Specimens of Lyric Poetry, Composed in England in the Reign of Edward the First: Edited from Ms. Harl. 2253, in the British Museum (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Specimens of Lyric Poetry, Composed in England in the Reign of Edward the First: Edited From Ms. Harl. 2253, in the British Museum The manuscript from which the following pieces are edited (ms. Harl. No. Is well known to the amateurs of early English poetry. Its date is fixed by the hand-writing and by the con tents to the beginning of the reign of Edward II. It contains political songs relating to different events in the reigns of Henry III and Edward I. The two latest are those on the Traillebastons (a.o. 1305) and the death of Edward I (a.o It is probable that the manuscript was written in, or very soon after, the latter year. Several of the political songs in this manuscript belong, as I have just stated, to the reign of Henry III it is impossible to fix any exact date from internal evidence to the following miscellaneous lyric pieces, but it is most probable that they were all of them current during the reign of Edward I, and had been collected by the writer of the manuscript. 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.