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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: | Percy Society. |
| OCLC Number: | 8382923 |
| Notes: | Most vols. consists of nos. bound together. |
| Description: | 30 v. : ill. ; 20 cm. |
| Contents: | v. 1. Old ballads from early printed copies. Songs and ballads relative to the London prentices. Historical songs of Ireland. Pain and sorrow of evil marriage. The king and a poor northern man -- v. 2. A selection from the minor poems / of Lydgate. Early naval ballads of England. A search for money / William Rowley. The mad pranks and merry jests of Robin Goodfellow -- v. 3. Political ballads published in England during the Commonwealth. Strange histories / Thomas Deloney. A marriage triumph / Thomas Heywood. The history of patient Grissel -- v. 4. Specimens of lyric poetry, temp. Edw. I. The boke of curtasye. Specimens of old Christmas carols. The nursery rhymes of England -- v. 5. Kind-heart's dream / Henry Chettle. A knight's conjuring / Thomas Dekker. The meeting of gallants at an ordinarie. The two angry women of Abingdon / H. Porter -- v. 6. Ancient poetical tracts of the sixteenth century. Cock Lorell's bote. The crown garland of golden roses. Follie's anatomie / Henry Hutton -- Poems / by Sir Henry Wotton -- v. 7. The harmony of birds. A paraphrase on the seven penitential psalms, in English verse. The harmony of the church / Michael Drayton. Jack of Dover. A Kerry pastoral -- v. 8. A selection of Latin stories. A dialogue of witches and witchcraft / George Gifford -- v. 9. The four knaves / Samuel Rowlands -- A poem to the memory of William Congreve / James Thomson -- The pleasant conceits of old Hobson / The Merry Londonder -- Maroccus extaticus: or Bankes' Bay horse in a trance. Old ballads illustrating the great frost of 1683-4 -- v. 10. Lord Mayors' pageants: parts I. and II. -- v. 11. The owl and the nightingale. Thirteen psalms and the first chapter of Ecclesiastes / John Croke -- An historiall expostulation, etc. / John Hall -- The honestie of this age / Barnaby Rich -- v. 12. Reynard the fox, from Caxton's edition -- v. 13. The keen of the south of Ireland. Six ballads, with burdens. Lyrical poems, selected from musical publications between 1589 and 1600 -- v. 14. The poems / of John Audelay. St. Brandan, a legend of the sea. The romance of the emperor Octavian -- v. 15. Friar Bakon's prophesie. Poetical miscellanies. The crown garland of golden roses, part II -- v. 16. The seven sages, with an introductory essay. The romance of Syr Tryamoure -- v. 17. Scottish traditional versions of ancient ballads. Ancient poems, ballads, and songs -- v. 18. The pastime of pleasure -- v. 19. The civic garland. Life and martyrdom of Thomas Becket -- v. 20. Barnfield's affectionate shepherd. Dialogue on wit and folly. Proverbs and popular sayings. Song of Lady Bessy -- v. 21. Popular songs, illustrative of the French invasions of Ireland. in four parts -- v. 22. The cytezen and uplondyshman. An interlude of the four elements. Interlude of the disobedient child. The autobiography / of Mary Countess of Warwick. Westward for smelts -- v. 23. Songs and carols of the fifteenth century. Festive songs of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Popular English histories -- v. 24. Chaucer's Canterbury tales. volume the first -- v. 25. The Canterbury tales / of Chaucer. vol II -- v. 26. The Canterbury tales / of Chaucer -- v. 27. Beleeve as you list. Satirical songs and poems on costume -- v. 28. An Anglo-Saxon passion of Saint George. A poem on the times of Edward II. The poems / of William De Shoreham. The triall of treasure -- v. 29. Notices of fugitive tracts and chap-books. The man in the moone. The use of dice-play. The loyal garland. Poems and songs on the assassination of the Duke of Buckingham -- |
| Responsibility: | edited from original manuscripts and scarce publications. |
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