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. III
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 THIRD
BOOK THE FIRST.
(Poems on King Arthur, &c.)
Page
1. The Boy and the Mantle 3
2. The Marriage of Sir Gawaine 13
3. King Ryence's Challenge 24
4. King Arthur's Death. A Fragment 27
Copy from the Folio MS. 35
5. The Legend of King Arthur 39
6. A Dyttie to Hey Downe 44
7. Glasgerion 45
8. Old Robin of Portingale 50
9. Child Waters 58
10. Phillida and Corydon. By Nicholas Breton 66
11. Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard 68
12. The Ew-bughts, Marion. A Scottish Song 74
13. The Knight, and Shepherd's Daughter 76
14. The Shepherd's Address to his Muse. By N Breton 80
15. Lord Thomas and Fair Ellinor 82
16. Cupid and Campaspe. By John Lilye 85
17. The Lady turned Serving-man 86
18. Gil [Child] Morrice. A Scottish Ballad 91
Copy from the Folio MS. 100