Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, Volume 1 (of 3) / Consisting of Old Heroic Ballads, Songs and Other Pieces of Our Earlier Poets Together With Some Few of Later Date

PERCY'S RELIQUES.

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
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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.