The Robin Hood Garlands and Ballads, Vol. 1 of 2: With the Tale of the Lytell Geste; A Collection of All the Poems, Songs, and Ballads Relating to ... Deduced From Documents Hitherto Unre

Excerpt from The Robin Hood Garlands and Ballads, Vol. 1 of 2: With the Tale of the Lytell Geste; A Collection of All the Poems, Songs, and Ballads Relating to This Celebrated Yeoman; To Which Is Prefixed His History and Character, Deduced From Documents Hitherto UnrevisedOrford, who in his Historic Doubts on the Life and Reign of King Richard III, thus explains the difficulties of a writer who attempts to detect the generally received errors of his predecessors.Everything beyond that short period to which well-attested annals reach, is naturally obscure; and immense space is no doubt left for invention to occupy. Nations, as well as individuals, with a vanity iosepa rable from human nature, have filled that void with events calculated to display its own antiquity and lustre. But history, which ought to record truth and to teach wisdom, often sets out with retailing fictions and falsehoods.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.