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<p>Created page with &quot;No. 14. The Golden Vanity Many versions of this ballad have been published with tunes, for example, the &#039;&#039;Journal of the Folk-Song Society&#039;&#039; (volume i, p. 104; volume ii. p....&quot;</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>No. 14. The Golden Vanity<br /> <br /> Many versions of this ballad have been published with tunes, for example, the &#039;&#039;Journal of the Folk-Song Society&#039;&#039; (volume i, p. 104; volume ii. p. 244); &#039;&#039;English County Songs&#039;&#039; (p. 182); &#039;&#039;Songs of the West&#039;&#039; (No. 64, 2d ed.); Tozer’s &#039;&#039;Sailors’ Songs and Chanties&#039;&#039; (No. 15); &#039;&#039;Songs of Sea-Labour&#039;&#039; (No. 42), etc.<br /> <br /> Child (No. 286) reprints a 17th century broadside version, beginning:<br /> <br /> &#039;&#039;⁠Sir Walter Raleigh has built a ship&#039;&#039;&lt;br&gt; <br /> &#039;&#039;⁠In the Netherlands,&#039;&#039; &lt;br&gt; <br /> &#039;&#039;⁠And it is called the Sweet Trinity&#039;&#039; &lt;br&gt; <br /> &#039;&#039;⁠And was taken by the false Gallaly,&#039;&#039;&lt;br&gt; <br /> &#039;&#039;⁠Sailing in the Lowlands.&#039;&#039;&lt;br&gt; <br /> <br /> Mr. Ebsworth, in his introduction to the ballad in the &#039;&#039;Roxburghe Ballads&#039;&#039; (volume v, p. 418), points out that the selfishness and ingratitude displayed by Raleigh in the ballad agreed with the current estimate of his character.<br /> <br /> The ballad is still freely sung by English folksingers, from whom I have noted down twelve different versions.</div>

Lewis Jones