Excerpt from The Modern Orlando: A Poem This poem first appeared several years since, and as it was published Without the writer's name, he amused himself by dividing its parentage among the literary celebrities of the day. The ruse was common, is legitimate, and was unrevenged. It produced no belligerency of either pen, pencil, or pistol, and the few stanzas in which it was practised, are suffered to remain, as the trophies of a bloodless field. 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.