The book of British ballads . -J5. IR LANCELOT DU LAKE. We print this ballad from ablack letter copy in the folio collection at the British Mu-seum, where it is entitled, The Noble Acts Newly FoundOf Arthur of the Table Round. To the tune of FlyingFame. Printed by and for Alex. Melbourn, in GreenArches Court, in the Little Old Bailey. Dr. Percypublished it from a printed copy, corrected in part by afragment in his folio MS. The copy in the British Mu-seum, the learned editor could not have seen; for it ismuch purer than the one that occurs in the is, however, mainly indebted for it
The book of British ballads . -J5. IR LANCELOT DU LAKE. We print this ballad from ablack letter copy in the folio collection at the British Mu-seum, where it is entitled, The Noble Acts Newly FoundOf Arthur of the Table Round. To the tune of FlyingFame. Printed by and for Alex. Melbourn, in GreenArches Court, in the Little Old Bailey. Dr. Percypublished it from a printed copy, corrected in part by afragment in his folio MS. The copy in the British Mu-seum, the learned editor could not have seen; for it ismuch purer than the one that occurs in the is, however, mainly indebted for its celebrity, to the fact; quoted by Shakespeare, in the second part of Henry authorship is attributed by Ritson to Thomas Deloney. Of its remote anti-quity there can be no doubt. The subject is taken from the ancient romance ofKing Arthur (commonly called Morte d Arthur), being a poetical translationof chapters cviii., cix., ex., in Part I., as they stand in Edition 1634, quarto. Sir Lancelot was high in fame among the knig
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