OLD BALLAD S,

HISTORICAL AND NARRATIVE,

WITH SOME OF MODERN DATE,

AND SEVERAL ORIGINALS.

NONE OF WHICH ARE INSERTED IN

DR. PERCY's COLLECTION.

SECOND EDITION.

IN FOUR VOLUMES.

HISTORICAL AND NARRATIVE,

WITH SOME OF MODERN DATE;
Now first collected, and reprinted from rare Copies and MSS.
WITH NOTES..

By THOMAS EVAN S.

VOL. I.

Ifaac Taylor del et fculp.

With rough Majestic Force he movd the Heart,
And Strength & Nature made Amends for Art.

Printed for T. EVANS, in the Strand..

M DCC LXXXIV.

Rowe.

YOUR gracious.condefcenfion, in granting my most humble request to place under your Lordship's patronage thefe early efforts of the British Muse, A 2 which