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Excerpt from Pearl, a Fourteenth-Century Poem: Rendered Into Modern English Pearl, pleasant to prince's pay,1 So daintily dight in gold so clear! From orient lands, I hardily say, Was never seen a gem her peer So round, so comely every way, So small, so smooth her sides were, Wherever I judged of gems so gay, I set her single and singular. Alas! In an arbour2 I lost my dear. 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.