Reliques of ancient English poetry [Vol 1] [T84936] [ECCO]

DMI number:

1332

Publication Date:

1765

Volume Number:

1 of 3

ESTC number:

T84936

EEBO/ECCO link:

CW114322346

Shelfmark:

ECCO - BOD

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 FIRST. | [ornament] | LONDON: | Printed for J. DODSLEY in Pall-Mall. | MDCCLXV.

Place of Publication:

London

Genres:

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

Format:

Octavo

Bibliographic details:

The note to the binder reads: 'The Binder is desired to Notice that the marginal Numbers of the 1st and 3[r]d Volumes are wrong: that the Sheets marked Vol. I. are to be bound up as Volume The Third: and that those noted Vol. III. as Volume The First.' ESTC notes: 'Sig. B3 and T 6,7 of vol. 1, sig. N 7 of vol. 2 are said to be reprinted. At p.224 of vol. 3, eight leaves, paged [225]-[240], containing a ballad entitled ’George Barnwell’ are inserted'. ECCO copy (based on BL original) appears to include Percy's or another editor's handwritten notes: pp. 32-33, 124-125.

Comments:

Separated into three books: 'Book the First', 'Book the Second (Containing Ballads that illustrate Shakespeare.)' and 'Book the Third'. With glossary (pp. 330-344). Illustrations: title page, v, 1, 117, 231 & 344. Contents: Latin verse p. 108; Spanish verse pp. 318-322 (even pages). Attributions: although it cannot be said that Thomas Percy authored the poems contained in this miscellany (the only open instance of this being 'The Friar of Orders Gray'), he nevertheless had a significant hand in their eventual shape, editing according to his own aesthetic and intellectual principles.

Other matter:

Prefatory: dedication signed by Thomas Percy [4pp], preface [6pp], essay 'On the Ancient English Minstrels' [9pp], contents and epigraph from Sidney's Defence of Poetry [4pp]. End matter: errata [4pp], advertisement and note to binder [2pp].

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Related People

Editor:

Thomas Percy

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Publisher:

James Dodsley

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Content/Publication

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 about the Lamas tyde

Page No:

pp.21-31

Poem Title:

II. The Battle of Otterbourne.

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First Line:

The rain rins doun through Mirryland toune

Page No:

pp.33-35

Poem Title:

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

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First Line:

In Ireland ferr over the sea

Page No:

pp.36-53

Poem Title:

IV. Sir Cauline.

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First Line:

Quhy dois zour brand sae drap wi' bluid

Page No:

pp.53-56

Poem Title:

V. Edward, Edward, A Scottish Ballad.

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First Line:

I wyll not ones stirre off this grounde

Page No:

p.56

Poem Title:

[no title]

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First Line:

Hearken to me gentlemen

Page No:

pp.58-70

Poem Title:

VI. King Estmere.

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First Line:

The king sits in Dumferling toune

Page No:

pp.72-73

Poem Title:

VII. Sir Patrick Spence, A Scottish Ballad.

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First Line:

Hear undernead dis laitl stean

Page No:

p.75

Poem Title:

[no title]

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First Line:

Lythe and lysten gentylmen

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p.76

Poem Title:

[no title]

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First Line:

Whan shales beene sheene and shraddes full fayre

Page No:

pp.77-86

Poem Title:

VIII. Robin Hood and Guy of Gisborne.

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First Line:

I loked about and sawe a craggy roche

Page No:

pp.87-90

Poem Title:

IX. The Tower of Doctrine.

Attribution:

Stephen Hawes

Attributed To:

Stephen Hawes

First Line:

On yonder hill a castle standes

Page No:

pp.90-98

Poem Title:

X. The Child of Elle.

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First Line:

It fell about the Martinmas

Page No:

pp.100-106

Poem Title:

XI. Edom O'Gordon, A Scottish Ballad.

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First Line:

I wayle I wepe I sobbe I sigh ful sore

Page No:

pp.108-116

Poem Title:

XII. An Elegy on Henry Fourth Earl of North-Humberland.

Attribution:

John Skelton

Attributed To:

John Skelton

First Line:

This memoriall men may have in mynde

Page No:

p.121

Poem Title:

[no title]

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First Line:

Mery it was in grene forest

Page No:

pp.130-160

Poem Title:

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

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First Line:

With loynes in canvas bow case tyde

Page No:

p.130

Poem Title:

"The long vacation in London"

Attribution:

Sir William Davenant

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

I lothe that I did love

Page No:

pp.161-163

Poem Title:

II. The Aged Lover Renounceth Love.

Attribution:

Lord Vaux

Attributed To:

Thomas Vaux

First Line:

Where gripinge grefes the hart would wounde

Page No:

p.165

Poem Title:

III. A Song to the Lute in Musicke.

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First Line:

I read that once in Affrica

Page No:

pp.167-171

Poem Title:

IV. King Cophetua and the Beggar-Maid.

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First Line:

This winters weather waxeth cold

Page No:

pp.172-175

Poem Title:

V. Take thy Old Cloak About Thee.

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First Line:

My mother had a maid called Barbarie

Page No:

p.175

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespeare

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

A poore soule sat sighing under a sicamore tree

Page No:

pp.176-180

Poem Title:

VI. Willow, Willow, Willow.

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First Line:

All this beheard three wighty yeomen

Page No:

p.181

Poem Title:

[no title]

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First Line:

When Arthur first in court began

Page No:

pp.181-186

Poem Title:

VII. Sir Lancelot Du Lake.

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First Line:

There dwelt a man in Babylon

Page No:

p.187

Poem Title:

The Ballad of Constant Susanna.

