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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: your daughter dead, laying her in the earth with solemn dirge and worship due. This done, we will consult with our lords how to do you right, and bring the murderer to justice. Then began the Placedo Domine, with all the verses belonging to it, too many to recite; the dirge being done, the body was interred, and over it was placed a fair marble stone, polished as bright as glass, upon which was inscribed the following epitaph in large letters: Coppel, Chanticleer's daughter, whom Reynard the fox has slain, lieth here interred ? Mourn, reader, mourn; for her death was violent and lamentable. The monarch next sent for his lords and wisest counsellors, to consult how best this foul murder committed by Reynard might be punished. In the end it was concluded that he should be sent for, and without any excuse be made to appear before the king, to answer these charges, and the message be delivered by Bruin the bear. The king gave consent, and calling him before him, said, Sir Bruin, k is our pleasure that you deliver this message, yet in so doing, have a good eye to yourself; for Reynard is full of policy, and knows well how to dissemble, flatter, and betray. He has a world of snares to entangle you withal, and without great exercise of judgment will make a mock and scorn of the most consummate wisdom. My lord, answered sir Bruin, let me alone with Reynard; I am not such a truant to discretion as to become a mock for his knavery. And thus full of jollity the bear took his departure to fetch Reynard: if his return be as jovial, there is no fear of his well speeding. CHAP. V. HOW BRUIN THE BEAK SPED WITH BEYNARD THE FOX. The next morning away went sir Bruin the bear in quest of the fox, armed against all kinds of plots and deceit whatsoever: and as he went a...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217891417 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217891411 |
| Weight | 0.73 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.50 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 220 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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