OR, ENTERTAINING MORAL STORIES; INVENTED BY THE MONKS AS A FIRE-SIDE RECREATION; AND PULPIT: WHENCE THE MOST CELEBRATED OF OUR OWN POETS AND OTHERS, FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES, HAVE EXTRACTED THEIR PLOTS. TRANSLATED FROM THE LATIN, WITH PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS AND COPIOUS NOTES, BY THE REV. CHARLES SWAN, LATE OF CATHARINE HALL, CAMBRIDGE. "They " [the Monks]" might be disposed occasionally to recreate their IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. I. LONDON: PRINTED FOR C. AND J. RIVINGTON, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH-YARD, AND WATERLOO-PLACE, PALL-MALL M.DCCC.XXIV. TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE LORD VISCOUNT PALMERSTON, SECRETARY AT WAR, AND MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE, &c. &c. &c. MY LORD, WHEN the high and the honored -the gifted in mind, not less than exalted in station, derive pleasure from protecting the interests of Literature, well may she be proud of the support. Such patronage is most valuable: like Mercy, "it is twice blessed; It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes :" and powerfully elicits the feeling of unqualified respect, with which, in presenting these Volumes, I have the honor to subscribe myself, Your Lordship's most obedient, humble servant, London, June 9, 1824. CHARLES SWAN. |