Attribution:

Shakespear

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Farewell dear love since thou wilt needs begone

Page No:

pp.188-189

Poem Title:

VIII. Corydon's Farewell to Phillis.

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First Line:

In Venice towne not long agoe

Page No:

pp.191-198

Poem Title:

IX. Gernutus the Jew of Venice.

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First Line:

Live with me and be my love

Page No:

pp.200-202

Poem Title:

X 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.204-209

Poem Title:

XI. Titus Andronicus's Complaint.

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First Line:

Take oh take those lips away

Page No:

p.210

Poem Title:

XII. Take Those Lips Away.

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First Line:

King Leir once ruled in this land

Page No:

pp.212-219

Poem Title:

XIII. King Leir and His Three Daughters.

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First Line:

Crabbed age and youth

Page No:

p.220

Poem Title:

XIV. 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.222-225

Poem Title:

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

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First Line:

It was a friar of orders gray

Page No:

pp.226-230

Poem Title:

XVI. 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.232

Poem Title:

[no title]

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First Line:

The dint it was both sad and sore

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p.232

Poem Title:

[no title]

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First Line:

Of fifteen hundred archers of England

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p.233

Poem Title:

[no title]

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First Line:

Of fifteen hundred Scottish spears

Page No:

p.234

Poem Title:

[no title]

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First Line:

God prosper long our noble king

Page No:

pp.235-246

Poem Title:

I. The More Modern Ballad of Chevy Chace.

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First Line:

The glories of our blood and state

Page No:

p.247

Poem Title:

II. Death's Final Conquest.

Attribution:

James Shirley

Attributed To:

James Shirley

First Line:

Listen lively lordings all

Page No:

pp.250-256

Poem Title:

III. The Rising in the North.

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First Line:

How long shall fortune faile me nowe

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pp.258-268

Poem Title:

IV. Northumberland Betrayed By Douglas.

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First Line:

I am no such pil'd cynique to beleeve

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pp.268-269

Poem Title:

[no title]

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First Line:

My minde to me a kingdome is

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pp.269-271

Poem Title:

V. My Mind To Me A Kingdom Is.

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First Line:

Impatience chaungeth smoke to flame

Page No:

pp.272-280

Poem Title:

VI. The Patient Countess.

Attribution:

W. Warner

Attributed To:

William Warner

First Line:

You meaner beutyes of the night

Page No:

p.281

Poem Title:

VII. You Meaner Beautyes.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Listen to mee my lovely shepheards joye

Page No:

p.282

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Michael Drayton

Attributed To:

Michael Drayton

First Line:

Farre in the countrey of Arden

Page No:

pp.283-288

Poem Title:

VIII. Dowsabell.

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First Line:

Ye shall well heare of a knight

Page No:

p.283

Poem Title:

[no title]

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First Line:

Adieu fond love farewell you wanton powers

Page No:

pp.288-289

Poem Title:

IX. The Farewell to Love.

Attribution:

Beaumont and Fletcher

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher

First Line:

Come worthy Greeke Ulysses come

Page No:

pp.289-293

Poem Title:

X. Ulysses and the Syren

Attribution:

Daniel

Attributed To:

Samuel Daniel

First Line:

It chanced of late a shepherd swain

Page No:

pp.294-296

Poem Title:

XI. Cupid's Pastime.

Attribution:

Francis Davison

Attributed To:

Francis Davison

First Line:

How happy is he born or taught

Page No:

p.297

Poem Title:

XII. The Character of a Happy Life.

Attribution:

Sir Henry Wotton

Attributed To:

Sir Henry Wotton

First Line:

He that loves a rosy cheek

Page No:

p.298

Poem Title:

XIII. Unfading Beauty.

Attribution:

Thomas Carew

Attributed To:

Thomas Carew

First Line:

The queen of scots possessed nought

Page No:

p.299

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

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First Line:

Gilderoy was a bonnie boy

Page No:

pp.300-303

Poem Title:

XIV. Gilderoy.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Away let naught to love displeasing

Page No:

pp.304-305

Poem Title:

XV. Winifreda.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Come listen to my mournful tale

Page No:

pp.306-309

Poem Title:

XVI. Jemmy Dawson.

Attribution:

William Shenstone, Esq.

Attributed To:

William Shenstone

First Line:

In aunciente days tradition showes

Page No:

pp.310-313

Poem Title:

XVII. The Witch of Wokey.

Attribution:

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First Line:

O solitude romantic maid

Page No:

p.314

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.314-316

Poem Title:

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

Attribution:

Dr. James Grainger.

Attributed To:

James Grainger

First Line:

Gentle river gentle river

Page No:

pp.319-323 (odd pages)

Poem Title:

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

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First Line:

Softly blow the evening breezes

Page No:

pp.325-329

Poem Title:

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

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