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Ancient Popular Poetry, from Authentic Manuscripts and Old Printed Copies Volume 2 - Couverture souple
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The story of this ancient poem seems to have appeared in all possible shapes. It is contained in a tract intitled Fenny-wise pound-foolish ;or a Bristow diamond, set in two rings, and both cracked. Profitable for married men, pleasant for young men, and a rare example for all good womcn London, 1631. to. b.l. and is xvell knffivn, at least in the North, by the old ballad called The Pennyworth of WitJ It likewise appears, from Langhams Letter, 1575, to have been then in print, under the title of The Chapman of a Pennyworth of Wit ythough no edition of that age is now knozon to exist. The following copy is from a transcript made by the late Mr. Baynes from one of Bp. More smanuscripts in the public library at Cambridge F f2. 38, or 690), written apparently about the reign of Edward the fourth or Richard the third; carefully but unnecessarily examined with the original. The poeni itself however is indisputably of a greater age, and seems from the language and orthography to be of Scotish, or at least of North country extraction. The fragment of a somewhat different copy, in the same dialect, is contained in a MS. of Hetiry the tihs time in the British Museum B ib. Bar. 5396). has evidently been designed to be sung to the harp.
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