Songs, Carols, and Other Miscellaneous Poems

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Excerpt from Songs, Carols, and Other Miscellaneous Poems: From the Balliol Ms. 354, Richard Hill's Commonplace-BookIN publishing this volume, it is my duty to gratefully state manifold obligations first of all, to the authorities of both Balliol College and the Bodleian Library, for facilitating the use and copying of the ms. In the reading-room of the latter 5 to its sub-librarian, Mr. Falconer Madan, for palaeographical instruo tion, to Dr. James Morison, Oxford, for kindly collating proofs with the ms. To Dr. J. H. Wylie as well as my American friends Professor F. M. Padelford (of Washington State University) and Dr. H. N. Macoracken (of Harvard) for useful information on particulars - finally, and above all, to Dr. Henry Bradley and Dr. F. J. Furnivall, for help and encouragement in every way. Dr. Bradley's valuable contributions to my glossary are recorded in it of Dr. Furnivall's experienced hand it will be easy to discern characteristic touches on almost every page of the book.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.