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Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, Volume I (of 3)
Consisting of Old Heroic Ballads, Songs and Other Pieces
of Our Earlier Poets Together With Some Few of Later Date

Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, Volume I (of 3) Consisting of Old Heroic Ballads, Songs and Other Pieces of Our Earlier Poets Together With Some Few of Later Date

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PERCY'S RELIQUES.

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RELIQUES OF
ANCIENT ENGLISH
POETRY
CONSISTING OF OLD HEROIC BALLADS, SONGS AND OTHER PIECES OF OUR EARLIER POETS TOGETHER WITH SOME FEW OF LATER DATE

BY
THOMAS PERCY, D.D.
BISHOP OF DROMORE

EDITED, WITH A GENERAL INTRODUCTION, ADDITIONAL PREFACES, NOTES, GLOSSARY, ETC.
BY
HENRY B. WHEATLEY, F.S.A.

IN THREE VOLUMES
VOL. I

LONDON: GEORGE ALLEN & UNWIN LTD.
RUSKIN HOUSE 40 MUSEUM STREET, W.C.1


First Published by Swan Sonnenschein April 1885
Reprinted August 1891
" August 1899
" December 1909
" January 1927

Printed by the Riverside Press Limited, Edinburgh
Great Britain

CONTENTS OF VOLUME THE FIRST

PAGE

Editor's Preface

ix
GENERAL INTRODUCTION
The Minstrels xiii
Ballads and Ballad Writers xxiv
Imitators and Forgers xliv
Authenticity of Certain Ballads xlviii
Preservers of the Ballads lviii
Life of Percy lxxi
Folio MS. and the Reliques lxxxi
Ballad Literature since Percy xci

Dedications 1
Advertisement to the fourth edition 4
Preface 7
BOOK THE FIRST
1. The ancient Ballad of Chevy-chase 19
2. The Battle of Otterbourne 35
Illustration of the Names in the foregoing ballads 51
3. The Jew's Daughter. A Scottish Ballad 54
4. Sir Cauline 61
Copy from the Folio MS. 76
5. Edward, Edward. A Scottish Ballad 82
6. King Estmere 85
On the word Termagant 96
7. Sir Patrick Spence. A Scottish Ballad 98
8.

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