RELIQUES OF ANCIENT ENGLISH POETRY CONSISTING OF OLD HEROIC BALLADS, SONGS AND OTHER PIECES OF OUR EARLIER POETS TOGETHER WITH SOME FEW OF LATER DATE

BY THOMAS PERCY, D.D. BISHOP OF DROMORE

EDITED, WITH A GENERAL INTRODUCTION, ADDITIONAL PREFACES, NOTES, GLOSSARY, ETC. BY HENRY B. WHEATLEY, F.S.A.

IN THREE VOLUMES VOL. I

LONDON: GEORGE ALLEN & UNWIN LTD. RUSKIN HOUSE 40 MUSEUM STREET, W.C.1

First Published by Swan Sonnenschein April 1885

Reprinted August 1891

" August 1899

" December 1909

" January 1927

Printed by the Riverside Press Limited, Edinburgh Great Britain