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Excerpt from Thomas the Rhymer "All suddenly I saw the Faery Queen At whose approach the soul of Petrarch wept."-Sir W.Raleigh. "In this year three Scots came from Ireland to King Alfred in a boat without oars, whence they had stolen away because they wished, for the love of God, to be on a pilgrimage, they recked not whither."-Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, A.D.891. 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.