Reliques of ancient English poetry [London and Frankfurt] [Vol 2] [T84265] [ECCO]

DMI number:

1394

Publication Date:

1790

Volume Number:

2 of 3

ESTC number:

T84265

EEBO/ECCO link:

CW115526337

Shelfmark:

ECCO - BL

Full Title:

RELIQUES | OF | ANCIENT ENGLISH POETRY: | CONSISTING OF | Old Heroic BALLADS, SONGS, and other | PIECES of our earlier POETS, | (Chiefly of the LYRIC kind.) | Together with some few of later Date. | VOLUME THE SECOND. | [ornament] | [i]LONDON:[/i] | MDCCXC.

Place of Publication:

London

Genres:

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

Format:

Octavo

Bibliographic details:

This volume has the imprint "London: 1790".

Comments:

Separated into three books: 'Book the First', 'Book the Second' and 'Book the Third'. With glossary (back of volume, 12pp.) Illustrations: title page, 1, 95, 223. Contents: Latin verse p. 109. Repeat pages: 102-103.

Other matter:

Prefatory: contents and epigraph from Selden's Table-Talk [4pp]. End matter: postscript [1pp].

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Editor:

Thomas Percy

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Publisher:

J. G. Fleischer

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Content/Publication

First Line:

Sitteth alle stille ant herkneth to me

Page No:

pp.4-5

Poem Title:

I. Richard of Almaigne.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Alle that beoth of huerte trewe

Page No:

pp.7-10

Poem Title:

II. On the Death of K. Edward The First.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Youre two eyn will sle me sodenly

Page No:

pp.11-12

Poem Title:

III. An Original Ballad By Chaucer.

Attribution:

Dan Geofrey Chaucer

Attributed To:

Geoffrey Chaucer

First Line:

Of all the kene conquerours to carpe is our kinde

Page No:

pp.15-28

Poem Title:

IV. The Turnament of Tottenham: "or, the wooeing, winning, and wedding of Tibbe, the Reev's daughter there."

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Owre kynge went forth to Normandy

Page No:

pp.24-25

Poem Title:

V. For The Victory At Agincourt.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Be it ryght or wrong these men among on women do complayne

Page No:

pp.27-41

Poem Title:

VI. The Not-Browne Mayd.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Grant gracious god grant me this time

Page No:

p.27

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Alone walkyng in thought plainyng

Page No:

p.42

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Chaucer

Attributed To:

Geoffrey Chaucer

First Line:

Sumwhat musyng and more mornyng

Page No:

pp.42-43

Poem Title:

VII. A Balet By The Earl Rivers.

Attribution:

Anthony Widville, Earl Rivers

Attributed To:

Anthony Woodville [Wydeville]

First Line:

When Cupide scaled fyrst the fort

Page No:

pp.44-46

Poem Title:

VIII. Cupid's Assault: By Nich. Lord Vaux.

Attribution:

Sir Nicholas (afterwards lord) Vaux

Attributed To:

Nicholas Vaux

First Line:

Our kyng he kept a false stewarde

Page No:

pp.46-54

Poem Title:

IX. Sir Aldingar.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Both man and chylde is glad to here tell

Page No:

pp.55-57

Poem Title:

X. On Thomas Lord Cromwell.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Phillida was a faire maide

Page No:

pp.58-62

Poem Title:

XI. Harpalus. An Ancient English Pastoral.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Robin sat on the gude grene hill

Page No:

pp.63-67

Poem Title:

XII. Rorin [sic] and Makyne. An Ancient Scottish Pastoral.

Attribution:

Mr. Robert Henryson

Attributed To:

Robert Henryson

First Line:

Gentle herdsman tell to me

Page No:

pp.68-70

Poem Title:

XIII. Gentle Herdsman, Tell To Me.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Nay sayd John by gods grace

Page No:

p.71

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

In summer time when leaves grow greene

Page No:

pp.72-78

Poem Title:

XIV. K. Edward IV. And Tanner of Tamworth.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

As I went to Walsingham

Page No:

p.79

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

As ye came from the holy land

Page No:

pp.79-81

Poem Title:

XV. As Ye Came From The Holy Land.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Stately stept he east the wa

Page No:

pp.82-94

Poem Title:

XVI. Hardyknute. A Scottish Fragment.

Attribution:

Mrs. Wardlaw

Attributed To:

Elizabeth Wardlaw [née Halket]

First Line:

The olde people would believe stil in my lawes

Page No:

p.97

Poem Title:

Every Man

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The worlde was never meri

Page No:

p.97

Poem Title:

Lusty Juventus

Attribution:

R. Wever

Attributed To:

R. Wever

First Line:

Let us lyft up our hartes all

Page No:

pp.98-101

Poem Title:

I. A Ballad of Luther, the Pope, A Cardinal, and a Husbandman.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Tak a wobster that is leill

Page No:

p.102

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

John Anderson my jo cum in as ze gae bye

Page No:

p.103

Poem Title:

