Sinópse: Excerpt from Kenilworth, Vol. 1 I am an inn-keeper, and know my grounds, And study them Brain 0′ man, I study them. I must have jovial guests to drive my ploughs, And whistling boys to bring my harvests home, Or 1 shall hear no Hails thwack. IT 15 the privilege of tale – tellers to open their story in an inn, the free rendezvous of all travellers, and Where the humour of each displays itself, Without ceremony or restraint. This IS specially suitable when the scene is laid during the old days of merry England, when the guests were in some sort not merely the inmates, but the messmates and temporary companions of mine host, who was usually a personage of privileged freedom, comely presence, and good humour. Patronized by him, the characters of the company were placed in ready con trast; and they seldom failed, during the emptying of a six-hooped pot, to throw off reserve, and present them selves to each other, and to their landlord, with the free dom of old acquaintance. 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.