Here begynneth the volume intituled and named the recuyell of the historyes of Troye
[1473 or 1474]
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Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400
The Canterbury tales
1477]
4
Higden, Ranulf, -1364
Grete thankynges, lawde, & honoure we merytoryously ben bounde to yelde and offre vnto wryters of hystoryes, whiche gretely haue prouffyted oure mortal lyf, that shewe vnto the reders and herers by the ensamples of thynges passyd, what thynge is to be desyred