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Page viii
Percy's great work ( great , notwithstanding all its omissions , its errors , and its
imperfections ) prepared the way for a better state of things , and brought about a
poetical revolution — a new era in our literature , still in progress , and which has
...
Percy's great work ( great , notwithstanding all its omissions , its errors , and its
imperfections ) prepared the way for a better state of things , and brought about a
poetical revolution — a new era in our literature , still in progress , and which has
...
Page 57
... What hard hap hath brought you here ? Harder hap did never Chance to a
maiden ever ; Here lies slain my brother dear : Where might I be plac'd , Gentle
forester , tell me ? Where might I procure A service in my need ? Pains I will not
spare ...
... What hard hap hath brought you here ? Harder hap did never Chance to a
maiden ever ; Here lies slain my brother dear : Where might I be plac'd , Gentle
forester , tell me ? Where might I procure A service in my need ? Pains I will not
spare ...
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O , cursed pride ! the spring and rote of everi sin , full yll myghte thou fare , For
thou hast brought thys wealthy realme into moche payne and care . And what
maketh us to fall from God , and thus wyckedly to lyve as we doo ? But pryde ,
pryde ...
O , cursed pride ! the spring and rote of everi sin , full yll myghte thou fare , For
thou hast brought thys wealthy realme into moche payne and care . And what
maketh us to fall from God , and thus wyckedly to lyve as we doo ? But pryde ,
pryde ...
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Contents
POLITICAL BALLADS PUBLISHED IN ENGLAND DURING | 11 |
A SELECTION OF LATIN STORIES | 28 |
THE KEEN OF THE SOUTH OF IRELAND | 46 |
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| Title | Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages, Volume 30 Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages, Percy Society Volume 30 of Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages, Edited from Original Manuscripts and Scarce Publications, Percy Society |
| Author | Percy Society |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1965 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 15 May 2018 |
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