Reliques of ancient English poetry [4th ed] [Vol 1] [T81998] [ECCO]

DMI number:

1402

Publication Date:

1794

Volume Number:

1 of 3

ESTC number:

T81998

EEBO/ECCO link:

CW112646255

Shelfmark:

ECCO - BOD

Full Title:

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. | THE FOURTH EDITION. | VOLUME THE FIRST. | [ornament] | LONDON: | PRINTED BY JOHN NICHOLS, | FOR F. AND C. RIVINGTON. | MDCCXCIV.

Place of Publication:

London

Genres:

Collection of ballads, Collection of songs, and Collection of translations/imitations

Format:

Octavo

Bibliographic details:

The miscellany was originally compiled by Thomas Percy; the advertisement to this edition is signed by his nephew (also called) Thomas Percy.

Comments:

Separated into three books: 'Book the First', 'Book the Second (Containing Ballads that illustrate Shakespeare.)' and 'Book the Third'. With glossary (pp. 365-381). Illustrations: opening plate, title page, vii, 1, 127, 265, 382. Contents: Latin verse p. xxxv, pp. lix-lx, p. xcviii, p. 96; French verse pp. lix-lx, p. lxxvii, p. lxxxix, p. xcii; Spanish verse pp. 354-358 (even pages).

Other matter:

Prefatory: dedication and advertisement signed by Thomas Percy [6pp], preface [8pp], essay 'On the Ancient English Minstrels' [34pp], 'Notes and Illustrations referred to in the Foregoing Essay' [52pp], errata for all three volumes [4pp], contents and epigraph from Sidney's Defence of Poetry [4pp]. End matter: additional note [1pp].

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Editor:

Thomas Percy

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Absolute (100%)

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Printer:

John Nichols

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Absolute (100%)

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Publisher:

C. Rivington

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Absolute (100%)

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Publisher:

F. Rivington

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Content/Publication

First Line:

Christofre him served longe

Page No:

p.lxxxiv

Poem Title:

[no title]

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First Line:

Downe came a lady faire and free

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p.xc

Poem Title:

[no title]

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First Line:

Menstrelles that walken fer and wyde

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p.cii

Poem Title:

[no title]

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First Line:

The lady that was so faire and bright

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p.xc

Poem Title:

[no title]

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First Line:

The ladye fayre of hew and hyde

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p.xci

Poem Title:

[no title]

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First Line:

When meate and drinke is great plentye

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p.cii

Poem Title:

[no title]

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First Line:

These venerable ancient song enditers

Page No:

opening plate

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Rowe.

Attributed To:

Nicholas Rowe

First Line:

Al maner mynstralcye

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pp.cv-cvi

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

John Lidgate

Attributed To:

John Lydgate

First Line:

For though that the best harper upon live

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p.lxix

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Chaucer

Attributed To:

Geoffrey Chaucer

First Line:

I will make no vain carpinge

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p.ci

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Chaucer

Attributed To:

Geoffrey Chaucer

First Line:

Stoden the castell all aboutin

Page No:

pp.lxix-lxx

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Chaucer's Third Boke of Fame

Attributed To:

Geoffrey Chaucer

First Line:

There sawe I syt in other ses

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p.lxx

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Chaucer

Attributed To:

Geoffrey Chaucer

First Line:

Your beauty lady fair

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p.xxxv

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dr. Burney

Attributed To:

Dr Charles Burney

First Line:

The Perse owt of Northombarlande

Page No:

pp.4-17

Poem Title:

I. The Ancient Ballad of Chevy-Chase.

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First Line:

Yt felle abowght the Lamasse tyde

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pp.21-34

Poem Title:

II. The Battle of Otterbourne.

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First Line:

The rain rins doun through Mirryland toune

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pp.39-41

Poem Title:

III. The Jew's Daughter, A Scottish Ballad.

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First Line:

In Ireland ferr over the sea

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pp.42-59

Poem Title:

IV. Sir Cauline.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

But as extremes are short of ill and good

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p.50

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dryden

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

Quhy dois zour brand sae drap wi' bluid

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pp.59-61

Poem Title:

V. Edward, Edward, A Scottish Ballad.

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First Line:

I wyll not ones stirre off this grounde

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p.62

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

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First Line:

Hearken to me gentlemen

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pp.64-76

Poem Title:

VI. King Estmere.

Attribution:

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First Line:

The king sits in Dumferling toune

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pp.79-81

Poem Title:

