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Excerpt from Cursor Mundi (the Cursur O the World), Vol. 3: A Northumbrian Poem of the Xivth Century in Four Versions, Two of Them Midland
If we turn to the Lives of our Forefathers, the Books they read, the Societies they belonged to, the Ways they had, the Beliefs they cherisht, the Superstitions they clung to, the Evils that beset them, the same, fact stares one in the face the Early English Text Society have produced a set of Texts that can challenge comparison with those of any other Society they know that their own cannot be beaten. For Story, take Havelok, Arthur, Merlin, Lancelot, Gawayno, King Horn, Troy-book, William of Paleme, Partenay; for Society, take our English Gilda, William's Vision of Piers Plowman (in Mr Skeat's noble edition), Political Poems, Lyndcsay's scath ing satires, Lauder's Poems, Starkey's England, Andrew Boorde's picture of the England and Europe of his time, Awdelay, Harman, Crowley, &c.: for 1vays of Women and Men, the curious pictures of the Babees Book, John Russel], Hugh Rhodes, Ratis Raving, Times' Whistle, &c.; for Faith and Superstition, the long series of theological Texts the Society has publisht and let us all be glad that we have had time and power to do so 'much. Not only has our Se ciety produced its own fine series of Texts; but it has also given birth to other Societies, whose publications are carry ln out its purpose in other directions; to other books that bring its teaching within the reach of every student and boy in the British Empire, the United States, Germany, and Austria. From the Early English Text Society sprang, in 1867, its own Extra Series; m 1868, the printing of the Perc 'folio ms. 5 the Chaucer Society, the Ballad Society, the penser Society, and 'the Roxburghe Library; in 1871 the Hunterian Club in 1873 the Palaeographical Society, the English Dialect Society, and the New Shakspere Society. From the Early English Text Society, by members of it, have also gone forth, in 1866, Dr Richard Morris's Aldine edition of Chaucer's Poetical Works in 1867 his Claren don-press Selections from Chaucer (now in its 3rd edition) in 1867 his 'specimens of Early English' (vol. 1 now in its 2nd edition; vol. 2 now in its 3rd); in 1869 his Globe edi 3. Summary and Efi'ect of our Ten Years' ivork.
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