PERCY'S RELIQUES.
RELIQUES 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, D.D. BISHOP OF DROMORE
EDITED, WITH A GENERAL INTRODUCTION, ADDITIONAL PREFACES, NOTES, GLOSSARY, ETC. BY HENRY B. WHEATLEY, F.S.A.
IN THREE VOLUMES VOL. II
LONDON: GEORGE ALLEN & UNWIN LTD. RUSKIN HOUSE 40 MUSEUM STREET, W.C.1
First Published by Swan Sonnenschein April 1885 Reprinted August 1891 " August 1899 " December 1909 " January 1927
PRINTED BY THE RIVERSIDE PRESS LIMITED, EDINBURGH GREAT BRITAIN
CONTENTS OF VOLUME THE SECOND
BOOK THE FIRST.
Page
1. Richard of Almaigne 3
2. On the Death of K. Edward the First 10
3. An original Ballad by Chaucer 14
4. The Turnament of Tottenham 17
5. For the Victory at Agincourt 29
6. The Not-Browne Mayd 31
7. A balet, by the Earl Rivers 48
8. Cupid's Assault: by Lord Vaux 50
9. Sir Aldingar 54
Copy from the Folio MS. 61
10. The Gaberlunyie man. A Scottish Song 67
11. On Thomas Lord Cromwell 71
12. Harpalus. An Ancient English Pastoral 75
13. Robin and Makyne. An Ancient Scottish Pastoral 79
14. Gentle Herdsman, tell to me 86
15. K. Edward IV. and the Tanner of Tamworth 92
16. As ye came from the Holy Land 101
Copy from the Folio MS. 104
17. Hardyknute. A Scottish Fragment 105