VII. Sir Patrick Spence, A Scottish Ballad.

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First Line:

Hear undernead dis laitl stean

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p.82

Poem Title:

[no title]

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First Line:

Lythe and lysten gentylmen

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p.83

Poem Title:

[no title]

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First Line:

When shaws beene sheene and shradds full fayre

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pp.84-94

Poem Title:

VIII. Robin Hood and Guy of Gisborne.

Attribution:

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First Line:

I wayle I wepe I sobbe I sigh ful sore

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pp.96-105

Poem Title:

IX. An Elegy on Henry Fourth Earl of North-Umberland.

Attribution:

John Skelton

Attributed To:

John Skelton

First Line:

I loked about and saw a craggy roche

Page No:

pp.106-108

Poem Title:

X. The Tower of Doctrine.

Attribution:

Stephen Hawes

Attributed To:

Stephen Hawes

First Line:

On yonder hill a castle standes

Page No:

pp.109-117

Poem Title:

XI. The Child of Elle.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

It fell about the Martinmas

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pp.119-126

Poem Title:

XII. Edom O'Gordon, A Scottish Ballad.

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First Line:

This memoriall men may have in mynde

Page No:

pp.131-132

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

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First Line:

The father of Robin a forester was

Page No:

p.154

Poem Title:

[no title]

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First Line:

With loynes in canvas bow case tyde

Page No:

p.155

Poem Title:

"The long vacation in London"

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

Mery it was in grene forest

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pp.156-185

Poem Title:

I. Adam Bell, Clym of the Clough, and William of Cloudesly.

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First Line:

I lothe that I did love

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pp.186-189

Poem Title:

II. The Aged Lover Renounceth Love.

Attribution:

Lord Vaux

Attributed To:

Thomas Vaux

First Line:

Have you not heard these many years ago

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pp.190-192

Poem Title:

III. Jephthah Judge of Israel.

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First Line:

Hey jolly Robin tell to me

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p.193

Poem Title:

[no title]

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First Line:

A Robyn | Jolly Robyn | Tell me how thy leman doeth

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pp.194-195

Poem Title:

IV. A Robyn Jolly Robyn.

Attribution:

Sir Thomas Wyat [with reservations]

Attributed To:

Sir Thomas Wyatt

First Line:

Where gripinge grefes the hart would wounde

Page No:

p.197

Poem Title:

V. A Song to the Lute in Musicke.

Attribution:

Richard Edwards

Attributed To:

Richard Edwards

First Line:

I read that once in Affrica

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pp.199-204

Poem Title:

VI. King Cophetua and the Beggar-Maid.

Attribution:

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First Line:

This winters weather itt waxeth cold

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pp.205-207

Poem Title:

VII. Take thy Old Cloak About Thee.

Attribution:

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First Line:

A poore soule sat sighing under a sicamore tree

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pp.208-213

Poem Title:

VIII. Willow, Willow, Willow.

Attribution:

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First Line:

My mother had a maid called Barbara

Page No:

p.208

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespeare

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

All this beheard three wighty yeomen

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p.214

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

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First Line:

When Arthur first in court began

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pp.214-219

Poem Title:

IX. Sir Lancelot Du Lake.

Attribution:

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First Line:

There dwelt a man in Babylon

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p.220

Poem Title:

The Ballad of Constant Susanna.

Attribution:

Shakespeare

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Farewell dear love since thou wilt needs begone

Page No:

pp.221-222

Poem Title:

X. Corydon's Farewell to Phillis.

Attribution:

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First Line:

In Venice towne not long agoe

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pp.224-231

Poem Title:

XI. Gernutus the Jew of Venice.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Come live with me and be my love

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pp.234-236

Poem Title:

XII. The Passionate Shepherd to his Love.

Attribution:

Marlow, and Raleigh

Attributed To:

Christopher Marlowe

Sir Walter Ralegh [Raleigh]

First Line:

You noble minds and famous martiall wights

Page No:

pp.238-243

Poem Title:

XIII. Titus Andronicus's Complaint.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Take oh take those lips away

Page No:

p.244

Poem Title:

XIV. Take Those Lips Away.

Attribution:

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First Line:

King Leir once ruled in this land

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pp.245-252

Poem Title:

XV. King Leir and His Three Daughters.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Crabbed age and youth

Page No:

pp.253-254

Poem Title:

XVI. Youth and Age.

Attribution:

