English and Scottish Ballads Novel Chapters
List of most recent chapters published for the English and Scottish Ballads novel. A total of 329 chapters have been translated and the release date of the last chapter is Apr 02, 2024
Latest Release: Chapter 1 : English and Scottish Ballads.Volume I.by Various.PREFACE.These volumes have been compile
English and Scottish Ballads.Volume I.by Various.PREFACE.These volumes have been compiled from the numerous collections of Ballads printed since the beginning of the last century. They contain all but two or three of the _ancient_ ballads of England and S
- 301 One while the little foot-page went, And another while he ran; Untill he came to his journeys end The little foot-page never blan.When to that gentleman he came, 45 Down he kneeled on his knee, And tooke the letter betwixt his hands, And lett the gentlema
- 302 And when he to the Douglas came, 25 He halched him right courteouslie; Say'd, "Welcome, welcome, n.o.ble earle, Here thou shalt safelye bide with mee."When he had in Lough-leven been Many a month and many a day, 30 To the regent the lord wa
- 303 "Hold upp thy head, man," quoth his lord, "Nor therefore lett thy courage fayle; He did it but to prove thy heart, To see if he cold make it quail."When they had other fifty sayld, 205 Other fifty mile upon the sea, Lord Percy called t
- 304 _Reliques of Ancient English Poetry_, ii. 230."In the year 1584, the Spaniards, under the command of Alexander Farnese, Prince of Parma, began to gain great advantages in Flanders and Brabant, by recovering many strongholds and cities from the Hollan
- 305 Then quoth the Spanish general, "Come, let us march away; I fear we shall be spoiled all If here we longer stay; 60 For yonder comes Lord Willoughbey, With courage fierce and fell; He will not give one inch of way For all the devils in h.e.l.l."
- 306 The great Saint Philip, The pride of the Spaniards, 60 Was burnt to the bottom, And sunk in the sea; But the Saint Andrew, And eke the Saint Matthew, We took in fight manfully, 65 And brought them away.Dub a-dub, &c.The earl of Ess.e.x, Most valiant and h
- 307 Encamped on yon lee; Ye'll never be a bite to them, For aught that I can see. 40 "But halve your men in equal parts, Your purpose to fulfill; Let ae half keep the water side, The rest gae round the hill."Your nether party fire must, 45 Then
- 308 At the water of Carron he did begin, And fought the battle to the end; 70 Where there were kill'd, for our n.o.ble king, Two thousand of our Danish men.[L72]Gilbert Menzies, of high degree,[L73]By whom the king's banner was borne; For a brave ca
- 309 Scott informs us that there were two Gordons of Earlstoun engaged in the rebellion, a father and son. The former was not in the battle, but was met hastening to it by English dragoons, and was killed on his refusing to surrender. The son, who is supposed
- 310 Sir John Schaw, that great knight, with broad sword most bright,[L15] 15 On horseback he briskly did charge, man; A hero that's bold, none could him withhold,[L17]He stoutly encounter'd the targemen._And we ran, &c._ For the cowardly Whittam, for fear t
- 311 93. This point is made at the expense of a contradiction.See v. 27.95-7. _The c.o.c.k of the North_ is an honorary popular t.i.tle of the Duke of Gordon. Carnegy of Finhaven.LORD DERWENt.w.a.tER.James Radcliff, Earl of Derwent.w.a.ter, fell into the hands
- 312 33. The minister of Longformacus, a volunteer; who, happening to come, the night before the battle, upon a Highlander easing nature at Preston, threw him over, and carried his gun as a trophy to Cope's camp.41. Another volunteer Presbyterian minister, wh
- 313 Then all the countrie men did zield; For nae resistans durst they mak, Nor offer battill in the feild, Be forss of arms to beir him bak. 60 Syne they resolvit all and spak, That best it was for thair behoif, They sould him for thair chiftain tak, Believin
