ANCIENT ENGLISH

POETRY

CONSISTING OF OLD HEROIC BALLADS, SONGS AND
OTHER PIECES OF OUR EARLIER POETS
TOGETHER WITH SOME FEW

OF LATER DATE

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

BY

HENRY B. WHEATLEY, F.S.A.

IN THREE VOLUMES

VOL. I

LONDON: GEORGE ALLEN & UNWIN LTD.

RUSKIN HOUSE

40 MUSEUM STREET, W.C.1

PRINTED BY THE RIVERSIDE PRESS LIMITED, EDINBURGH

GREAT BRITAIN

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.

by Skelton

10. The Tower of Doctrine, by Stephen Hawes .

7. Sir Patrick Spence. A Scottish Ballad

8. Robin Hood and Guy of Gisborne

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

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