Early English Poetry Ballads And Popular Literature Of The Middle Ages The Affectionate Shepherd

Author : Percy Society
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780483634992
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (349 download)

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Download or read book Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages, Vol. 20 (Classic Reprint) written by Percy Society and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-22 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages, Vol. 20 Encomium of Lady Pecunia, or the Praise of Money, a curious manuscript in the Ashmolean Museum, and likewise printed in the author's life-time. It Should be mentioned that in the original copies of the following tract are a few hexameter verses on the Rape of Helen, which have been omitted as of an inferior kind to the other part of the work, and for still more obvious reasons. The Affectionate Shepherd itself will be found remarkably free from the coarseness which disfigures so much of the Elizabethan lite rature, - an additional inducement, if any were necessary, for rescuing it from the liability to destruction which is of course incident to any book of such excessive rarity. Our thanks are due to the Rev. H. Christmas, Librarian of Sion College, for the courtesy and liberality with which he permitted our transcript to be made from a volume of tracts possessing the greatest charm for the bibliographer; for besides the present one, it contains the first edition of Shakespeare's Lucrece, and several other pieces of nearly equal value, in the finest possible condition. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.