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قراءة كتاب Ballads of Romance and Chivalry Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - First Series
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Ballads of Romance and Chivalry Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - First Series
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Facsimile of the Percy Folio MS. (British Museum, Addit. MS. 27, 879, f. 46 verso). Glasgerion, first three verses (see p. 2), annotated by Percy. The full page is 15¼ x 6 inches. larger view
POPULAR BALLADS
OF THE OLDEN TIME
SELECTED AND EDITED
BY FRANK SIDGWICK
First Series. Ballads of
Romance and Chivalry
‘What hast here? Ballads?
‘Pray now, buy some.’
A. H. BULLEN
47 Great Russell Street
London. MCMIII
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‘La rime n’est pas riche, et le style en est vieux: Mais ne voyez-vous pas que cela vaut bien mieux Que ces colifichets dont le bon sens murmure, Et que la passion parle là toute pure?’ |
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Molière, Le Misanthrope, I. 2. |
CONTENTS
| PAGE | |
| Preface | ix |
| Introduction | xvii |
| Ballads in the First Series | xliii |
| Glossary of Ballad Commonplaces | xlvi |
| List of Books for Ballad Study | lii |
| Note on the Illustrations | lv |
| Footnotes | |
| GLASGERION | 1 |
| YOUNG BEKIE | 6 |
| OLD ROBIN OF PORTINGALE | 13 |
| LITTLE MUSGRAVE AND LADY BARNARD | 19 |
| THE BONNY BIRDY | 25 |
| FAIR ANNIE | 29 |
| THE CRUEL MOTHER | 35 |
| CHILD WATERS | 37 |
| EARL BRAND | 44 |
| The Douglas Tragedy | 49 |
| The Child of Ell | 52 |
| LORD THOMAS AND FAIR ANNET | 54 |
| THE BROWN GIRL | 60 |
| FAIR MARGARET AND SWEET WILLIAM | 63 |
| LORD LOVEL | 67 |
| LADY MAISRY | 70 |
| THE CRUEL BROTHER | |