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Title: The pictorial book of ancient ballad poetry of Great Britain, historical, traditional, and romantic: to which are added, a selection of modern imitations, and some translations
Year: 1853 (1850s)
Authors: Moore, Joseph S., ed. (from old catalog)
Subjects: English ballads and songs
Publisher: London, H. Washbourne & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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s Offering) 750 .R. Southey 757 . Anon. 768 . Anon. 777 .. Rev. J. Watson. 784 .. W. Carleton .. 796 CONTENTS. ffe&m^ The Lay of the Eglantine French- The Admiral Guarino Spanish- King Rodrigos Fall Spanish- Stark Tiderich and Olger Danske ... Danish- Ribolt and Guldborg Danish - The Diver German The Elfin Gray Danish- Lenora German The Wild Huntsman German PAGE-COSTELLO ... 805 -M. G.Lewis. 809 -M.G.Lewis. 814 -Jamieson ... 818•Jamieson -Jamieson—Taylor—Scott Glossary ... 822826830835843 .. 851 CORRIGENDA. Page 36, Introduction, last line, for p. 201 read p. 83. — 195, Introduction, last line, for p. 115 read p. 204. — 632, Introduction, first line, for preceding read succeeding. — 835, Introduction, last line, for the Appendix read p. 463. This Work is so arranged as to make either one or two Volumes ;—if bound in two Vols, the first should consist of the Ancient Ballads,and the second (for which a separate title is given) the Imitations,Translations, and Glossary.
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( This curiosity is printed from an old manuscript, at the end of Hearnes Preface to GkiLNubrigiensis Hist. 1719, 8vo, vol. i. To the MS. copy is subjoined the name of the author,Rychaed Sheale, subscribed, after the usual manner of our old poets, fXpltCCtf) (explicit)quotf) ;&;)d)artf Sf)£aU: whom Hearne had so little judgment as to suppose to be thesame with a R. Sheale, who was living in 1588. But whoever examines the gradation oflanguage and idiom in the following volumes, will be convinced that this is the production ofan earlier poet. It is indeed expressly mentioned among some very ancient songs in an oldbook intituled, The Complaint of Scotland, (fol. 42,) under the title of the Hontis ofChevet, where the two following lines are also quoted: The Perssee and the Mongumrye metteThat day, that day, that gentil day: Which, though not quite the same as they stand in the ballad, yet differ not more than mightbe owing to the authors quoting from memory. Indeed, whoever considers

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