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Excerpt: The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling by Henry Fielding: Volume Two, Containing Books IX through XVIII.

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...istory of Tom Jones, A Foundling by Henry Fielding: Volume Two, Containing Books IX through XVIII is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Universi... ... Fielding: Volume Two, Containing Books IX through XVIII is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in ... ...ent or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling by Henry Fielding: Volume Two, Containing Books I... ...istory of Tom Jones, A Foundling by Henry Fielding: Volume Two, Containing Books IX through XVIII , the Pennsylvania State University, Jim Manis, Facu... ...d pedants whose lives have been entirely consumed in col leges, and among books; for however exquisitely human na ture may have been described by wr... ... have asked your rival’s name, that you might have immediately entered the lists with him.” “I promise you, madam,” answered he, “there are very few t...

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...Introduction: Among the notable books of later times-we may say, without exaggeration, of all time--must be reckoned The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau. It deals with leading personages and transactions of a momentous epoch, when absolutism and feudal...

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...The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau by Jean Jacques Rousseau THE CONFESSIONS OF JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU (In 12 books) Privately Printed for the Members of... ...u by Jean Jacques Rousseau THE CONFESSIONS OF JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU (In 12 books) Privately Printed for the Members of the Aldus Society London, 1903 ... ... 1903 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau by Jean Jacques Rousseau, trans. S. W. Orson is a publica... ... J. Rousseau by Jean Jacques Rousseau, trans. S. W. Orson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...u by Jean Jacques Rousseau THE CONFESSIONS OF JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU (In 12 books) Privately Printed for the Members of the Aldus Society London, 1903 ... ...rs of the Aldus Society London, 1903 BOOK I INTRODUCTION Among the notable books of later times-we may say, with- out exaggeration, of all time—must b... ... The second was King Stanislaus, himself, who did not disdain to enter the lists with me. The honor he did me, obliged me to change my manner in comba... ...n, and reinstated in my rights as a citizen. I was enrolled as such in the lists of guards, paid by none but citizens and 379 Rousseau burgesses, and...

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...Excerpt: In that pleasant district of merry England which is watered by the river Don, there extended in ancient times a large forest, covering the greater part of the beautiful hills and valleys which lie between Sheffield and the pleasant town of Doncaster. ...

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... Classics Series Publication Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furn... ...ty. This Por- table Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...ich, when need- ful, he could sustain with great decorum. His knowledge of books, however superficial, was sufficient to impress upon their ignorance ... ... so?—Prior, your collar is in danger; I will wear it over my gorget in the lists of Ashby-de-la-Zouche.” “Win it fairly,” said the Prior, “and wear it... ... have friends, I have followers—man to man will I appeal the Norman to the lists; let him come in his plate and his mail, and all that can render cowa... ...ield in the presence of Prince John himself, who was expected to grace the lists, had attracted universal attention, and an immense confluence of pers... ...nherited Knight; for by this name the stranger had recorded himself in the books of the tourney. “Then take your place in the lists,” said Bois-Guilbe... ...rtance. What is called a taking title, serves the di- rect interest of the bookseller or publisher, who by this means sometimes sells an edition while...

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...Excerpt: ?Tis hard to say, if greater Want of Skill Appear in Writing or in Judging ill, But, of the two, less dang?rous is th? Offence, To tire our Patience, than mis-lead our Sense: Some few in that, but Numbers err in this, Ten Censure wrong for one who Writes amis...

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... An Essay on Criticism by Alexander Pope is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...ersity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ...Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201 1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of lit... ...not? All which, exact to Rule were brought about, Were but a Combate in the Lists left out. What! Leave the Combate out? Exclaims the Knight; Yes, ... ...riticism” – Pope 10 Others for Language all their Care express, And value Books, as Women Men, for Dress: Their Praise is still— The Stile is exc... ...ongue still edifies his Ears, And always List’ning to Himself appears. All Books he reads, and all he reads assails, From Dryden’s Fables down to ... ... of a Foe? Blest with a Taste exact, yet unconfin’d; A Knowledge both of Books and Humankind; Gen’rous Converse ; a Sound exempt from Pride; And...

