Excerpt from The Story of Genesis and Exodus: An Early English Song, About A. D. 1250; Edited From an Unique Ms. In the Library of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, With Introduction, Notes, and GlossaryThe Editor of the present valuable and interesting record of our old English speech will, no doubt, both astonish and alarm his readers by informing them that he has never seen the manuscript from which the work he professes to edit has been transcribed.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work.

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