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Excerpt from The Boke of Curtasye: An English Poem of the Fourteenth Century The following poem, which is now for the first time printed, from ms. Sloane 1986 (a small manuscript on vellum, of the fourteenth century), is perhaps one of the most singular relics of the kind that could have been placed before the notice of the antiquarian reader. In style of com position it is very similar to the curious poem Which I printed some time since in my Early History of Freemasonry in England, - in fact, so much so, that I am almost inclined to think, on comparing the two together, that they may possibly be the work of one writ-er. The same language, and in some instances the same phrases, may be distinctly traced. 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.