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Quiller-Couch, Arthur, ed. (1863–1944). The Oxford Book of Ballads. 1910.

Contents

Part I. Book I.
  1. Thomas the Rhymer
  2. Tam Lin
  3. Sir Cawline
  4. Sir Aldingar
  5. Cospatrick
  6. Willy’s Lady
  7. The Queen of Elfland’s Nourice
  8. Lady Isabel and the Elf-Knight
  9. The Riddling Knight
  10. May Colvin
  11. The Wee Wee Man
  12. Alison Gross
  13. Kemp Owyne
  14. The Laily Worm
  15. King Orfeo
  16. King Henry
  17. The Boy and the Mantle
  18. King Arthur and King Cornwall
  19. The Marriage of Sir Gawain
  20. Bonnie Annie
  21. Brown Robyn’s Confession
  22. The Cruel Mother
  23. Binnorie
  24. The Broomfield Hill
  25. Earl Mar’s Daughter
  26. Proud Lady Margaret
  27. Clerk Saunders
  28. The Daemon Lover
  29. Clerk Colven
  30. Young Hunting
  31. The Great Silkie of Sule Skerrie
  32. The Wife of Usher’s Well
  33. A Lyke-Wake Dirge
  34. The Unquiet Grave
Book II.
  1. Hynd Horn
  2. Hynd Etin
  3. Erlinton
  4. Earl Brand
  5. The Douglas Tragedy
  6. Glasgerion
  7. King Estmere
  8. Fair Annie
  9. The Lass of Lochroyan
  10. Young Bekie
  11. Young Beichan
  12. Childe Waters
  13. Childe Maurice
  14. Brown Adam
  15. Jellon Grame
  16. Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard
  17. Lord Ingram and Childe Vyet
  18. Fair Janet
  19. Old Robin of Portingale
  20. Lord Thomas and Fair Annet
  21. Rose the Red and White Lily
  22. Leesome Brand
  23. Babylon
  24. Prince Robert
  25. Young Andrew
  26. The Gay Goshawk
  27. Willie’s Lyke-Wake
  28. Fair Margaret and Sweet William
  29. The Twa Brothers
  30. The Cruel Brother
  31. Edward, Edward
  32. Lord Randal
  33. The Twa Corbies
  34. The Three Ravens
Book III.
  1. The Nut-Brown Maid
  2. Fause Foodrage
  3. The Fair Flower of Northumberland
  4. Young John
  5. Lady Maisry
  6. Bonny Bee Ho’m
  7. Sir Patrick Spens
  8. The Lord of Lorn
  9. Edom o’ Gordon
  10. Lamkin
  11. Hugh of Lincoln
  12. The Heir of Linne
  13. Fair Mary of Wallington
  14. Young Waters
  15. The Queen’s Marie
  16. The Outlaw Murray
  17. Glenlogie
  18. Lady Elspat
  19. Jamie Douglas
  20. Katharine Johnstone
  21. Johnie Armstrong
  22. Clyde Water
  23. Young Benjie
  24. Annan Water
  25. Rare Willy drowned in Yarrow
  26. The Duke of Gordon’s Daughter
  27. The Bonny Earl of Murray
  28. Bonny George Campbell
Book IV.
  1. Judas
  2. St. Stephen and King Herod
  3. The Maid and the Palmer
  4. The Falcon
  5. The Cherry-Tree Carol
  6. The Carnal and the Crane
  7. Jolly Wat
  8. I Saw Three Ships
  9. The Twelve Good Joys
  10. The Angel Gabriel
  11. The Three Kings
  12. The Innocents
  13. Dives and Lazarus
  14. The Holy Well
  15. The Seven Virgins
Part II. Book V.
  1. Robyn and Gandelyn
  2. The Birth of Robin Hood
  3. Adam Bell, Clym of the Clough, and William of Cloudesley Fytte the First Fytte the Second Fytte the Third
  4. A Little Geste of Robin Hood and his Meiny The First Fytte The Second Fytte The Third Fytte The Fourth Fytte The Fifth Fytte The Sixth Fytte The Seventh Fytte The Eighth Fytte
  5. Robin Hood and Guy of Gisborne
  6. Robin Hood and the Monk
  7. Robin Hood and the Curtal Friar
  8. Robin Hood and the Butcher
  9. Robin Hood and the Bishop of Hereford
  10. Robin Hood and Alan a Dale
  11. Robin Hood and the Widow’s Three Sons
  12. Robin Hood’s Golden Prize
  13. The Noble Fisherman
  14. The Death of Robin Hood
Book VI.
  1. Durham Field
  2. The Battle of Otterburn
  3. Chevy Chase
  4. Northumberland Betrayed by Douglas
  5. Sir Andrew Barton
  6. The ‘George-Aloe’
  7. The ‘Golden Vanity’
  8. John Dory
  9. Willie Macintosh
  10. The Bonnie House o’ Airlie
  11. Johnnie of Cockerslee
  12. Kinmont Willie
  13. Jock o’ the Side
  14. Hobbie Noble
  15. Archie of Cawfield
  16. Jamie Telfer in the Fair Dodhead
  17. Dick o’ the Cow
  18. Hughie the Graeme
  19. The Lochmaben Harper
  20. The Fire of Frendraught
  21. The Death of Parcy Reed
  22. Baby Livingston
  23. The Gypsy Countess
  24. The Baron of Brackley
  25. The Dowie Houms of Yarrow
  26. Lord Maxwell’s Last Goodnight
  27. Helen of Kirkconnell
  28. The Lament of the Border Widow
Book VII.
  1. Lady Alice
  2. Lord Lovel
  3. The Trees So High
  4. The Brown Girl
  5. Barbara Allen’s Cruelty
  6. The Gardener
  7. The Lowlands o’ Holland
  8. The Spanish Lady’s Love
  9. The Bailiff’s Daughter of Islington
  10. The Blind Beggar’s Daughter of Bednall-Green
  11. The Loving Ballad of Lord Bateman
  12. Mary Ambree
  13. The Lady turned Serving-Man
  14. The Simple Ploughboy
  15. Cawsand Bay
  16. The Greenland Fishery
  17. The Old Cloak
  18. Widdicombe Fair
  19. Get up and Bar the Door
  20. King John and the Abbot of Canterbury
  21. The Children in the Wood
  22. The Suffolk Miracle
  23. Bessie Bell and Mary Gray