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The Project Gutenberg eBook, Lavengro, by George Borrow, Edited by F. Hindes Groome This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Lavengro The Scholar - The Gypsy - The Priest, Vol. 1 (of 2) Author: George Borrow Editor: F. Hindes Groome Release Date: October 3, 2007 [eBook #22877] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII) ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LAVENGRO*** Transcribed from the 1901 Methuen & Co. edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org LAVENGRO The Scholar--The Gypsy--The Priest _By_ GEORGE BORROW _WITH NOTES AND AN INTRODUCTION_ BY F. HINDES GROOME VOLUME I _WITH A PORTRAIT FROM A PAINTING_ BY H. W. PHILLIPS LONDON METHUEN & CO. 36 ESSEX STREET, W.C. MDCCCCI {Portrait of George Borrow, painted by H. W. Phillips, engraved by W. Hall: p0.jpg} INTRODUCTION There have been many Romany Ryes, or "Gypsy Gentlemen," as Gypsies designate those who, though not of their race, yet have loved that race, and have mastered the Romany tongue. The first is one of the oddest--Andrew Boorde (_c._ 1490-1549). Carthusian, traveller, physician, and, perhaps, the original Merry Andrew, he got into trouble over certain delinquencies, and died a prisoner in the Fleet gaol. In 1542 he was writing his _Fyrst Boke of the Introduction of Knowledge_, and had come to "the xxxviii. chapiter," which "treateth of Egypt, and of theyr money and of theyr speche." He started bravely:-- "Egipt is a countrey ioyned to Jury, The countrey is plentyfull of wine, corne and hony. "There be many great wyldernes, in the which be many great wylde beastes. In ye which wildernis liuid many holy fathers, as it apperith in vitas patrum. The people--" But here, I fancy, he suddenly broke off; what did he know of the Egyptian people? Greece was the nearest he had ever been to Egypt. Going, however, for a stroll through his native county of Sussex, he presently lights on a band of "right Egyptians," belike in front of an alehouse. Egyptians! the very thing! Like any newspaper correspondent of to-day, he must straightway have whipped out his notebook, and jotted down the rest of his chapter:-- "T
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