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mdp.39015049004305	Child, Francis James	The English and Scottish popular ballads. v.1	1898		.txt	text/plain	323308	34168	95	It was my wish not to begin to print The English and Scottish Popular Ballads until this unrestricted title should be justified by my having at * 'The Elfin Knight' begins very much like A, but perhaps has borrowed its opening stanzas from this ballad. represent the cries to father, mother, and brother, and agrees with these ballads as to the four Scottish ballads: ' Gil Brenton,' C; 'Willie's Lady;' one version of 'Young Beichan;' two of 'The Knight and Shepherd's Daughter ;' and also in the English ballad of ' King a, ' Willie's Lady,' was No 1 in the manuscript of fifteen ballads furnished William Tytler by Mrs Brown in 1783, and having been copies, again, have verses that occur in no Danish print or manuscript, but which nevertheless are found in Norwegian and Swedish recitations, and, what is more striking, in Icelandic tradition of two hundred years' standing. queen, Kay's lady, and the old knight's wife, in the ballad.	./cache/mdp.39015049004305.pdf	./txt/mdp.39015049004305.txt