Ancient Scottish Ballads Recovered From Tradition, and Never Before Published; With Notes, Historical and Explanatory: And an Appendix, Containing the Airs of Several of the Ballads (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Ancient Scottish Ballads: Recovered From Tradition, and Never Before Published; With Notes, Historical and Explanatory: And an Appendix, Containing the Airs of Several of the Ballads Such discrepancies, however, are inseparable from ballad poetry handed down by tradition, more especially when we consider the source from which it is generally derived; the com mon people being the usual depositaries of our legendary lore, who are apt to alter the structure and detail of ballads, by interpolating stanzas, curtailing what they do not under stand, and substituting whatever may please their own fancy or caprice, in order to suit the dialect, or other circumstances, of local situation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.