Excerpt from Broken Words: A Fifth Century of CharadesA page my second stood beside the throne, And when King Richard entertained my whole, It was his Office to present the bowl. My first and next the royal fingers stirred, And finding every condiment my third, The king approving passed it to the boy While knights and nobles smacked their lips for joy.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.