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Excerpt from History of Charles the Great and Orlando, Ascribed to Archbishop Turpin, Vol. 1 of 2: Translated From the Latin in Spanheim's Lives of Ecclesiastical Writers; Together With the Most Celebrated Ancient Spanish Ballads Relating to the Twelve Peers of France, Mentioned in Don Quixote; With English Metrical Versions AS I can give the reader no better account of Turpin's History than Mr. Ellis has favored us with in his Specimens of Ancient Metrical Romances, I Shall merely transcribe what he says upon the subject, and reserve further con siderations for the Preface to the Spanish Bal lads. 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.