A collection of ballads and songs, all featuring certain lords in Scotland. In the first, Sir John Graeme falls sick with love for Barbara Allan, but when she visits him, she rejects him due to a slight he had given her once. Consequently, the young…

This is an interesting chapbook in that it contains songs within a larger ballad narrative describing the events, food, and music played at a Christmas celebration. The chapbook begins with a short little rhyme on the theme of Christmas, introducing…

A collection of Scottish ballads on a variety of themes and topics, including: a toast in memory of years past; a Jacobian lament for Bonnie Prince Charlie; a humorous misogynistic portrayal of wives as both the best part of marriage and the worst; a…

A collection of tales and ballads on a wide variety of themes, including the blessings of a rustic woodsman; the sad parting and sometimes reunion of lovers; the lament of a press-ganged sailor as a galley slave; to the propositioning of a woman by a…

Set during the wars of independence in South America, this story describes the adventures of a company of British seamen and their Scottish captain who became privateers and occasional pirates along the Chilean and Peruvian coast. In an act of…

Inspired by Chaucer’s Wife of Bath, this tale describes the Wife’s journey after death. As the Wife travels first to hell and then to heaven, she is rejected by the Devil – who does not wish to be harried by her scornful tongue – and then a long…

"The Wife of Bath's Tale (Middle English: the Tale of the Wyf of Bathe) is among the best-known of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. " Wikipedia