Excerpt from Songs and Ballads: With Other Short Poems, Chiefly of the Reign of Philip and Mary, Edited From a Manuscript in the Ashmolean MuseumThis manuscript, indeed, appears to have been first brought to notice by Professor Conybeare, who contributed some account of it, with one or two short poems taken. From it, to the thirteenth number of the British Bibliographer, in 1813. Since that time it has received very little attention, although it is in many respects one of the most curious collections of contemporary English poetry left us by the sixteenth century, and I feel quite sure that all who take an interest in the history of English literature will rejoice to see the whole of it in print. It is written in hands of the sixteenth century, to which, by themselves alone, it would be difficult to fix an exact date, but this date is determined by internal evidence of another description.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.