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...Series Publication The Princess by Alfred, Lord Tennyson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ...or, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File pro- duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...r courses, children of despair.’ ‘Poor boy,’ she said, ‘can he not read—no books? Quoit, tennis, ball—no games? nor deals in that Which men delight in... ...r countrywoman, I your old friend and tried, she new in all? But still her lists were swelled and mine were lean; Y et I bore up in hope she would be ... ... fight, But now fast barred: so here upon the flat All that long morn the lists were hammered up, And all that morn the heralds to and fro, With mess... ...beasts of prey And prospered; till a rout of saucy boys Brake on us at our books, and marred our peace, Masked like our maids, blustering I know not w... ...myself the shadow of a dream: And ere I woke it was the point of noon, The lists were ready. Empanoplied and plumed We entered in, and waited, fifty ... ...ht, and she that was, became Her former beauty treble; and to and fro With books, with flowers, with Angel offices, Like creatures native unto graciou...

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...Excerpt: There is nothing more disenchanting to man than to be shown the springs and mechanism of any art. All our arts and occupations lie wholly on the surface; it is on the surface that we perceive their beauty, fitness, and significance; and to pry below is to be appalled by their emptiness and shocked by the coars...

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... The Art of Writing by Robert Louis Stev... ... The Art of Writing by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free ... ...e Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmissio... ...nto one. The web, then, or the pattern: a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of ... ... the public prints; and it has been debated, to put the matter mildly, from a point of view that was calculated to surprise high-minded men, and bring... ... and enterprising gen- eration of writers will follow and surpass the present one; but it would be better if the stream were stayed, and the roll of o... ... published in the Idler, August 1894. **Ne Pas Confondre. Not the slim green pamphlet with the im- print of Andrew Elliot, for which (as I see with a...

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Excerpt: ?The Legend of Sleepy Hollow? by Washington Irving.

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...Scott A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Marmion: A Tale of Flodden Field by Sir Walter Scott is a publication of the Pennsylvania S... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Marmion: A Tale of Flodden Field by Sir Walter Scott, the Pennsylvania State University, El... ...h the crest and helm of gold! Full well we know the trophies won In the lists at Cottiswold: There, vainly Ralph de Wilton strove ‘Gainst Marmio... ...nts that rival’s fame With treason’s charge—and on they came, In mortal lists to fight. Their oaths are said, Their prayers are prayed,... ...e Wilton to the block!’ Say ye, who preach Heaven shall decide When in the lists two champions ride, Say, was Heaven’s justice here? When, loyal in... ... cheer, I come, Well pleased, to seek our city home; For converse, and for books, to change The Forest’s melancholy range, And welcome, with renewed d... ...ole century, They shall not spell you letters three; Their pleasure in the books the same The magpie takes in pilfered gem. Thy volumes, open as thy h...

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...le, standing on steep rocks above the North Sea, was not only inaccessible on that side, but from its donjon tower commanded a magnificent view, both of the expanse of waves, taking purple tints from the shadows of the clouds, with here and there a sail fleeting before the wind, and of the rugged headlands of the coast, point beyond point, the nearer distinct, and showing ...

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...blication Two Penniless Princesses by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...e lad; ‘I long for the fair churches and cloisters and the learned men and books that my father tells of. My mother says that her brother, that I am n... ...haucer’s poetry by heart, the chief way in which people could as yet enjoy books, and there was an interchange between them of “Blind Harry “and of th... ...uecento. Eleanor and Annis were entranced, and the Prioress, see- ing that books had an attraction for her younger guest, prom- ised her on the morrow... ... while Eleanor could not help pausing to say, ‘She is more blithe than she lists to own! Sir Patrick, what the fellows claim must come from my uncle’s... ...rd, to bolster up my state like King Herod in a mystery play. If my father lists, he may send me out a band, but the Douglas shall have Douglas’s men,... ...n his eye of cousinly teasing. ‘ An’ ye do not, I shall proclaim ye in the lists at Nanci as a corbie messenger and mansworn squire, unworthy of your ...

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Excerpt: The Vicar of Tours by Honore de Balzac, translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley.

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...tt Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Vicar of Tours by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publi... ...s by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...oor canon could 7 Balzac put in was a bed, a table, a few chairs, and the books he possessed. The apartment was like a beautiful woman in rags. But t... .... The Abbe Birotteau spent the first days of his mourning in verifying the books in his library, in making use of his furni- ture, in examining the wh... ...tteau. “I hope you are not going to litter up my dining-room with your old books!” “They are books I wanted,” replied the Abbe T roubert. “Mon- sieur ... ...hampion, and strengthened his valor by useful counsel until he entered the lists, so the sly old fox had said to the baroness at the last moment: “Don...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. How Queen Guenever rode a-Maying with certain knights of the Round Table and clad all in green. So it befell in the month of May, Queen Guenever called unto her knights of the Table Round; and she gave them warning that early upon the morrow she would ride a-Maying into woods an...

