"The third forrowing was of loues by long lamentation in Elegie, fo was their fong called; & it was in a piteous manner of meetre, placing a limping Pentameter after a lufty Exameter, which made it go dolourously, more than any other meetre."

-PUTTENHAM: Arte of Englishe Poefie.

2

ANCIENT AND MODERN.

WITH AN INTRODUCTORY STUDY

OF

THE HISTORY OF ELEGIAC POETRY FROM THE EARLIEST
DAYS DOWN TO THE PRESENT TIME.

BY

MARY LLOYD.

VOLUME I.

ALBERT BRANDT: PUBLISHER,

TRENTON, NEW JERSEY.