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"PENARDO AND LAISSA."
(Vol. vii., p. 84.)
Your correspondent E. D. is fortunate in the possession of a rare book,
worth a "jew's eye" in the good old days of the Bibliomania. It formed a
part of the Heber Collection, where (see Part iv. p. 111.) it figures under
the following quaint title:
"The First Booke of the Famous Historye of Penardo and Laissa,
other-ways called the Warres of Love and Ambitione, wherein is
described Penardo his most admirable deeds of Arms, his ambition of
glore, his contempt of love, with loves mighte assalts and ammorous
temptations, Laissa's feareful inchantment, hir relief, hir travells,
and lastly, loves admirabel force in hir releiving Penardo from the
fire. Doone in Heroik Verse by Patrik Gordon.