; IV,
507 a.
Nibelnngenlied, II, 143, 236.
Nicodemus, gospel of, I, 239, 240 n.
Nighean Righ fo Thuinn, The Daughter of King Under-
waves, Gaelic tale, I, 297 f.
El niilo de Guardia, El santo niiio de la Guardia, TTT, 241 b ;
IV, 497 a.
Nisami, his poem of The Seven Figures or Beauties, I, 417.
Nix killed by maid with a knife, I, 23 n.
No Song, no Supper, musical entertainment, by Prince
Hoare, V, 96.
Noble, Hobie, ballad, IV, 1 ff.
Nonplussing: fool wins princess by dumfounding her, I,
'20, 418 a, 485 a ; n, 507 b ; carlin foiled by boy getting
the last word, I, 20 ; in, 496 a ; Fin by Harpkin, I, 21 ;
f anse knicht (devil) by boy, I, 22, 485 b ; king's son by
Tsano d'Oyme 1 , IV, 440 b.
Noon-sprite, German, I, 484 a; Slavic, IV, 440 b. See
Aaip.6viov fjtftri}fjiftpiv6v and Mittagsfrau.
North side of burial grounds for nnbaptized children, II,
498.
Northumberland, the betrayal of the Earl of, HI, 409, 411-
14.
Norton, Christopher, III, 404 f.
The Nortons, their part in the Rising in the North, HE,
403-6 ; the father and two of the sons go to the Low
Countries, 418 ; the father and four sons said to accom
pany the Earl of Westmoreland to Spain, 419, 421.
Number riddles or songs, I, 416, and n.
Numbers, favorite :
Seven. Seven years (service, absence, penance, etc.), I,
41, 69, 72 f ., 77, 189 f ., 192, 194-6, 198, 202, 204-6, 211,
224 f., 229-32, 255, 285, 323 f., 342, 344-6, 350, 354,
366, 432, 462, 464 f ., 469 f ., 473, 475, 477 ; II, 52, 138,
159, 162 f ., 166, 207-9, 233, 283, 500 ; HI, 23, 189, 371,
441, 504 ; IV, 287, 290 f., 363, 366 f., 433, 454-6, 458,
461 ; V, 207, 212, 219 ; seven brothers, I, 92, 94, 100-
4, 107, 251, 433, 492 ; II, 158, 160-2, 165, 170, and
n., 189, 201, 358 f., 361 f., 364, 366, 425 ; IV, 151, 468,
483 ; V, 224 ; seven sisters, I, 69, 71 f., 74, 76, 80, 107 f.,
314-16 ; H, 295, 311 f., 362, 364, 366 ; IV, 477, 483,
485 ; V, 207 ; seven sons, I, 362 f ., 365-7 ; H, 65-7,
69, 71 f., 74 f., 77 f., 80, 159, 161 ; V, 41, 255 ; seven
(miscellaneous), I, 41, 68,70, 72, 79, 91, 94, 111, 289,
312, 362, 364, 367, 371 ; H, 70, 72 f., 75, 77, 79, 82,
318, 365, 370, 467 ; m, 3, 6-11, 65, 67, 75, 77, 78,
92, 117, 422 ; IV, 319, 363 f., 366, 368, 496; V, 108,
127, 158, 184, 214, 224, 240.
Twenty-four. Four-and-twenty knights, ladies, ships
etc., I, 68, 70, 330-2, 341, 343, 370 ; II, 86, 88, 97, 129,
132, 183, 194 f., 241, 291, 299, 312, 315, 357, 371 ;
HI, 216, 297-9, 352, 370, 433, 436 ; IV, 84, 157, 221 f .,
226-8, 239 f., 273, 284, 317, 323, 325-7, 368, 381 f.,
458, 461, 470, 472, 478 ; V, 41, 111-13, 117-19, 127,
221, 276.
Thirty-three. Thirty and three horses, years, etc., I,
58 f., 212, 284, 467, 470, 472, 475, 479 ; H, 90, 92, 93,
95, 399, 471, 497 ; III, 453, 464 f., 478 ; IV, 146, 148,
195 f., 199, 204, 207, 371, 373, 470, 498 ; V, 36, 122-4,
219.
The Nutbrown Maid, English romance, I, 112 ; n, 84.
Nuts (walnut, hazel-nut, almond), enclosing costumes, I,
260, and n.
Oath by thorn, II, 111, 154 ; by oak, ash and thorn, II, 138 ;
by corn, II, 144, 149 ; grass and corn, II, 151.
Occleve, Thomas, De Regimine Principum, V, 71 n.
Octavian, metrical romance, II, 33 n., 41, 510.
Ode und de Slang, tale, I, 298.
Odin, I, 13, 67, 95, and nn., 283, 404 f.
Ogier le Danois, I, 239, 275, 319, 340 ; II, 50 ; V, 243 b,
290 a.
Ogilvie. See under Family Names.
Oh ono chrio, burden and couplets, II, 430.
L'Oiseau bleu, tale, V, 40.
Olaf r Tryggvason tries masteries with EindriSi, EindriSi to
be baptized, if beaten ; shoots a chessman from a boy's
head, HI, 18.
<5lafs saga Helga, II, 127.
Olafs saga Tryggvasonar, III, 18, 19 n.
Olif, Oliva, Karlamagnus saga, accused of adultery, de
mands ordeal, champion fights for her, II, 39 f. ; Oluvu
kvseSi, Faroe ballad on her story, and Spanish prose
romance, II, 40.
Olive, will not grow if planted by unchaste person, V,
289 a.
Oliver, I, 277 f.
Omens : buttons leap from breast, flee from coat, n, 118,
121 (?), 308 (?), 327 f., 331 ; IV, 466 ; heel, lap, came off
shoe, in, 384, 386 ; corks frae her heels did flee, III,
393 ; horse stumbling, IV, 117, 120, 122 ; V, 254 ; nose
bleed, II, 118, 308; IV, 117-20, 122, 189, 466, 522 a;
rain upon setting out on a journey, IV, 122 ; rings break
from fingers, IV, 120 ; burst, II, 324, 337 ; IV, 119, 122 ;
drop from fingers, II, 331 ; IV, 118, 122.
One shape by day, another by night, I, 290, and n., 291,
295 ; IV, 454 a, 495 a ; V, 39 f., 289 b.
Ordeal by hot iron (carrying iron and walking on steel), II,
36 ; walking over hot plough-shares and carrying hot
irons, 38 ; passing through fire in a waxed shift, or wear
ing a waxed shift which is set on fire, 38 f. ; walking
through blazing fire in simple shift, 40 ; by water, 38,
40 ; being thrown into a fire of thorns, 43 n. ; sea, fire
and snake-house, II, 510 b ; battle, H, 34-40, 42 f., 45-8 ;
IV, 371-3.
Orendel, II, 127 ; IV, 450 b, 463 b.
Orfeo and Heurodis, I, 216.
Orlandino of Folengo, I, 407.
Orlando Furioso, I, 265 ; H, 113.
Orlando Innamorato, I, 308.
Orpheus and Eurydice, romance and ballad of, I, 216 f.
Ortnit und die Wolfdietriche, IV, 463 b.
Orvar-Odds saga, II, 50 n. ; IV, 479 b.
L'os qui chante, IV, 447 b ; V, 208 b, 286 a.
Otterburn, Battle of, ballad, III, 289 ff. ; Froissart's ac
count of the battle, 289-92.
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Outlaws (for venison); III, 22-30, 56, 73 f., 76-8 ; seven
score the regular number of a band, III, 53.
Ovid, Metamorphoses, I, 84, 99, 437.
Owain, knight, legend of St Patrick's Purgatory, I, 306,
308.
Ox, slaughtered, comes to life, in attestation of the immor
tality of a murdered Christian (Torsten), I, 505 b.
The Paddo, Scottish tale, V, 201.
Pair ride (go) a long distance and never speak, I, 41-4 ; III,
497 b ; V, 207 a, 285 a. (In French, Italian, Spanish,
Catalan, Scandinavian, Slavic ballads, not English.)
Pal greive, false, I, 91 f., 95 n.
Palace of Pleasure, Painter's, I, 269 ; V, 13, 29.
Palanus, L'histoire de, Comte de Lyon, from romance, II,
42.
Palmerin of England, I, 267 ; V, 31 n.
Pantschatantra, I, 270, 339 n., 402 n. ; H, 499 ; V, 14, 107.
Paradise in modern Greek quite equivalent to Hades, I,
322 n. ; paradise or wonderland, maid lured away by
promise of being taken to one, I, 27, and n., 28, 41, 46, 49,
89 f., 112 (?), 178, 182 (st. 1), 487 a; H, 496 f.
Parcevals saga, I, 257 n.
Parents, etc., not to know of death of son, daughter, or of
the manner of it, I, 436-40, 442 ; II, 14, and n. ; III, 381,
384 f ., 387-93, 395-8, 507 b ; IV, 460, 508-10, 512 f. ; V,
247.
Paria, Goethe's, II, 502 a.
Parker, Martin, III, 227.
Parodies, II, 204 ; V, 287 a.
La Partie de Chasse de Henri IV, Colle 1 , V, 75.
Parting, Epirot or Albanian custom of, for a long time after
betrothal or marrying, I, 502 b.
Partridge betrays the hiding-place of the Virgin, II, 8 ;
quail plays partridge's part, swallow befriends the Vir
gin, II, 509 f.
Parts exchanged in different versions of stories, man for
woman, etc., I, 459; II, 349 f., 514 a; III, 516 b ; IV,
186 a, b, 481 f. ; V, 47, 213, 233 f., 296.
Passional, das alte, I, 242 n., 505 a.
Patraiiuelo of Timoneda, I, 408.
Parzival, Wolfram von Eschenbach's, I, 257 n.
Pauli's Schimpf und Ernst, I, 407,410; IH, 53, 208 ; V, 13.
Pausanias, I, 84 ; III, 503.
Du Pauvre mercier, fabliau, III, 54.
A Peat carried to school by boy as a contribution to the
firing, I, 21 f.
Pecorone of Ser Giovanni Florentine, I, 392 f.
Pedlar and Robin Hood, III, 154; V, 240.
Pedlars and Robin Hood, III, 170.
Peele, George, his Edward I, III, 48 n., 54 n., 218, 257.
Peggie is over the sie with the souldier, a tune, V, 172.
Peitevin, the Jew, HI, 237, and n.
Penances, singular, I, 224, I, J, 225, K, L, 230, 232 ; V,
212 a. See Austerities.
Pepys, Samuel, his pleasure at hearing Barbara Allan, IE,
276.
Perceforest, romance, I, 240 n., 268 ; V, 23 n.
Perceval le Gallois, I, 257 n., 261 n., 263, 265 n., 269; II,
51, 502 b, 510 b ; HI, 503 b, 508 a ; IV, 454 a ; V, 289 b ;
Roman de Perceval, prose, I, 257 n. See Parzival.
Percy. See under Family Names.
