RELIQUES

OF

ANCIENT ENGLISH POETRY.

EDINBURGH:

PRINTED BY BALLANTYNE AND COMPANY,

PAUL'S WORK.

RELIQUES

OF

ANCIENT ENGLISH POETRY:

CONSISTING OF

Dld Heroic Ballads, Songs,

AND OTHER PIECES OF OUR EARLIER POETS;

TOGETHER WITH SOME FEW OF LATER DATE.

BY

THOMAS PERCY,

LORD BISHOP OF DROMORE.

REPRINTED ENTIRE FROM THE AUTHOR'S LAST EDITION.

With Memoir and Critical Dissertation,

BY THE

REV. GEORGE GILFILLAN.

IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

EDINBURGH: JAMES NICHOL.

LONDON: JAMES NISBET & CO. DUBLIN: W. ROBERTSON.

M.DCCC.LVIII.

280. p. 111.

X. The Guberlunzie Man, a Scottish Song, by K. James V.

49

XI. On Thomas Lord Cromwell

52

XII. Harpalus, an ancient English Pastoral

55

XIII. Robin and Makyne, an ancient Scottish Pastoral

59

XVII. Hardyknute, a Scottish Fragment, by Sir J. Bruce

78

BOOK II.

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

93

III. Little John Nobody

V. The Heir of Linne

II. John Anderson my Jo, a Scottish Song

IV. Q. Elizabeth's Verses, while Prisoner at Woodstock

VI. Gascoigne's Praise of the Fair Bridges, afterwards Lady Sandes

VII. Fair Rosamond, by Thomas Delone

98

99

103

104

112

116

An Essay on the Word FIT, and the Ancient Ballad-singing

XI. Fancy and Desire, by the Earl of Oxford

141

143

XII. Sir Andrew Barton

145

XIII. Lady Anne Bothwell's Lament, a Scottish Song

157