Excerpt from Sir Roland, Vol. 1 of 4: A Romance of the Twelfth Century in Four Volumes
Moreover (let it be understood), al though I have a kind of co'ckletop pre dilection for all pieces, scraps, and morsels of antiquity, andthe more especially, old black letter and 'm'ouldy sheep-skin ma nuscripts, it is next to impossible that I should ever go digging and groping for them among the ruins of Old castles, ah beys, monasteries, or other structures of that venerable and dilapidated feature. I agree, a moss-covered, grey-looking rein nant of a Gothic edifice is a vastly pretty object to look' at, when peeping at you from the midst of a cluster Of embowering trees - but as to venturing Within its crazy walls '(crumbling like a pound-cake); I have an obstinate, insurmountable objec.
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