原文 (英语)

Transcribed from “Plays and Puritans and Other Historical Essays” 1890 Macmillan and Co. edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org SIR WALTER RALEIGH AND HIS TIME [87] ‘Truth is stranger than fiction.’  A trite remark.  We all say it again and again: but how few of us believe it!  How few of us, when we read the history of heroical times and heroical men, take the story simply as it stands!  On the contrary, we try to explain it away; to prove it all not to have been so very wonde