This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1866 edition by Bernhard Tauchnitz, Leipzig.
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THE third volume being chiefly devoted to romantic subjects, may not be improperly introduced with a few slight strictures on the old Metrical Romances: a subject the more worthy attention, as it seems not to have been known to such as have written on the nature and origin of books of chivalry, that the first compositions of this kind were in verse, and usually sung to the harp. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
ladye gay, ladye faire, metrical romances, old romance Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Sir Lybius, Childe Waters, Sir Bertram, Barbara Allen, Gill Morice, Ben Jonson, Lord Percy, Queen Elizabeth, Barbara Allan, King Henry, Seven Champions, Faerie Queen, Fair Margaret, More of More-hall, Sir Gawain, John Cockle, Northern Antiquities, Sir William, British Museum, George Barnwell, England's Helicon, Fletcher's Knight of the Burning Pestle, John Grubb, Morte Arthur, Saviour Christ New!
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THE third volume being chiefly devoted to romantic subjects, may not be improperly introduced with a few slight strictures on the old Metrical Romances: a subject the more worthy attention, as it seems not to have been known to such as have written on the nature and origin of books of chivalry, that the first compositions of this kind were in verse, and usually sung to the harp. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
ladye gay, ladye faire, metrical romances, old romance Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Sir Lybius, Childe Waters, Sir Bertram, Barbara Allen, Gill Morice, Ben Jonson, Lord Percy, Queen Elizabeth, Barbara Allan, King Henry, Seven Champions, Faerie Queen, Fair Margaret, More of More-hall, Sir Gawain, John Cockle, Northern Antiquities, Sir William, British Museum, George Barnwell, England's Helicon, Fletcher's Knight of the Burning Pestle, John Grubb, Morte Arthur, Saviour Christ New!
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- The Wife of Bath (Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism) by Geoffrey Chaucer on page 41, page 44, and page 204
- The Knight of the Burning Pestle, Second Edition (New Mermaids) by Francis Beaumont on page 84, page 114, and page 128
- The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer on page 17, and page 32
- Canterbury Tales (Barron's Book Notes) by Chaucer on page 17, and page 32
- History of English Poetry (4 Volumes in 3) by Thomas Warton on page 5, and page 32
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