Excerpt from Old Ballads, Historical and Narrative, Vol. 1 of 4: With Some of Modern DateIzhope I shall not be charged with a want of gallantry, for leaving out the effusions of Mrs. Robinson, and helemmaria Wil liams I felt n0' tenderness for the feeble productions. Of Jerningham, Ball, Black lock, and a few others, they never deserved a'place in this collection, and even had they possessed more merit than-they can claim, it Inust be admitted that they occupied too large a portion of a work destined to ex bibit the legitimate productions of our early Minstrels.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 important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.