"I will a tale to thee rehearse, a tale of import mighty; And if attention you do lend, I hope the tale will please you. 'Tis how the Frank by arms did gain the realm of fair Morea."

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Prologue, opening lines. William Smith, A History of Greece (Boston: Hickling, Swan, and Brown, 1855) bk. 7, ch. 51, p. 579, note. From the Greek text of J. A. Buchon, Βιβλίον της κουγκέστας του Μωραίως,—'The Book of the Conquest of the Morea' (Paris, 1840)