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, D.D.

BISHOP OF DROMORE

EDITED, WITH A GENERAL INTRODUCTION, ADDITIONAL
PREFACES, Notes, GLOSSARY, ETC.

PRINTED BY THE RIVERSIDE PRESS LIMITED, EDINBURGH
GREAT BRITAIN

BOOK THE FIRST.

1. The ancient Ballad of Chevy-chase

2. The Battle of Otterbourne

Illustration of the Names in the foregoing ballads

3. The Jew's Daughter. A Scottish Ballad

4. Sir Cauline.

Copy from the Folio MS.

5. Edward, Edward. A Scottish Ballad

6. King Estmere

On the word Termagant

7. Sir Patrick Spence. A Scottish Ballad

8. Robin Hood and Guy of Gisborne

9. An Elegy on Henry Fourth, Earl of Northumberland,

by Skelton

10. The Tower of Doctrine, by Stephen Hawes.

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