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 BfiLLfiDS, Et0, ^HERE are a few well-known old Cornish ballads, which have already been printed and reprinted ; my apology for again introducing them here, must be, that a work of this kind would not be complete without them. "John Dory," "An old ballad on a Duke of Cornwall's Daughter," " The Stout Cripple of Cornwall," and " The Baarley Mow," may all be found in Specimens of Cornish Provincial Dialect, by Uncle Jan Trenoodle (Sandys) ; " Tweedily, Tweedily, Twee,"— Through Rev. S. Rundle, in Transactions Penzance Natural History and Antiquarian Society, 188^-88; "Ye sexes give ear to my fancy," T. Q. Couch, Polperro, Cornwall ; and " A fox went forth one moonshining night," Edward Pole, in Notes and Queries, 18^4; "The Long Hundred," a song of Numbers, W. Pengelly, Notes and Queries, i8yj ; "When shall we be married.?" which I heard many years ago in Scilly, and of which I only remember three verses, I have never seen in print. The Rev. S. Baring Gould, M.A., is now making a collection of the "Traditional Ballads and Songs of the West of England." Part I. has been published ; it contains " Sweet Nightingale," said to be a favourite with the miners of Cornwall and Devon ; this must be in North Cornwall, as the nightingale is unknown in the western part of the county, scared away, according to the country- folk, "by the sweet singing of its men and women." And "The Hunting of Arscott of Tetcot," of which as it has been recast, I will only transcribe the first four lines.