item: #1 of 16
          id: 12742
      author: Scott, Walter
       title: Minstrelsy of the Scottish border, Volume 1
        date: None
       words: 88231
      flesch: 75
     summary: Ye shall want, ere I want, that of Cranstoun, &c.] Satchells, who lived when the old border ideas of _meum_ and _tuum_ were still in some force, endeavours to draw a very nice distinction betwixt a freebooter and a thief; and thus sings he of the Armstrongs: On that border was the Armstrongs, able men; Somewhat unruly, and very ill to tame. Cry _Moubray_, said the expiring chieftain; _Rosslyne_ is gone!
    keywords: account; ane; angus; armstrongs; auld; baith; ballad; battle; betwixt; blood; border; borderers; bothwell; brother; buccleuch; cam; carlisle; castle; chief; clan; country; day; death; dickie; die; douglas; earl; east; edinburgh; editor; edward; england; english; fair; family; following; footnote; foreste; frae; friends; gane; god; good; gude; hae; hand; head; heart; history; hobbie; home; horse; hym; james; jock; john; johnie; johnstone; justice; ker; king; laird; lands; lay; liddesdale; life; like; lord; maitland; man; marches; maxwell; mee; men; mony; murray; nae; ne'er; near; noble; occasion; outlaw; person; place; power; present; prisoner; queen; quo; ride; right; robert; royal; sae; sall; saw; scotland; scottish; set; sir; slain; son; state; sword; ta'en; thair; thee; thou; thy; till; time; town; tradition; twa; vol; wad; warden; water; way; wee; william; willie; years; young
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        item: #2 of 16
          id: 12882
      author: Scott, Walter
       title: Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, Volume 2 (of 3) Consisting of Historical and Romantic Ballads, Collected in the Southern Counties of Scotland; with a Few of Modern Date, Founded Upon Local Tradition
        date: None
       words: 77070
      flesch: 75
     summary: The catastrophe of _Tamlane_ terminated more successfully than that of other attempts, which tradition still records. But Chaucer, and those poets who have adopted his phraseology, have only followed the romance writers; for the same substitution occurs in the romance of _Orfeo and Heurodis_, in which the story of Orpheus and Eurydice is transformed into a beautiful romantic tale of faëry, and the Gothic mythology engrafted on the fables of Greece.
    keywords: ane; arms; ballad; battle; bed; betwixt; blood; body; bonny; border; brown; castle; cause; charles; child; church; claverhouse; come; copy; corpse; country; court; day; death; die; door; earl; english; fair; fairies; family; father; footnote; frae; gae; gallant; gang; general; gentleman; god; good; graeme; great; green; gude; hae; hair; hame; hand; having; head; heart; high; hill; horse; james; john; king; lady; lay; life; lord; love; man; men; montrose; mother; nae; night; people; place; queen; red; sae; sall; scotland; scottish; set; sir; slain; son; spirits; sword; ta'en; thee; think; thou; time; town; tradition; vol; water; weel; white; wife; william; woman; wood; yarrow; years; young
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        item: #3 of 16
          id: 20624
      author: None
       title: Ballads of Scottish Tradition and Romance Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Third Series
        date: None
       words: 41037
      flesch: 91
     summary: Well known by many men, O. 2. Out came the Laird of Lauderdale, Out frae the South Countrie, All for to court this pretty maid, Her bridegroom for to be. MCMVI 'It is impossible that anything should be universally tasted and approved by a Multitude, tho' they are only the Rabble of a Nation, which hath not in it some peculiar Aptness to please and gratify the Mind of Man.' Addison.
    keywords: annotations; ballad; battle; bewick; brother; bully; cam; child; come; day; dear; dickie; douglas; earl; england; english; fair; father; frae; gae; good; grahame; hand; head; horse; james; john; john o; king; lady; laird; lang; linne; lord; love; man; mary; men; merry; nae; night; percy; quo; scotland; scots; scottish; sir; text+; thee; ther; thou; thy; turn; twa; version; waly; water; willie; word; young
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        item: #4 of 16
          id: 22175
      author: MacGregor, Mary Esther Miller
       title: Stories from the Ballads, Told to the Children
        date: None
       words: 20149
      flesch: 93
     summary: Thus, much to the delight of little Prince Horn, two boys, almost as old as he was, came to live with him in the palace. And near to the stone flows a little river which has been named the Goblin Brook, for by its banks it was believed that Thomas the Rhymer used to talk with little men from the land of Elf.
