Excerpt from My Lady's Slipper It only remains, therefore, to assure the gentler portion of the reading class farther, that although the scene is laid in France a century and a quarter since, there is no fighting in the book. Not one of the charac ters even draws a sword. In the Spirit of Nick Bottom, the immortal weaver, in fear lest I should fright the ladies, I have made the characters in the play roar you as gently as any sucking dove as 'twerel any nightingale I. 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.