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The Original of the Ballad “Kinge: Arthurs Death” in the Percy Folio MS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2020

Charles Bowie Millican
Charles Bowie Millican*
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New York University
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The original text of the first part of the ballad “Kinge: Arthurs Death” as it appears in the Percy Folio Manuscript, and as it appears in Percy's Reliques with the title “The Legend of King Arthur,” is found with the title “The Historieof The/ conquests of the noble conquerour/ Arthvr,” and with the running title “The Historie of King Arthvr,” in the following Elizabethan account of the Nine Worthies:

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Research Article
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PMLA , Volume 46 , Issue 4 , December 1931 , pp. 1020 - 1024
Copyright
Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1931

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References

1 Bishop Percy's Folio Manuscript, ed. Hales and Fumivall, 1867–68, i (1867), 498–501, 507.

2 Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, 1765, iii, No. v, pp. 37–41.

3 Bodleian Malone 649. (l), 4to, in part black letter, a supposedly unique copy, sigg. F-Fv. The work is dedicated to Sir Thomas Bromley, Lord Chancellor from 1579 to 1587. The other Worthies included are Joshua, Hector, David, Alexander, Judas Maccabeus, Julius Caesar, Charlemagne, and Guy of Warwick.

4 Reliques, 1765, iii, No. iv, pp. 28–36.

5 A Manual of the Writings in Middle English (1050–1400), 1926, Nos. 22 and 30 under “Romances,” pp. 38, 51.

6 These brackets are Percy's.

7 Reliques, 1765, iii, 37. Gerard de Leeu's reprint of Caxton's Cronycles of Englond. Westminster, 1480, was published at Antwerp in 1493. See R. H. Fletcher, The Arthurian Material in the Chronicles ([Harvard] Studies and Notes in Philology and Literature, x), 1906. pp. 214 ff., 220, note 6.

8 I.e., Lloyd's sixteenth couplet is placed in its proper sequence.

9 Bishop Percy's Folio Manuscript, i, 507.

10 Reliques, 1765, iii, 41.

11 Bishop Percy's Folio Manuscript, i, 506–507, lines 232 ff.

12 i, 498.

13 Reliques, iii, 37.

14 The portion printed in italics is in roman type in the original; the balance is in black-letter.