    keywords: day; donald; father; horn; hynde; janet; king; lady; laird; lizzie; margaret; thomas; thou; young
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        item: #5 of 16
          id: 28424
      author: Grierson, Elizabeth W. (Elizabeth Wilson)
       title: Tales From Scottish Ballads
        date: None
       words: 75547
      flesch: 81
     summary: And who is thy father, little man? Kinmont Willie, I gasped, and he was ta'en last night, in truce time. Hullo, old man, he said; how goes the world with thee, and what news is there abroad in Perth? News, master? said the beggar.
    keywords: castle; country; day; door; english; eyes; face; father; good; hand; hath; head; heart; home; horse; king; lady; life; like; little; look; lord; love; man; men; poor; princess; queen; right; room; round; scotland; sea; set; sir; tell; thee; thomas; thou; thought; thy; time; tis; way; wife; words; young
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        item: #6 of 16
          id: 29713
      author: Geddie, John
       title: The Balladists
        date: None
       words: 38303
      flesch: 68
     summary: It was with 'a wand o' the bonnie birk' that May Margaret went through the mysterious process of restoring her plighted troth to Clerk Saunders; in other ballads it is done by passes of the hand, or of a crystal rod. And in _Earl Richard_ and other ballads, it is the 'popinjay' that proclaims guilt or fear from turret or tree.
    keywords: age; ballad; balladist; blood; bonnie; border; century; country; day; days; death; douglas; english; fair; folk; good; green; hand; heart; history; james; king; knight; lady; life; literature; little; lord; love; memory; men; minstrel; mother; music; people; place; poetry; race; red; romance; scotland; scott; set; sir; song; spirit; tale; time; true; verse; water; willie; words; yarrow; years; young
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        item: #7 of 16
          id: 35602
      author: Chambers, Robert
       title: The Romantic Scottish Ballads: Their Epoch and Authorship
        date: None
       words: 15927
      flesch: 76
     summary: Look over Percy, Evans, or Mr Collier's suite of _Roxburghe Ballads_, giving those which were popular in London during the seventeenth century, and you find not a trace of the style and manner of these Scottish romantic ballads. It is nowhere pretended that any _ancient_ manuscript of this poem has ever been seen or heard of.
    keywords: annie; ballads; daughter; dear; fair; hae; hardyknute; king; lady; lord; love; morrice; mother; patrick; percy; sae; scotland; sir; sir patrick; spence
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        item: #8 of 16
          id: 37031
      author: None
       title: English and Scottish Ballads, Volume I
        date: None
       words: 61094
      flesch: 91
     summary: The transformation on which the story turns is found also in Chaucer's _Wife of Bath's Tale_, in Gower's tale of _Florent and the King of Sicily's Daughter_; (_Confessio Amantis_, Book I.) in the ballad of _King Henry_ (page 147 of this volume); and in an Icelandic saga of the Danish king Helgius, quoted by Scott in his illustrations to _King Henry, Minstrelsy_, iii. 274. This ballad was communicated to Sir Walter Scott, (_Minstrelsy_, iii. 195,) by Mr. William Laidlaw, who took it down from recitation.
    keywords: als; ane; arms; arthur; awa; aye; ballads; bonny; book; boy; brother; child; collection; court; daughter; day; dear; dragon; edinburgh; english; fair; far; father; ffor; forth; frae; gae; gane; gang; gay; george; gold; good; green; hae; hame; hand; head; hir; iii; kai; king; knee; knight; kyng; lady; land; lang; london; lord; love; maid; man; mantle; men; mother; nae; o'er; poems; poetry; queen; red; round; sae; sall; scotland; scottish; sea; set; shee; sir; soe; songs; steed; story; tell; thee; thomas; thou; thy; time; tree; true; vols; water; way; wife; wind; wood; words; ye'll; young
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        item: #9 of 16
          id: 37738
      author: None
       title: English and Scottish Ballads, Volume II
        date: None
       words: 62628
      flesch: 93
     summary: Such being the case, the Editor must enter his protest against the conversion of _Gil_ Morrice into _Child_ Maurice, an epithet of chivalry. And saw the fair maid soummin in, _By the bonny mill-dams o' Binnorie_.
