OF

ANCIENT ENGLISH POETRY:

CONSISTING OF

Did 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,

BY THE
REV. GEORGE GILFILL AN.

THE TEXT EDITED BY CHARLES COWDEN CLARKE.

IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

EDINBURGH: JAMES NICHOL.
LONDON : JAMES NISBET AND CO. DUBLIN: W. ROBERTSON.

LIVERPOOL: G. PHILIP & SON.

M.DCCC.LXIV.

CONTENTS.

SERIES THE SECOND.

BOOK I.

I. Richard of Almaigne.

II. On the Death of K. Edward I.

III. An Original Ballad by Chaucer

IV. The Turnament of Tottenham

V. For the Victory at Agincourt .

VI. The Not-browne Mayd .

VII. A Balet by the Earl Rivers .

VIIJ. Cupid's Assault, by Lord Vaux

IX. Sir Aldingar. . .

x. The Guberlunzie Man, a Scottish Song, by K. James V.

XI. On Thomas Lord Cromwell.

XII. Harpalus, an ancient English Pastoral

XIII. Robin and Makyne, an ancient Scottish Pastoral .

XIV. Gentle Herdsman, tell to me

XV. K. Edward IV. and Tanner of Tamworth

XVI. As ye Came from the Holy Land .

XVII. Hardyknute, a Scottish Fragment, by Sir J. Bruce.

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BOOK II.

1. A Ballad of Luther, the Pope, a Cardinal, and a Husbandman

II. John Anderson my Jo, a Scottish Song .

III. Little John Nobody ..

IV. Q. Elizabeth's Verses, while Prisoner at Woodstock.

V. The Heir of Linne .

VI. Gascoigne's Praise of the Fair Bridges, afterwards Lady Sandes

VII. Fair Rosamond, by Thomas Delonė .

VIII. Queen Eleanor's Confession'.

IX. The Sturdy Rock . .

X. The Beggar's Daughter of Bednall. Green

An Essay on the Word Fit, and the Ancient Ballad-singing

XI. Fancy and Desire, by the Earl of Oxfords

XII. Sir Andrew Barton ..

XIII. Lady Anne Bothwell's Lament, a Scottish Song .

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