Excerpt from Clariodus: A Metrical Romance: Printed From a Manuscript of the Sixteenth Century<br><br>The romances of chivalry, either in verse or prose, constituted so large a portion of the literature of the middle ages, that, after innumer able revolutions in taste and fashion, they must still be regarded as oh jects of a liberal and well-directed curiosity. Of the literary recreations of our ancestors, they supply various and ample specimens and they abound with illustrations of the manners, customs, and habits of think ing, which prevailed during the respective periods to which they be long. The early poets of romance confounded the manners of every preceding age with those of their own; Hector of Troy they represent in all respects as such a knight as Amadis of Gaul; and their want of skill in history and chronology thus becomes conducive to their fidelity in delineating the costumes and usages of their own times.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>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.