Note: Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive. See https://archive.org/details/cressypoictierss00edga Transcriber's note: Text enclosed by underscores is in italics (_italics_). Small capitals have been changed to UPPER CASE. Everyman's Library Edited by Ernest Rhys Fiction CRESSY AND POICTIERS With an Introduction by Ernest Rhys * * * * * * THE PUBLISHERS OF _EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY_ WILL BE PLEASED TO SEND FREELY TO ALL APPLICANTS A LIST OF THE PUBLISHED AND PROJECTED VOLUMES TO BE COMPRISED UNDER THE FOLLOWING TWELVE HEADINGS: TRAVEL * SCIENCE * FICTION THEOLOGY & PHILOSOPHY HISTORY * CLASSICAL CHILDREN'S BOOKS ESSAYS * ORATORY POETRY & DRAMA BIOGRAPHY ROMANCE [Illustration] IN TWO STYLES OF BINDING, CLOTH FLAT BACK COLOURED TOP AND LEATHER ROUND CORNERS GILT TOP. LONDON: J. M. DENT & CO. * * * * * * [Illustration] A TALE WHICH HOLDETH CHILDREN FROM PLAY & OLD MEN FROM THE CHIMNEY CORNER SIR PHILIP SIDNEY * * * * * * [Illustration] CRESSY & POICTIERS The Story of the Black Prince's Page by J. G. EDGAR London: Published by J. M. Dent & Co And In New York by E. P. Dutton & Co First Edition February 1906 Reprinted April 1906 Plymouth: William Brendon and Son, Ltd. Printers Introduction. "Ivanhoe," picturing the days of Richard Coeur de Lion, leapt over all but a couple of centuries to draw upon Froissart. The present romance of Edward the Black Prince's time is well within the barriers of the best of all the romantic chroniclers, and perhaps its chief merit is that it is both historically and romantically an avowed Froissart book. Its author, J. G. Edgar, who was of course not a Walter Scott, wrote and was content to write for "Beeton's Boys' Own Magazine" in its palmy days, between forty and fifty years ago, when its editor had a very distinct idea of bringing English history into holiday range. Edgar was one of his chief contributors, and wrote some capital stories and histories, of which three or four are still in favour, and this story of "Cressy and Poictiers" is the best of them.