Reliques of Ancient English Poetry consisting of Old Heroic Ballads, Songs, and other Pieces of our earlier Poets, (Chiefly of the Lyric kind.) Together with some few of later Date |
 | 1. |
| 2. |
 | 3. |
| 3. |
| I. |
| II. |
| III. |
 | Reliques of Ancient English Poetry |  |
I never heard the old song of Percie and Douglas, that I
found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet:
and yet ‘it’ is sung but by some blinde crowder, with
no rougher voice, than rude stile; which beeing so
evill apparelled in the dust and cobweb of that uncivill
age, what would it work, trimmed in the gorgeous eloquence of Pindare?
Sir Philip Sydney's Defence of Poetry.
| Reliques of Ancient English Poetry | |