This text was prepared by Lisa Ripperton, using as copytext, The Book of Legends Told Over Again, by Horace E. Scudder, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1899, 1900. It is number 144 in The Riverside Literature Series.

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Charles Madison Curry and Erle Elsworth Clippinger in their Children's Literature (1920, 1921) give the following introduction to an excerpt from this book:

One of the best of Mr. Scudder's many fine compilations for children is his Book of Legends from which the following story ["The Proud King"] is taken. It is the same story that Long­fellow tells in his Tales of a Wayside Inn under the title of "King Robert of Sicily."