Percy, Harry, gives Douglas and his host a draught of
wine over Newcastle walls after engaging to meet Doug
las at Otterburn, HI, 296 ; asked by his father to put off
the battle in order that certain gentlemen may see it, will
not, 297 ; his generous lament for the death of Douglas,
309, 312.
Percy's, Thomas, treatment of his texts, his "old copies,"
H, 49; HI, 461 f.
Peregrinus Compostellanus, Jesuitenkomb'die, I, 238 n.
Der Peri, Siberian-Turkish tale, V, 46.
Perjuries, close grazing on, II, 35, and n., 108, 110, 158-65,
171 ; IV, 465, 468 ; V, 48, 51 f., 56.
Peter Diemringer of Staufenberg, I, 372.
Peter the Great, Tsar, HI, 382 f .
Petronelle and Alphonso, tale of Gower, I, 10.
Pfaffe Amis, I, 406.
Die Pfeiferin, Esthonian tale, I, 124 n.
Pheron, son of Sesostris, story of, in Herodotus, I, 271 ; V
212 b.
Philemon and Baucis, I, 99.
Philiphaugh, Battle of, ballad, IV, 77 ff.
Pickelheringsspiel, V, 97-
Picken, Andrew, Traditionary Stories of Old Families, V,
207.
The Pilgrim to Compostella, Southey's tale, I, 238.
Pinkie Cleuch, Battle of, HI, 378.
Pipe, fiddle, made from tree growing out of murdered girl's
grave, or from reeds from murdered boy's grave, or from
bone, bones and skin, of murdered boy, reveals the mur
der, I, 121-33, 135, 493-5; H, 498 b; HI, 499 a; IV,
447-9; V, 208 b.
Piping, young man obtains from the devil the power of mak
ing' women follow his, I, 47.
Pirie's chair, the lowest seat o hell, I, 439, st. 31.
Pitto, alias Carellus, II, 39.
Placability of the King in Adam Bell, the Gest of Robin
Hood, and the tale of Gamelyn, III, 22.
Plague in Scotland, IV, 76 f.
Plants from graves, I, 93, 94, 96-8, 101 f., 200, 379 n., 489 f .,
492, 496 b, 506 a ; II, 104, 108, 111, 183, 185, 190 f., 198,
201 f ., 205-8, 210-12, 219, 280, 285 f., 498 b ; III, 498,
510 b, 515 ; IV, 443, 450 a, 465 ; V, 31, 207, 224, 226,
262, 285 f ., 293, 295 a ; plants from graves, or from dead,
with inscriptions, I, 96 f ., 99 ; IH, 239.
Pliny, Historia Naturalis, HI, 503.
Pluck-buffet, III, 55, 75-7.
Plutarch, Septem Sapientum Convivium, I, 13 ; Life of
Numa, III, 496.
Poisoning, I, 153-65, 375, 498-501 ; II, 284-7, 499 a ; HI,
259, 261, 264, 499 b; IV, 427 f., 449 f., 498; V, 206 f.,
242, 286 b, 295 a ; poisoning of young man by sweetheart,
wife ; child by grandmother, stepmother, I, 152 f., 158-66,
498-501 ; IV, 449 f . ; V, 209, 286 b ; son poisoned by
mother on account of his marrying unacceptably, II,
284-7; mother attempting to poison son's wife, the pair
exchange cups, and son is poisoned, I, 155 f . ; IH, 499 b ;
V, 295 a ; mother poisons son's wife, I, 156 f . ; poisoning
of false lover by his former mistress, IV, 427 f . ; brother
poisoned by sister to remove an obstacle to her passion,
Slavic and Lithuanian ballads, I, 156 b, 499 a ; II, 499 a ;
HI, 499 b ; V, 286 b ; poisoning with snakes (" eels,"
" small fishes ") as food or with their virus in drink, I,
153-65, 498-501 ; HI, 499 b ; IV, 449 f. ; V, 209 ; with
the venom of a toad, I, 154, 157 ; poison grains in drink
given by elves, I, 375.
Poludnitsa, Russian sprite, I, 14 n.
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INDEX OF MATTERS AND LITERATURE
Ponthiis of Galyce, The Noble History of, prose romance,
III, 179.
Porter thirty years and three, I, 284, 465, 467, 470, 472,
475, 479 ; porter or warden has his neck wrung, is run
through, etc., Ill, 25, 95 n., 100, 480, 482 ; Horn throws
him over the bridge, I, 190.
Posing of princess by fool (who gets her in marriage), I, 20,
417 f., 485 a ; II, 507 b.
Potter, disguise as, assumed by Hereward, Wallace, Eus
tace, Robin Hood, HI, 109.
Du Povre mercier, fabliau, IH, 54.
Precocity of body and mind in heroes and champions, II,
303, 305 f., 513 b ; III, 515 b ; IV, 35 n., 80, 479 b ; V,
226 a, 292 a, 295 a.
Le pre"t miraculeusement rembourse", V, 297 a.
Prevarications of woman who is discovered to have been
visited by a lover (not a knight, but a maid ; maid wears
sword ? not a sword, but a bunch of keys, etc.) ; in
tragic ballads, H, 157 f., 164, 512 a; III, 509 a; IV,
468 a ; in comic, V, 88-95, 303 f.
Priests, five hundred, say mass at Durham field and after
wards take part in the fight, HI, 286.
Primaleon, I, 269.
Primrose (a place), H, 212.
Prince, figuring as a menial, is successful in a thrice re
peated battle, tourney, race, task, after which he is in
condition to reveal his rank and history, V, 44-7.
Prince Calaf, Persian story, I, 417.
Prince Peter of Murom and his wife Fevronija, Russian
legend, IV, 439 a.
Prince who invites an angel to his wedding, legend, V, 290 a.
La Princesse et sa Nourrice, Greek tale, I, 489.
Prior of St Mary abbey withstands the cruelty and greed of
the abbot, HI, 60.
Prodigal son recommended by his father to hang himself ;
the rope pulls down a concealed treasure ; the prodigal
reforms, V, 12 f., 19 f. ; prodigal son remembers a paper
left by his father, or a key left by his mother, by which
he receives money, V, 1518.
Propertius, II, 236 n., 502 a.
Protesilaus, I, 99.
Protevangelium of James, I, 271.
Proud porter, I, 284, 464, 465, 467, 470, 472, 474, 479, 481 ;
II, 53, 369-71, 468, 475 ; V, 219.
Pseudo-Matthew's Gospel, I, 271 ; II, 1, 7.
Psezpolnica, the Wendish, I, 484 a.
Punishments (unusual) : rolling down a declivity in a spiked
barrel, tun set with knives, H, 343 ; IV, 30 n., 32 ; drag
ging in a barrel stuck with nails, V, 48 ; boiling in a cal
dron, boiling in oil or molten lead, throwing into boiling
oil, II, 321 n., 327 ; V, 230, 281 ; half-hanging, quarter
ing, seething la boiling lead, cutting joints asunder, and
burning, V, 53 ; half -hanging and seething in boiling
lead, 56.
Punker shoots a coin from his son's head, HI, 18.
Pushkin, verses from The Three Ravens pass for his, I,
253.
Queen asks the lives of Adam Bell, etc., of the king, HI, 28 ;
her extravagant partiality for Cloudesly and his family,
30.
Queen of Fairy's beauty destroyed (temporarily) by inter
course with Thomas, I, 327.
Queen of Sheba's hard questions, I, 404 n.
Queen releases the Laird of Logie from prison by a trick,
III, 452 S. ; IV, 516 ; V, 300.
Queen's Maries, III, 381, 382 n., 385 f., 388, 391-9 ; IV, 508-
12 ; V, 246, 298 f.
Queens of England ; of Scotland. See under Kings.
Questions and tasks offset by other questions and requisi
tions, I, 6 ff ., etc. See Tasks.
Quintalin, in the saga of Samson the Fair, I, 50, 54, 259.
Rabssaldchal, King, and his minister's daughter-in-law, I,
12.
Radloff, Proben der Volkslitteratur der tiirkischen Stamme
Siid-Siberiens, I, 10, 418, 486 ; H, 506 b ; V, 46.
Rsevens Arvegods, III, 499.
Ragnars saga loSbrdkar, I, 9 n.
The Raid of the Reid Swyre, III, 317.
The Rainbow, name of a ship, V, 143.
Raja Rasalu, story of, V, 33 f.
Rakshas, Indian, gives riddles, I, 14.
Ramiro, King of Leon, V, 4-6 ; ballad of, 6.
Ransom of woman refused by father, mother, etc., paid by
husband, II, 346 f . ; III, 516 a ; IV, 481 a ; V, 231 a ; paid
by lover, II, 347-54 ; III, 516 b ; IV, 481 ; V, 231-3 ; parts
reversed, man ransomed by true-love, II, 349 f., 514 a ;
III, 516 f. ; IV, 481 f. ; V, 233 f., 296 ; variations on this
theme, IH, 516 f . ; IV, 481 a ; woman will dress in gay
colors upon death of blood-relations, in black for hus
band, II, 347 ; V, 231 ; maid imprecates curses on her
relations, H, 348 b; IV, 481; V, 231 f . ; invokes bless
ings on lover, V, 231 f . ; ransom of five thousand, five hun
dred pound, ten thousand, one thousand, five hundred
crowns, contributed by bystanders for a wife to save her
husband's life, IV, 127, 129-31, 133, 135, 137,139.
Das Rathsel, tale of the Grimms, I, 417.
Rathselfragen, I, 2 n.
Rathsellieder, I, 1, 2.
Rauf Coilyear, rhymed tale, V, 69 n., 70 f., 74.
Ravnlil, false accuser of Gunild, II, 35.
H re alia caccia, play of Goldoni, V, 75.
Li Reali di Francia, H, 68 n. ; V, 284 a.
The Red Bull of Norroway, Scottish tale, I, 307 n., 461 n.
The Red Etin, Scottish tale, The Red Etin puts trying ques
tions, I, 484 b ; V, 201.
Red Rowan, III, 471, 474.
Der Reiger, rhymed tale, V, 23 n.
De la reine qui tua son seneschal, conte, I, 489.
Reinfrid von Braunschweig, I, 196, 459.
Der Reiter in Seiden, German tale, I, 47.
Rejuvenation of old woman by burning to bones and throw
ing bones into tub of milk, I, 507 b.
Remi, Philippe de, Sire de Beaumanor, his romance of Je-
han et Blonde (Blonde of Oxford), I, 191 n. ; V, 287 b.
Remorse, immediate, after a cruel deed, H, 242, 245 f., 252,
266, 271 ; V, 35, 37.
Renard le Contrefait, Old French romance, I, 263.
Renold, miller's son, Reynolde, one of Robin Hood's men,
HI, 54, 70.
Repetition in dialogue, I, 157 ; V, 286 b.
Rescue of Johnny More by gigantic uncles, IV, 398 f .
Reserve in duels of a peculiarly formidable sword, II, 35.
Reven og Bjonnen, Reven og Nils fiskar, I, 144 b.
