Early English poetry, ballads, and popular literature of the Middle Ages ; . superior tomost of the specimens met with in similar productions,as may be judged from the frontispiece here is a curious early MS. of this prose history inthe library of Sion College, which may be the originalwhence the present edition is taken, for the prefacesays, As for the history itself, its very easie to ob-serve, by its phraseology and manner of writing, thattis not very modern, but that the manuscript must atleast have been as old as the days of Queen lodged in a publick library in
Early English poetry, ballads, and popular literature of the Middle Ages ; . superior tomost of the specimens met with in similar productions,as may be judged from the frontispiece here is a curious early MS. of this prose history inthe library of Sion College, which may be the originalwhence the present edition is taken, for the prefacesays, As for the history itself, its very easie to ob-serve, by its phraseology and manner of writing, thattis not very modern, but that the manuscript must atleast have been as old as the days of Queen lodged in a publick library in the city of London,from which a copy was taken, and is now made pub-lick, with no other alteration than such as were neces-sary to make the sence tolerably congruous. Georgea Green is thus noticed by Drunken Barnaby :— Straight at Wakefield I was seen a, Where I sought for George a Green a. But could not find such a creature ; Yet on a sign I savr his feature, Where strength of ale had so much stirrd me, That I grew stouter far than Jordie. NOTICES OF POPULAR This volume contains 109 pages, exclusive of fron-tispiece, title, epistle dedicatory to the Steward andother the Gentlemen and Inhabitants in the Town andLordship of Wakefield in the West-Riding of theCounty of York, signed by N. W., the preface, andone leaf containing a list of books printed and soldby Samuel Ballard at the Blue-Ball in Little Britain. George a Green is mentioned in Gaytons PleasantNotes upon Don Quixote, 1654, p. 21 : Had youheard of Bevis of Southampton, the Counter-scuffle,Sir Eglamore, John Dory, the Pindar of Wakejield,Robin Hood, or Clem of the ClufF, these no doubt hadbeen recommended to the Vatican without any IndexExpurgatorius or censure at all. 8. The Pleasant History of the Frolicksomk 10 NOTICES OF POPULAR HISTORIES. Courtier and the Jovial Tinker. , n. d. A curious medley of tales, the first of which is onthe same story as the Induction to the Taming ofthe Shreio.
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