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The English and Scottish popular ballads, volume 3 (of 5)

Note 194 — 164 KING HENRY FIFTH’S CONQUEST OF FRANCE

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Cheshire, Lancashire, and the Earl of Derby are made to carry off the honors in ballad-histories of Bosworth and Flodden: see the appendix to No 168. Perhaps the hand of some minstrel of the same clan as the author or authors of those eulogies may be seen in this passage.

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