Reviling, reproaching, scolding spirits and elves, I, 21,
485 a; II, 496 b, 509 a; IV, 440 b.
Revolving palace, I, 277.
INDEX OF MATTERS AND LITERATURE
493
Rhodes, house of the, TTT, 428, 433 ; house of Rothes, V,
247 f.
Riccio, David, murder of, III, 399 ff.
Richard (Coaur de Lion), III, 220, 223, 227, 230; the ro
mance, I, 320 n. ; H, 511 b, 513 a ; III, 55.
Richarda, or Richardis, wife of the Emperor Charles III,
her ordeal, H, 38 f .
Richars li Biaus, romance, III, 508 a.
Rid Square, Song of the, V, 307 b.
Riddle-craft practised by preternatural beings : the Devil,
I, 4 f. (C, D), 14 ; V, 283 ; Odin, Thor, Vatyniomr, Alvfes,
berggeist, dragon, rusalka, vila, rakshas, I, 13 f. ; baba-
yaga, psezpolnica, mittagsfrau, serpolnica, Red Etin, I,
484 ; air-sprite, ogre, II, 495.
Riddles (songs, ballads and tales) : I, 1-5, 9-11, 13 f., 404-
23, 426-30, 484; II, 495, 506 f . ; in, 496 a; IV, 439,
459 f. ; V, 205, 216 f., 283 f., 291.
Riddles : beautiful girl not to be had by any man who can
not puzzle her father with a riddle, Gaelic tale, I, 417 b ;
man wins wife by instructing her how to answer her
mother's riddles, Lithuanian tale, I, 418 f . ; riddles at
marriages of Russian peasants, I, 418. Penalty for not
guessing is life, I, 10, 14, 404-6; 409, 411, 413, 447 ; II,
495 b, 506 b ; III, 496 a ; IV, 439 a ; V, 205 a, 291 ; for
feit of kingdom, possessions, place, paying tribute, etc., I,
10-13, 404, 406-8, 410 ; IV, 459 b ; to be taken off by
the Devil, I, 5, 205 ; by rusalka, 1, 14 ; rewards to guessers,
I, 407 b, 409 f., 416 n. ; II, 495 a ; princess requires lovers
to give her riddles, those who cannot pose her to lose their
heads, I, 417 ; riddles to be guessed as condition of mar
riage, German, I, 1 f ., 484 a ; Slavic, I, 2 f., 484 a ; n,
495 a ; IV, 439 a ; Gaelic, I, 3 ; riddles guessed win a hus
band, I, 1-5, 10, 13, 484 a; II, 495 a; IV, 439 a; win a
wife, I, 416 f., 420-23, 426-30; IV, 439 a ; V, 216 f.
Riddles in the Maha-bharata and Katha-sarit-sagara, n,
495.
Riddles (Chaldean), given by wise man to the gods, IV,
439.
The Ridere (Knight) of Riddles, West Highland Tale, I,
417.
Riding into hall, knights and others, II, 51, 54, 510 b ; III,
508 a.
Right-hitting Brand, IH, 43 b, n. ; V, 297 a.
Rimild, Rimnild = Rymenhild, Horn's love, I, 190 f .
Ring halved at parting by husband and wife (lovers), I,
194-8, 457 n., 470, 502 b, 503 a; V, 5 ; such half -rings
often dug up, I, 194 n. ; ring in betrothal, I, 199 a, n. ;
V, 287 b ; ring, or half -ring, thrown into a cup of wine
drunk of by woman, serves to identify husband or lover
returned after long absence, I, 190 f., 194-8, 200, 202-7,
502 b, 503 b ; V, 5, 287 b ; halves of ring run together,
join of themselves, I, 194 f., 198 ; II, 66 n. ; IV, 463 b ;
ring-stories, similar (not noticed in detail), I, 503 a, 508 b ;
IV, 450 b ; ring, or arm bent into a ring, magical revela
tions made by looking through, III, 411 ; V, 299 b ; brib
ing to secrecy with an arm-ring, II, 51, 54 (?).
Der Ring ehelicher Treue, German tale, I, 198.
Der Hitter Galmi mit der Hertzogin auss Britanien, play by
Hans Sachs, II, 42.
Ritter Galmien, vom, volksbuch, II, 42.
Der Ritter von Stauf enberg, I, 372-4, 387 ; HI, 52 n. ; V,
290 b ; after a happy and prosperous connection with an
elf, marries, and dies within three days, I, 373 f.
Rizzio, David, murder of, HI, 399 ff.
Roads to heaven, paradise, purgatory, hell, fairy-land (some
or all) pointed out by Fairy Queen to Thomas Rymer, I,
324 f., 328 ; IV, 454 f., 458. See I, 359.
Rob Roy, ballad, IV, 243 ff.
Robber-ballads, klepht, Magyar, Russian, Italian, III, 49,
IV, 497 a.
Robe and fee, chief-justice retained by, HI, 52, 61 (sts. 93,
107).
Robert le Diable, H, 303 ; III, 515 b ; IV, 479 b.
Robert Earl of Huntington, Robin Hood represented as, in
Munday's play of The Downfall of Robert Earl of Hunt
ington, and in Munday and Chettle's play of The Death
of Robert Earl of Huntington, III, 46, and n., 519 b ;
subsequently, in a pretended epitaph, III, 107, 226, 233,
and in late ballads, II, 413 f. ; III, 204, 218, 227. The
author of The Birth, Breeding, etc., of Robin Hood knows
nothing of the Earl of Huutington, HI, 214. For The
Downfall, etc., see III, 179 ; V, 100.
Robin and Marion, in French literature, III, 46.
Robin Hood :
his alleged noble extraction, III, 46, and n. ; as he ap
pears in ballads, IH, 42 f. ; historical theories about,
43 ; his comrades, 43.
the ballads, dates and sorts, 42.
his band = 7 score, IH, 65 (185), 67, 75, 78 ; 100 bow
men, III, 41 n.; 300 yeomen, III, 180; 150 + 60
mentioned, III, 181 ; kept 300 bowmen before his
outlawry, then 100, IH, 228.
beguiled and bled to death by the prioress of Kirkley,
III, 78, 103, 105 f., or by a monk, friar, 226, 231.
Bishop of Ely routed by, HI, 230.
his bower, III, 518 f.
builds an alrashouse, III, 213 ; eight almshouses, 230.
captures a bishop and takes a large sum from him, HI,
192, 195 ; makes him sing a mass, 192, 196, 199, 202,
204 ; dance in his boots, 195.
his comrades, III, 43, and n ; V, 297 a.
connection of his name with natural objects and archaic
remains, III, 46 f., and notes ; IV, 496 f.
his courtesy, III, 56, 58, 67, 69 f. (270-80), 74 f. (376-
85), 229 f., etc.
ecclesiastics of all descriptions his chief prey (as of
Gamelyn), HI, 41 n., 51, 57, 67.
his epitaph, III, 107, 226, 233.
game, pageant, or the like, called Robynhode, IH, 44,
518.
Gest of Robyn Hode, composition and argument of, HI,
49 f . ; topography of, 50 f .
Golden Prize : forces two priests, who pretend to have
not a penny, to pray for money, and finds 500 pounds
on them, HI, 209.
how characterized in the older ballads, HI, 43.
husbandmen and yeomen favored by him, HI, 57, 69,
221, 230.
identified by J. Hunter as a porter in the king's house
hold under Edward H, III, 55 f.
imitated by disorderly people, III, 41.
in danger from a bishop escapes to his band in the dis
guise of an old woman, robs the bishop of five hun
dred pounds, and makes him sing a mass, IH, 192.
in the fifteenth century, HI, 41 ; V, 240 a.
kills fifteen foresters when fifteen years old, HI, 176.
kindness to the poor, HI, 228 f. ; consideration for hus
bandmen, HI, 57, 230.
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INDEX OF MATTERS AND LITERATURE
Life of, in Sloane MS. 780, HI, 46 b, n., 103, 121 b, n.,
129, 173, 175.
loves no man so much as his king, III, 75.
marries Allen a Dale to his true-love in spite of the
bishop, III, 173 f.
meets with his match, or is disgracefully worsted, bal
lads to this effect, in, 110, 123-5, 130 f., 134, 137,
140, 145, 151 f., 154, 156, 159, 165, 168, 171.
his name foisted into ballads which in no way belong
to the cycle, I, 109, 302, 306, 412 f., 415-17, 421, 423.
the name Robinhood occurs 1380-81, IV, 496.
outlawed, HI, 46 n., 228.
pay of his men : twenty marks a year and two suits of
clothing, III, 64 (with bounties, 75) ; a noble every
Sunday and a new suit every holy day, III, 126.
his piety and special devotion to the Virgin, III, 41 n.,
51, 57, 59 f., 67 f., 93, 97 f.
plays, HI, 41, and n., 44-6, 90 f., 108, 114 f., 122,
127 f., 134, 518 b ; plays or games of archery, IV,
496 b, Robyn Hod and the Shryff off Nottyngham,
in, 90 n.
the poor spared and befriended by, III, 41 n., 228.
Potter, Robin Hood and the, and Great Russian bylinas,
IV, 497 a.
his profuseness, III, 69 f., 77, 228.
relieves an impoverished knight, III, 57-60 ; will not
take back a loan of 400, having been repaid by the
Virgin, but gives him 400 more overpaid by the monk
of St Mary, 69 f .
rescues Will Stutly, III, 16.
respect for women : would do no harm to any company
in which there was a woman, III, 41 n., 57, 109, 228 ;
will not suffer Little John to burn Kirklees (though
the prioress has been his death), out of consideration
for women, 105 f.
his spite against the clergy, reasons for it, HI, 221, 228,
230.
stays with the king 15 months, sickens of the service,
obtains permission to make a pilgrimage to a chapel
at Barnsdale, remains in the greenwood 22 years,
HI, 77 f.
summoned by Queen Katherine to be of her side in a
shooting-match with the king's archers ; wins for
her, HI, 198-204, 206; is graciously treated, par
doned, by the king, 200, 204.
takes gold from the king's harbingers and presents it
to the queen, III, 198, 200, 202.
theories assigning him an historical character, HI, 43,
56 f. ; a mythical, III, 47 f.
turns fisherman, and takes a French ship, III, 211-13.
will not dine until he has some guest that can pay for
entertainment, III, 51, 56, 58, 66 f.
will not eat or drink till he has seen a friar who,
Scadlock says, will beat both John and Robin, HI,
124.
will not take God (Jesus), Peter, Paul or John as secur
ity for a loan, but accepts the Virgin immediately,
HI, 59.
will not take small sums, or a man's spending-money,
m, 58, 66, 75.
a tune, HI, 145, 150 n. ; Bold Robin Hood, a tune, HE,
198.
Robin Hood and the Fifteen Foresters, tune, HI, 133 n.
Robin Hood and Little John, a comedy, 111, 134.
Robin Hood's bower, HI, 518 f.
Robin Lyth, mistaken title of Ritson's, HI, 13.
Robin's Tesment, I, 144 b ; Robin's Last Will, The, V,
286 b.
