Three Lays of Marie De France

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Excerpt from Three Lays of Marie De France: Retold in English VerseSuch a grievance is the present writer's only excuse for attempting to make Marie de France better known to anglo-saxon readers. May she some day find a worthier sponsor!Her poems are of the kind that defy translation. Poems whose beauty is due to sublimity of thought may be more or less successfully translated, but those which, like hers, are merely very charming, resemble many a pretty woman who never takes a good picture.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.