The book of British ballads . \\\\\. HE CHILD OF ELLE. This beautiful and interestingballad was originally published by Dr. Percy in theReliques of Ancient English Poetry. He describesit as given from a fragment in his folio manuscript;where, although extremely defective and mutilated, itappeared to have so much merit, that it excited a strongdesire to attempt a completion of the story. The ac-complished editor adds, that the reader will easily dis-cover the supplemental stanzas by their inferiority, and,at the same time, be inclined to pardon it, when he con-siders how difficult it must be to
The book of British ballads . \\\\\. HE CHILD OF ELLE. This beautiful and interestingballad was originally published by Dr. Percy in theReliques of Ancient English Poetry. He describesit as given from a fragment in his folio manuscript;where, although extremely defective and mutilated, itappeared to have so much merit, that it excited a strongdesire to attempt a completion of the story. The ac-complished editor adds, that the reader will easily dis-cover the supplemental stanzas by their inferiority, and,at the same time, be inclined to pardon it, when he con-siders how difficult it must be to imitate the affecting simplicity and artlessbeauty of the original. He supplies us with no farther information onthe subject—except that the term Child was a title sometimes given toa knight, and that the word kirke, which occurs towards the close of theballad, is not sufficient to justify us in describing it as Scottish, which it hath beenthought to be, —inasmuch as it was among his own additions j and, moreover,that in the no
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