Quaint Gleanings from Ancient Poetry
Goldsmid, Edmund
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Quaint Gleanings From Ancient Poetry:
A COLLECTION OF CURIOUS POETICAL COMPOSITIONS
OF THE XVIth, XVIIth, AND XVIIIth CENTURIES.
EDITED From MSS. and Rare Printed Originals
BY EDMUND GOLDSMID, F.R.H.S.
INTRODUCTION.
The following curious collection I have gathered together during
several years' reading in out-of-the-way corners. Manuscripts, in
public and private libraries; old books picked up on dusty bookstalls,
or carried away as prizes from the battlefield of the auction-room;
even pencillings on the inside of tattered bindings,--all have been
laid under contribution. I trust this medley, or _pot-pourri_, of
snatches of song, grave and gay, will prove as interesting to my
readers as they have been to myself. They claim attention on various
grounds: some are the works of well-known men, such as Anthony Munday
and Warren Hastings; some are bitter political squibs--such, for
instance, as the "Satyre against the Scots," page 47; some, again, are
exquisitely beautiful, as "The Dirge," page 53. A few have appeared in
different collections: but none of my readers, I will undertake to
say, have seen more than a half-dozen or so.
With these few words I beg to introduce Volume One of the "Collectanea
Adamantaea."
EDMUND GOLDSMID.
Edinburgh, _March 6th_, 1884.
CONTENTS.
I. BEAUTIES FORT
II. MY BONNY LASS, THINE EYE
III. ANTHONY MUNDAY'S POEM ON THE CAPTIVITY OF JOHN FOX
IV. CARE FOR THY SOUL
V. MEGLIORA SPERO
VI. A LETTER FROM THE DUKE OF MONMOUTH TO THE KING
VII. THE KING'S ANSWER
VIII. AN EPITAPH ON DUNDEE
IX. THE ROBBER ROBB'D
X. AH! THE SHEPHERD'S MOURNFUL FATE
XI. VERSES TO A FRIEND
XII. A PANYGYRICK UPON OATES
XIII. THE MIRACLE
XIV. THE PATRIOTS
XV. JUSTICE IN MASQUERADE
XVI. THE BRAWNY BISHOP'S LAMENT
XVII. THE POOR BLIND BOY
XVIII. THE INISKILLING REGIMENT
XIX. A BALLAD ON THE FLEET
XX. ON MR. FOX AND MR. HASTINGS
XXI. AN IMITATION OF HORACE, BK. II, ODE 16
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