The Most Pleasant Song of Lady Bessy: The Eldest Daughter of King Edward the Fourth; And How She Married King Henry the Seventh of the House of Lancaster; With Notes (Classic Reprint)

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The following "Song" is copied from a Manuscript in the possession of William Bateman, Esq. F.A.S. The hand-writing is of the reign of Charles the Second; the composition was probably coeval with the events it describes. The transcriber has enacted the part of translator; but the necessity for preserving the metre has compelled him to leave sufficient proofs of the age in which the poem was written. The words "commentie," "meany," "blee," "gawres," "cou'd," "liart" (gentle), and many others, but ill assort with the modern phraseology into which the ballad is for the most part rendered; whilst the manners described have nothing in common with those which obtained during the seventeenth century.

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