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Excerpt from History of Charles the Great and Orlando, Ascribed to Archbishop Turpin, Vol. 1 of 2: Translated From the Latin in Spanheim's Lives of Ecclesiastical Writers; Together With the Most Celebrated Ancient Spanish Ballads Relating to the Twelve Peers of France, Mentioned in Don Quixote; With English Metrical Versions
AS I can give the reader no better account of Turpin's History than Mr. Ellis has favored us with in his Specimens of Ancient Metrical Romances, I Shall merely transcribe what he says upon the subject, and reserve further con siderations for the Preface to the Spanish Bal lads.
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