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The author, whose name is as long as that of a Castilian
grandee: "Wolf the Son of Stephen Karatzich, out of Tershich,
descended from the Drobñakis of Petritza", made his first
attempt to reduce the poetry of his country to a shape fit for
the press in 1814. He had for his encouragement the curious
fact that these popular songs, which had grown up without culture
& circulated without any other than oral communication among
the Servians, existed all in a pure grammatical form, – and had
been composed according to the correctest rules of Servian poetry.
There is in truth no vulgar idiom in Servia – the language
being nearly as well spoken by the meanest as by the mightiest.
The songs with which he as not familiar he copied from
the lips of the peasantry & never found that the language or the
metre required correction. The bar

The first volume consists of what may be called pastoral
& domestic poetry – of short lyrical ballads – the songs used in
their social festivals, & illustrative of the habits & manners of
the people. We shall give some of these, taken almost at random –
with one or two exceptions in which the we have sought to Anglicise the original and which will be immediately discovered,
we have endeavored to preserve their Servian primitive character in every respect.

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