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,

LORD BISHOP OF DROMORE.

REPRINTED ENTIRE FROM THE AUTHOR'S LAST EDITION.

With Memoir and Critical Dissertation.

THE TEXT EDITED BY CHARLES COWDEN CLARKE.

CASSELL PETTER & GALPIN:

LONDON, PARIS & NEW YORK.

BOD

XIV. The Shepherd's Address to his Muse, by N. Breton

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XI. Waly, Waly, Love be Bonny, a Scottish Song

XII. The Bride's Burial

XIII. Dulcina

XIV. The Lady Isabella's Tragedy

XV. A Hue and Cry after Cupid, by Ben. Jonson

XVI. The King of France's Daughter

XVII. The Sweet Neglect, by Ben. Jonson

XVIII. The Children in the Wood

XIX. A Lover of late was I

XX. The King and the Miller of Mansfield

XXI. The Shepherd's Resolution, by Geo. Wither

XXII. Queen Dido, or the Wandering Prince of Troy

XXIII. The Witches Song, by Ben. Jonson

XXIV. Robin Good-Fellow

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IV. Lord Thomas and Fair Annet, a Scottish Ballad

VIII. The Spanish Virgin, or the Effects of Jealousy

XI. To Lucasta on going to the Wars, by Col. Lovelace

XV. St. George for England. The Second Part, by J. Grubb

XIX. The Ancient Fragment of the Marriage of Sir Gawaine

The Hermit of Warkworth, by Bishop Percy

The Glossary .

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An ordinary Song or Ballad, that is the delight of the common people, cannot fail to please all such readers, as are not unqualified for the entertainment by their affectation or their ignorance; and the reason is plain, because the same paintings of nature which recommend it to the most ordinary reader, will appear beautiful to the most refined. ADDISON, in SPECTATOR, No. 70.