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Title: Lyrics from the Song-Books of the Elizabethan Age

Author: Various

Editor: A. H. Bullen

Release Date: November 2, 2008 [EBook #27129]

Language: English

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REFORMATION
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VICTORIA
UNIVERSITY

TORONTO

LYRICS
FROM THE SONG-BOOKS OF THE
ELIZABETHAN AGE.

NOTE.--_Two hundred and fifty copies of this large paper edition
printed, each of which is numbered._

_No. 221._

LYRICS
FROM THE SONG-BOOKS OF THE
ELIZABETHAN AGE:

Edited by
A.H. BULLEN.

LONDON:
JOHN C. NIMMO,
14, King William Street, Strand, W.C.
1887.

CHISWICK PRESS:--C. Whittingham and Co., Tooks Court, Chancery Lane.

PREFACE.

The present Anthology is intended to serve as a companion volume to the
Poetical Miscellanies published in England at the close of the sixteenth
and the beginning of the seventeenth centuries. A few of the lyrics here
collected are, it is true, included in "England's Helicon," Davison's
"Poetical Rhapsody," and "The Ph[oe]nix' Nest"; and some are to be found
in the modern collections of Oliphant, Collier, Rimbault, Mr. W.J.
Linton, Canon Hannah, and Professor Arber. But many of the poems in the
present volume are, I have every reason to believe, unknown even to
those who have made a special study of Elizabethan poetry. I have gone
carefully through all the old song-books preserved in the library of the
British Museum, and I have given extracts from two books of which there
is no copy in our nationa