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Excerpt from The History of Fulk Fitz Warine: An Outlawed Baron in the Reign of King John
Not the original text of the story, but a paraphrase bof an earlier record. To any one who is accus tomed to read the French and anglo-norman literature of the middle ages, a simple glance at the style and character of this history will carry the conviction that that original record was an anglo-norman poem. But we are not left to assume this from the general character only, for here and there, where the writer who turned it from verse into prose appears to have been seized with a fit of idleness, he has actually pre served the rhymes of the original. In two in stances, Where he has given prophecies of Mer lin, the words of the original poem remain so uncorrupted, that I have thought it right to print both passages in verse. But in several other places the original verse betrays itself in the midst of the paraphrase. If, for example, the reader will turn to the lower part of p. 17, and the upper part of p. 18, he will easily see that the original metres. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
