Melusine, Volume 68, Part 1Alexander Karley Donald Pub. for the Early English text society, 1895 - Melusine (Legendary character) |
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Page 1 - Romance in prose in the British Museum (Bibl. Reg. 18. B. ii) consisting of 219 folios, and entitled — in a later hand — " A Chronicle of Melusine in olde Englishe, compyled by Ihon of Arras, and dedicated to the Duke of Berry and Auuergne, and translated (as yt shoulde seeme) out of Frenche into Englishe.
Page 2 - Iustly that I coude or haue mowe, aftir the Cronykles whiche I suppose certaynly to be trew.
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Page 2 - And he is not wyse that suche thinges supposeth to comprehende in his wit, and weneth that the mervaylles that ben thrugh the universal world, may nat be true, as it is said of the thinges that men calle ffayrees, and as it is of many other thinges, whereof we may not have the knowleche of alle them.
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| Title | Melusine, Volume 68, Part 1 Volume 68 of Early English Text Society (Series).: Extra series Melusine, Alexander Karley Donald |
| Editor | Alexander Karley Donald |
| Compiled by | Jean (d'Arras) |
| Publisher | Pub. for the Early English text society, 1895 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | Aug 6, 2007 |
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