Excerpt from The Pictorial Books of Ancient Ballad Poetry of Great Britain, Historical, Traditional, and Romantic: To Which Are Added, a Selection of Modern Imitations, and Some Translations Evans, Scott, Jamieson, Buchan, and other well known and popular collections, have been resorted to, but also some reprints Of the Percy Society, which are perhaps less familiar to the general reader. TO the Editors of these, and of the other volumes from which any of our materials are taken, many thanks are due for the zeal and care they have exercised, in rescuing from less so many poems, of which a large propor tion existed only in collections, whose bulk concealed the beauties to be found there, or else in fly-sheets, extant only in the libraries of a few Of the learned. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.