Robyn Hode in Barnysdale stode, mock song in The Four
Elements, HI, 42 n.
Rogutaja's wife, Esthonian saga, I, 124 n.
Der Rohrstengel, tale, I, 125.
Le Roi et le Fermier, play of Se*daine, V, 75.
Le Roi et le Meunier, translation of a play of Dodsley's, V,
75.
Le Roi Hugon, by Nivelle de la Chausse*e, I, 283.
Roig, the poet, I, 238.
Roister Doister, play by Nicholas Udall, HI, 294.
Roland, of the twelve peers, I, 277.
Rond61fr, IV, 502 b.
Rook hope, foray into, 111, 439 ff.
Rosamonde and Elie de Saint-Gille, story of, I, 458 n.
La Rose de Piniperle", tale, IV, 447 b.
Rose, Sir James the, ballad, IV, 155 ff.
Les roseaux qui chantent, tales, HI, 499 a ; IV, 447 b ; V,
208 b.
Rosemunda, Lombard queen of 6th century, relation of
her story to ballad of Donna Lombarda, etc., V, 286 b,
295 a.
Rosette, ugly lady in Gantier's Conte du Graal, V, 289 b.
Roswall and Lillian, A pleasant History of, V, 43-5 ; tales
resembling, 45-57, 280 f.
Rothes, house of, V, 247 f . ; house of the Rhodes, HI,
433.
Rowan-tree : spot where rowan-tree chest stands not affected
by witchcraft, I, 83 f .
Rune preservative of chastity, II, 506 a ; sleep induced by
runes (charm), I, 28, 48, 55, 391 f. ; will controlled by
runes, I, 362.
Rusalka, Russian, gives riddles, I, 14 ; H, 495.
Rymenhild, daughter of King Ailmar of Westerness, be
loved of Horn, I, 188-90.
Sacchetti, I, 406.
Sachs, Hans. See Hans Sachs.
Sad-der, Persian, H, 235.
Sadko, story of, in Russian popular epics, H, 15, 510 a ; V,
220 a.
Sagas : Egils ok Asmundar saga, IV, 443.
Fldamanna saga, H, 35 n. ; V, 275.
Frib>j6fs saga, II, 376.
Grfms saga loCinkinna, I, 292 f .
GuU-p6ris saga, IV, 502 a.
Gunnlaugs saga ormstungu, II, 35 n. ; V, 298 a.
G6ngu-Hr<51fs saga, I, 393 ; H, 127 ; IV, 459 a, 502.
Half s saga, I, 95 ; H, 15.
HeiSreks saga, V, 8.
Hemings J>attr, III, 17, 19 n.
Hervarar saga, I, 405 ; II, 50 n., 127.
Hjalmte'rs ok Givers saga, I, 307, 315, 489 b. .
Hr61fs saga kraka, I, 290 n., 297, 393, 489.
Hromundar saga, I, 67, 95.
Karlamagnus saga, I, 275, and n. ; H, 39 f.
Kristni saga, I, 96.
Magus saga, I, 283 n.
Marfu saga, I, 98 ; III, 52 n., 240.
Mottuls saga, I, 258-60, 261 n.
Olaf s saga helga, II, 127.
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6laf s saga Tryggvasonar, III, 18, 19 n.
Parcevals saga, I, 257 n.
Ragnars saga loSbrdkar, I, 9 n.
Samsons saga f agra, 1, 50, 259.
Sturlaugs saga starfsama, II, 35 n.
Svarf doelasaga, I, 96 ; II, 35 n.
Sorla pattr, I, 94 n.
piSriks saga, I, 49, 94 n. ; n, 35 n., 41 ; HI, 16 ; V,
243 b.
Tristrams saga ok Isondar, I, 98, 487.
Vemundar saga ok Vfgaskutu, IV, 502 a.
Vilkina saga, III, 16.
Volsunga saga, I, 392 ; H, 127.
Orvar-Odds saga, II, 50 n ; IV, 479 b.
Sage (or parsley) hides the Virgin from. Herod, II, 8 n.
La Sage-femme et la Fe*e, tale, V, 215.
Saint Andrew, his legend, I, 14, and n., 484 b ; II, 495 b,
507 a.
Saint Anne, 1, 237 ; II, 379.
Saint Bartholomew, I, 14, and n.
Saint George, I, 487 n. ; II, 509 a ; called Our Lady's
knight, III, 294, 297, 520 a ; IV, 499 ; V, 244 b, 297 b.
Saint George play in Cheshire, V, 291.
Saint James, Pilgrims of, legend, I, 236-9 ; miracles of, at
tributed to San Domingo, 238.
Saint Johannes Eleemosynarius, II, 235.
Saint Mary's knot, III, 462 n., 465.
Saint Olof, Swedish legend of, I, 95.
Saint Oswald, IV, 463 b.
Saint Serf, I, 14 n.
Saint Stephen and Herod, I, 233 ff.
Saint Stephen, patron of horses, a stable-groom in Swedish
ballads, I, 235 ; his feast a great Horse Day, I, 235 n. ;
this a continuation of heathenism, 236.
Saint Stephen of Hungary and Saint Gunther, I, 239.
Saint Tryphine, Breton mystery, V, 292 a.
Saint Ulrich, Slovenian ballad, I, 14, and n.
Saint Vicelin, II, 235.
Saint William of Norwich, III, 241 a ; V, 297 b.
Salman und Morolf, Solomon and Morolf, III, 122, 517;
IV, 450, 463 b; V, 3 f .
Salomon and Saturn, Anglo-Saxon, I, 2 n., 13 n. ; II, 507 a.
Saltomi, Lord, and Auchanachie, ballad, IV, 347 ff.
Salve. See Fairy salve.
Samaritan woman, story of, blended with traditions con
cerning Mary Magdalen and with that of The Cruel
Mother, I, 228-30, 232 ; II, 501 b ; III, 502 b ; IV, 451 b ;
with that of The Cruel Mother, without the Magdalen
(Slavic), I, 230 f. ; III, 502 b ; IV, 451 b ; V, 288 a.
Samson the Fair, saga, I, 50, 259, and n.
Samson's, Solomon's, and Hiram's riddles, I, 404.
San Domingo de la Calzada, Spanish legend, I, 238.
Sangen om den Frikopta, Estlander's discussion of, IV,
482 a; V, 231 a.
Sant Oswaldes Leben, IV, 463 b.
El santa nifio de la Guardia, III, 241 ; IV, 497.
Santo Antonio e a Princeza, Portuguese legend, II, 513 a.
Santo Stefano di Calcinaia, twentieth story of, II, 498 b.
Sark. See Shirt.
Saxo Grammaticus, I, 67, 94 n., 323 ; II, 14 f ., 127 ; III,
16 f., 411 n.
Scala Celi, III, 54.
Scalachronica, 1, 261, 317 ; II, 19 n.
Scathelock (in all copies of the Gest but a), Scadlock, Scar-
lok, Scarlet, an original comrade of Robin Hood, and the
most prominent after Little John, 1H, 56 f., 59 f., 66, 70,
92, 99, 104, 124, 129 ; originally Young Gamwell (nephew
of Robin Hood), according to late ballad, 146, 150 ; kills
one of three giants and marries a princess, 150 ; finds his
match, 169, 171 ; identified in a life of Robin Hood with
Allen a Dale, 173 ; made the chief archer after Robin
Hood, 197 n., 201.
Schimong, Chinese emperor, V, 226 a.
Eine schone und liebliche History vom edlen und theuren
Ritter Galmien, II, 42.
Die Schonste, Greek tale, I, 313.
Schupp, Balthasar, I, 408.
Scogin, The Jests of, I, 128 n. ; IV, 497 a.
Scolding, reproaching, reviling of sprites and elves, I, 21,
485 a; II, 496 b, 509 a ; IV, 440 b ; scolding or reviling
will not be endured by the better sort of these, I, 485 ',
IV, 440 b.
Scolding woman too much for the devil, V, 107 f., 305 a.
La Scomessa, Italian tale, V, 97.
Scott. See under Family Names.
Scott, Sir Walter (novels and poems), I, 210 ; II, 57, 227,
234, 512 ; III, 43, 367 n. ; IV, 25, 106, 210, 218, 239,
244 f., 450, 463 a; V, 72 n., 74, 160.
Scroop, Lord, of Bolton, Henry, Thomas, Warden of the
West Marches, IH, 462, 469 f ., 472-4 ; IV, 9.
Seals (Finns) capable of casting their skins and taking
human shape, II, 494; III, 518 ; IV, 495 a.
Sebilla, Sibilla, romances of, II, 40, and n.
Secrets revealed (sometimes after an oath of silence) to a
stone, stove, a doll, a gelding, I, 488 a ; V, 48, and n.,
51 f., 56.
Security : the Virgin as security for a loan, III, 51 f ., 59
(62-6), 68 (249 f.) ; God for security, IH, 52 n., 53 f.,
519 a; IV, 497 a.
Seductive music, horn, harp or song, 1, 15-17, 25, 28 b, 31-5,
37 f., 44, 50, 55, 485 b ; IV, 441.
Seneca, III, 306.
Se'nece', Filer le parfait amour, I, 269.
Sercambi, Novelle di, V, 97.
Sermones Parati, V, 33.
Serpolnica, I, 484 b.
Service, fruitless, of seven years, for king's daughter, I,
'204-6,255; V, 212 b.
Serving man aspiring to match with an earl's daughter is
strongly backed by his noble master, II, 443-5, 448-50,
453.
Seton, Bonny John, ballad, IV, 51 ff.
The Seven Figures (or Beauties), Persian poem, I, 417.
Seven Sages, Seven Wise Masters, I, 392; II, 511 b.
Seyf El-Mulook, story of (Lane's Thousand and One Nights),
H, 511 b.
Seymour, Jane. See Jane, Queen.
Shakspere, Cymbeline, V, 23 n. ; Hamlet, V, 201 n. ; Henry
the Fourth, i, HI, 44 n. ; n, HI, 129; IV, 36; Henry the
Sixth, HI, H, 181; King Lear, H, 240; V, 201; Merry
Wives, I, 322 n. ; III, 129 ; Much Ado, V, 201 n. ; Peri
cles, 1, 416 ; Richard the Third, II, 143 ; Taming of the
Shrew, V, 201 ; Twelfth Night, IV, 507 a; V, 287 b.
Shape, one by day, another by night, 1, 290, and n., 291, 295 ;
IV, 454 a, 495 a; V, 39 f .
Sheath and knife signifying mother and child, I, 183 f.,
186 ; V, 210.
Shee an Gannon, IV, 479 b.
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INDEX OF MATTERS AND LITERATURE
Sheet, sark, smock (for the dead), one half cambric, the
other needle work, one side of beaten gold, the other
needle work, one half silk, the other cambric, I, 506 ; II,
358 f., 362, 366; IV, 471, 485.
The Shepherd and the King, broadside ballad, V, 73.
Shepherd's daughter (pretended) persists in marrying a
knight whom the king has adjudged to her, II, 459-76 ;
makes him think her a beggar's brat, carl's daughter,
462-4, 466 f., 469-73, 476.
