The Boyd Smith Mother Goose . ullof Wonder and Merriment, which little Knight lived in King Arthurs Time, and famous in theCourt of Greet Brittain is quoted among the books of John Wright of London in 1630. And again in a Black Letter Print in Edinburgh in 1682, which speak of it as a piece ofancient popular Poetry. And earlier still Sharon Turner in his History of the Anglo Saxons,connects this renouned dwarf with King Edgars court. Langley in one of the Black Letter Pages of 1621, of which but two copies are now extant,priced a copy of this ancient and very popular poem as being sold f6-2/6.

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The Boyd Smith Mother Goose . ullof Wonder and Merriment, which little Knight lived in King Arthurs Time, and famous in theCourt of Greet Brittain is quoted among the books of John Wright of London in 1630. And again in a Black Letter Print in Edinburgh in 1682, which speak of it as a piece ofancient popular Poetry. And earlier still Sharon Turner in his History of the Anglo Saxons,connects this renouned dwarf with King Edgars court. Langley in one of the Black Letter Pages of 1621, of which but two copies are now extant,priced a copy of this ancient and very popular poem as being sold f6-2/6. Mention is found made of the same as early as during the last half of the sixteenth century,but no known earlier prints are in existence today. Page 160—Mickle, large. Page 160—eke, old English for also. Page 160—Merlin, a Welsh magician said to have lived in the third century. Page 165—both, old English for booty. Page 176—firmity, later fermety, a form of yeast. Page 208—Irapan, obsolete form of snare or *<-

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