The ancient and modern ballads of Chevy ChaseWith notes, music, and new pictures by TF . THE ANCIENT BALLAD OF HE fine heroic song of Chevy-Chase has everbeen admired by competent judges. Thosegenuine strokes of nature and artless passionwhich have endeared it to the most simplereaders, have recommended it to the most re-lined ; and it has equally been the amusement of our childhood,and the favourite of our riper years. Mr. Addison has given an excellent critique* on this verypopular ballad, but is mistaken with regard to the antiquity of thecommon-received copy ; f for this, if
The ancient and modern ballads of Chevy ChaseWith notes, music, and new pictures by TF . THE ANCIENT BALLAD OF HE fine heroic song of Chevy-Chase has everbeen admired by competent judges. Thosegenuine strokes of nature and artless passionwhich have endeared it to the most simplereaders, have recommended it to the most re-lined ; and it has equally been the amusement of our childhood,and the favourite of our riper years. Mr. Addison has given an excellent critique* on this verypopular ballad, but is mistaken with regard to the antiquity of thecommon-received copy ; f for this, if one may judge from the style,cannot be older than the time of Elizabeth, and was probablywritten after the elogium of Sir Philip Sidney: perhaps in conse-quence of it. 1 flatter myself I have here recovered the genuineantique poem; the true original song, which appeared rude evenin the time of Sir Philip, and caused him to lament that it was soevil-apparelled in the rugged garb of antiquity. * Spectator, No. 70, 74. f See page 40. 10 THE ANCIENT BALLAD This curiosity is printed, from an old manuscript, at the end ofHea
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