These venerable antient Song-enditers
Soar'd many a pitch above our modern writers:
With rough majestic force they mov'd the heart,
And strength and nature made amends for Art.

Rowe.

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ANCIENT ENGLISH POETRY:

CONSISTING OF

Old Heroic BALLADS, SONGS, and other
PIECES of our earlier POETS,

(Chiefly of the LYRIC kind.)

Together with fome few of later Date.

THE SECOND EDITION.

VOLUME THE FIRST.

DURAT OPUS VATUM

LONDON:

Printed for J. DODSLEY in Pall-Mall.
M DCC LXVII.