Excerpt from Three Early English Metrical Romances: With an Introduction and Glossary How far this description may apply to the minstrels of the north, it would be, perhaps, presumptuous to say the internal evidence of some of the Metrical Romances goes far to prove that they were composed in the Cloister, and, like the poems which Petrarch gave to his friends the Troubadours, must have been given to the minstrel to publish, and prece aut pretia. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.