    keywords: annie; away; ballad; banks o; bed; binnorie; bonnie; bonny; bower; bride; brother; come; copy; dams o; day; dear; door; fair; father; fine; frae; gae; gang; gay; gin; green; hae; hame; hand; head; heart; lady; lang; lily; little; lord; love; mair; man; margaret; mother; nae; night; o bonny; o lady; o wha; o'er; red; rose; sae; sair; scotland; sister; son; sweet; thee; thou; thy; twa; wad; water; willie; young
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        item: #10 of 16
          id: 38037
      author: None
       title: English and Scottish Ballads, Volume III
        date: None
       words: 66211
      flesch: 91
     summary: ghostly_, _spectral_: 179, hill _seems to be omitted_. heading-hill, _beheading hill_.
    keywords: annie; aye; ballad; bed; bee; bonnie; bonny; bower; cam; come; daughter; day; dear; die; downe; earl; fair; father; fause; frae; gae; gane; gay; gold; good; green; gude; hae; hame; hand; head; heart; hill; hugh; king; knight; lady; land; lang; lay; life; little; lord; love; mair; man; mary; mee; men; mother; motherwell; nae; ne'er; nowe; queen; red; right; sae; sall; scotland; scottish; sea; shee; sir; son; thee; thou; thy; time; town; twa; water; weel; white; wine; woman; ye'll; young
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        item: #11 of 16
          id: 38416
      author: None
       title: English and Scottish Ballads, Volume IV
        date: None
       words: 57154
      flesch: 92
     summary: _O willow, &c._ 15 _Sing, O the greene willow, &c._ _O willow, &c._ 25 _Sing, O the greene willow, &c._
    keywords: auld; ballad; beggar; bessee; bonnie; bonny; boy; bride; cam; come; daughter; day; dear; earl; fair; father; frae; free; gae; god; gold; good; green; hae; hand; heart; johnie; king; knight; lady; lady o; lang; leave; life; lord; love; man; men; mother; nae; northumberland; percy; pots; pretty; quoth; sae; scotland; scottish; set; sir; strand; sweet; thee; thou; thy; time; wad; wedding; weel; wife; willow; young
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        item: #12 of 16
          id: 39627
      author: None
       title: English and Scottish Ballads, Volume V
        date: None
       words: 84265
      flesch: 91
     summary: stage, 8, _story of the house_? stalle, 16, _place in general_, _room_, _house_. Italic typeface is indicated by _underscores_.
    keywords: abbot; adam; art; ballads; beggar; bishop; blood; blow; bold; bow; bowe; brave; collection; come; company; copy; day; dere; downe; fair; fast; fayre; fight; forth; fryer; god; gold; gone; good; great; green; grene; gude; hand; hast; hath; head; heart; hode; hold; horn; horse; hym; hys; ile; john; jolly; king; knyght; kynge; lady; letter; like; little; love; lytell; man; master; men; merry; myght; nay; nottingham; page; pay; place; potter; pray; quoth robin; red; ritson; robin hood; robyn; robyn hode; sayd; sayd robyn; seid; set; seyde; sheriff; shot; staff; stand; story; sword; syr; tell; thee; theyr; thou; thre; thy; time; toke; tree; way; welcome; whan; white; wode; woman; wood; wyll; young
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        item: #13 of 16
          id: 39766
      author: None
       title: English and Scottish Ballads, Volume VI
        date: None
       words: 56619
      flesch: 89
     summary: The tradition of Ettrick Forest bears, that the outlaw was a man of prodigious strength, possessing a baton or club, with which he laid _lee_ (_i. e._ waste) the country for many miles round; and that he was at length slain by Buccleuch, or some of his clan, at a little mount, covered with fir-trees, adjoining to Newark Castle, and said to have been a part of the garden. an honde, 283, _in hand_. anis, _once_.
