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XXI. The Distracted Lover MAD SONG THE FIFTH ............................................. was written by Henry Carey, a celebra ...

Where Pluto dwells, Can give such pain as I endure. To some peaceful plain convey me, On a mossey carpet lay me, Fan me with amb ...

XXII. The Frantic Lady.MAD SONG THE SIXTH................................................. This, like No. xx. was originally sun ...

It was written, or at least republished, on the Earl of Tyrconnel's going a second time to Ireland in October 1688. Perhaps it i ...

And he dat will not go to de mass, Lilli, &c. Shall be turn out, and look like an ass. Lilli, &c. Now, now de hereticks ...

XXIV. The Braes Of Yarrow. IN IMITATION OF THE ANCIENT SCOTS MANNER This was written by William Hamilton, of Bangour, Esq. who d ...

And weep around in waeful wise His hapless fate on the Braes of Yarrow. "Curse ye, curse ye, his useless, useless shield, My arm ...

But lang ere night the spear was flown, That slew my luve, and left me mourning. "What can my barbarous barbarous father do, But ...

XXV. Admiral Hosier's Ghost. .................................................................................. This was a party ...

Tho' in Porto-Bello's ruin You now triumph free from fears, When you think on our undoing, You will mix your joy with tears. "Se ...

Here I feed my constant woe: Here the bastimentos viewing, We recal our shameful doom, And our plaintive cries renewing, Wander ...

XXVI. Jemmy Dawson. ............................................................................................. James Dawson w ...

"The gracious prince that gives him life Would crown a never-dying flame, And every tender babe I bore Should learn to lisp the ...

BOOK VII. Poems on King Arthur, etc..................................................................... The remaining books bei ...

accompanied with the solemnity of an oath, and other ceremonies," was of later date, and sprung out of the feudal constitution, ...

But we well know that the Scythian nations situate in the countries about Pontus, Colchis, and the Euxine sea, were in all times ...

the monks, the memory of events was preserved and propagated among the ignorant laity by scarce any other means than the popular ...

century.[33] I know not if the Roman de Brut, written in 1155, was such: But if it was, it was by no means the first poem of the ...

so much stress was laid upon the writings of these last, by such as treat of English poetry, the old metrical romances, though f ...

And thought in that ylke while, To sle the lyon with some gyle. And syngle in a kyrtyll he stode, And abode the lyon fyers and w ...