II. John Anderson My Jo. A Scottish Song.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

In december when the dayes draw to be short

Page No:

pp.105-107

Poem Title:

III. Little John Nobody.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Oh fortune how thy restlesse wavering state

Page No:

p.108

Poem Title:

IV. Elizabeth's Verses, While Prisoner at Woodstock.

Attribution:

Elizabethe

Attributed To:

Elizabeth I

First Line:

The rose of the world but not the cleane flowre

Page No:

p.110

Poem Title:

('Hic jacet in tumba Rosa mundi non Rosa munda') In English thus:

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

When as king Henry rulde this land

Page No:

pp.113-120

Poem Title:

V. Fair Rosamond.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Queene Elianor was a ficke woman

Page No:

pp.121-124

Poem Title:

VI. Queen Eleanor's Confession.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

In court whoso demaundes

Page No:

pp.127-129

Poem Title:

VII. Gascoigne's Praise of the Fair Bridges, Afterwards Lady Sandes. On her having a scar in her forehead.

Attribution:

George Gascoigne

Attributed To:

George Gascoigne

First Line:

his reverend lockes

Page No:

p.129

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Itt was a blind beggar had long lost his sight

Page No:

pp.130-143

Poem Title:

VIII. The Beggar's Daughter of Bednall-Green.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

When meate and drinke is great plentye

Page No:

p.137

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Thule the period of cosmographie

Page No:

pp.143-144

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The sturdy rock for all his strength

Page No:

pp.144-145

Poem Title:

IX. The Sturdy Rock.

Attribution:

'M. T. [perhaps invertedly for T. Marshall]'

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

About Zule quhen the wind blew cule

Page No:

pp.145-147

Poem Title:

X. Young Waters. A Scottish Ballad.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

A crowne of baies shall that man beare

Page No:

p.148

Poem Title:

The Complaint of a Lover, wearing blacke and tawnie."

Attribution:

Edward Vere

Attributed To:

Edward de Vere

First Line:

Come hither shepherd's swayne

Page No:

pp.148-149

Poem Title:

XI. Fancy and Desire: By the Earl of Oxford.

Attribution:

Edward Vere

Attributed To:

Edward de Vere

First Line:

When Flora with her fragrant flowers

Page No:

pp.152-164

Poem Title:

XII. Sir Andrew Barton.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Balow my babe ly stil and sleipe

Page No:

pp.165-167

Poem Title:

XIII. Lady Bothwell's Lament, A Scottish Song.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Woe worth woe worth thee false Scotlande

Page No:

pp.168-170

Poem Title:

XIV. The Murder Of The King Of Scots.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The doubt of future foes

Page No:

pp.172-173

Poem Title:

XV. A Sonnet By Q. Elizabeth.

Attribution:

Elizabeth

Attributed To:

Elizabeth I

First Line:

Dear drunk here Elderton doth lie

Page No:

p.174

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Out alas what a griefe is this

Page No:

pp.175-178

Poem Title:

XVI. King of Scots and Andrew Browne.

Attribution:

W. Elderton

Attributed To:

Elderton William

First Line:

Ye highlands and ye lawlands

Page No:

p.180

Poem Title:

XVII. The Bonny Earl Of Murray. A Scottish Song.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Mary Ambree

Page No:

p.181

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ben Jonson...his masque intitled The Fortunate Isles

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

When captaines couragious whom death colde not daunte

Page No:

pp.182-185

Poem Title:

XVIII. Mary Ambree.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The fifteenth day of July

Page No:

pp.186-189

Poem Title:

XIX. Brave Lord Willoughby.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Victorious men of earth no more

Page No:

p.190

Poem Title:

XX. Victorious Men of Earth.

Attribution:

James Shirley

Attributed To:

James Shirley

First Line:

A gentleman of Wales a knight of Cales

Page No:

p.191

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Long the proud Spaniards had vaunted their conquests

Page No:

pp.191-194

Poem Title:

XXI. The Winning of Cales.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Will you hear a Spanish lady

Page No:

pp.194-197

Poem Title:

XXII. The Spanish Lady's Love.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The Brutons being departed hence

Page No:

pp.199-211

Poem Title:

XXIII. Argentile and Curan.

Attribution:

William Warner

Attributed To:

William Warner

First Line:

With that she dasht her on the lippes

Page No:

p.199

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

William Warner

Attributed To:

William Warner

First Line:

Corin most unhappie swaine

Page No:

pp.211-212

Poem Title:

XXIV. Corin's Fate.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

If Rosamonde that was so faire

Page No:

pp.217-222

Poem Title:

XXV. Jane Shore.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

In a somer season when hot was the sunne

Page No:

p.225

Poem Title:

Pierce Plowman's Visions

Attribution:

Robert Langland

Attributed To:

Robert Langland

First Line:

Cros and curteis Christ this beginning spede

Page No:

p.227

Poem Title:

