A tale of love, tragedy, and despair in Ireland. The son of a lord falls in love with the daughter of a poor ex-soldier. He marries her in secret because he knows his father will never approve of the match. While he is away in Dublin, the corrupt…

A collection of ballads and songs on a variety of topics. The first is a short song about a young woman comparing the two men who are courting her, one old and rich and the other poor and young, which alludes to the common theme of the sexual…

The chapbook contains two humorous songs in Scots. The first describes the adventures of a group of friends attending a fair in Glasgow, including quite a bit of drinking, eating, dancing, flirting, fighting, and other tom-foolery, including the…

A collection of several short ballads and songs on a variety of topics, including: a tale of a tryst that ends in betrayal and the loss of certain articles of clothing; a humorous song portrayal of a minor church official who is overzealous in his…

Two ballads are included in this chapbook. The first is a rather long moral tale that tells of two children whose parents die of illness and who are consequently to be raised by their uncle until they come into their inheritance. The uncle, scheming…

The first of the two songs is a Jacobite ballad on the battle of Sheriff-Muir, with a detailed description of the parts played by many individuals, including Rob Roy. The second song is of the singer’s longing for her sailor lover to return to her.…

Two satirical songs. The first mocks the judicial process at all levels, emphasizing the corruption, greed, and idiocy of the various parties involved, as well as the inefficiency of the court process itself. The second is a humorous song about a…

This tells the tragic tale of a Gill Morice, who is the illegitimate child of the wife of a nearby Baron. He sends for his mother to visit him in the woods, but the Baron, mistaking the summons to be the summons of a young lover, goes himself and…

Two ballads are presented here. The first tells the tale of young woman who is stolen away from her home in Dundee by a Highland lord. He takes her away to be his bride, but she refuses to have him. She manages to get a letter to her love, John Hay,…

Part of a series of fairy tales printed by the booksellers. The first tale included tells the tale of the Yellow Dwarf, a fairy tale with many fantastical elements including fairies, dwarves, griffins, sphinxes, mermaids, and nymphs. The story leaps…