Excerpt from Reynard the Fox, an Early Apologue of Renown: Clad in an English Dress, Fashioned According to the German Model Supplied by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Although so much in the way of com mentary and criticism has been written about this renowned apologue, yet is its origin still enveloped in an apparently impenetrable fog. Many investigators, noted for learning and persevering research, have labored to clear this away; yet, with every new effort, the only result seems to be a further reces sion of the date of its birth. The probability of reliable discovery has vanished and naught seems left but to relegate it, as one pains taking enquirer has suggested, to prehistoric times. 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.