Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, Volume 3 (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. III

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

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[CONTENTS OF VOLUME THE THIRD]

BOOK THE FIRST.
(Poems on King Arthur, &c.)
Page
1.	The Boy and the Mantle	[3]
2.	The Marriage of Sir Gawaine	[13]
3.	King Ryence's Challenge	[24]
4.	King Arthur's Death. A Fragment	[27]
	Copy from the Folio MS.	[35]
5.	The Legend of King Arthur	[39]
6.	A Dyttie to Hey Downe	[44]
7.	Glasgerion	[45]
8.	Old Robin of Portingale	[50]
9.	Child Waters	[58]
10.	Phillida and Corydon. By Nicholas Breton	[66]
11.	Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard	[68]
12.	The Ew-bughts, Marion. A Scottish Song	[74]
13.	The Knight, and Shepherd's Daughter	[76]
14.	The Shepherd's Address to his Muse. By N Breton	[80]
15.	Lord Thomas and Fair Ellinor	[82]
16.	Cupid and Campaspe. By John Lilye	[85]
17.	The Lady turned Serving-man	[86]
18.	Gil [Child] Morrice. A Scottish Ballad	[91]
	Copy from the Folio MS.	[100]
BOOK THE SECOND.
1.	The Legend of Sir Guy	[107]
2.	Guy and Amarant. By Samuel Rowlands	[114]
3.	The Auld Good-Man. A Scottish Song	[122]
4.	Fair Margaret and Sweet William	[124]
5.	Barbara Allen's Cruelty	[128]
6.	Sweet William's Ghost. A Scottish Ballad	[130]
7.	Sir John Grehme and Barbara Allen. A Scottish Ballad	[133]
8.	The Bailiff's Daughter of Islington	[135]
9.	The Willow Tree. A Pastoral Dialogue	[137]
10.	The Lady's Fall	[139]
11.	Waly, Waly, Love be bonny. A Scottish Song	[145]
12.	The Bride's Burial	[148]
13.	Dulcina	[153]
14.	The Lady Isabella's Tragedy	[155]
15.	A Hue and Cry after Cupid. By Ben. Jonson	[159]
16.	The King of France's Daughter	[161]
17.	The Sweet Neglect. By Ben. Jonson	[169]
18.	The Children in the Wood	[169]
19.	A Lover of late was I	[177]
20.	The King and the Miller of Mansfield	[178]
21.	The Shepherd's Resolution. By George Wither	[188]
22.	Queen Dido (or the Wandering Prince of Troy)	[191]
23.	The Witches' Song. By Ben. Jonson	[196]
24.	Robin Good-fellow	[199]
25.	The Fairy Queen	[204]
26.	The Fairies Farewell. By Bishop Corbet	[207]
BOOK THE THIRD.
1.	The Birth of St. George	[215]
2.	St. George and the Dragon	[224]
3.	Love will find out the Way	[232]
4.	Lord Thomas and Fair Annet. A Scottish Ballad	[234]
5.	Unfading Beauty. By Thomas Carew	[239]
6.	George Barnwell	[240]
7.	The Stedfast Shepherd. By George Wither	[253]
8.	The Spanish Virgin, or Effects of Jealousy	[255]
9.	Jealousy Tyrant of the Mind. By Dryden	[260]
10.	Constant Penelope	[261]
11.	To Lucasta, on going to the Wars. By Col. Lovelace.	[264]
12.	Valentine and Ursine	[265]
13.	The Dragon of Wantley	[279]
14.	St. George for England. The First Part	[288]
15.	St. George for England. The Second Part. By John Grubb	[293]
16.	Margaret's Ghost. By David Mallet	[308]
17.	Lucy and Colin. By Thomas Tickel	[312]
18.	The Boy and the Mantle, as revised and altered by a modern hand	[315]
19.	The ancient Fragment of the Marriage of Sir Gawaine	[323]
APPENDIX.
I.	The Wanton Wife of Bath	[333]
II.	Essay on the Ancient Metrical Romances, &c.	[339]
Glossary		[377]
Index		[411]

RELIQUES OF ANCIENT POETRY, ETC.

SERIES THE THIRD.

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[BOOK I.]

"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.

[POEMS ON KING ARTHUR, etc.]

The third volume being chiefly devoted to romantic subjects, may not be improperly introduced with a few slight strictures on the old metrical romances: a subject the more worthy attention, as it seems not to have been known to such as have written on the nature and origin of books of chivalry, that the first compositions of this kind were in verse, and usually sung to the harp.[1]