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Title: Ballads of Mystery and Miracle and Fyttes of Mirth
Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Second Series

Author: Frank Sidgwick

Release Date: May 18, 2008 [EBook #25511]

Language: English

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POPULAR BALLADS OF THE OLDEN TIME

FIRST SERIES. Ballads of Romance and Chivalry.

'It forms an excellent introduction to a sadly neglected source of
poetry.... We ... hope that it will receive ample encouragement.'
--_Athenaeum_.

'It will certainly, if carried out as it is begun, constitute a boon to
the lover of poetry.... We shall look with anxiety for the following
volumes of what will surely be the best popular edition in existence.'
--_Notes and Queries_.

'There can be nothing but praise for the selection, editing, and notes,
which are all excellent and adequate. It is, in fin