First Published by Swan SonnenscheinApril1885
ReprintedAugust1891
"August1899
"December1909
"January1927

Printed by the Riverside Press Limited, Edinburgh
Great Britain

[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]