The Life of Mayster Wyllyam Caxton, of the Weald of Kent: The First Printer in England : in which is Given an Account of the Rise and Progress of the Art of Pryntyng in England During His Time, Till 1493

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136. oldal - In our forefathers' time, when papistry, as a standing pool, covered and overflowed all England, few books were read in our tongue, saving certain books of chivalry, as they said, for pastime and pleasure, which, as some say, were made in monasteries by idle monks or wanton canons: as one, for example, Morte Arthur, the whole pleasure of which book standeth in two special points — in open manslaughter and bold bawdry.
x. oldal - Fructus temporum. How small a portion of this work is owing to this author, has been observed before ; but he now usually bears the name of the whole, which begins with the first inhabiting of this island, and ends (the last year of Edward IV.) AD 1483. . The opportunities he had of being acquainted with the court transactions of his own time, would encourage his readers to hope for...
59. oldal - LORD'S Prayer, and the Ten Commandments, in the vulgar tongue, and all other things which a Christian ought to know and believe to his soul's health...
61. oldal - Christian religion, to believe in God the Father, in God the Son, and in God the Holy Ghost...
137. oldal - Syr Lamerocke, with the wife of king Lote, that was his own aunte. This is good stuffe for wise men to laughe at, or honest men to take pleasure at. Yet I know when Gods Bible was banished the Court, and Morte Arthure receiued into the Princes chamber.
114. oldal - And I have seen a registration of some acts of John Cranden, prior of Ely, made upon paper, which bears date in the fourteenth year of king Edward II., that is, Anno Domini 1310.
62. oldal - They were to be published by every parish priest in his holy vestments, with bells tolling and candles lighted, before the whole congregation, in the mother tongue, on Christmas, Easter, Pentecost, and All-Hallovvs-day.
113. oldal - As he printed long before the present Method of adding the Errata at the End of Books was in Use and Practice, so his extraordinary Exactness obliged him to take a great deal more Pains than can easily be imagined ; for, after a Book was printed off, his way was to revise it, and correct the Faults in it with red Ink, as they then used to correct their written Books. This being done to one Copy, he caused one of his Servants to run through the whole Impression, and correct the Faults he had noted...
72. oldal - And the best to haue a prys / a dyamond or Jewel / suche as shold please the prynce / This shold cause gentylmen to resorte to thauncyent custommes of chyuab'y to grete fame and renom- || sig.
123. oldal - Tho yede the Monke into a gardeyne, and founde a grete Tode therein, and toke her up and put her in a cuppe, and prycked the Tode thorugh with a broche many tymes, tyll that the venym came out of every syde in the cuppe.

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