Shakespeare

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Now as fame does report a young duke keeps a court

Page No:

pp.255-258

Poem Title:

XVII. The Frolicksome Duke, or The Tinker's Good Fortune.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

It was a friar of orders gray

Page No:

pp.259-264

Poem Title:

XVIII. The Friar of Orders Gray.

Attribution:

the Editor

Attributed To:

Thomas Percy

First Line:

For Witherington my heart is woe

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p.266

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

The dint it was both sad and sore

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p.266

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

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First Line:

Of fifteen hundred archers of England

Page No:

p.268

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

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First Line:

Of fifteen hundred Scottish spears

Page No:

p.268

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

God prosper long our noble king

Page No:

pp.270-282

Poem Title:

I. The More Modern Ballad of Chevy Chace.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The glories of our birth and state

Page No:

pp.284-285

Poem Title:

II. Death's Final Conquest.

Attribution:

James Shirley

Attributed To:

James Shirley

First Line:

Listen lively lordings all

Page No:

pp.288-295

Poem Title:

III. The Rising in the North.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Gernons fyrst named of Brutys bloude of Troy

Page No:

pp.293-294

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

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First Line:

How long shall fortune faile me nowe

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pp.297-307

Poem Title:

IV. Northumberland Betrayed By Douglas.

Attribution:

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First Line:

I am no such pil'd cynique to beleeve

Page No:

pp.307-308

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

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First Line:

My mind to me a kingdom is

Page No:

pp.308-311

Poem Title:

V. My Mind To Me A Kingdom Is.

Attribution:

William Byrd

Attributed To:

William Byrd

First Line:

Impatience chaungeth smoke to flame

Page No:

pp.312-320

Poem Title:

VI. The Patient Countess.

Attribution:

W. Warner

Attributed To:

William Warner

First Line:

Ye shall well heare of a knight

Page No:

p.321

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Listen to mee my lovely shepheards joye

Page No:

p.321

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Michael Drayton

Attributed To:

Michael Drayton

First Line:

Farre in the countrey of Arden

Page No:

pp.322-326

Poem Title:

VII. Dowsabell.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Adieu fond love farewell you wanton powers

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p.327

Poem Title:

VIII. The Farewell to Love.

Attribution:

Beaumont and Fletcher

Attributed To:

John Fletcher

Francis Beaumont

First Line:

Come worthy Greeke Ulysses come

Page No:

pp.328-332

Poem Title:

IX. Ulysses and the Syren

Attribution:

Daniel

Attributed To:

Samuel Daniel

First Line:

It chanced of late a shepherd swain

Page No:

pp.333-335

Poem Title:

X. Cupid's Pastime.

Attribution:

Francis Davison

Attributed To:

Francis Davison

First Line:

How happy is he born or taught

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pp.335-336

Poem Title:

XI. The Character of a Happy Life.

Attribution:

Sir Henry Wotton

Attributed To:

Sir Henry Wotton

First Line:

The queen of scots possessed nought

Page No:

p.337

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

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First Line:

Gilderoy was a bonnie boy

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pp.338-341

Poem Title:

XII. Gilderoy.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Away let naught to love displeasing

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pp.342-343

Poem Title:

XIII. Winifreda.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

In aunciente days tradition showes

Page No:

pp.345-347

Poem Title:

XIV. The Witch of Wokey.

Attribution:

Dr. Harrington of Bath

Attributed To:

Dr Henry Harington

First Line:

O solitude romantic maid

Page No:

p.348

Poem Title:

Ode on Solitude

Attribution:

Dr. James Grainger

Attributed To:

James Grainger

First Line:

The north east wind did briskly blow

Page No:

pp.349-351

Poem Title:

XV. Bryan and Pereene, A West-Indian Ballad.

Attribution:

Dr. James Grainger.

Attributed To:

James Grainger

First Line:

Gentle river gentle river

Page No:

pp.355-359 (odd pages)

Poem Title:

XVI. Gentle River, Gentle River ['Rio verde, rio verde']. Translated from the Spanish.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Softly blow the evening breezes

Page No:

pp.360-364

Poem Title:

XVII. Alcanzor and Zayda, A Moorish Tale, Imitated from the Spanish.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Yee that frequent the hilles

Page No:

p.372

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Turberville

Attributed To:

George Turbervile [Turberville]

First Line:

Amongst the Monsters that we find

Page No:

p.380

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed