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TRADITIONAL TUNES. 27
it is said, points out the real actors in the drama, and gives names
to the places wherein it was enacted ; but, as these vary in each
district where the ballad is or was recited, no reliance can be placed
upon it. For particulars see Chamber's Ballads, 1829, and Child's
collection, 1857.
The "Outlandish Knight" is the English copy of the story, and
it was first edited in a volume issued by the Percy Society, by Mr.
J. H. Dixon; Scottish Traditional Versions of Ancient Ballads, 1846.
I am in possession of a copy of it on a broadside in a similar form,
but named "The Old Beau."
All copies, both Scottish and English, preserve the parrot
incident.
The air was obtained in the North Riding of Yorkshire, and
is certainly an early tune. Another air to the same words may
be found in Northutnbrian Minstrelsy, and others, differing from each
other, to which the "May Colvin" version of it were sung, are in
R. A. Smith's Scottish Minstrel, Vol. III., circa 182 1, Motherwell's
Minstrely, 1827, and Christie's Traditional Airs, Vol. II.
THE OUTLANDISH KNIGHT.
An Out-landish knight from the Northlands came, And he came a woo-in? to
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me; He promised he'd take me to the Northlands, And there he'd mar-ry me
An Outlandish knight from the North lands came,
And he came a wooing to me ;
He promised he'd take me to the North lands,
And there he'd marry me.
" Come fetch me some of your father's gold,
And some of your mother's fee,
And two of the best nags out of the stable,
Where they stand thirty and three.'