The book of British ballads . HE BEGGARS DAUGHTER OF BEDNALL take this fine and touching old ballad from the Reliques of Dr. Percy, although a black-lettercopy of it is preserved in the folio collection atthe British Museum ; retaining it chiefly becausethe Doctor has added, at the close, several stanzasin lieu of those which are found in the early edition;admitting, therefore, the cogency of his reasons for thechange he has introduced. He does not give these stanzasas genuine, but as a modern attempt to remove theabsurdities and inconsistencies which so remarkably prevailed in theanc
The book of British ballads . HE BEGGARS DAUGHTER OF BEDNALL take this fine and touching old ballad from the Reliques of Dr. Percy, although a black-lettercopy of it is preserved in the folio collection atthe British Museum ; retaining it chiefly becausethe Doctor has added, at the close, several stanzasin lieu of those which are found in the early edition;admitting, therefore, the cogency of his reasons for thechange he has introduced. He does not give these stanzasas genuine, but as a modern attempt to remove theabsurdities and inconsistencies which so remarkably prevailed in theancient version of the story—thus rendering it much more affecting, and reconciling it to probability and true history. The verses displaced byPercy we also insert. We find, however, many differences between the twocopies ; although none of them, except the extensive one referred to, are very~ essential. As that in the British Museum contains several passages whichPercy may have altered, but which we do not think he has improv
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