Notes and Queries, Number 65, January 25, 1851

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Various. Notes and Queries, Number 65, January 25, 1851

NOTES

TRADITIONAL ENGLISH BALLADS

THE FATHER OF PHILIP MASSINGER

TOUCHSTONE'S DIAL

DISCREPANCIES IN DUGDALE'S ACCOUNT OF SIR RALPH DE COBHAM

HENRY CHETTLE

COVERDALE'S BIBLE

ANSWER TO COWLEY

FOLK LORE OF LANCASHIRE. NO. 1

MINOR NOTES

QUERIES

THE TALE OF THE WARDSTAFF

BALLAD ASCRIBED TO SIR C. HANBURY WILLIAMS

MINOR QUERIES

REPLIES

THE PASSAGE IN TROILUS AND CRESSIDA

BLACK IMAGES OF THE VIRGIN

OUTLINE IN PAINTING

TEN CHILDREN AT A BIRTH

SHAKSPEARE'S USE OF "CAPTIOUS."

SWORD OF WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR

MEANING OF EISELL

ALTAR LIGHTS, ETC

REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES

MISCELLANEOUS

NOTES ON BOOKS, SALES, CATALOGUES, ETC

BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES WANTED TO PURCHASE

NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS

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The task of gathering old traditionary song is surely a pleasant and a lightsome one. Albeit the harvest has been plentiful and the gleaners many, still a stray sheaf may occasionally be found worth the having. But we must be careful not to "pick up a straw."

One of your corespondents recommends, as an addition to the value of your pages, the careful getting together of those numerous traditional ballads that are still sometimes to be met with, floating about various parts of the country. This advice is by no means to be disregarded, but I wish to point out the necessity of the contributors to the undertaking knowing something about ballad literature. An acquaintance with the ordinary published collections, at least, cannot be dispensed with. Without this knowledge we should be only multiplying copies of worthless trifles, or reprinting ballads that had already appeared in print.

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This is a wretched version (about half the original length) of a well-known ballad, entitled "Captain Wedderburn's Courtship." It first appeared in print in The New British Songster, a collection published at Falkirk, in 1785. It was afterwards inserted in Jamieson's Popular Ballads and Songs, 1806; Kinloch's Ancient Ballads, 1826; Chambers' Scottish Ballads, 1829, &c. But hear what Mr. Sheldon has to say, in 1847:—

P. 274. The Merchant's Garland:—

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