Excerpt from Caxton and Daniel Selections, Vol. 99: Being Extracts From Caxton's Prefaces, and Daniel's Musophilus I have emprised and concluded in myself to reduce. This said book into our English, as all along and plainly ye may read, hear, and see in this book here following. Beseeching all them that find fault in the same to correct and amend it, and also to pardon me of the rude and simple reducing. And though there be no gay terms, nor subtle, nor new eloquence, yet I hope that it shall be understood, and to that intent I have specially reduced it after the simple cunning that God hath lent me, whereof I humbly and with all my heart thank Him, and also am' bounden to pray for my father's and mother's souls, that in my youth set me to school, by which, by the sufierance of God, I get my living I hope truly. And that I may do so and continue, I beseech Him to grant me of his grace and so to labor and, occupy myself virtuously, that I may come out of debt and deadly sin, that after this life I may come to His bliss in heaven - To the Life of Charles the Great, 1485. 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.