Sheriff and outlaws (especially the Sheriff of Nottingham
and Robin Hood), III, 26, 28, 57, 63-6, 70-3, 93 f., 97 f.,
100 f., 111-13, 117-19, 157, 180-7, 222-4.
Ship, in a bad storm, promised that gold shall be her hire if
she will behave well, gold nails for iron, IV, 379 f . ; V,
276; silver and gold bolts driven in for iron and oak
wanting, IV, 381 f. ; leaking badly, silken cloath and
canvass stuffed in to calk her, II, 27; wrapped round
with feather beds and canvass, or canvass, and pitched,
II, 28 ; IV, 379-82 ; V, 276.
Ships, intelligent and talking, IV, 376-80 ; V, 275 f . ; race
of, forty-five, fifty-three, twenty-one ships, and all wrecked
but one, IV, 378-82 ; V, 275 f. ; splendid ships, I, 72, 312,
474 ; II, 13, 30, 217 f. ; HI, 340 ; IV, 472 ; V, 285 ; ships
stopped or endangered ; sinful parties, or other persons
determined by lot, being thrown into sea, or put out of the
ship, or confessing, or vowing offerings, or a captive being
released, the voyage proceeds, 1, 244-6 ; II, 13-16, 510 a ;
IV, 452, 463 a ; V, 220 a, 288 a, 292 a ; ship stopped by
serpents till a holy man whose instruction they desire
shall be delivered to them ; he throws himself in, the ship
moves on, II, 13 f. n.
Shirt, custom of maid's making one for her betrothed, V,
284 ; significance of a man's making such a request, 284 ;
shirt demanded by Elfin Knight, I, 7 ; V, 284.
Shoes slacked to run, II, 115, 177, 257, 313, 379, 395 ; IV,
398 ; cast off to run, II, 125, 212, 287.
Shooting from boy's (man's) head of apple, nut, chessman,
coin, and similar feats, III, 16-21.
Shooting under hand, III, 199, 202, 204.
Shoulder, looking over the left shoulder, I, 100 (twice), 103,
464, 490 (left collar-bane), 492 ; III, 259, 263 f., 339,
368 f., 413, 465, 488 ; IV, 11, 13, 15, 17 f., 20, 52, 135,
445, 518-20. (See V, 286 a.)
Shovell, Sir Cloudesley (" Shawfield "), V, 147.
Shrift saves a ship endangered by a storm, II, 15 ; sinner
thrown overboard to save a ship taken to heaven by the
Virgin for the shrift he has made, II, 16.
Shukasaptati, Seventy Tales of a Parrot, I, 11 n., 12 n., 13,
268 n., 270, and n. ; V, 289 a.
Sibilla, wife of Charles the Great, suspected of unfaithful
ness, various forms of the story, II, 40 f.
Siddhi-Kiir, I, 402.
Side, Armstrongs of the, especially Jock o the Side, HI,
475 ff.
Sidney's admiration of the song of Percy and Douglas, III,
305.
Le sifflet enchant^, Le sifflet qui parle, tale, I, 493 b ; II,
498 b ; III, 499 a.
Sigrdrtfumal, I, 392.
SiguroarkviSa Fafnisbana, m, II, 127.
Simon, Simond, Peter, a noble gunner employed by Lord
Howard against Andrew Barton, III, 339, 341-5, 348-50 ;
IV, 503, 505-7.
Simon the Foundling, Servian hero, V, 295 a.
Sinadab, story of, V, 12.
Der singende Knochen, tale, I, 125.
Das singeude springende Loweneckerchen, tale, I, 307 n.
Sinkarib, Histoire de, et de ses deux Visirs, Persian tale, I,
11 n.
Sir Bevis of Hamptoun, romance, II, 499, 506, 513 ; III,
520 ; the French romance, II, 511.
Sir Broninge, knight, I, 210.
Sir Eger, Sir Grahame, and Sir Gray-Steel, romance, I, 209.
Sir Eglamour of Artois, romance, I, 209 ; II, 511 a.
Sir Egrabell, I, 210.
Sir Gawayn and the Green Knight, romance, I, 257 n.
Sir Gowther, II, 303.
Sir Hugh, ballad of A. Cunningham, II, 260.
Sir Isumbras, romance, II, 513 a.
Sir James the Ross, A Historical Ballad, by Michael Bruce,
IV, 156. See Rose.
Sir Olaf (Oluf), and the elf, I, 374-8 ; poisoned by the elf
for inconstancy, 375 ; is run through with a sword for re
fusing to consort with elves, 375; is struck by elf to
whom he has declined to plight himself (being already
betrothed) and dies in a day, 375 f . ; may choose between
living with the elves and dying, 377.
Sir Orpheo, Orfeo, romance, I, 216, 340, 504 a ; II, 128.
Sir Perceval, English romance, II, 51. See Perceval.
Sir Ryalas, I, 212 f.
Sir Triamour, romance, II, 41 ; V, 176.
Sir Tristrem, romance, I, 67, 317, 487 a; II, 127.
Sisibe, wife of Sigmundr, falsely accused of adultery, II,
41.
Sister comes every Saturday to comb the head of a brother
who has been transformed into a worm, 1, 315 ; the same,
by sister changed to a mackerel, 316.
Sister hunted to death by rival in love, V, 158.
Sisters (sister) killed or maltreated by robbers who turn
out to be their brothers, I, 171-7 ; Russian ballad, II,
499 a.
Skelton, John, Against the Scottes, Chorus de Dis, IV,
499 a ; Colyn Cloute, V, 100 ; perhaps author of a Robin
Hood pageant, III, 519 b.
Skikkju Rfmur, or Mantle Rhymes, Icelandic, I, 259, 261 n.,
264 n.
Skuin over de groenelands heicle, III, 502.
Slangen og den lille Pige, Danish tale, I, 307.
Slaughter in large numbers of relations of lady-love by
lover : six or seven brothers and father and other kins
men, I, 89 ; father, eleven brothers, seven brothers-in-law,
91 ; father and six brothers, 92 ; six brothers, 94 n. ; father
and seven brothers, 101 f. ; six or seven brothers, II, 170,
and n. (eighteen thousand assailants, I, 91 ; fourteen of
father's best men, I, 100, 108).
Sleep, induced by charms, runes, I, 28, 48, 55, 391 f. ; by
runes written on sheets of a bed, 391 ; by a letter inserted
between sheet and coverlet, by an enchanted feather, by
runes written on cushions, 392 ; by a soporific pillow, I,
393 ; by sleep-thorns, -pins, I, 392 f. ; III, 506 ; IV, 459 ;
by strewing broom-blossoms at a man's head and feet (on
his neck), I, 394 f. ; by magic of some sort, V, 2 ; by
music, see Music.
Sleep : man in deep (unnatural) sleep cannot be roused by
maid at a critical moment ; servant afterwards repeats to
him what has occurred, I, 307, and n.
Sleep you, wake you, the formula, H, 240, 513 a ; III, 514 a ;
V, 201 b, 225 b.
INDEX OF MATTERS AND LITERATURE
497
Sleeping potion given to woman by lover to enable her to
escape from her husband, or lover to carry her off, V,
3 f., 6 f ., 280 ; sleeping potion taken by maid to enable
her to escape to her lover, II, 358 (and evidently intended
in other copies of the ballad, though not mentioned) ;
given by friendly hostess, to save girl's honor, II, 356 b ;
administered to a gallant who is to pass the night with a
girl, I, 393 ; III, 506 b ; IV, 459 b.
Sleeping under trees. See Trees.
Slugobyl, Polish tale, V, 46 n.
Small-maids Land, I, 259.
The Smith and the Demon, Russian tale, I, 507.
Solfager, Suolfar, King David's (Sir David's) wife, Solfot,
V, 7 f., 280.
Solomon and his wife, tales of, V, 2-4, 279.
Solomon and Kitovras, V, 2.
Solomon and Morolf , III, 122, 517 ; IV, 450, 463 b ; V, 3 f.
Solomon and his queen, Russian, Servian, and German tale,
V, 2f.
Solomon and Saturn. See Salomon and Saturn.
Solomon's riddles, I, 404.
Solvi, IV, 502 a.
Son of a king liberates a prisoner (prisoners) of his father ;
the service is gratefully returned in a subsequent emer
gency, V, 43-57.
Song (Liedlein) von dreierlei Stimmen sung by one person,
I, 34 ; V, 285 a.
Song of the false knight (Halewijn = elf -knight) excites
longing, I, 25 ff ., 485 ; V, 285.
Song in ballad repeated, I, 478 ; V, 16, 51 f., 214 f., 218 f.
Songs of the Ghilanis, Persian, II, 506 b.
Soporific effect of music, I, 55 ; II, 137, 139 f ., 511 f. ; IV,
18-21; V, 220 b.
Sorla pattr, I, 94 n.
Sorli, IV, 502 a.
Souling, song so called, V, 291 a.
Sovereignty, her will, is what a woman most desires, I, 290-
295 ; V, 289 b.
Sovereignty of Erin, given by a disenchanted hag to her
deliverer, V, 289 b.
Sower, Legend of the (miraculous harvest), II, 7-9, 509 f. ;
III, 507 b ; IV, 462 b ; V, 220 a.
Spectral or elvish knights, combats with, II, 56 f., 511 a;
HI, 508.
The Spectre Bridegroom, Cornish tale, V, 59, 64.
Spell to recall a (dead) lover : boiling a dead man's head,
bones, carcass in a pot ; burning a piece of the lover's
clothing, or a cat, in a hot oven, V, 61.
Spencer, Hugh, his (ballad) feats in France, HI, 275 ff. ;
various historical Hugh Spensers, 276.
Spenser, Fairy Queen, I, 267.
Der Spiegel, of Meister Alswert, I, 267 n.
Ein Spiel von dem Freiheit, I, 2 n., 415.
Spiked barrel, punishment of rolling down a declivity or
dragging in, II, 343 ; IV, 30 n., 32 ; V, 48.
Ein Spil von einem Kaiser und eim Apt, farce, I, 407.
Spirits, or malignant uncanny beings, baffled, by scolding,
or by getting the last word, I, 20-22, 485 ; II, 496 b ;
HI, 496 a; IV, 440 b.
Spring, lady whose lover is absent is to look every day into ;
if she sees his shadow, he is on the point of marrying an
other, I, 192.
Spring wells up where innocent maid's head falls, I, 172.
Sprites, reviling or scolding of, an effectual way of baffling
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them, I, 21, 485 a ; H, 496 b ; will not be endured by the
better sort of these, I, 485 ; IV, 440 b.
Spumingen, Norse tale, I, 418.
The Squire of Low Degree, romance, I, 255 ; II, 512 a ;
HI, 501 a.
S. S., signature of No 150, HI, 218 f.
Staffans-skede, diversion of Swedish boys at feast of St
Stephen, I, 234 n.
Stanley. See under Family Names.
