Popular Ballads

AND

Songs,

FROM

TRADITION, MANUSCRIPTS,

AND

SCARCE EDITIONS;

WITH

TRANSLATIONS OF SIMILAR PIECES

FROM THE

Ancient Danish Language,

AND

A FEW ORIGINALS BY THE EDITOR.

BY

ROBERT JAMIESON,

A. M. & F. A. S.

VOL. II.

EDINBURGH:

PRINTED FOR ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE AND CO.
EDINBURGH; CADELL AND DAVIES, AND
JOHN MURRAY, LONDON.

1806.

*66P-b. v. 2

V 18494. 12.841 (2),

HARVARD
UNIVERSITY
LIBRARY

JUN 24 1969

CONTENTS

OF

VOLUME II.

MISCELLANEOUS.

TRUE THOMAS and the Queen of Elfland,

The Birth of Robin Hood,

Robin Hood and the Old Man,

Robyn Hode and the Munke,

Bonny Baby Livingston,

The Battle of Glenlivet,

Lady Elspat,

Allane-a-Maut and Sir John Barleycorn,

Harry and Marry,

SONGS.

1. Wronge not, dear empresse of my heart,.

2. Great and proude, if she deryde me,.
3. On Music,

4. I made a covenant with my heart, .

5. Eyes, look off, there's no beholding,.

6. When my heart seems most engaged,

7. Silly boye, 'tis full moone yet, .

8. No more, Clorendy, shall thy charms,

9. Go thy waie, since thou wilt goe,.

10. "Tis not how witty, nor how free,

11. When I do love, I would not wish to speed,

12. Whether men do laugh or weep,

13. Once, I must confesse, I loved,

14. A Catch,

15. When you the sun-burnt pilgrim see,

16. O lufe, quharefoir thi sclavis leil,

16. Awa, my love, wi' feare and care,

17. I daff'd among the hay-cocks, &c.

18. My Wife's a winsome wee thing,

19. Heich how, my Johnie, lad,

20. The unmarried Mother's Song,

21. As I cam to this warld to little bilive,

22. Ho, Jenny, are ye wauken yet,

23. Too truly men do oft complain,

24. O ******, and are honour, truth, .

25. Go to him, then, if thou canst go,

26. To powers ungracious and unkind,

27. To a Lady singing,

29. The Quern Lilt, or Grinder's Carrol,

30. The Dey's Sang,