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.

New Edition.

IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR HENRY WASHBOURNE AND CO.

IVY LANE, PATERNOSTER ROW.

MDCCCLVII.

. 101

10. The Gaberlunzie Man, Scottish. By K. James V..

11. On Thomas Lord Cromwell

12. Harpalus. An ancient English Pastoral

13. Robin and Makyne. An ancient Scottish Pastoral

14. Gentle Herdsman, tell to me

15. K. Edward IV. and the Tanner of Tamworth.

16. As ye came from the Holy Land

17. Hardyknute. A Scottish Fragment. By Sir J. Bruce

BOOK THE SECOND.

1. A Ballad of Luther, the Pope, a Cardinal, and a Husband-

man

2. John Anderson my Jo. A Scottish Song

3. Little John Nobody

4. Q. Elizabeth's Verses, while Prisoner at Woodstock

PAGE

6. Gascoigne's Praise of the Fair Bridges, afterwards Lady

Sandes.

145

An Essay on the word FIT, and the ancient Ballad-singing 184

11. Fancy and Desire. By the Earl of Oxford

15. A Sonnet by Q. Elizabeth

12. Sir Andrew Barton

13. Lady Anne Bothwell's Lament. A Scottish Song

14. The Murder of the King of Scots.

16. The K. of Scots and Andrew Browne. By W. Elderton. 217

188

190

17. The Bonny Earl of Murray. A Scottish Song

266

268

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21. Victorious Men of Earth. By James Shirley

22. The Winning of Cales

23. The Spanish Lady's Love

BOOK THE THIRD.

Essay on the Metre of Pierce Plowman's Visions.

1. The Complaint of Conscience.

2. Plain Truth and Blind Ignorance.

3. The Wandering Jew

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