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...Le Morte Darthur by Thomas Malory Sir Thomas Malory’s Book of King Arthur and of his Noble Knights of the Round Table Book Nineteen A ... ...on Le Morte D’Arthur: Book Nineteen by Sir Thomas Malory is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ... Sir Launcelot. Then was Sir Lavaine armed and horsed, and suddenly at the lists’ end he rode to perform this battle; and right as the heralds should ... ...o a rebuke and shame. And so I leave here of this tale, and overskip great books of Sir Launcelot du Lake, what great adventures he did when he was ca...

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...Excerpt: How Sir Galahad fought at a tournament, and how he was known of Sir Gawaine and Sir Ector de Maris. Now saith this story, when Galahad had rescued Percivale from the twenty knights, he yede tho into a waste forest wherein he rode many journeys; and he found many adventures the which he...

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...Le Morte Darthur by Thomas Malory Sir Thomas Malory»s Book of King Arthur and of his Noble Knights of the Round Table Book Seventeen A... ...n Le Morte D’Arthur: Book Seventeen by Sir Thomas Malory is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...e weened that there had been no good woman, and so he despised them in his books. So answered a voice him once: Solomon, if heavi- ness come to a man ... ... these words he held himself but a fool, and the truth he perceived by old books. Also the Holy Ghost showed him the coming of the glorious Virgin Mar... ...ut spot. And the four that were with Him is to understand the four evange- lists which set in writing a part of Jesu Christ’s deeds that He did someti... ...he adventures of the Sangreal that he had seen. All this was made in great books, and put up in almeries at Salisbury. And anon Sir Bors said to Sir L...

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...Excerpt: A terrible shriek rang through the great Manor-house of Amesbury. It was preceded by a loud explosion, and there was agony as well as terror in the cry. Then followed more shrieks and screams, some of pain, some of fright, others of anger and recrimination. Every one in the hou...

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...GRISLY GRISELL or THE LAIDLY LADY OF WHITBURN: A TALE OF THE WARS OF THE ROSES By Charlotte M. Yonge A Penn S... ...Electronic Classics Series Publication GRISLY GRISELL, or The Laidly Lady of Whitbern is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This P... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...w I shall never be wedded to her daughter—let the wench live or die as she lists!” That was not by any means the opinion of the Lady of Whitburn, and ... ...re a sponge, and spite of all my Lady Mother’s bounties to the place, what lists he do but turn out the poor maid for lack of a dowry, not so much as ... ...Harry may roam from Church to shrine, from Abbey to chantry, so long as he lists, but none of us will brook to be ruled or misruled by the foreign wom... ...he left the hall she made up a bundle of needments, and in it her precious books and all the jewels she had inherited. That Thora did not follow her w... ...singing to him, telling some of her store of tales, or reading to him, for books were more plenti- ful at Bruges than at Sunderland, and there were ev... ..., and said her prayers backward, and had un- 129 Charlotte M. Young known books.” “Did your squire tell this, or was it only the men?” “My squire! Po...

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...Excerpt: ?HOLE!? said Mr. Polly, and then for a change, and with greatly increased emphasis: ??Ole!? He paused, and then broke out with one of his private and peculiar idioms. ?Oh! Beastly Silly Wheeze of a Hole!?...

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... G. Wells A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The History of Mr. Polly by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univ... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ...ent or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The History of Mr. Polly by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic ... ...hy and history, as the repeating of names that were hard to pronounce, and lists of products and populations and heights and lengths, and as lists and... ...discovered reading and its joys. He began to read stories voraciously, and books of travel, provided they were also adventurous. He got these chiefly ... ...er tempting to a schoolmaster 11 H G Wells with a cane…. And twice he had books confiscated. Recalled to the realities of life, he would rub himself ... ...y should the handle of one’s pen point over one’s right shoulder? His copy books towards the end foreshadowed his destiny and took the form of commerc...

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...Excerpt: Louis Lambert was born at Montoire, a little town in the Vendomois, where his father owned a tannery of no great magnitude, and intended that his son should succeed him; but his precocious bent for study modified the paternal decision. For, indeed, the tanner and his wife adored Louis, their only child, and never contradicte...

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...t by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Clara Bell and James Waring is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...tor, Hazleton, PA 18202- 1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ... five Louis had begun by reading the Old and New Testaments; and these two Books, including so many books, had sealed his fate. Could that childish im... ... this first reading of the Bible: Louis went all over Montoire begging for books, and he obtained them by those winning ways peculiar to children, whi... ...mpts us at every age, he set out every morning with part of a loaf and his books, and went to read and meditate in the woods, to escape his mother’s r... ...man who wants all can do all. If you are the prize of success, I enter the lists to-morrow. To win such a look as that you bestowed on me, I would lea...

