In the latter half of 1490, English printer William Caxton
prepared a folio for Prince Arthur, son of King Henry VII,
containing a translation from French of Le Liure des Eneydes
(1483), itself a translation from Latin of Virgil's Æneids. It
was preceeded by the following prose. — William Caxton, 1490
After dyuerse werkes made translated and achieued, hauing noo
werke in hande, I, sittying in my studye where as laye many
dyuerse pauntflettis and bookys, happened that to my hande came
a lytyl booke in frenshe, whiche booke is named Eneydos made in
latyn by that noble poete and grete clerke Vyrgyle. And whan I
had aduysed me in this sayd boke, I delybered and concluded to
translate it in-to englysshe, And forthwyth toke a penne and
ynke, and wrote a leefe or twyne whyche I ouersawe agayn to
corecte it. And whan I sawe the fayr and straunge termes therin,
I doubted that it sholde not please some gentylmen whiche late
blamed me, syeing that in my translacyons I had ouer curyous
termes whiche coude not be vndersta