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…
This tells the tragic tale of Sir Rose, who falls in love with Matilda. Her father, Lord Buchan, objects to the marriage and tells her she will marry Lord Graeme. Sir Rose fights first Graeme’s brother and then is chased down by Graeme himself. While…
A collection of ballads, recitations, and verse, including a death-song of a Native American chief, a martyr’s lament who refuses to leave her husband’s side as he is tortured to death, a humorous song about an aging widow and a dyer, a celebration…
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