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Excerpt from Be Domes Bede: De Die Judicii, an Old English Version of the Latin Poem Ascribed to Bede But the Society has yet other claims upon us, in addition to those which appeal chiefly to students of literature. It is to such works as are issued under its auspices that' we must look, far more than to the State records for the social history of the country. In the Babees Boke, the Boke of Norture, ' the Boke of Carving, ' the statutes of the English Guilds, and the Supplycacyon of the Beggars, ' we may read the very mind of our forefathers, the way in which they regarded the common duties and responsibilities which make up every-day life, ' their methods of making existence comfort able, gentle, easy, and cultured, their way of dress, their pro taction and advancement of the arts; how they ate, drank, talked, and slept. And if there linger among us any relics10 4. The Duke of Manchester's Commemoratzon Fund. 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.

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