Excerpt from The Silver Wedding: A Romaunt Du Moyen Age, Translated in Verse And ever has the English tongue sought to free itself from bondage, which each successive con quest strove to impose upon its resulting composite structure. Not all the empire of Rome over Britain, or of Rome's derivative power through the French and norman-french, or the influence of other foreign admixture, have permanently availed to alter the syntactical arrangement of the language, composite as it is, beyond the scope of its own natural laws of development, or to permanently cramp its inherent life-principle - uthe rhythm of accents. 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.