Contents
In addition to the ballads culled and compiled by Percy and Child, the folio contains a 14th century alliterative poem in Middle English entitled Death and Liffe and Scottish Feilde, which is a poem on the Battle of the Flodden. The manuscript contains ballads, for the most part, but also metrical romances such as Sir Degaré and The Squire of Low Degree. There are several Arthurian texts, including King Arthur and King Cornwall, Sir Lancelott of Dulake, The Marriage of Sir Gawen and Dame Ragnell, Merline, Carle off Carlile, The Grene Knight Boy and Mantle and The Turke and Gowin. The last three narratives are entirely unknown outside the Percy Folio. The manuscript also preserves eight Robin Hood ballads.
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