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Reliques of Ancient English Poetry By Thomas Percy Published by the Ex-classics Project, 2016 http://www.exclassics.com Public D ...

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Title Page .................................................................................................................... ...

Title Page ..................................................................................................................... ...

Dedication. .................................................................................................................... ...

Advertisement to the Edition of 1876. ........................................................................... As early as th ...

The original three volumes appear in two, though Percy's arrangement of Books remains unaltered and consecutive. A few explanato ...

Preface......................................................................................................................... ...

The reader will find this class of men occasionally described in the following volumes, and some particulars relating to their h ...

liberties[4] were taken with the old copies, and to have retained, either in the text or margin, any word or phrase which was an ...

he need not be ashamed of having bestowed some of his idle hours on the ancient literature of our own country, or in rescuing fr ...

favoured with many valuable remarks and corrections from the Rev. Geo. Ashby, late Fellow of St John's College, in Cambridge, wh ...

An Essay On The Ancient Minstrels In England......................................................... I. The MINSTRELS (A)[1] we ...

In the early ages, as was hinted above, the profession of oral itinerant Poet was held in the utmost reverence among all the Dan ...

times, and had before them too many recent monuments of the Anglo-Saxon nation, not to know what was conformable to the genius a ...

he entertained Athelstan and his lords with his singing and his music, and was at length dismissed with an honourable reward, th ...

inhabitants were not extirpated, these could only understand their own native Gleemen or Minstrels, who must still be allowed to ...