11.-ST. GEORGE AND THE DRAGON.

THE following ballad is given (with some corrections) from two ancient black-letter copies in the Pepys Collection, one of which is in 12mo, the other in folio.

III.-LOVE WILL FIND OUT THE WAY.

THIS excellent song is ancient, but we could only give it from a modern copy.

SEEMS to be composed (not without improvements) out of two ancient English ones, printed in the former part of this volume.* If this had been the original, the authors of those two ballads would hardly have adopted two such different stories; besides, this contains enlargements not to be found in either of the others. It is given, with some corrections, from a MS. copy transmitted from Scotland.

LORD THOMAS and fair Annet

Sate a' day on a hill;

Whan night was cum, and sun was sett,

They had not talkt their fill.

Lord Thomas said a word in jest,

Fair Annet took it ill:

A'! I will nevir wed a wife

Against my ain friends will.

* Lord Thomas and Fair Ellinor, and Fair Margaret and Sweet William.