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... Twenty-six through Fifty) by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is fur- ... ...y. This Portable Document file is fur- nished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ... that she was yet in utter darkness, put into her hands three little penny books with pictures, viz., the “Howling Wil- derness,” the “Washerwoman of ... ...n always has such a share to give away. Her mamma ordered her dresses, her books, her bon- nets, and her ideas for her. She was made to take pony-ridi... ...y be- fore she rests this night. And Emily, my love, get ready a packet of books for Miss Crawley. Put up ‘A V oice from the Flames,’ ‘A Trumpet-warni... ...gs of exultation and gratitude, bereavement and sickening dismay, when the lists of the regimental losses were gone through, and it became known wheth... ...t, even now, feel at second-hand this breathless pause of expectation. The lists of casualties are carried on from day to day: you stop in the midst a... ...ine carriage, and her fine horses, and her name on half the public charity-lists of the town, was a lonely, miserable, persecuted old maid. She though...

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...Don Quixote by Miquel de Cervantes Translated by John Ormsby 1922 edition of Ormsby’s translation. Part One A Penn State Electronic Classics Series P... ... One by Miquel de Cervantes, trans. John Ormsby, 1922 ed. is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...y. This Portable Document file is furnished free and with- out any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...ng currente calamo, and the second that of a middle-aged man writing for a bookseller. On the other hand, it is closer and more literal, the style is ... ...clined rather to the humanities and light literature, and as a producer of books Alcala was already beginning to compete with the older presses of Tol... ...imen of the pauper gentleman, with his lean hack and his greyhound and his books of chivalry, dreaming away his life in happy ignorance that the world... ... the rest of the household had gone to dinner. Lothario saw himself in the lists according to his friend’s wish, and facing an enemy that could by her...

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...Don Quixote by Miquel de Cervantes Translated by John Ormsby 1922 edition of Ormsby’s translation A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication... ...ote by Miguel de Cervantes, trans. John Ormsby (1922 ed.) is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...g currente calamo, and the second that of a middle- aged man writing for a bookseller. On the other hand, it is closer and more literal, the style is ... ...clined rather to the humanities and light literature, and as a producer of books Alcala was already beginning to compete with the older presses of Tol... ...imen of the pauper gentleman, with his lean hack and his greyhound and his books of chivalry, dreaming away his life in happy ignorance that the world... ... the rest of the household had gone to dinner. Lothario saw himself in the lists according to his friend’s wish, and facing an enemy that could by her... ...laza; a knight shows to advantage arrayed in glittering armour, pacing the lists before the ladies in some joyous tournament, and all those knights sh... ...was greatly pleased at the news, and promised himself to do wonders in the lists, and reckoned it rare good fortune that an opportunity should have of...

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...Preface: For an explanation of the allusions in the present Tale, scarcely any Notes are necessary, save a reference to the bewitching Chronicle of Froissart; and we cannot but hope that our sketch may serve as an inducement to some young readers to mak...

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...E M. YONGE A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Lances of Lynwood by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...ment or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Lances of Lynwood by Charlotte M. Yonge, the Pennsylvania State University, Electr... ... of Eustace’s cour- age and manhood when he found he had “gone back to his books,” and manifested, if not so much serious displeasure, yet even more a... ...l a letter! Sir Eustace, of your favour let me burn every one of your vile books.” “My innocent friends! Nay, nay, Gaston—they are too knightly to mer... ..., if we can but circumvent a wizard such as this!” “But he has brought his books! I saw that broad-faced En- glishman carry up a whole pile of them,” ... ... wards? This reminds me of the good old days, ere the Prince fell ill. The lists, the galleries, the ladies, the Prince’s own chair of state, too! Oh,... ...ves betrayed?” “But what means all this preparation?” asked Arthur— ”these lists! Oh, surely, there is not to be a tourney, which I have so longed to ... ...When the trumpets had ceased, and the procession reached the centre of the lists, they halted, and drew up in order,— the principal herald, Aquitaine,...

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...my depart for France, As procurator to your excellence, To marry Princess Margaret for your grace, So, in the famous ancient city, Tours, In presence of the Kings of France and Sicil, The Dukes of Orleans, Calaber, Bretagne and Alencon, Seven earls, twelve barons and twenty reverend bishops, I have perform?d my task and was espoused: And humbly now upon my bended knee, In ...

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