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4. Northumberland betrayed by Douglas 279 Copy from the Folio MS 289 5. My Mind to me a Kingdom is, by Sir Edward Dyer 294 6. The Patient Countess, by W. Warner 298 7. Dowsabell, by M. Drayton 304 8. The Farewell to Love, from Beaumont and Fletcher 310 9. Ulysses and the Syren, by S. Daniel 311 10. Cupid's Pastime, by Davison 314 11. The character of a happy life, by Sir H. Wotton. 317 12. Gilderoy. A Scottish Ballad 318 13. Winifreda 323 14. The Witch of Wokey 325 15. Bryan and Pereene. A West Indian Ballad, by Dr. Grainger 328 16. Gentle River, Gentle River. Translated from the Spanish 331 17. Alcanzor and Zayda, a Moorish Tale 338 APPENDIX I. An Essay on the Ancient Minstrels in England 343 Notes and Illustrations 382 APPENDIX II. On the Origin of the English Stage, &c. 431 Index to Vol. I 459

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EDITOR'S PREFACE

In undertaking the supervision of a new edition of the Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, I felt that no safer or better guidance could be followed than that of Bishop Percy himself; and as he always strove, in the several editions published by himself, to embody therein the sum of the knowledge of his times, so I, following at a distance, have endeavoured, by gathering from many quarters particulars published since his death, to make his book still more worthy of the great reputation it has acquired.

Each edition published during the lifetime of the author contained large additions and corrections; but since the publication of the fourth edition, in 1794, no changes worth mentioning have been made, with the exception of such as occur in a revision brought out by the Rev. R. A. Willmott in 1857. His object, however, was to form a handy volume, and he therefore cleared away all Percy's Essays and Prefaces, and added short notices of his own, founded on Percy's facts, and, in some instances, on recent information.

The desire for a new edition of the Reliques has more particularly grown since the publication of the original folio MS. in 1867, and I trust that the readers of the present edition may feel disposed to accept it as in some degree satisfying this desire.

In the preparation of the present edition, the whole of Percy's work has been reprinted from his fourth edition, which contains his last touches; and in order that no confusion should be occasioned to the reader, all my notes and additions have been placed between brackets. The chief of these are the