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PERCY'S RELIQUES.

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RELIQUES OF
ANCIENT ENGLISH
POETRY
CONSISTING OF OLD HEROIC BALLADS, SONGS ANDOTHER PIECES OF OUR EARLIER POETSTOGETHER WITH SOME FEWOF LATER DATE

BY
THOMAS PERCY, D.D.
BISHOP OF DROMORE

EDITED, WITH A GENERAL INTRODUCTION, ADDITIONALPREFACES, 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

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First Published by Swan SonnenscheinApril1885
ReprintedAugust1891
"August1899
"December1909
"January1927

Printed by the Riverside Press Limited, Edinburgh
Great Britain

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CONTENTS OF VOLUME THE FIRST

PAGE

Editor's Preface

ix
GENERAL INTRODUCTION
The Minstrelsxiii
Ballads and Ballad Writersxxiv
Imitators and Forgersxliv
Authenticity of Certain Balladsxlviii
Preservers of the Balladslviii
Life of Percylxxi
Folio MS. and the Reliques...

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