Book of Old English Ballads, A by EDWARDS, George Wharton

08 - The Bailiff's Daughter of Islington

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Sinopsis

In this selection... the aim has been to bring within moderate compass a collection of these songs of the people which should fairly represent the range, the descriptive felicity, the dramatic power, and the genuine poetic feeling of a body of verse which is still, it is to be feared, unfamiliar to a large number of those to whom it would bring refreshment and delight. (Summary from introduction).