    keywords: ant; auld; awa; baith; ballad; border; brave; cam; castle; come; day; death; dickie; die; earl; edward; english; fair; fell; fire; foreste; frae; gae; gane; gang; gear; gie; god; good; gordon; gude; hae; hand; head; heart; hie; house; james; jock; johnie; king; lads; lady; laird; lang; life; like; lord; man; mare; maun; men; mony; nae; ne'er; news; noble; o'er; outlaw; place; quo; right; sae; sall; scotland; scottish; set; sir; son; ta'en; thee; thou; thy; time; town; tree; turn; twa; wad; wallace; water; weel; wes; wife; willie; yon
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        item: #14 of 16
          id: 41044
      author: None
       title: English and Scottish Ballads, Volume VII
        date: None
       words: 61701
      flesch: 87
     summary: raw, _row_, _rank_; upo' the raw, _in rank of battle_. one's _part_ in a performance, 154; of the _contortions_ of a person hanged, 162; of the _movement of weapons_, 163. peart, _pert_.
    keywords: alas; ambree; andrew; ane; army; away; ballad; battle; bee; blood; body; bonny; brave; castle; come; copy; court; day; dead; death; douglas; duke; earl; england; english; fair; fall; father; fear; field; fight; fire; frae; gallant; general; god; good; great; ground; hand; head; heart; henry; hill; horse; huntly; james; john; king; knight; lady; lay; left; life; london; lord; love; man; mary; mee; men; montrose; murray; noble; north; percy; place; queen; quoth; rest; saw; sayd; scotland; scots; sea; set; sir; slain; songs; stand; sword; tell; thair; thee; ther; thou; thy; time; town; vol; vow; war; went; william; willie; woe; young
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        item: #15 of 16
          id: 43825
      author: None
       title: English and Scottish Ballads, Volume VIII
        date: None
       words: 62303
      flesch: 95
     summary: ying, _young_. zong, _young_. INDEX.
    keywords: ane; ballad; bed; bonnie; bonny; collection; come; copy; danish; daughter; day; dear; death; dragon; duke; fair; father; fell; gay; geordie; george; german; god; gold; good; great; hand; head; heart; heir; hir; home; hood; horn; house; hunter; jew; john; king; knight; know; lady; lass; letter; lie; life; linne; lord; love; maid; man; men; merry; money; ne'er; pay; percy; place; poor; pound; pray; quoth; richard; right; robin; sae; sayd; scho; set; sir; soe; son; songs; story; swedish; sweet; tale; tanner; tell; thee; thou; thought; thy; time; way; whittington; wife; willie; woman; young
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        item: #16 of 16
          id: 45778
      author: Scott, Walter
       title: Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, Volume 3 (of 3) Consisting of Historical and Romantic Ballads, Collected in the Southern Counties of Scotland; with a Few of Modern Date, Founded Upon Local Tradition
        date: None
       words: 76733
      flesch: 82
     summary: (Comes Patricius) _was the designation of the Earl of Dunbar, in the days of_ WALLACE _and_ BRUCE. All embraced his own persuasion, that he had been spirited away by witchcraft; nor could he himself be convinced of the contrary, until, many years afterwards, happening to travel in Annandale, his ears were saluted, once more, with the sounds of _Maudge_ and _
    keywords: account; arms; ballad; battle; bear; bed; binnorie; black; blood; body; bonny; border; bring; brown; bruce; castle; country; day; days; dead; dear; death; deep; die; door; earl; edinburgh; editor; england; english; eyes; fair; family; fast; father; feet; fell; fire; flodden; following; footnotes; forest; frae; gay; gin; good; gray; green; ground; hair; hamilton; hand; head; heart; high; history; house; james; john; keeldar; king; lady; lands; lay; life; little; lord; love; maid; mair; man; mary; men; merlin; mermaid; milldams; mother; nae; ne'er; night; notes; o'er; orthone; people; period; person; place; prophecies; prophecy; queen; quod; red; regent; rhymer; river; rose; sae; sall; sayd; scotland; sea; selkirk; set; sir; sister; son; song; soulis; sound; spirit; steed; stone; story; sweet; ta'en; tale; thee; thomas; thou; thy; time; tower; town; tradition; tree; true; war; water; way; wife; wild; william; wind; word; years; yon
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