Excerpt from The Owl and the NightingaleParker New for my obligations to them indicated at the head of the texts. I am very grateful for the kindness of Professor Frederick M. Padelford of the University of Washington, who collated my final copy for the Cot ton text with the Cotton ms.To Professor 0. F. Emerson of Western Reserve Uni versity and to Professor Richard Jones of Vanderbilt University, I owe especial thanks for their kind concern toward the publication of this edition. To the general editor of the series, Professor Ewald F lugel, I am most deeply obliged for the admission of the poem into the series, for his careful reading of my ms., and for his very helpful suggestions. I would thank him, too, for making for me at the Bodleian and at the British Museum a number of notes concerning the mss.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.