Excerpt from Some British BalladsSeveral of the Ballads in this book are based on the great work of Francis James Child, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, permission to use which was generously accorded by the publishers, Messrs. Houghton, Miffiin and Company, of Boston, to whom the grateful thanks.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.