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My story will take you into times and spaces alike rude and uncivil

Blood will be spilt, virgins suffer distresses; the horn will sound

through woodland glades; dogs, wolves, deer, andlife or death with their

proper tools There should be mad work, not devoid of entertainment

When you read the word Explicit, if you have laboured so far,

you will know soraunt Forest and the Countess Isabel;

the Abbot of Holy Thorn will have postured and schemed (with you

behind the arras); you will have wandered with Isoult and will knohy she was called La Desirous, with Prosper le Gai, and will

understand how a man may fall in love with his oife Finally, of

Galors and his affairs, of the great difference there may be between a

Christian and the brutes, of love and hate, grudging and open huhts uncloistered--all in the green

wood--you will know as ument I hope you will not ask me what it all means, or what the

moral of it is

I rank , and consider that ument

dispassionately Your romancer must be neither a lover of his heroine

nor (as the fashion now sets) of his chief rascal He s; and his attitude should be

that of the Pulpiteer:--Heaven help you, gentle to me