RELIQUES
OF ANCIENT ENGLISH POETRY:
BY THOMAS PERCY
Advertisement to the Edition of 1876.
An Essay On The Ancient Minstrels In England.
Notes and
Illustrations Referred to in the Foregoing Essay.
I.
The Ancient Ballad of Chevy-Chase.
II.
The
Battle of Otterbourne.
A Note on the Names in
the two Preceding Ballads.
III.
The Jew's
Daughter.
IV.
Sir Cauline.
VI.
King Estmere.
VII.
Sir Patrick
Spence.
VIII.
Robin Hood
and Guy of Gisborne.
IX.
An Elegy on Henry,
Fourth Earl of Northumberland.
XII.
BOOK
II
Essay on the Origin of the English Stage,
Etc.
I.
Adam Bell, Clym of the Clough, and William of Cloudesly.
II.
The Aged Lover Renounceth Love.
III.
Jephthah Judge of Israel.
V.
A Song to the Lute
in Musicke.
VI.
King Cophetua and the Beggar-Maid.
VIII.
Willow, Willow,
Willow.
X.
Corydon's Farewell
to Phillis.
XI.
Gernutus, the Jew of Venice.
XII.
The Passionate
Shepherd to his Love.
XIII.
Titus Andronicus's Complaint.
XV.
King Leir and his Three Daughters.
XVII.
The Frolicksome Duke, or the Tinker's Good Fortune.
XVIII.
The Friar of
Orders Gray.
BOOK
III
I.
The more
modern Ballad of Chevy Chace.
IV.
Northumberland
Betrayed by Douglas.
V.
My Mind to Me a
Kingdom is.
VI.
VII.
VIII.
The Farewell to
Love.
XI.
The Character of a
Happy Life.
XII.
Gilderoy.
XIII.
Winifreda.
XIV.
The Witch of Wokey.
XVI.
Gentle
River, Gentle River.
XVII.
Alcanzor and Zayda.
BOOK IV
II.
On the Death of K.
Edward the First.
III.
An original Ballad
by Chaucer.
IV.
The Turnament of Tottenham;
V.
For the Victory at
Agincourt.
VII.
A Balet by the Earl Rivers.
VIII.
Cupid's Assault:
by Lord Vaux.
IX.
Sir Aldingar.
XII.
Harpalus.
XIII.
Robin
and Makyne.
XIV.
Gentle Herdsman,
tell to Me.
XV.
King Edward IV. and the Tanner of Tamworth.
XVI.
As
Ye came from the Holy Land.
XVII.
Hardyknute.
BOOK
V
I.
A Ballad of
Luther, the Pope, a Cardinal, and a Husbandman.
III.
Little John
Nobody.
IV.
Queen Elizabeth's
Verses, While Prisoner At Woodstock.
VI.
Gascoigne's Praise
of the Fair Bridges, afterwards Lady Sandes,
VII.
Fair Rosamond.
VIII.
Queen Eleanor's
Confession.
IX.
The Sturdy Rock.
X.
The Beggar's
Daughter of Bednall-Green.
An Essay on the Meaning
of the Word FIT.
XII.
Sir Andrew Barton.
XIII.
Lady Anne Bothwell's Lament
XIV.
The Murder of the
King of Scots.
XVI.
The
King of Scots and Andrew Browne.
XVII.
The Bonny Earl of
Murray.
XVIII.
Young Waters.
XIX.
Mary Ambree.
XXII.
The Winning of Cales.
XXIII.
The Spanish Lady's Love.
XXIV.
Argentile and Curan.
XXV.
Corin's Fate.
XXVI.
Jane Shore.
XXVII.
Corydon's Doleful Knell.
BOOK VI
On the Alliterative
Metre, without Rhyme, in Pierce Plowman's Visions.
I.
The Complaint of Conscience.
II.
Plain Truth and Blind Ignorance.
III.
The Wandering Jew.
IV.
The Lye.
VI.
King John and the Abbot of Canterbury.
VII.
You Meaner Beauties.
VIII.
The Old and Young Courtier.
IX.
Sir John Suckling's Campaigne.
XI.
The Downfall of
Charing Cross.
XII.
Loyalty Confined.
XIII.
Verses by King
Charles I.
XIV.
The Sale of
Rebellious House-hold Stuff.
XV.
The Baffled
Knight, or Lady's Policy.
XVI.
Why so Pale?
XVII.
Old Tom of
Bedlam.
XVIII.
The Distracted
Puritan.
XIX.
The Lunatic Lover.
XX.
The Lady
Distracted with Love
XXI.
The Distracted
Lover
XXII.
The Frantic Lady.
XXIII.
Lilli Burlero.
XXIV.
The Braes Of
Yarrow.
XXVI.
Jemmy Dawson.
BOOK
VII.
Essay On The
Ancient Metrical Romances, Etc.
II.
The Marriage of
Sir Gawaine.
VII.
Glasgerion.
VIII.
Old Robin of Portingale.
IX.
Child Waters.
XI.
Little Musgrave
and Lady Barnard.
XIII.
The Knight and
Shepherd's Daughter.
XIV.
The Shepherd's
Address to his Muse.
XV.
Lord Thomas and
Fair Ellinor.
XVI.
Cupid and Campaspe.
XVII.
The Lady turned
Serving-Man.
XVIII.
Gil Morrice.
BOOK
VIII.
II.
Guy and Amarant.
III.
The Auld Goodman
IV.
Fair Margaret and
Sweet William.
VII.
Sir John Grehme and Barbara Allan.
VIII.
The Bailiff's
Daughter of Islington.
IX.
The Willow-Tree.
XIII.
The Bride's
Burial
XIV.
Dulcina.
XV.
The Lady
Isabella's Tragedy.
XVI.
The Hue and Cry
after Cupid.
XVII.
The King of
France's Daughter.
XVIII.
The Sweet
Neglect.
XIX.
The Children in
the Wood.
XX.
A Lover Of Late.
XXI.
The King and the
Miller of Mansfield.
XXII.
The Shepherd's Resolution.
XXIII.
Queen Dido.
XXIV.
The Witches' Song.
XXV.
Robin
Good-Fellow.
XXVI.
The
Fairy Queen.
XXVII.
The Fairies Farewell.
BOOK IX.
II.
St. George and the Dragon.
III.
Love
will find out the Way.
IV.
Lord Thomas and Fair Annet
VI.
George Barnwell.
VIII.
The Spanish Virgin, or Effects of Jealousy.
IX.
Jealousy,
Tyrant of the Mind.
XI.
To Lucasta, on going to the Wars.
XIII.
The Dragon of Wantley.
XVI.
Margaret's Ghost.
XVII.
Lucy
and Colin.
XVIII.
The
Boy and the Mantle.
XIX.
The Ancient
Fragment of The Marriage of Sir Gawaine.