Anonymous Olde English 's Poetry, by written

• The Heir of Linne

  Part the First
  Lithe and listen, gentlemen,

  272 lines
• The Story Of Ill May Day, In The Reign Of King Henry VIII

  The Story of Ill May Day, in the reign of king Henry the Eighth, and why it was so called; and how Queen Katherine begged the lives of t

  147 lines
• Johnny Armstrong (original)

  Sum speiks of lords, sum speiks of lairds,
  And siclyke men of hie degrie;

  163 lines
• I Have A Gentil Cock

  I have a gentil cock
  croweth me day

  25 lines, 1 comment
• I Sing Of A Maiden

  I syng of a mayden
        That is mak{.e}les;

  23 lines, 1 comment
• Adam Lay Ibounden

  Adam lay ibounden,
      Bounden in a bond.

  16 lines, 2 comments
• My Love In Her Attire

  My Loue in her Attyre doth shew her witt,
          It doth so well become her:

  7 lines, 2 comments
• Edom O' Gordon

  It fell about the Martinmas,
  Quhen the wind blew shril and cauld,

  178 lines
• The Child of Elle

  On yonder hill a castle standes,
  With walles and towres bedight,

  248 lines
• Adam Bell, Clym of the Clough, and William of Cloudesly

  Part the First
  Mery it was in the grene forest

  856 lines
• Edward, Edward. A Scottish Ballad

  MODERN TRANSLATION (original below)
  "Why does your sword so drip with blood,

  128 lines, 2 comments
• Towneley Plays. The Shepherds' Play, II.

  Primus Pastor
  Haylle, comly and clene! Haylle, yong child!

  31 lines
• The Seafarer

  May I for my own self song's truth reckon,
  Journey's jargon, how I in harsh days

  100 lines
• A Pleasant Ballad Of King Henry II. And The Miller Of Mansfield

  Part the First.
  Henry, our royall kind, would ride a hunting

  282 lines
• Knyghthode and Bataile

  
  

  3926 lines
• The Fyftene Loyes Of Maryage

  Somer passed/and wynter well begone
  The dayes shorte/the darke nyghtes longe

  4169 lines
• The Wright's Chaste Wife

  Allemyghty god, maker of alle,
  Saue you my souereyns in towre & halle,

  678 lines
• Zepheria: Canzon. 1

  Lvld in an heauenly Charme of pleasing passions,
  Many their well thewd rimes doe fayre attemper

  19 lines
• Roome Is A Taker, Poets Say

  Roome is a taker, Poets say,
    And lawyers are so too, you see

  5 lines, 2 comments
• Here Foloweth Colyn Blowbols Testament

  Whan that Bachus, the myghti lorde,
  And Juno eke, both by one accorde,

  414 lines
• The Libelle of Englyshe Polycye

  
  The trewe processe of Englysh polycye

  1272 lines
• Many A Man Doth Speake Of Mee

  Many a man doth speake of mee,
  But no man euer shall me see,

  3 lines, 2 comments
• Not Marke, But Mercurie Keepes Her Warme

  Not Marke, but Mercurie keepes her warme,
  And Neptune hugs her in his arme

  3 lines
• St. George And The Dragon

  Of Hector's deeds did Homer sing,
  And of the sack of stately Troy,

  305 lines, 1 comment
• Chevy-Chase

  The Perse owt off Northombarlonde,
  And a vowe to God mayd he

  347 lines
• The Seafarer

  A song I sing of my sea-adventure,
  The strain of peril, the stress of toil,

  153 lines
• Jephthah Judge of Israel

  Have you not heard these many years ago,
  Jeptha was judge of Israel?

  60 lines
• A Robyn, Jolly Robyn

  A Robyn,
  Jolly Robyn,

  28 lines
• King Cophetua and the Beggar-Maid

  I read that once in Affrica
  A princely wight did raine,

  128 lines
• Willow, Willow, Willow

  A poore soule sat sighing under a sicamore tree;
        O willow, willow, willow!

  183 lines

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