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Reliques

OF

ANCIENT ENGLISH POETRY.

AN ordinary Song or Ballad, that is the delight of the common people, cannot fail to please all such readers as are not unqualified for the entertainment by their affectation or their ignorance; and the reason is plain, because the paintings of nature which recommend it to the most ordinary reader, will appear beautiful to the most refined.

ADDISON, in SPECTATOR, No. 70.

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.

IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOL. III.

LONDON:

EDWARD MOXON, DOVER STREET.

MDCCCXLIV.

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