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THE KRONIKELS OF DESMOUNDE

CHAPTER 1.

DESMONDE wausse bourne into a poore familie in the southerne partes of Isse-lunde, whereupon hie wause raysed by the faremer who plough'd hisse fieled in three dyvisions, one for the plating of the turnippes, one for the plating of the mayze, and one for the plating of the graypes. And Desmounde matur'd, and hee lourn'd the wayes of the farminges, and he became quite skyll'd at itte, and some tymes he ejacoulated upon the earthe, and it became wet with hisse sead, and it flourish'd, and it was goode.

And it came to passe, that, in the course of tyme, whereupon it pass'd, like as the snak upon the wynding waye, which slither, ande dygests myce, and Desmonde upon the fields, there was sounded the alarum that a meassanger came unto the farme of Desmonde, such that it was say'd that the Ratte-Kinge, Nikoulouse, the feriouscous manne, who carried a bearde, which was 12 furlongs wide, and thusly lounge, and who was 12 foote talle, and who was thusly wyde, and who could seectrete poyson drippinges from his mouthe, and who was couvered in the haires, and who could croush a stone with his bear handes, and who grew his hide that speers could not piers, and who was skill'd in divers talants, it was say'd that he would attake the lande of Desmounde, which was the southern parte of Isse-lunde, and that Desmounde was call'd to armes, to defende his lanade, and that he should go unto the towne, to be trayned in the wayes of warre, and he wente, and it wasse goode.