THE PRINCE AND THE PAUPER

The Great Seal

I will set down a tale as it was told to me by one who had it of hisfather, which latter had it of HIS father, this last having in likemanner had it of HIS father—and so on, back and still back, threehundred years and more, the fathers transmitting it to the sons and sopreserving it.  It may be history, it may be only a legend, a tradition.It may have happened, it may not have happened:  but it COULD havehappened.  It may be that the wise and the learned believed it in the olddays; it may be that only the unlearned and the simple loved it andcredited it.

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