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The book's full title, written in the typically florid style of Elizabethan language, is: ''The Royal Book of Fate; Queen Elizabeth's Oracle of Future Events, From an Illuminated Manuscript, Found in the Library of the Unfortunate Earl of Essex, Who Was Beheaded in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth: A Work of the Greatest Interest, Curious, Marvellous, and Wonderful, relating to Love, Marriage, Riches, Dream Foretold, and all Subjects of Fate, Change, and Mortal Destiny'' | The book's full title, written in the typically florid style of Elizabethan language, is: ''The Royal Book of Fate; Queen Elizabeth's Oracle of Future Events, From an Illuminated Manuscript, Found in the Library of the Unfortunate Earl of Essex, Who Was Beheaded in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth: A Work of the Greatest Interest, Curious, Marvellous, and Wonderful, relating to Love, Marriage, Riches, Dream Foretold, and all Subjects of Fate, Change, and Mortal Destiny'' | ||
==The | ==The manuscript== | ||
According to the story given in the Preface and summarized in the title, the manuscript the work is supposedly based on a manuscript of considerable age that passed through the hands of several notable people including the English poet Chaucer before coming into the ownership of Robert Devereux, the second Earl of Essex. | According to the story given in the Preface and summarized in the title, the manuscript the work is supposedly based on a manuscript of considerable age that passed through the hands of several notable people including the English poet Chaucer before coming into the ownership of Robert Devereux, the second Earl of Essex. | ||