Ten Droll Tales

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Excerpt from Ten Droll Tales: Being the Story of the Fair Imperia, the Venial Sin, the Merrie Diversions of His Most Christian Majesty King Louis the Eleventh Ninny of the first water did he but add so much conceal ment as a fig-leaf, seeing that neither such works, nor this present book, are designed for nunneries. Howbeit, though sore against the grain, I have been at pains to weed out from the manuscripts certain words which, though old, were et something over lusty and would have rent the ears, he-crimsoned the cheeks and distorted the lips of our mettlesome maids, and of virtue with three strings to her how. For we must humour the vices of the age, and indeed a paraphrase is often nau 'htier than the word itself. For look you, we are grown Ol and long drawn dalliance is more to our taste than the short and swift encounters of our youth, for so our enjoyment is of the longer duration. 80 then be not too swift to condemn me, and read me by night rather than by day, and give me not into the hands of maidens, if there be any still existing, for the very book would catch fire from the communication of their heat. But enough of me and my affairs. Howbeit, for the book I have no fears, since it is drawn from high and gentle sources, and all that hath issued therefrom hath met with success as is well proven by the royal orders of Golden Fleece, the Holy Ghost, the Garter and the Bath and many others of renown under whose patronage I do enroll myself. 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.