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29713	Geddie, John	The Balladists			.txt	text/plain	38303	1791	77	The Scottish ballads we may thus love and know by heart, and concerning poet who wrote the grand old ballad of _Sir Patrick Spens_; nor do towns It is probable that not one of the old ballads that have come down to us hand, the folk-song reflects the sunnier hours of the days of old. ballad-spirit, than the 'wan water,' the 'bent sae brown,' the 'lee status of the minstrel or ballad-maker--for in old times the two went spontaneous notes of the Muse of Scottish ballad poetry. The ballad of the old type no longer grew naturally and of the Scottish ballad was, under slightly different forms, old and _William and Margaret_, with the beautiful old ballad, _There came a sons, who, along with kings' daughters, people the literature of ballad ballad, like the beautiful old air to which it is sung, bears marks of collection of Scottish songs and ballads,' as Scott calls it, appeared	./cache/29713.txt	./txt/29713.txt