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Product Description <br/>This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.<br/> From the Back Cover <br/>The extracts are so well chosen, Mr. Sisam's work is so well done, his apparatus sets his texts so rightly on their background of French and Latin, he helps his reader so intelligently and judiciously, that he has made within an unambitious scope a positive contribution to the understanding and enjoyment of Middle English writing.