This classic 19th-century survey offers absolute fidelity to original texts as well as invaluable commentary by Francis James Child. Volume 1 includes Parts I a

Excerpt from The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, Vol. 8 Ballads Of this description are peculiarly liable to interpolation and debasement, and there are t

Excerpt from English and Scottish, Vol. 8: Ballads How soone I may ride the whole world about; 80 And at the third question thou must not shrink, But tell me he

Excerpt from The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, Vol. 2 This ballad and the two which follow it are clearly not of the same use, and not meant for the sam

Excerpt from The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, Vol. 10 P. 300. I have serious doubts whether this Offensive ballad has not been made too important; whet