Excerpt from Andromeda: And Other Poems You all know the old heathen story, that telleth how the Ladye Mother of Andromeda was punished for boasting her Daughter was fairer than Queen Venus, and the Beauty placed on a Rock to be devoured, and how happily she was rescued by Sir Perseus coming home from the conquest of the Gorgons, and aimed with Medusa's Head, that turned living things into stone: and how Sir Perseus did for his reward gain her hand in marriage, as that old legend fairly sheweth. 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.