The Clerk of Oxford in Fiction (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Clerk of Oxford in Fiction He who would include within a portable volume the complete story of Oxford Clerks in Fiction is as one who strives to "shut up the sea with doors." For, in the first place, he must fetch his beginning from the very beginning of all things, - ¿¿ ¿i¿¿ a¿¿¿µ¿¿¿¿, he must open with a description of the visit to the classic Ford and the naming thereof, at an uncertain date, by Europa and her bovine abductor: he must then rescue all that has survived the long navigation from the first ages to our own, tales of the foundation of the City by Mempric, shortly before that monarch was devoured of wolves at Wolvercote, of the University by Greek Philosophers who sailed, strange shipmates, with the Trojan Brutus to Albion, and the like: while, in connection with these ancient traditions, he must note various theories held by modern writers with regard to the origin of the place, - as, for example, that by the ingenious Niebuhr, who, observing that caps have tassels and that the streets of Oxford are not macadamized, comes to the conclusion that the University was originally colonized by the Pelasgi, which he further confirms by detecting in the periodical departure and return of the inhabitants, according to the vacations, traces of the migratory habits of that famous tribe. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.