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While visiting a friend, the writer and cleric Thomas Percy (1729–1811) noticed a neglected folio whose pages were being used by the maids to light the fire. Upon inspection, this manuscript was found to be a seventeenth-century collection of historical ballads. Following this discovery, Percy collected further ballads and songs from a number of sources, which he published in this three-volume work in 1765, although ultimately only a quarter of the texts he presented came from that original manuscript. Although this work proved to be incredibly popular, Percy's idiosyncratic editorial practices also received much criticism. The collection centres on historical ballads and romances, demonstrating the development of language, customs and traditions, to which Percy added contemporary ballads for his readers' enjoyment. Volume 2 includes a rondel which Percy ascribes to Chaucer, as well as verses purported to be by Queen Elizabeth I and King Charles I.

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Author:   Thomas Percy
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Volume:   Volume 2
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.400kg
ISBN:  

9781108077255

ISBN 10:   1108077250
Pages:   382
Publication Date:   29 January 2015
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Part I: 1. Richard of Almaigne; 2. On the death of K. Edward I; 3. An original ballad by Chaucer; 4. The tournament of Tottenham; 5. For the victory of Agincourt; 6. The not-browne mayd; 7. A balet by the Earl Rivers; 8. Cupid's assault, by Lord Vaux; 9. Sir Aldingar; 10. On Thomas Lord Cromwell; 11. Harpalus, an ancient English pastoral; 12. Robin and Makyne, an ancient Scottish pastoral; 13. Gentle herdsman tell to me; 14. K. Edward IV and the tanner of Tamworth; 15. As ye came from the Holy Land; 16. Hardyknute, a Scottish fragment; Part II: 1. A ballad of Luther, the pope, a cardinal and a husbandman; 2. John Anderson, my Jo, a Scottish song; 3. Little John Nobody; 4. Q. Elizabeth's verses while prisoner at Woodstock; 5. Fair Rosamond; 6. Queen Eleanor's coronation; 7. Gascoigne's praise of the fair Bridges; 8. The beggar's daughter of Bednal Green; 9. The sturdy rock; 10. Young waters, a Scottish ballad; 11. Fancy and desire, by the earl of Oxford; 12. Sir Andrew Barton; 13. Lady Bothwell's lament; 14. The murder of the king of Scotts; 15. A sonnet by Q. Elizabeth; 16. The king of Scots and Andrew Browne; 17. The bonny earl of Murray, a Scottish song; 18. Mary Ambree; 19. Brave Lord Willoughby; 20. Victorious men of earth; 21. The winning of Cales; 22. The Spanish lady's love; 23. Argentile and Curan; 24. Corin's fate; 25. Jane Shore; Part III: 1. The complaint of conscience; 2. Plain truth and blind ignorance; 3. The wandering Jew; 4. The lye, by Sir Walter Raleigh; 5. Lord Thomas and fair Annet, a Scottish ballad; 6. Corydon's doleful knell; 7. K. John and the abbot of Canterbury; 8. Verses by K. James I; 9. The heir of Lynne; 12. The old and young courtier; 13. Sir John Suckling's campaigne; 14. To Althea from prison; 15. The downfall of Charing-Cross; 16. Loyalty confined; 17. Verses by King Charles I; 18. The sale of rebellious household stuff; 19. Old Tom of Bedlam, mad song the first; 20. The distracted Puritan, mad song the second; 21. The lunatic lover, mad song the third; 22. The lady distracted with love, mad song the fourth; 23. The distracted lover, mad song the fifth; 24. The frantic lady, mad song the sixth; 25. Lilli-burlero; 26. The braes of Yarrow; 27. Admiral Hosier's ghost; Glossary.

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