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I've now got the music book ready, Do sit up and sing like a lady A recitative from Tancredi, And something from "Palpiti!" Sing forte when first you begin it, Piano the very next minute, They'll cry "What expression there's in it!" Don't sing English ballads to me!

The farmer's daughter hath soft brown hair And I met with a ballad, I can't say where, That wholly consisted of lines like these.

Thespis, the first professor of our art, At country wakes snug ballads from a cart.

I knew a very wise man that believed that . . . if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation. - Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun ,

Some people resemble ballads which are only sung for a certain time.

I have a passion for ballad. . . . They are the gypsy children of song, born under green hedgerows in the leafy lanes and bypaths of literature,--in the genial Summertime.

For a ballad's a thing you expect to find lies in.

More solid things do not show the complexion of the times so well as Ballads and Libels.

I had rather be a kitten and cry mew Than one of these same metre ballet-mongers.

I love a ballad but even too well if it be doleful matter merrily set down, or a very pleasant thing indeed and sung lamentably.

A famous man is Robin Hood The English ballad-singer's joy.