Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Frontispiece
- Colophon
- DEDICATION
- Preface
- Essay on the ancient Minstrels
- Contents
- Dedication
- BOOK THE FIRST
- BOOK THE SECOND
- BOOK THE THIRD
- 1 The more modern ballad of Chevy-chase
- 2 Death's final conquest
- 3 The Rising in the North
- 4 Northumberland betrayed by Douglas
- 5 My mind to me a kingdome is
- 6 The Patient Countess
- 7 You meaner beautyes
- 8 Dowsabell
- 9 The Farewell to Love
- 10 Ulysses and the Syren
- 11 Cupid's Pastime
- 12 The character of a happy life
- 13 Unfading Beauty
- 14 Gilderoy. A Scottish Ballad
- 15 Winifreda
- 16 Jemmy Dawson
- 17 The Witch of Wokey
- 18 Bryan and Pereene. A West India Ballad
- 19 Gentle River, Gentle River. Translated from the Spanish
- 20 Alcanzor ana Zayda, a Moorish Tale
- The Glossary
12 - The character of a happy life
from BOOK THE THIRD
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2015
- Frontmatter
- Frontispiece
- Colophon
- DEDICATION
- Preface
- Essay on the ancient Minstrels
- Contents
- Dedication
- BOOK THE FIRST
- BOOK THE SECOND
- BOOK THE THIRD
- 1 The more modern ballad of Chevy-chase
- 2 Death's final conquest
- 3 The Rising in the North
- 4 Northumberland betrayed by Douglas
- 5 My mind to me a kingdome is
- 6 The Patient Countess
- 7 You meaner beautyes
- 8 Dowsabell
- 9 The Farewell to Love
- 10 Ulysses and the Syren
- 11 Cupid's Pastime
- 12 The character of a happy life
- 13 Unfading Beauty
- 14 Gilderoy. A Scottish Ballad
- 15 Winifreda
- 16 Jemmy Dawson
- 17 The Witch of Wokey
- 18 Bryan and Pereene. A West India Ballad
- 19 Gentle River, Gentle River. Translated from the Spanish
- 20 Alcanzor ana Zayda, a Moorish Tale
- The Glossary
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- Type
- Chapter
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- Reliques of Ancient English PoetryConsisting of Old Heroic Ballads, Songs, and Other Pieces of our Earlier Poets, pp. 296 - 297Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2015First published in: 1765