Excerpt from The Most Delectable History of Reynard the Fox

Next to ?sop, Reynard the Fox is the best known of the tales in which animals play the chief part. It is natural, therefore, that a Cranford ?sop should be followed by a Cranford Reynard; and in the present volume I have endeavoured to do for Reynard what I attempted to do for ?sop in its predecessor - provide a text which children could read with ease and pleasure, and at the same time give their parents, their cousins, and their aunts a short resume of the results which the latest research in folklore and literary history has arrived at with regard to the origin of the book.

With regard to the text, I found that ready-made to my hand.

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