Sir Walter Raleigh (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Sir Walter Raleigh

You have given me permission to put your name in this book, so I owe it to you to explain its purpose. It is a life of Sir Walter Raleigh, told in eleven stories. I have taken the chief scenes in his life, and made some friend or follower write about them as'if he had seen them with his own eyes. I do not know if there was ever a Gervase Luttrell or a Nathan Stubbs, but I know that people just like them lived in Raleigh's day, and saw and heard the things they write about here. So, though I have invented some of the characters, all that they tell us really hap pened, and most of the little incidents and speeches will be found recorded in old books. It is a story, but an ower true story, and you must not think that it' only came out of my head.

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