- 314 And then we marched to Paris gates, With drums and trumpets so merrilie; O then bespoke the king of France, "Lord have mercy on my poor men and me! 60 "Go! tell him I'll send home his tribute due, Ten ton of gold that is due from me; And the fairest fl
- 315 114. restore.134. But it had this name long before; being so called from its being a common sewer (vulgarly sh.o.r.e) or drain.--PERCY.A TRUE RELATION OE THE LIFE AND DEATH OF SIR ANDREW BARTON, A PYRATE AND ROVER ON THE SEAS.This copy of _Sir Andrew Bart
- 316 "Horsely, I will make thee a knight, And in Yorks.h.i.+re thou shalt dwell: 250 Lord Howard shall Earl Bury hight, For this act he deserveth well.Ninety pound to our Englishmen, Who in this fight did stoutly stand; And twelve-pence a-day to the Scots, ti
- 317 "Thairfoir I hald the subject vaine, Wold rave us of our right; 50 First sall one of us be slaine, The uther tak the flight.Suppose Argyll be muche of might, Be force of Heigheland men; We's be a motte into his sight, 55 Or he pas hame againe."Be blait
- 318 88. beed.91. fraine.89-96. This stanza is unintelligible in Dalzell. It stands thus in Laing's copy.When they unto Strathboggy came, To council soon they geed, For to see how things might frame, For they had meikle need.They voted then to do a deed As ki
- 319 Some rode on the black and gray, And some rode on the brown, But the bonny John Seton Lay gasping on the ground.Then bye there comes a false Forbes, 35 Was riding from Driminere; Says "Here there lies a proud Seton, This day they ride the rear."Cragieva
- 320 _Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border_, ii. 203 "The insurrection commemorated and magnified in the following ballad, as indeed it has been in some histories, was, in itself, no very important affair. It began in Dumfries-s.h.i.+re, where Sir James Turn
- 321 Protestant boys, both valliant and stout, Fear not the strength and frown of Rome, Thousands of them are put to the rout, Brave Londonderry tells 'um their doom.For their cannons roar like thunder, 5 Being resolved the town to maintain For William an
- 322 THE WOMAN WARRIOR, Who liv'd in Cow-Cross, near West-Smithfield; who, changing her apparel, entered herself on board in quality of a soldier, and sailed to Ireland, where she valiantly behaved herself, particularly at the siege of Cork, where she los
- 323 First when they saw our Highland mob, They swore they'd slay us a', Willie; And yet ane fyl'd his breiks for fear, 30 And so did rin awa', Willie: We drave him back to Bonnybrigs, Dragoons, and foot, and a', Willie._Up and war, &c
- 324 Cope sent a challenge frae Dunbar, "Charlie meet me, an ye daur, And I'll learn you the airt of war, If you'll meet wi' me in the morning."_Hey, Johnie Cope! are ye waking yet?Or are your drums a-beating yet?If ye were waking, I w
- 325 76 deny'd.157. whose n.o.ble.FAIR ROSAMOND.The celebrated mistress of Henry the Second was daughter to Walter Clifford, a baron of Herefords.h.i.+re. She bore the king two sons, one of them while he was still Duke of Normandy. Before her death she re
- 326 77. sound.83. he had reviv'd.--_C. G._ 94. s.h.i.+eld: sword, _Garl. G. W._ 102. must refuse.107. England.117. robes and pearls of gold.122. beare.QUEEN ELEANOR'S FALL._A Collection of Old Ballads_, i. 97."I never was more surprised,"
- 327 Smithfield was then with f.a.ggots fild, And many places more beside; At Coventry was Sanders kild, 15 At Glocester eke good Hooper dyde; And to escape this bloudy day, Beyond-seas many fled away.Among the rest that sought reliefe And for their faith in d
- 328 Whereat his wife sore greeved, Desir'd to be releeved; 50 "Make much of me, dear husband," she did say: "I'll make much more of thee," quoth he, "Than any one shall, verily: I'll sell thy clothes, and so will go away."Cruelly thus hearted, 55 Awa
- 329 As I cam on, and further on, And doun and by Harlaw, They fell fu close on ilka side, 35 Sic straiks ye never saw. They fell fu close on ilka side, Sic straiks ye never saw; For ilka sword gaed clash for clash, At the battle o Harlaw. 40 The Hielandmen wi