Excerpt from Tales of Other Days

In presenting the present volume of Tales to the public, it may not be amiss to allude to the partiality entertained for this description of fictitious composition in almost every age and country. The fondness of the Orientals for their far-famed Arabian Nights' Entertainments is well known. The roaming Arab ofttimes lays aside the lance and the scymetar to listen to these narratives of the doings of the good and evil genii. In the dark ages of our own country there was the jester with his "ryghte merrie tale, " to enliven the knight and the noble - even royalty itself.

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