Chapter III: Book THE THIRD: 1. The Birth of St. George 215

2. St. George and the Dragon 224

3. Love will find out the Way 232

4. Lord Thomas and Fair Annet. A Scottish Ballad 234

5. Unfading Beauty. By Thomas Carew 239

6. George Barnwell 240

7. The Stedfast Shepherd. By George Wither 253

8. The Spanish Virgin, or Effects of Jealousy 255

9. Jealousy Tyrant of the Mind. By Dryden 260

10. Constant Penelope 261

11. To Lucasta, on going to the Wars. By Col. Lovelace. 264

12. Valentine and Ursine 265

13. The Dragon of Wantley 279

14. St. George for England. The First Part 288

15. St. George for England. The Second Part. By John Grubb 293

16. Margaret's Ghost. By David Mallet 308

17. Lucy and Colin. By Thomas Tickel 312

18. The Boy and the Mantle, as revised and altered by a
modern hand 315

19. The ancient Fragment of the Marriage of Sir Gawaine 323

APPENDIX.

I. The Wanton Wife of Bath 333

II. Essay on the Ancient Metrical Romances, &c. 339

GLOSSARY 377

INDEX 411

RELIQUES OF ANCIENT POETRY, ETC.

SERIES THE THIRD.