BOHN'S STANDARD LIBRARY

RELIQUES OF ANCIENT ENGLISH POETRY

VOL. II.

GEORGE BELL & SONS

LONDON : YORK ST., COVENT GARDEN NEW YORK: 66 FIFTH AVENUE, AND BOMBAY : 53 ESPLANADE ROAD CAMBRIDGE: DEIGHTON BELL & CO. OF

ANCIENT ENGLISH POETRY

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

WITH SOME 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

1900

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

11. The Downfall of Charing-Cross

12. Loyalty Confined. By Sir Roger L'Estrange

13. Verses by King Charles I.

14. The Sale of Rebellious House-höld Stuif

15. The Baffled Knight, or Lady's Policy

16. Why so pale? By Sir John Suckling

17, Old Tom of Bedlam, Mad song the first

18. The Distracted Puritan. Mad Song the second

19. The Lunatic Lover. Mad Song the third .

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

21. The Distracted Lover. Mad Song the fifth

22. The Frantic Lady. Mad Song the sixth

23. Lilli Burlero. By Lord Wharton .

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

By W. Hamilton

25. Admiral Hosier's Ghost. By Mr. Glover

26. Jemmy Dawson. By Mr. Shenstone

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BOOK THE SEVENTH.

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

&c.

1. The Boy and the Mantle

2. The Marriage of Sir Gawaine