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                  THE BOOK OF THE DUKE OF TRUE LOVERS



    NOW FIRST TRANSLATED FROM THE MIDDLE FRENCH OF CHRISTINE DE
    PISAN WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ALICE KEMP-WELCH. THE BALLADS
    RENDERED INTO THE ORIGINAL METRES BY LAURENCE BINYON & ERIC R.
    D. MACLAGAN


                       THE MEDIEVAL LIBRARY UNDER
                       THE GENERAL EDITORSHIP OF
                 SIR ISRAEL GOLLANCZ, Litt. D., F.B.A.




[Illustration: _The Book Of The Duke Of True Lovers Now First Translated
From the Middle French of Christine de Pisan, by Alice Kemp-Welch.
Chatto and Windus. London MCMVIII._]

    The title on the reverse of this page, engraved upon the wood,
    was designed by Miss _Blanche C. Hunter_, and embodies the only
    authentic portrait of _Christine De Pisan_, engaged in writing,
    from the MS. now in the Bibliotheque Royale, Brussels.

[Illustration: _Ci commence le liure du duc des vrays amans._]


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TRANSLATOR'S NOTE


The only two known MSS., both early fifteenth century French, of the
love-story here rendered into English prose, are the one in the
Bibliotheque Nationale (836), and that in the British Museum (Harley,
4431).

The MS. in the Bibliotheque Nationale