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if agast the present one any objection be raised on the sre ofits truth, it can only be that its author was an arab, as lyg is avery on propensity with those of that nation; though, as theyare such eneies of ours, it is nceivable that there wereoissions rather than additions ade the urse of it and thisis y own opion; for, where he uld and should give freedo tohis pen praise of worthy a knight, he sees to deliberatelyto pass it over silence; which is ill done and worse ntrived, forit is the bess and duty of historians to be exact, truthful, andwholly free fro passion, and neither terest nor fear, hatred norlove, should ake the swerve fro the path of truth, whose otheris history, rival of ti, storehoe of deeds, witness for thepast, exaple and unsel for the present, and warng for the future this i know will be found all that can be desired thepleasantest, and if it be wantg any good ality, i ata itis the fault of its hound of an author and not the fault of thesubject to be brief, its send part, aordg to the translation,began this way:

with tren插nt swords upraised and poised on high, it seed asthough the o valiant and wrathful batants stood threatengheaven, and earth, and hell, with such retion and deterationdid they bear theselves the fiery biscayan was the first to strike ablow, which was delivered with such force and fury that had not thesword turned its urse, that sgle stroke would have sufficedto put an end to the bitter struggle and to all the adventures