Excerpt from A Book of Favourite Modern Ballads: Illustrated With Fifty Engravings, From Drawing by the First Artist Nor, cruel Earl, can I enjoy The humble charms of solitude Your minions proud my peace destroy, By sullen frowns or prating rude. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.