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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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Contents

  1. Editor's Preface
  2. General Introduction
  3. The Minstrels
  4. Ballads and Ballad Writers
  5. Imitators and Forgers
  6. Authenticity of Certain Ballads
  7. Preservers of the Ballads
  8. Life of Percy
  9. The Folio MS. and the "Reliques."
  10. Ballad Literature since Percy
  11. To the Right Honourable Elizabeth, Countess of Northumberland; In Her Own Right, Baroness Percy, Lucy, Poynings, Fitz-Payne, Bryan, and Latimer
  12. Advertisement to the Fourth Edition
  13. The Preface
  14. Book I
  15. I. The Ancient Ballad of Chevy Chase
  16. II. The Battle of Otterbourne
  17. III. The Jew's Daughter,
  18. IV. Sir Cauline
  19. V. Edward, Edward
  20. VI. King Estmere
  21. VII. Sir Patrick Spence,
  22. VIII. Robin Hood and Guy of Gisborne
  23. IX. An Elegy on Henry Fourth Earl of Northumberland
  24. X. The Tower of Doctrine
  25. XI. The Child of Elle,
  26. XII. Edom O' Gordon,
  27. Book II. Ballads That Illustrate Shakespeare
  28. I. Adam Bell, Clym of the Clough, and William of Cloudesley,
  29. II. The Aged Lover Renounceth Love
  30. III. Jephthah Judge of Israel
  31. IV. A Robyn Jolly Robyn
  32. V. A Song to the Lute in Musicke
  33. VI. King Cophetua and the Beggar-Maid
  34. VII. Take Thy Old Cloak About Thee,
  35. VIII. Willow, Willow, Willow
  36. IX. Sir Lancelot Du Lake
  37. X. Corydon's Farewell to Phillis,
  38. XI. Gernutus the Jew of Venice
  39. XII. The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
  40. XIII. Titus Andronicus's Complaint
  41. XIV. Take Those Lips Away
  42. XV. King Leir and His Three Daughters
  43. XVI. Youth and Age,
  44. XVII. The Frolicksome Duke, or the Tinker's Good Fortune
  45. XVIII. The Friar of Orders Gray
  46. I. The More Modern Ballad of Chevy Chace
  47. II. Death's Final Conquest
  48. III. The Rising in the North
  49. IV. Northumberland Betrayed by Douglas
  50. V. My Mind to Me a Kingdom Is
  51. VI. The Patient Countess
  52. VII. Dowsabell
  53. VIII. The Farewell to Love
  54. IX. Ulysses and the Syren,
  55. X. Cupid's Pastime
  56. XI. The Character of a Happy Life
  57. XII. Gilderoy
  58. XIII. Winifreda
  59. XIV. The Witch of Wokey
  60. XV. Bryan and Pereene,
  61. XVI. Gentle River, Gentle River,
  62. XVII. Alcanzor and Zayda,
  63. An Essay on the Ancient Minstrels in England
  64. Notes and Illustrations Referred to in the Foregoing Essay
  65. On the Origin of the English Stage, &c
  66. Index of Ballads and Poems in the First Volume

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