v/ife Murgai-eti, sister of Edward IV., King of England. ■ 

 Soon after, the trea-ty was renewed. Meanwhile Raoul 

 Lefevre, chaplain aaid secret-ary to Duke Phillip, had gath- 

 ered from many sources his Troy legends, and at request of 

 Duche&s Margaret, Canton began to translate them into 

 English. After translating five or six quires, C ax ton, dis- 

 satisfied with ills work, thrust it aside,, intending not to 

 renew it. But Marga>re4; sent for him, read what he had 

 done, suggested amendments, and desired him to finish his 

 translation. This he did, commencing the work at Bruges, 

 continuing it at Ghent, and finishing at Cologne t\^'o of 

 the thiree parts into which Lefevre 's book was divided. As 

 the third pai't was included in the Troy book of his friend, 

 John Lydgate, monk of Bury, Caxton thought not to txtms- 

 lat-e it; but in part from the fact that Lydgate 's book was 

 in rhyme, and more from the urgency of Duchess Margaret 

 that his pro&e translation should be finished, he complet-ed 

 his task. 



At the close of this notable story-book Caxton wrote : 

 "Thus end I this book, translated aft-er my author as nigh 

 as God has given me cunning. And forasmuch as in the 

 writing of the same my pen is worn, mine hand weary and 

 not s.tea.dfast, and mine eyes dimme-d with oveaTnuoh look- 

 ing at white paper, and that nge creepetb on me daily ; 

 and as I have promised to a-ddrcss to my friends as hastily 

 as I might this book, I have practiced and learned at my 

 great charge and dispense to ordain this said book in print, 

 aft€r the m^anner and form as ye may here see." But 

 Caxton lived to print in England a hundred volumes after 

 this, in all 18,000 pages, of which a fourth \A'ero translat-ed 

 or written by himself. 



One of the works printed by Ca-xton was the Morte 

 Dartihur, Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and his 

 knights of the round table. It contained "Our land's first 

 legends, Icfvo and knightly deeds, and wondrous Merlin and 

 his wandering King." They are tales of that knighthood 

 which was an element of the medieval life developed by the 



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