Pierce the Ploughman's Crede.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

All weldynge god whene it is his wylle

Page No:

p.228

Poem Title:

Chevelere Assigne

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

In Tyberius tyme the trewe emperour

Page No:

p.228

Poem Title:

The Sege of Ierlam

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Christ christen king that on the crosse tholed

Page No:

p.230

Poem Title:

Death and Liffe

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Shee was brighter of her blee then was the bright sonn

Page No:

pp.230-231

Poem Title:

Death and Liffe

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

He was a gentleman by Jesu that this gest made

Page No:

pp.231-232

Poem Title:

Scottish Feilde

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The Saxons tho in ther power tho thii were so rive

Page No:

p.234

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Robert of Gloucester

Attributed To:

Robert of Gloucester

First Line:

As I walked of late by an wood side

Page No:

pp.235-239

Poem Title:

I. The Complaint of Conscience.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

God speed you ancient father

Page No:

pp.240-245

Poem Title:

II. Plain Truth, And Blind Ignorance.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

When as in faire Jerusalem

Page No:

pp.247-251

Poem Title:

III. The Wandering Jew.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Goe soule the bodies guest

Page No:

pp.252-254

Poem Title:

IV. The Lye.

Attribution:

By Sir Walter Raleigh

Attributed To:

Sir Walter Ralegh [Raleigh]

First Line:

Lord Thomas and fair Annet

Page No:

pp.255-259

Poem Title:

V. Lord Thomas and Fair Annet, A Scottish Ballad.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

My Phillida adieu love

Page No:

pp.260-262

Poem Title:

VI. Corydon's Doleful Knell.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Full fadom five thy father lies

Page No:

p.260

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's Tempest

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

An ancient story ile tell you anon

Page No:

pp.263-267

Poem Title:

VII. K. John and The Abbot of Canterbury.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

As Adam was the first of men whence all beginning takt

Page No:

p.268

Poem Title:

VIII. Verses by K. James I.

Attribution:

K. James I.

Attributed To:

James VI and I

First Line:

Lithe and listen gentlemen

Page No:

pp.269-277

Poem Title:

IX. The Heir of Linne.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

An old song made by an aged old pate

Page No:

pp.278-281

Poem Title:

XII. The Old and Young Courtier.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Sir John he got him an ambling nag

Page No:

pp.282-283

Poem Title:

XIII. Sir John Suckling's Campaigne.

Attribution:

Sir John Mennis

Attributed To:

Sir John Mennes

First Line:

When love with unconfined wings

Page No:

pp.284-285

Poem Title:

XIV. To Althea From Prison.

Attribution:

Richard Lovelace

Attributed To:

Richard Lovelace

First Line:

Undone undone the lawyers are

Page No:

pp.285-287

Poem Title:

XV. The Downfall of Charing-Cross.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Beat on proud billows Boreas blow

Page No:

pp.288-290

Poem Title:

XVI. Loyalty Confined.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Great monarch of the world from whose power springs

Page No:

pp.291-294

Poem Title:

XVII. Verses By K. Charles I.

Attribution:

K. Charles I.

Attributed To:

Charles I

First Line:

Rebellion hath broken up house

Page No:

pp.294-298

Poem Title:

XVIII. The Sale of Rebellious Houshold-Stuff.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Forth from my sad and darksome cell

Page No:

pp.299-301

Poem Title:

XIX. Old Tom of Bedlam.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Am I mad O noble Festus

Page No:

pp.301-304

Poem Title:

XX. The Distracted Puritan.

Attribution:

bishop Corbet

Attributed To:

Richard Corbett

First Line:

Grim king of the ghosts make haste

Page No:

pp.305-307

Poem Title:

XXI. The Lunatic Lover.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

From rosie bowers where sleeps the god of love

Page No:

pp.307-309

Poem Title:

XXII. The Lady Distracted With Love.

Attribution:

Tom D'Urfey

Attributed To:

Thomas D'Urfey

First Line:

I go to the Elysian shade

Page No:

pp.309-310

Poem Title:

XXIII. The Distracted Lover.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

I burn my brain consumes to ashes

Page No:

p.311

Poem Title:

XXIV. The Frantic Lady.

Attribution:

D'Urfey

Attributed To:

Thomas D'Urfey

First Line:

Ho broder Teague dost hear de decree

Page No:

pp.313-314

Poem Title:

XXV. Lilli Burlero.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Busk ye busk ye my bonny bonny bride

Page No:

pp.315-319

Poem Title:

XXVI. The Braes of Yarrow, In imitation of the Ancient Scots manner.

Attribution:

William Hamilton

Attributed To:

William of Bangour Hamilton

First Line:

As near Porto Bello lying

Page No:

pp.319-322

Poem Title:

XXVII. Admiral Hosier's Ghost.

Attribution:

by the ingenious author of Leonidas.

Attributed To:

Richard Glover