Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: have rejoiced in this accomplishment of John Tate's longing trials! Ay, Master Richard, this fair sheet was made in the new mill at Hertford ; and well am I minded to use it in our Bartholomaeus, which I shall straightly put in hand, when the Forinschneider is ready. I have thought anent it; I have resolved on it; and I have indited some rude verses touching the matter, simple person as I am:— ' For in this world to reckon every thing Pleasure to man, there is none comparable As is to read and understanding In books of wisdom—they ben so delectable, Which sound to virtue, and beii proiitable; .And eld that love such virtue ben full glad Books to renew, and cause them to be made. ' And also of your charity call to remembrance The soul of William Caxton, first printer of this book In Latin tongue at Cologne, himself to advance, That every well-disposed man may thereon look: And John Tate the younger joy mote [may] he brook, Which hath late in England made this paper thin, That now in our English this book is printed in.' ' Fairly rhymed, Wynkyn,' said Lettou. ' But John Tate the younger is a bold fellow. Of a surety England can never support a Paper-mill of its own.' ' Come, to business,' said William of, Mechlin. Mark of Wynkyn de Worde. He always in these marks, associated the device of Caxton with his own ; glorying, as he well might, in succeeding to the business of his honoured master, and continuing for so many years the good work which he had begun. Caister Castle. THE PASTONS. I Have a great affection for the Fastens. They are the only people of the old time who have allowed me to know them thoroughly. I am intimate with all their domestic concerns—their wooings, their marriages, their household economies. I see them, as I see the p...