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The Pictorial Book

OF

ANCIENT BALLAD POETRY

OF

GREAT BRITAIN,

HISTORICAL, TRADITIONAL, AND ROMANTIC :

TO WHICH ARE ADDED,

A SELECTION OF MODERN IMITATIONS,

And some Translations.

EDITED BY

J. S. MOORE, ESQ.

A NEW EDITION,

REVISED, AND CHRONOLOGICALLY ARRANGED, WITH ADDITIONS,
INTRODUCTORY NOTICES, A GLOSSARY, ETC. ETC.

LONDON:

HENRY WASHBOURNE & CO., IVY LANE,

PATERNOSTER ROW.

25251.9

HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY
Evris. 12

1863, Meur 12

Pharwich Fund

Preface.

IN presenting a New Edition of the PICTORIAL BOOK OF ANCIENT BALLAD POETRY, it is only necessary to state that some additions have been made to it, and the whole has been re-arranged; and though it is scarcely possible to fix upon the exact period of all the pieces, yet some attempt has been made to place most of them in chronological order, so that as the earliest belong to the reign of Henry VI., the volume will show the progress of Ballad Poetry from that time; when, however, more than one version of a Ballad is given, it has been thought best to place them together, the earliest preceding the later. The doings of Robin Hood and his Merrie Men, which form a prominent feature in this collection, and are comprised in ten pieces, embracing the earliest known Ballad, and ending with that upon his death, from Ritson's Robin Hood's Garland, printed at York, have been also kept together, as to have separated them would have spoilt the interest of the subject, and lessened their value.

The sources from which the Ballads have been derived are pointed out in the introductory notice prefixed to each, by reference to which it will be seen that not only Percy, Ritson,

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