The book of British ballads . dto the discovery. There were marksof 10 wounds in the head, and onemortal gash, intended, he says, forthe identical gash or hole that wasmade in it by his nephew, skulls remained at Glaston-bury until the Reformation. Wecopy the wood-cut representationof King Arthur and his Knights,seated at their Round Table, fromtheir most ancient and famous History (1534; a reprint of theedition issued from the press of our first printer, Caxton, in 1485). It is curious asdisplaying the idea formed by our ancestors of the Round Table, and the mannerin which Arthur
The book of British ballads . dto the discovery. There were marksof 10 wounds in the head, and onemortal gash, intended, he says, forthe identical gash or hole that wasmade in it by his nephew, skulls remained at Glaston-bury until the Reformation. Wecopy the wood-cut representationof King Arthur and his Knights,seated at their Round Table, fromtheir most ancient and famous History (1534; a reprint of theedition issued from the press of our first printer, Caxton, in 1485). It is curious asdisplaying the idea formed by our ancestors of the Round Table, and the mannerin which Arthur and his Knights were seated at it. The subjoined ballad is copied from Bishop Percy, who extracted it from his Manuscript folio; giving to it some conjectural emendations, and even asupplement of three or four stanzas, composed from the romance of Morted Arthur,—the original MS. of which exists in the Harleian Library in theBritish Museum. The substance of it is given by Mr. Ellis in his Specimens ofEarly Metrical Franklin, del Green, sc. y-f* I
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