The book of British ballads . ING ESTMERE. This Old Romantic Legend —for soit is styled by Dr. Percy — is given by him from two\? ? copies; —one in his folio MS., but which containedvery great variations. He admits, however, that some liberties have been taken with the tale. In theintroductory remarks, he speculates at some length con-cerning the age and character of the ballad. It wouldseem, he says, to have been written while part of Spainwas in the hands of the Saracens or Moors, whose empirethere was not fully extinguished before the year Mahometans are spoken of in v. 49., &c. ju
The book of British ballads . ING ESTMERE. This Old Romantic Legend —for soit is styled by Dr. Percy — is given by him from two\? ? copies; —one in his folio MS., but which containedvery great variations. He admits, however, that some liberties have been taken with the tale. In theintroductory remarks, he speculates at some length con-cerning the age and character of the ballad. It wouldseem, he says, to have been written while part of Spainwas in the hands of the Saracens or Moors, whose empirethere was not fully extinguished before the year Mahometans are spoken of in v. 49., &c. just in thesame terms as in all other old romances. The author of the ancientlegend of Sir Bevis represents his hero, upon all occasions, breathing outdefiance against Mahound and Termagaunte ; * and so full of zeal for his religion as to return the following polite message to a Paynimkings fair daughter, who had fallen in love with him, and sent two Saracen knights toinvite him to her bower: — * Dr. Percy, in a
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