"King Stephen was a worthy peere, His breeches cost him but a croune; e held them sixpence all too deere, Therefore he call’d the taylor loune. He was a wight of high renowne, And those but of a low degree; Itt ’s pride that putts the countrye doune, Then take thine old cloake about thee."
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Take thy old Cloak about Thee. The first stanza is quoted in full, and the last line of the second, by William Shakespeare in Othello, act ii, scene 3.
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Reliques of Ancient English Poetry
Reliques of Ancient English Poetry (1765), edited by Thomas Percy, was the first of the great ballad collections, though he may have written some of it himself based on ballad fragments.
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