Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, Vol. 1 of 3 Consisting of Old Heroic Ballads, Songs, and Other Pieces of Our Earlier Poets; Together With Some Few of Later Date (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, Vol. 1 of 3: Consisting of Old Heroic Ballads, Songs, and Other Pieces of Our Earlier Poets; Together With Some Few of Later Date

The greater part of them are extracted from an ancient folio ms. In the Editor's possession, which contains near two hundred Poems, Songs, and Metrical Romances. This manuscript was written about the middle of the last century; but contains compositions Of all times and dates, from the ages prior to Chaucer, to the conclusion of the reign of Charles I.'

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