Stephen and Herod, legend of, combined with legends of
the infancy of Jesus, I, 233.
Stephening, I, 234 n. ; V, 291.
Stepmother (witch) transforms maid (generally) to hideous
shape, tree, serpent, fish, wolf, I, 178, 290-3, 297, 307,
309 f., 312 f. ; II, 503-5 ; V, 214 ; two maids, sisters, V,
214 f. ; maid and brother, I, 290 n., 296, 315 f., 336 f. ;
two maids and brother, I, 306 ; poisons child, I, 163-6 ;
IV, 450 a ; V, 209 a (see I, 154 f.).
Stev-stamme, I, 7 n.
Steven, Sir, I, 293, 295.
Steward, tutor or other servant, charged with the care of a
young prince, or man of rank, forces a change of clothes
and relative positions as a condition of drawing him up
from a well into which the young noble had been let down
by the legs (or of not drowning him in a river at which
he was drinking), V, 44-7, 49, 54 ; the same of a princess
and her maid, 47.
T& 2To(x*?j"<*, Romaic ballad, V, 21.
The Story of Conall Gulban, West Highland tale, HI, 507.
Straparola, I, 401 ; II, 143 ; V, 46, 96.
Strawberry Castle, II, 118 f., 121, 286, 442, 447, 452 ; IV,
466 f.
Stripping of maid by pretended lover who has carried her
off, I, 31-3, 39 f., 42 f., 50, 56 f., 59, 433, 486 b, 488 ; H,
496 b, 497; HI, 496 f. ; IV, 442.
Stuart. See under Family Names.
Stumps, fighting on, after the legs had been shorn at the
knee, and fighting after other mutilations, III, 306, 310,
313 ; IV, 502 ; V, 244, 298 a.
Sturlaugs saga, II, 35 n.
Stutely, Will, one of Robin Hood's troop in later ballads,
HI, 135 ; rescued by Robin Hood from hanging, 185.
Substitution of maid-servant (sister) for bride to conceal
unchastity, I, 64-8, 70, 73 ; HI, 497 b ; substitution of
maid-servant (niece) for mistress in cases of wagers
against the mistress's virtue, V, 22-4, 27.
Subterfuges of woman questioned as to evidences of her
misbehavior, V, 88-95, 303-4 (comic) ; H, 157 f., 164,
512 a; III, 509 a; IV, 468 a (serious).
Siidai Margan, Siberian-Turkish tale, I, 486.
Suddene, kingdom of Murry, father of Horn, I, 188, 190.
Sulayman Bey and the Three Story-Tellers, V, 97.
Svarfdoelasaga, I, 96 ; II, 35 n.
Svend Bondes Sp0rgsmaal, V, 205.
The Swepstacke, The Sweepstakes, name of a ship, V, 133.
Swift, Tale of a Tub, II, 441.
Sword laid in bed between man and woman, II, 127, and n.,
130, 135, 511 ; III, 509 a ; V, 292 b ; reduced sportively
to straw, II, 127 n. ; III, 509 a ; V, 292 b.
Sword, whetted on straw, grass, a stone, the ground, wiped
or dried on sleeve, grass, before using, II, 131, 139, 159,
161 f., 166, 169, 185, 243 f., 249, 256, 261, 266, 273,305 f.,
380, 390, 393, 396, 483, 492; IV, 491; V, 37, 226 f.,
235.
498
INDEX OF MATTERS AND LITERATURE
Sword and ring laid before maid ' to stick him wi the brand
or wed him wi the ring,' II, 469 ; IV, 493 ; V, 28, 238.
Swords, Adelring, Sudevind, and others of superexcellent
quality, II, 34, 35, and n., 50.
Swords, two in a scabbard, II, 133, 135, 245, 251, 256, 258;
IV, 477.
Sworn brethren, IV, 146 f.
Syntipas, V, 13 f.
Table, drawing a, explained, V, 304 a.
Table jumped, kicked or thrown over, under the effect of
exciting events or information, table furniture broken to
flinders or hurled into fire, etc., I, 65, 217, 457 n., 465,
472, 475 f., 481, 502 a, b ; II, 35, 94, 127 f., 128 n., 132,
205, 271, 273, 312 f., 511 b; III, 509 a; IV, 316, 345,
462, 508 ; V, 219, 271, 287 b, 292 b. In Slavic ballads,
bride jumps over four tables (and knocks over a fifth) ;
husband, hearing news, jumps nine, I, 502 b ; II, 511 b ;
HI, 509 a ; person jumps seven and touches the eighth, V,
287 b.
Tales cited without title :
Albanian, V, 47.
Armenian (= King John and Bishop), IV, 459 b ; tale or
ballad, I, 490 a.
Breton, III, 504 a, 506 b, 507 a.
Esthonian, I, 308.
Gypsy (Transylvanian, etc.), IV, 459 b; V, 60.
Lithuanian, II, 499 b, 511 a.
Magyar, IV, 459 b ; V, 60, 216 a.
Romaic, I, 97, 337, 401, 437, 461 n. ; H, 127, 511 a ; V,
39.
Roumanian, I, 85, 401.
Slavic, 1, 124 f., 308, 401 f ., 417, 484 a, 499 b, 507, 513 a ;
III, 52 n., 513 b ; IV, 439 b, 440 b, 459 b; V, 2 f., 6,
46 f., 60, 74, 107, 241, 279.
Talismans: ring with stone which by change of color, or
breaking, signifies unfaithfulness of giver, I, 192, 201-7 ;
II, 318 f. ; V, 210 f. ; by rusting or dimming shows that
giver is dead, I, 201 ; ring which protects the wearer from
all bodily harm, assures superiority in fight, doubles
strength, keeps from sickness and captivity, 1, 189, 190 f .,
201 n. ; V, 287 b ; gold-embroidered handkerchief, gold
melting shows that giver is dead, I, 201 ; ring, sword,
chain, which will stanch blood or prevent blood from
being drawn, II, 61, 318 f. ; V, 183 f. ; the protective
power of the ring conditional upon the wearer when in
danger thinking of his leman, I, 189 ; with his keeping
faith, 190 f .
Talking Bird, Singing Tree, and Yellow Water, Arabian
tale, I, 311.
The Talking Dish, Chinese drama, I, 126.
Tarn o Lin, Tom a Lin, Tammy Linn, etc., popular verses
about, I, 340 ; III, 505 b.
Tarlton's Jests, IV, 495 a.
Tarn Wadling. See Tearne Wadling.
Tasks and problems, difficult or impossible, I, 7-13, 15-20,
418, 484 f. ; II, 495 f. ; III, 496 a ; IV, 439 f . ; V, 205 f. ;
impossible tasks propounded by man as condition of
love or marriage, offset by others preliminary, equally
difficult, proposed by woman, I, 7 f., 15-19, 484 f. ; II,
495 f. ; III, 496 a; IV, 439 f. ; V, 205 f., 284 (an Elphin
knight gives the tasks, I, 15-17 ; an auld man, 18 f. (I),
who represents the devil ; a dead lover, IV, 439 f.,
and the devil expressly, V, 283 ; the maid would have
been carried off had she failed). Similar requisitions,
not conditional to marriage, met in the same way, I,
10, 13 ; in Babylonian Talmud, V, 284 ; similar per
formances, ostensibly undertaken, to show the absurdity
of a demand, I, 10, 11 ; an assertion offset by another of
the same extravagance, 13 ; tasks in which no one of the
only possible procedures is allowed, I, 8 f ., 418 ; problems
ingeniously solved, I, 12 f . ; tasks propounded by one
king to another, king rescued from attack or from a for
feit by the sagacity of his minister or minister's daughter,
1, 11 f. ; wife won by doing riddling tasks, Siberian-Turk
ish tale, I, 418 ; dead lover propounds tasks to his true-
love ; if she had not " answered " well she must have
gone away with him, IV, 439 f.
Taubenliebe, Albanian tale, I, 338.
Tausend und eine Nacht, I, 11 n., 12, 269 ; V, 13.
Tay, water of, I, 127, 129 ; II, 21, 24, 96, 314, 462, 465, 471 ;
HI, 271 ; IV, 98, 100, 143 f ., 193.
Tchinavar, the bridge, n, 235.
Tearne Wadling, I, 294.
Tears destroy the peace of the dead, n, 228, 234-7, 512 f . ;
HI, 513 b ; IV, 474 b ; V, 62, 294.
Tegau Eurvron, wife of Caradawc Vreichvras, I, 265.
Teind (teene), tribute : teind taken of fairies by the fiend
at stated periods, I, 328, 339, 342, 344-6, 350, 353 ; III,
505 a ; IV, 456, 458 ; V, 215 b.
Telfer, Jamie, ballad, IV, 4 ff.
Tell, William, III, 16 f ., 18 n. ; IV, 496 b ; his apple-shot,
in, 13, 21 n. ; his name, 19 n., 21 n.
Tennis-balls in the ballad of Henry V, authorities, III,
321 f. ; parallel in Pseudo-Callisthenes, 322.
Testament, oral, or last wishes, of dying person, will good
things to friends and ill things to the author of death, I,
143-50, 153-6, 158-60, 162 f ., 166, 496-501 ; H, 498 b ;
III, 499 ; IV, 449 ; V, 208 f . ; without animosity to au
thor of death, I, 144, 156 ; other testaments, where there
is no occasion for animosity, I, 144, 496 b ; V, 291 b ;
parodies of these testaments, I, 144 b ; III, 499 b ; V,
208 b, 286 ; bequest of sorrow to wife and children and
a curse to mother by a man who had been instigated by
her to kill brother or father, I, 169 f .
Testament of fox, robin, ass, dog, etc., I, 144 b ; V, 208 b,
286.
Tests (molten lead or gold, burning with red-hot iron, cut
ting off little finger, etc.) to determine the reality of a
woman's apparent death, II, 359, 361, 364-7 ; III, 517 b ;
IV, 485 ; V, 3, 6 ; other tests, III, 517 b. See Chastity.
Thales solves riddles, I, 13 n.
Thedel von Walmoden, poem and tale, I, 199 n.
Ther wer three ravns, a tune, IV, 126 n., 454.
Thetis, Proteus and Nereus made submissive by maintain
ing a firm hold through their various transformations, I,
337, 338 n.
TheVenot, I, 240.
Thirty pieces for which Jesus was sold, legends concerning,
I, 243 f. ; history of, before birth of Jesus, 243.
>ionks saga, I, 49, 94 n. ; II, 35 n., 41 ; HI, 16 ; V, 243 b.
Thorn of Lyn, a dance, I, 336.
Thomas, Gospel of, II, 7.
Thomas Cantipratensis, Bonum Universale, II, 235, 513 a.
Thomas of Erceldoune, Thomas the Rhymer, I, 317-19,
321 f ., 335, 340 ; his prophecies, 317 ; Thomas of Ercel
doune and Ogier le Danois, 319, and n., 320 n., 340 ; V,
290 a.
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499
Thor, I, 283 n., 419; Thor's Hammer, I, 298.
Thor, Tor, Herr, see Tor.
