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Excerpt from Pearl: Rendered Into Modern English Verse This ably waged contest does not greatly con cern me, to whom the elegiac beauty and ten derness of the verse address themselves with more appealing force. Its simplicity and quaint ness add a singular charm, and as concerns its quality as poetry there can be, I think, but one opinion. 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.