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Excerpt from Percy Society, Early English Poetry, Ballads, Vol. 18: And Popular Literature of the Middle AgesThe present edition is a reprint of that of 1555 of which there is a copy in the British Museum. In two passages the language is so gross in the original, that it has been considered necessary to omit a few lines. These relate chie¿y to the dénouement of a tale which was extremely popu lar in the Middle Ages, and which will be found tol...

Excerpt from Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages, Vol. 8: Edited From Original Manuscripts and Scarce PublicationsThe following Collection of Stories is offered merely as a specimen of the class of literature to which it belongs. The Editor has not had the leisure to carry his researches further than a few manuscripts in the Museum which were ready at his hand. He is aware of the existence of nu merous valu...

Excerpt from Early English Poetry, Ballads, Vol. 19: And Popular Literature of the Middle AgesIT was my original intention to have appended the songs from the -mayoralty pageants of London, contained in this volume, to the volume on Lord Mayors Pageants published by the Percy Society in 1843-4, so that this may be considered as the third and concluding part of the collections on that subject. I have however not restricted myself now, as I shou...

Excerpt from Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages, Vol. 25: Edited From Original Manuscripts and Scarce PublicationsOure host answerd, Pees, no more of this. And after this he sayd unto the Frere, Telleth forth your tale, my leve maister deere.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an impo...

Excerpt from Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages, Vol. 27: Edited From Original Manuscripts and Scarce Publications I have reason to believe that the ms. Was formerly in the hands of David Garrick, in whose time the merits of Massinger were not highly appreciated, and who might not, therefore, have had the same regard for the missing document, as it would subsequently have obtained from the late Mr. Giffor...

Excerpt from Early English Poetry, Ballads, Vol. 17: And Popular Literature of the Middle Ages, Edited From Original Manuscripts and Scarce PublicationsThe history of the present little volume is soon told. Amongst the manuscripts which from time to time have found their way into the Council room of the Percy Society, were two folio volumes, consisting of ballads, songs, and poems, taken down by Mr. P. Buchan of Peterhead, n.b. From the oral r...

Excerpt from Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages, Vol. 6: Edited From Original Manuscripts and Scarce Publications Prelusions. The only work in which the ballad has yet been discovered is Arnold's Chronicle, supposed to have been printed about 1502. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproducti...

Excerpt from Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages, Vol. 29: Edited From Original Manuscripts and Scarce Publications IN black-letter, with wood-cuts, containing much that is curious and illustrative of old popular notions. Under this heading, the mind of the fathers of the nature of the fire, we are told. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find m...

Excerpt from Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages, Vol. 22: Edited From Original Manuscripts and Scarce Publications It was unanimously resolved that the third book of 'browne's Britannia's Pastorals' [no. XCIII], be issued at once, appending only the Resolutions passed at the General Meeting, and a notice that the title pages, list of Members, table of contents, etc., will be issued as soon after 'the term...