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Page xxxii
... French monarch , Aganippus , hearing of the beauty and good qualities of Cordella , sends to her father asking her in marriage , and that Leir sends her dowerless to France ; the old play alone before Shakespeare brings the French king ...
... French monarch , Aganippus , hearing of the beauty and good qualities of Cordella , sends to her father asking her in marriage , and that Leir sends her dowerless to France ; the old play alone before Shakespeare brings the French king ...
Page xliii
... French motive for Cordeilla's caustic reply ; she speaks in jest to expose the flattery of her sisters ' speeches.1 The literal translation is , “ she resolves to speak jestingly to her father , and in jesting she wishes to show him how ...
... French motive for Cordeilla's caustic reply ; she speaks in jest to expose the flattery of her sisters ' speeches.1 The literal translation is , “ she resolves to speak jestingly to her father , and in jesting she wishes to show him how ...
Page xliv
... French account , though on the whole followed , is greatly amplified . Geoffrey is also followed , but this fine and graphic rendering has much original matter ( see Sir Frederick Madden's edition , 3 vols . 1847 , vol . i . pp . 123 ...
... French account , though on the whole followed , is greatly amplified . Geoffrey is also followed , but this fine and graphic rendering has much original matter ( see Sir Frederick Madden's edition , 3 vols . 1847 , vol . i . pp . 123 ...
Page xlviii
... , he seems to follow no previous form of the story . There are several other versions which possibly Shakespeare may have seen , and taken a hint or two from . The old French romance of Perceforest xlviii INTRODUCTION.
... , he seems to follow no previous form of the story . There are several other versions which possibly Shakespeare may have seen , and taken a hint or two from . The old French romance of Perceforest xlviii INTRODUCTION.
Page xlix
... French romance of Perceforest , composed about the middle of the fifteenth century , probably after 1461 , he is not likely to have seen . In that curious medley the story is to be met with ( see La Treselegante , Delicieuse , Meliflue ...
... French romance of Perceforest , composed about the middle of the fifteenth century , probably after 1461 , he is not likely to have seen . In that curious medley the story is to be met with ( see La Treselegante , Delicieuse , Meliflue ...
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