Outlandish Knight- old woman (Herts) c.1895 Broadwood
[From Lucy Broadwood Manuscript Collection (LEB/2/26/2), Bronson dates this 1895, also a date of c. 1904 on MS. Also printed in [More Ballads] by Lucy E. Broadwood, Cecil J. Sharp, Ralph Vaughan Williams, A. G. Gilchrist and Frank Kidson of Journal of the Folk-Song Society, Vol. 4, No. 15 (Dec., 1910), pp. 110-137.
R. Matteson 2018]
This second tune, which is of the " Lord Lovel " air type, should be compared with two from Yorkshire and one from Westmorland, noted respectively by Mr. C. Lolley, Mr. F. Kidson and Mr. G. Rathbone, and printed in 7ournal, Vol. ii,
p. 282, all to the ballad "1 Outlandish Knight."-L. E. B
Outlandish Knight- sung by an old woman near year 75 from St. Stephens, Herts, noted Broadwood.
"Don't prittle prattle, my pretty Polly,
Nor tell no tales of me;
You cage shall be made of the glittering gold,
And your perch of the best ivory."