Excerpt from Specimens; Early English Metrical Romances, Vol. 1 of 3: Chiefly Written During the Early Part of the Fourteenth Century; To Which Is Prefixed an Historical Introduction, Intended to Illustrate the Rise and Progress of Romantic Composition in France and England The kings of France of the second race adopt ed, after the example of Charlemagne, the in judicious practice of dividing their dominions among their children, whose ambition, thus ex cited, led to a long succession of civil discord. 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.