Thorkill, his voyage, and visit to Guthmund, I, 323 ; II, 14 ;
his ships stopped till three men are delivered to expiate
an offence committed, II, 14 f .
Das Thranenkriiglein, tale, II, 512.
Three cries allowed a maid about to be murdered, I, 32, 37,
39, 41 f., 47, 487 b ; V, 207, 285 a.
Three horses, successively ridden in an emergency, of which
the first two give out, the third holds out, II, 116 f.,
120 f., 309 n., 313 ; V, 228, 262 (all three burst, II, 212).
Three hundred and sixty-five children at one birth, as pun
ishment for slandering a woman who had borne twins, II,
67 f., n. ; IV, 463 b.
The Three Ladies of Leithan Ha', ballad of Cunningham,
1,142.
The Three Questions, a drollery, I, 418.
J>rymskvioa, I, 298.
Thurston, Irish king, takes Horn into his service, offers
Horn Reynild, his daughter, I, 189.
Thyme song, V, 258.
TibuUus, II, 236 n.
Time, illusion as to duration ot, I, 321, and n., 328 ; V,
290 a.
Tiran le Blanc, romance, I, 308.
Titurel, Der jiingere, I, 98, 267.
Der todte Schuldner, tale, HE, 501.
Das Todtebeindli, tale, I, 125.
Toilets, women's, in ballads, I, 31, 54, and n. ; n, 183-6,
188-91 ; IV, 312 f ., 316 f . ; V, 301 b.
Tokens sent a lady to legitimate a messenger : mantle and
ring, H, 265 ; glove and ring, 266 ; gloves, ring, mantle,
267 ; mantle, sark of silk (sleeve sewed by her), 268 f. ;
mantle, smock (sleeve sewed by her), 270 ; mantle, silken
sark (sleeve sewed by her), 272 ; sark, shirt, shift of
silk, (with sewing by her), 379, 384 f., 389, 391, 395 ; IV,
488 f. ; shirt from lady to man, II, 394 ; IV, 491. As to
shirts as tokens, see V, 284.
Tokens to identify man claiming to be husband or lover, or
woman claiming to be true-love, II, 215 f ., 218-20, 222-5 ;
III, 510 f . ; IV, 473 ; V, 225 ; demanded by mother of
woman professing to be her daughter, V, 65 n.
Tokens sent keeper of a prisoner as warrants of king's
authority, king's comb, queen's knife, HI, 452 (IV, 515) ;
king's glove, with his hand-writing, III, 455 ; V, 300.
Toko's apple-shot, HI, 16.
Toilet's painted window, III, 45.
Tom Hickathrift, V, 226.
To-names among the border clansmen, III, 461 n.
Top-castles in ships, IH, 337 n., 340, 344, 349 ; IV, 504.
Tor, Thor, representative of Horn in a Danish ballad, I,
193 ; rival, 193 f.
Torello, Messer, in Boccaccio's tale, I, 197 f., 459.
Torrent of Portugal, romance, H, 510 b ; V, 297 b.
La Tourandot, play by Carlo Qozzi, I, 417.
Towie, Castle or House, burning of, III, 424 f ., 427 f .
T. R., signature of No 122, B a, III, 116 ; of two copies
of No 133, IH, 156 ; of No 169, B a, III, 371 (the last
an absurd pretension).
Transformations : maid transforms herself (or threatens to
transform herself) into various shapes to escape the pur
suit of a lover, who matches her at every step and finally
prevails, I, 399-401, 402 f. ; II, 506 b ; HI, 506 b ; IV,
459 b ; V, 216 a, 290 f. ; youth and maid (youth) pursued
by sorcerer transform themselves variously, and finally
escape apprehension, I, 401 b ; HI, 506 f . ; IV, 459 b ;
apprentice to a sorcerer, or fiend, pursued by his master,
transforms himself variously and at last takes on a
stronger shape and destroys his adversary, I, 401 f . ; III,
507 a ; IV, 459 b ; V, 290 f .
Transformations, after extraordinary concessions, of hideous
woman, into a beautiful lady, I, 289-93, 295-9, 507 a ;
II, 502 b ; IV, 454 a ; V, 289 b ; of ugly old man to
beautiful youth, V, 213.
Transformations of step-children (generally to hideous and
formidable shapes, to tree, serpent, fish, wolf) by malicious
stepmother, I, 178, 290-3, 296 f., 306 f., 309 f ., 312 f.,
315 f . ; II, 503-5 ; V, 214 f. ; linden-worm, snake, admit
ted to maid's bed turns into a king's son, I, 298; II,
502 b ; IV, 454 a ; other similar cases, V, 289 b ; witch
transforms young man who refuses to be her leman into
an ugly worm, I, 315.
Transformations, successive, of Tarn Lin by fairies to pre
vent his disenchantment, I, 342, 344-9, 352 f., 355, 508 ;
III, 505 ; IV, 457 ; successive transformations of young
girl, apparently of the same nature, I, 336 f . ; of nereid
to avoid union with man, I, 337 ; of Thetis, Proteus,
Nereus to avoid doing man's will, I, 337, 338 n.
Transformations: disenchantment by a kiss, three times
given (mostly) to a repulsive or formidable creature, or
by the same, or by touching such, I, 307-11, 313, 338 n. ;
H, 502 b (partly), 504 f. ; IH, 504 a ; IV, 454 a ; V, 214,
290 a ; Queen of fairies restores young man who has been
transformed into a worm by stroking him three times on
her knee, I, 315; see also Transformations, 2d and 3d
paragraphs, above.
Transformations from and to human shape require immer
sion in milk or water, I, 308, 338, and n., 339 n., 342, 344 ;
H, 505 b ; III, 505 b ; V, 39 f. (Cf . holy water, I, 346,
351.)
Traugemundslied, I, 2 n.
I tre Indovinelli, Turandot tale, I, 417 n.
Trees, special, dangerous to lie under, on account of taking
by fairies, I, 216, 340, 350 ; H, 505 b ; III, 505 b ; IV,
455 f. ; V, 290.
Des Tresces, fabliau, V, 22 n.
Le Tre*sor et les deux Hommes, La Fontaine, V, 13.
Trespassing in a wood : pretence that a maid has been doing
this, I, 41, 341, 343, 345 f., 349, 360, 367, 369, 450-3 ; HI,
504 ; IV, 456 f. (a commonplace).
Die treue Frau, tale, I, 268.
Tristan, Sir Tristrem, I, 67, 98, 198 n., 264, 265 n., 284, 317,
487 a; II, 127; V, 33.
Tristan le Le"onois, II, 510 a.
Tristrams saga ok I'sondar, I, 98, 487.
Les trois Freres, tale = Le Sifflet qui parle, I, 493.
Troth asked back by lover of true-love before he is put to
death, II, 178 ; given back to dying man by maid, V,
168 ; asked back by dead lover, II, 227, 229-33. (The
process, straking on a wand, II, 230 ; touching three times
on the breast with a silver key, 232 ; smoothing her hand
on his heart, 233; striking on the heart with a white
wand, V, 168.) Troth asked back by dead father of son,
II, 512 b.
True Thomas, I, 323 f ., 326, 508 ; IV, 455-7.
Truls och hans barn, Swedish tales ( = No 14), I, 501 b.
Tsar and deserter, Russian tale, V, 74 f.
Turandot, I, 417, and n., German schwank, 418 ; V, 291 a.
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INDEX OF MATTERS AND LITERATURE
Des Turcken Vassnachtspiel, I, 437.
The Turke and Gowin, I, 289 n. ; II, 505 ; HI, 55.
Turpin, Archbishop, I, 277.
Tutbury, bull-running at, III, 214, 217.
Tuti-nameh, Tiitf Nama, I, 268 ; V, 100 f .
The Two Fail- Sisters, ballad of Cunningham's, I, 119 n.
Two mares, story of the, I, 11 n., 12 ; V, 284.
Tweed, water of, I, 129, 131, 134-6 ; III, 308, 311 ; IV, 103.
Twins an indication of incontinence in the mother, II, 67,
and n., 511 a.
Tyne, water of, II, 464, 314 ; HI, 299, 477, 480-3.
Udivitel'nyj Muzicek, The wonderful Peasant, Russian tale,
V, 281.
Unco knicht= Devil, I, 5 ; cf. V, 283.
Unearthly beings, peril of intercourse with them, I, 322-5,
327 f . ; H, 505 ; IV, 455, 458.
Unequal marriages, II, 441-55 ; IV, 172 f., 522 ; V, 255 ;
IV, 292-9, V, 270 ; IV, 403-8 ; V, 277 f .
Unnatural connection, I, 185 f., 444-54 ; III, 500 f. ; IV,
450; V, 210.
Vafpnionismal, I, 13, 283 n., 404
Valerius Maximus, III, 503.
Van den verwenden Keyser, Jan van Hollant, tale, I, 408 n.
The Varietie, comedy by the Duke of Newcastle, II, 243 ;
in, 176.
Das Vasnachtspil mit der Kron, a farce, I, 266.
Vega, Luis de la, I, 238, 239 n.
Vemundar saga ok Vigaskiitu, IV, 502 a.
Der verkgrte Wirt, rhymed tale, V, 23 n.
Die verwiinschte Prinzessin, German tale, I, 13.
Vesle Aase Gaasepige, Norwegian tale, I, 66, 268.
II Viaggio di Carlo Magno in Ispagna, I, 275 n.
Vidushaka, story of, I, 200.
Die vierzig Veziere, The Forty Vezirs, Turkish tales, 1, 402 ;
V, 13, 97.
Vigoleis with the Gold Wheel, Danish romance, I, 269 n.
Vila, Servian, gives riddles, I, 14.
Vincent of Beauvais, Speculum Historiale, I, 229, 237 ; II,
13 ; III, 52 n. ; Speculum Morale, I, 405 f. ; Speculum
Naturale, I, 339 n.
Virgil, ^Eneid, III, 306 ; Eclogues, I, 415 n., 437 a.
Virgil, the philosopher, I, 267, 270, 392 ; II, 502.
Virgilius, English story, II, 502.
The Virgin as security for a loan, III, 51 f., 59 (62-6), 68
(249 f.) ; the Virgin finds mint, broom, chick-pea un
friendly (as to concealing her) during the flight into
Egypt ; sage, parsley, juniper, friendly ; the swallow is
friendly, the partridge, quail, beetle, hawk are unfriendly,
n, 8n.,509f.; Ill, 507 b.
Les Visions d'Oger le Dannoys au royaulme de Fairie, I,
319 n. ; V, 290 a.
Der Vogelritter, tale, V, 39 n.
Volch. See Vol'ga.
Le Voleur des Crgpes, French-Breton tale, III, 497 a.
Vol'ga, Volch, in Russian bylinas, V, 295 a.
Volsunga saga, I, 392 ; H, 127.
Voluspa, I, 21.
Vom schlauen Madchen, Lithuanian tale, I, 10.
Vom singenden Dudelsack, Sicilian tale, I, 125.
