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Excerpt from The Chronicle of the Kings of Britain: Translated From the Welsh Copy Attributed to Tysilio; Collated With Several Other Copies, and Illustrated With Copious Notes
Notwithstanding this, the fate of prior Geoffrey has been singularly unpropitious. Though the principal Circumstances found in his pub lication have been referred to as historic facts by Other writers, esteemed of reputation, and even asserted by royal authority; though he referred to one of the most celebrated men of the age, who occupied the dis. Tinguished station of archdeacon in the University of Oxford, as the donor of the manuscript which he translated though he dedicated the translation to a prince of high and admired literary abilities, whose character must be involved in the censure, were he to patronise a forgery; though the dignified station of Geoffrey himself would not only exempt him from all common motives to imposition, and the very tendency of the history itself, as opposite to the interests and objects of the English court, would be to raise the most formidable enmity against him, and must have done so, had not his statement as to his manuscript been true, still has he been as illiberally, as unmercifully, stigmatised as guilty of the forgery of a fabulous history.
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