 | 1916 - 880 pages
...libraries for forty shillings' price, a shame it is to be spoken. This stuff hath he occupied in the stead of gray paper by the space of more than these ten...yet he hath store enough for as many years to come. I judge this to be true, and utter it with heaviness, that neither the Britains under the Romans and... | |
 | John Lydgate, Giovanni Boccaccio - Middle Ages - 1927 - 564 pages
...is to be spoken. This stuff hath he occupied in the stead of grey paper, by the space of more than ten years, and yet he hath store enough for as many years to come."' — WH James Weale, Bookbindings and Rubbings of Bindings in the National Art Library South Kensington... | |
 | 1887 - 508 pages
...contents of two noble Libraries for fourty shillings price, a shame it is to be spoken! This stuffe hath he occupied instead of gray paper by the space...yet he hath store enough for as many years to come." Among the most interesting memorials are those relating to John of Arderne, who practised in Newark,... | |
 | Andrew King, John Plunkett - Popular literature - 2004 - 608 pages
...forty shillings' price, a shame it is to be spoken. This stuff hath he occupied in the stead of grey paper, by the space of more than these ten years, and yet he hath store enough for as nuiny years to come. A prodigious example is this, and to be abhorred of all men which love their nation... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1837 - 602 pages
...for forty shillings' price ; a shame it is to be spoken ! This stuff hath he occupied in the stead of gray paper by the space of more than these ten...yet he hath store enough for as many years to come. A prodigious example is this, and a most horrible infamy among the grave seniors of other nations !... | |
 | Henry Allon - Christianity - 1850 - 572 pages
...forty shillings' price, a shame it is to be spoken. This stuff hath he occupied in the stead of grey paper, by the space of more than these ten years,...yet he hath store enough for as many years to come. A prodigious example is this, and to be abhorred of all men which love their nation as they should... | |
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I know a merchant-man which shall at this time be nameless, that bought the contents of two noble libraries for forty shillings' price : a shame it is to be spoken ! This stuff hath he occupied instead of gray paper, by the space of more than these ten... 