Vom weissen und vom rothen Kaiser, Wallachian tale, I,
11 n.
Vom weissen Wolf, Lithuanian tale, I, 307 n.
Vom wilden Manne, Bohemian tale, V, 46.
Von dem Brembergers End und Tod, German meisterleid,
V, 32.
Von dem Konig von Spanien und seiner Fran, German
story, I, 268.
Von dem Madchen das an Weisheit den Kaiser tibertraf ,
Servian tale, I, 9.
Von einem Edelman welcher einem Abt drey Fragen anfge-
geben, 1594, comedy, I, 408.
Von zwein Kaufmannen, rhymed tale by Konrad von
Wurzburg, V, 23.
Vows of the Heron, V, 292 b.
Wade, Weland, and Mimir Smith, I, 401 n.
Wager, to win a woman's favor, of a man's lands against her
brother's head, IV, 383-6 ; V, 276 f . ; wager of his head
by a squire against a knight's lands that the squire will
win the knight's wife, V, 25-8 ; wager against a woman's
preserving her chastity (or dignity of character), strong
evidence against the woman, she vindicates herself, V,
21-5.
Wager's comedy, The Longer thou livest the more foolthou
art, 1, 340, 390.
Waldis, Esopns, I, 407 ; El, 208.
Wallace, Sir William, IU, 43, 109, 211, 266-74 ; V, 242 f. ;
distinguishes himself on the sea, III, 266 ; aye a woman's
friend, III, 273 ; disguises himself as a woman, III, 273 f . ;
as a beggar, 271, 273 ; Blind Harry's Wallace, H, 265 f.
Walls and mouseholes, man who had killed twelve maids
would be able to pass through, I, 34 n.
Walric the Heron, comrade of Hereward, III, 179.
Walter of Aquitaine, I, 95 n. ; 106 f., and n., 493 a ; his
worn-out charger, H, 441, 444 f., 450, 454 ; IH, 276 f. ;
V, 243 b.
Waltharius (Walter of Aquitaine), 1, 94, and n., 95 n., 106 f.
Waly waly, gin love be bonny, song, IV, 92 f.
Wamphray, Lads of, ballad, III, 458 ff.
Wand, silver, cast up by Northumberland as he sails away
from Loch Leven, III, 413 ; wand with lavrocks sitting,
singing, thereon, 1,201 f., 205, 503, as a present. See
Artificial curiosities.
Wand, straking troth on. See Troth.
Wariston, Laird of, murder, IV, 28 S.
Was ist das Schonste, Starkste und Reichste ? tale, I, 9.
Water : lady forced to wade, steps in to the knee, the mid
dle, the chin, I, 55 f. ; forced to swim (on horse), I, 112,
114 ; woman (pregnant) follows knight (who is on horse
back) through deep water, swimming or wading, II, 86,
88-90, 92, 94-7, 99, 459, 461 f., 464-6, 468, 471, 474 f.,
476 ; III, 508 b ; IV, 493 ; V, 221, 237 ; goes into the
Clyde to rescue drowned lover, IV, 190 ; water comes to
knee, middle, pap (neck), II, 88-90 ; knee, pap, H, 94,
97 ; ankle, knee, chin, H, 96 ; IV, 190.
Wax child to deceive woman who is delaying parturition, I,
82, 84, 86.
Ways, subterranean, to heaven, paradise, elfland, purga
tory and hell (some or all), I, 324 f., 328, 359 ; IV, 454 f.,
458.
Wearie's Well, I, 55 f.
Webster, John, Dutchess of Malfi, TV, 117.
Wedding at kirk-door, II, 131.
Wedding procession : bride insists on having four-and-
twenty men before her, twenty (four-and-twenty?) on
each side, and four-and-twenty milk-white doves to fly
INDEX OF MATTERS AND LITERATURE
501
above her head, H, 132 ; bride is promised four-and-
twenty men to ride between her and the wind, four-and-
twenty maids between her and the sun, four-and-twenty
milk-white geese to blow the dust off the high way with
their wings, II, 315 ; Fair Annie going to her lover's
wedding has four-and-twenty knights by her side and four-
and-twenty maids, as if she had been a bride, II, 183 ;
followed in some copies by four-and-twenty milk-white
swans to blow the dust off the highway, II, 195 a ; four-
and-twenty gray goss-hawks to flaff the stour from the
road, four-and-twenty milk-white doves flying above her
head and four-and-twenty milk-white swans her out the
gate to lead, IV, 470.
The Weddynge of Sir Gawen and Dame Ragnell, romance,
I, 289 n., 291 n., 298, 301, 315.
Wee man throws a huge stone a long way, I, 330-2, 334.
Der weise Mann, Armenian tale of the King John and the
Bishop type, V, 291.
Der weise Mann und seine drei Sohne (Tausend und erne
Nacht), V, 13.
Der weisse, der rothe, und der schwarze Hahn, V, 294 a.
Well : prince let down into a well by servant, who will not
draw him up unless he consents to exchange positions, V,
45-7, 281.
Wells, at Carterhaugh, I, 341, 343, 347 (Lady well) ; IV,
457 ; Richard's well, II, 148, 150 ; St Anton's, Anthony's
well, IV, 93, 105 ; St Evron's well, I, 146 ; St Johnston's
wall, II, 21 ; Usher's well, II, 238 ; Wall o Stream, wells
of Slane, 1, 387 f . ; Wearie's well, 55 ; Well o Spa (Aber
deen), IV, 286.
Werewolves, III, 498 a.
Wernhart von Strattlingen, Swiss tale, I, 197 ; II, 499 b.
Westerness, Kingdom of Ailmar, father of Rymenhild, I,
188.
Westmoreland, Earl of, Charles Neville, III, 417 ; takes
refuge in Scotland, but, finding himself unsafe, goes to
sea to seek his fortune, 419; encounters Don John of
Austria, and is taken by him to Seville ; the queen makes
him captain over forty thousand, to war against the hea
then soldan, 421 ; fights with the soldan and strikes off
his head ; the queen offers to marry him, but he informs
her that he has a wife ; she has him written down for a
hundred pound a day, 422 f.
Whale swallows the Magdalen, V, 288 a.
What women love best, or most desire, Arthur or other to
say rightly, or suffer, I, 289, 291, 292, 293 f.
When ? answers indicating never : when crows are white,
swans are black, stones float, etc., 1, 168, 437, 441-3, 448 f. ;
II, 507 b ; in, 499 b ; 507 b ; IV, 94-6, 98-103 ; V, 173 f .,
218.
White willow wand on the mast sign of a merchant vessel,
in, 340, 344, 349 ; IV, 504.
White Ladies (German), I, 336, 338 n.
The Whole Prophecie (of Merlin, Thomas Kymer, etc.), I,
317.
The Widow's Son, Gaelic tale, III, 506.
Wie drey lantzknecht vmb ein zerung batten, tale in Pauli,
III, 208.
Wife evades the inquiries of her jealous husband by ex
plaining away suspicious circumstances, V, 88 ff., 281,
303 f.
Wife pays 10,000 crowns to save her husband from the con
sequences of an amour, IV, 356-8.
The Wife lapped in Morrel's skin, V, 105.
Wife wrapped a sheep's skin, etc., and beaten, V, 104 ff.,
304 f.
Wigalois, romance, I, 257 n., 269 n. ; HI, 515 b.
Wigamur, romance, I, 269.
Wikel = Fikenild, Horn's false friend, I, 192.
Wilkina saga, III, 16.
Will, her, (sovereignty) is what a woman most desires, I,
290-2,295,299; V, 289 b.
William and Margaret, an Old Ballad, David Mallet, H,
200; V, 294 a.
William of Malmesbury, II, 37 ; V, 298 a.
William of Orange, his gab and its performance, I, 277 f.
Willoughby, Hugh, a comrade of Hugh Spencer, III, 279 f.
Wine called for by girl about to be executed, to drink to
her well-wishers and they to drink for her, HI, 384 f . (cf.
388, 19, 20, 391, 13).
Wisakhd, the history of, I, 11 n.
The Wise Heykar, I, 12.
Wit-combats with little or no story, I, 2 n., 7, 8, 13 ; HI,
496 a; IV, 439.
Witch can twist a rope out of flying sand, lay sun and moon
flat on the earth, turn the whole world round about,
twine a string out of running water, I, 83 ; witch offers
gifts to persuade young man to be her lenian, I, 314.
Witch of Berkeley, V, 298 a.
Witchcraft imputed to noble ladies in Scotland in the 16th
century, III, 410 f . ; professed by Lady Douglas of Loch
Leven, 412.
Witches blow horns, I, 314 f.
De witte SwSne, tale, III, 501.
The wolf in England and Scotland, I, 434 ; HI, 2, 4 f . ; IV,
495 b.
Wolfdietrich, I, 182, 196, 201 n. ; H, 127 ; III, 507 a, 515 b.
Woman irregularly wived discovered to be the sister of the
bride of an attempted union, II, 66-70, 72 f., 75-7, 79,
82 ; IV, 463 b ; V, 220 b ; woman (leman, waif woman)
who expects to be discarded wishes her seven sons were
seven rats, and she a cat, or seven hares and she a hound,
and she would worry them all, II, 70 f., 75, 79, 81 (corrup
tions, 73, 77) ; so of woman who has borne seven bairns to
a man living hi a wood (hill-man), I, 371.
Woman offers to fight for man, IV, 433, 444 f .
Women have long hair and short wits, I, 200 n.
Women, jury of, IV, 13 (3).
Wonderland or paradise, I, 27, and n., 28, 41, 46, 49, 89 f.,
112 (?), 178, 182 (st. 1), 487 a ; II, 496 f.
Wood to come to see one king put another to death (cf . Bir-
nam wood), V, 3.
Woodcock, beware thine eye, proverb, HI, 199, 201.
Wooing of Etain, Irish tale, its correspondences with Sir
Orfeo, II, 500.
Wrennok, III, 13.
Wrestling-match : prize, ram, ram and ring, III, 52 ; bull,
horse, gloves, ring and pipe of wine, III, 63.
The Wright's Chaste Wife, English rhymed tale, I, 268 ;
V, 100.
Wulric the Heron, comrade of Hereward, UI, 179.
Wuthering Heights, V, 203.
The Wyfe lapped in Morrelles skin, rhymed tale, V, 104.
Wyssenhere, Michel, poem on the Duke of Brunswick, I
195.
TSjnavalkya's Law-book, H, 235.
Yarrow, I, 246; IV, 160 ff., 178 ff.
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Ympe tree, 1, 178,216,340; II, 505 b; V, 290. See Apple- Young Beichan and Hind Horn, parts of the principal
tree ; Trees, special. actors in one inverted in the other, I, 455.
Yorkshire dialect in an American ballad, V, 296 a. Young Thomlin, an air, I, 336.
Young Beichan : relations of his story to those of Henry Ywaine and Gawin, romance, 1, 306.
and Reinfrit of Brunswick, the good Gerhard, Messer
Torello, etc., I, 459. Zeyn Alasnam, Arabian tale of, I, 269.
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