Excerpt from Arden: A Novel, Vol. 1 of 2The days are long gone by Since under the trees of Arden fair adventurous dam sels wandered in merry outlawry, and many young gentlemen ¿ocked there every day to ¿eet the time carelessly as in the golden world. N o careless gaiety revels in Arden now, but through the busy summer hard work for little wage, in the winter cold, dreariness, and for the poor unoccupied privation.Perhaps those oaks and elms whose trunks were scored with Orlando's rhymes.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.