Transcriber’s Notes:

Footnotes to the Preface are collected at the end of that section, but other footnotesappear immediately below the relevant song lyrics. All footnotes are numbered sequentially.

A hyperlinked Table of Contents has been added to this version.

There is some Greek in this text, which may require adjustmentof your browser settings to display correctly. A transliteration ofeach line is included. Hover your mouse over words underlined with agrey dotted line to seethe transliteration.

Text underlined with a red dotted linehas been amended. In particular:
In the index, “... land in Kent (Malismata)” has been corrected to “Melismata.”
In the index, “... heavenby fire” has been corrected to “heavenly fire.”
In “Thrice blessèd be the giver”, “failed” has been corrected to “failèd.”

Inconsistencies in the spelling and hyphenation of words betweendifferent songs have been retained, but minor punctuation omissionshave been silently corrected.