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From Glaston came a lerned wight, Full bent to marr her fell dispight, And well he did, I weene: Sich mischief never had been kn ...

XV. Bryan and Pereene, A WEST-INDIAN BALLAD. ........................................... This piece is founded on a real fact, t ...

Her cheeks red dewy rose buds deck, Her eyes like diamonds shine. Soon as his well-known ship she spied, She cast her weeds away ...

XVI. Gentle River, Gentle River.TRANSLATED FROM THE SPANISH. .......... Although the English are remarkable for the number and v ...

is the former of these that is here reprinted. They both of them begin with the same line: Rio verde, rio verde.[2] which could ...

Y tambien te tratare, Como a mi me tratabas." 'Sayavedra que lo oyera, Al Moro bolvio la cara Tirole el Moro una flecha, Pero nu ...

XVII. Alcanzor and Zayda. A MOORISH TALE. IMITATED FROM THE SPANISH. The foregoing version was rendered as literal as the nature ...

That seduc'd by sordid riches Thou wilt sell thy bloom to age? "An old lord from Antiquera Thy stern father brings along; But ca ...

Take this scarf, a parting token; When thou wear'st it think on me. "Soon, lov'd youth, some worthier maiden Shall reward thy ge ...

BOOK IV ................................................................................................................... I. R ...

expressed by the character þ [thorn]; the y is pointed after the Saxon manner, and the í hath an oblique stroke over it. Prefixe ...

Sire Simon de Montfort hath suore bi ys cop, Hevede he nou here Sire Hue de Bigot: Al he shulde grante here twelfmoneth scot Shu ...

II. On the Death of K. Edward the First..................................................................... We have here an ear ...

Y deze, y ne may lyven na more; Helpeth mi sone, ant crouneth him newe, For he is nest to buen y-core. "Ich biqueth myn herte ar ...

He wolde ha rered up ful heyze Oure banners, that bueth broht to grounde; Wel! longe we mowe clepe and crie Er we a such kyng ha ...

III. An original Ballad by Chaucer. ........................................................................... This little sonn ...

He may answere, and sey this and that, I do no fors, I speak ryght as I mene: Syn I fro love escaped am so fat. 3. Love hath my ...

IV. The Turnament of Tottenham; OR, THE WOOEING, WINNING, AND WEDDING OF TIBBE, THE REEV'S DAVGHTER THERE. [1] It does honour to ...

In the former editions of this work, Bedwell's copy was reprinted here, with some few conjectural emendations; but as Bedwell se ...

I wold not my dozter, that scho were miscaryd, But at hur most worschip I wold scho were maryd; Therfor a Turnament schal begynn ...