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,

LORD BISHOP OF DROMORE.

EDITED BY J. V. PRICHARD.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

LONDON: GEORGE BELL AND SONS, YORK STREET,

COVENT GARDEN.

1876.

CONTENTS OF VOLUME THE SECOND.

BOOK THE SIXTH.

ESSAY on the Metre of Pierce Plowman's Visions

1. The Complaint of Conscience

2. Plain Truth and Blind Ignorance

3. The Wandering Jew

4. The Lye, by Sir Walter Raleigh

5. Verses (viz. two sonnets) by K. James I.

6. K. John and the Abbot of Canterbury

7. You meaner Beauties, by Sir H. Wotton

8. The Old and Young Courtier

9. Sir John Suckling's Campaigne.

10. To Althea from Prison. By Col. Lovelace

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13

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21

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35

38

39

20. The Lady Distracted with Love. Mad Song the fourth

64

21. The Distracted Lover. Mad Song the fifth

65

22. The Frantic Lady. Mad Song the sixth

67

23. Lilli Burlero. By Lord Wharton

68

24. The Braes of Yarrow. In imitation of the ancient Scots manner.

ESSAY on the Ancient Metrical Romances, Poems on King Arthur,