Thomas Percy Quotes

Irish Anglican bishop (1729-1811)

Thomas Percy (13 April 1729 – 30 September 1811) was a bishop and magazine editor. His Reliques of Ancient English Poetry (1765) 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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Alternative Names: Thomas, Bishop of Dromore Percy • Bishop of Dromore Thomas Percy • Rt. Rev. Thomas Percy

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Over the mountains,
And over the waves,
Over the fountains,
And under the graves;
Over the floods that are deepest,
Which do Neptune obey;
Over the rocks that are steepest,
Love will find out the way.