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

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PERCY'S RELIQUES.

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.	Robin Hood and Guy of Gisborne	[102]
9.	An Elegy on Henry Fourth, Earl of Northumberland, by Skelton	[117]
10.	The Tower of Doctrine, by Stephen Hawes	[127]
11.	The Child of Elle	[131]
	Fragment from the Folio MS.	[138]
12.	Edom o' Gordon. A Scottish Ballad	[140]
	Captain Carre, from the Folio MS	[148]
BOOK THE SECOND.
(Containing Ballads that illustrate Shakespeare.)
1.	Adam Bell, Clym of the Clough, and William of Cloudesley	[153]
2.	The aged Lover renounceth Love, by Lord Vaux	[179]
3.	Jephthah judge of Israel	[182]
4.	A Robyn Jolly Robyn	[185]
5.	A Song to the lute in musicke, by R. Edwards	[187]
6.	King Cophetua and the Beggar-maid	[189]
7.	Take thy old cloak about thee	[195]
8.	Willow, Willow, Willow	[199]
9.	Sir Lancelot du Lake	[204]
10.	Corydon's Farewell to Phillis	[209]
	The Ballad of constant Susanna	[209]
11.	Gernutus the Jew of Venice	[211]
12.	The passionate Shepherd to his Love, by Marlowe	[220]
	The Nymph's Reply, by Sir W. Raleigh	[223]
13.	Titus Andronicus's Complaint	[224]
14.	Take those lips away	[230]
15.	King Leir and his three daughters	[231]
16.	Youth and Age, by Shakespeare	[237]
17.	The Frolicksome Duke, or the Tinker's good Fortune	[238]
18.	The Friar of Orders Gray, by Percy	[242]
BOOK THE THIRD.
1.	The more modern Ballad of Chevy-chace	[249]
	Illustration of the Northern Names	[263]
2.	Death's final Conquest, by James Shirley	[264]
3.	The Rising in the North	[266]
	Copy from the Folio MS	[274]
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]