Animaduersions upon the Annotacions And Corrections of Some Imperfections of Impressiones of Chaucer's Works Set Down Before Time And Now Reprinted in the Year of Our Lord 1598
Contributors: G. H. Kingsley (Editor)
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published: July 2, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 80
ISBN-13: 9781417930722
Subjects: Literature: History & Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Literary Criticism; British Isles; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
First sentence: It was [Ryghte honorable and my verye good lorde] one annciente and gretlye estemed custome emongste the Romans in the heighe of their glorye, that eche one, accordinge to their abylytye or the desarte of his frende, did in the begynnynge of the monthe of Januarye [consecrated to the dooble faced godd Janus one the fyrste daye whereof they made electione of their cheife officers and magystrates] presente somme gyfte unto his frende as the noote and pledge of the contynued and encresed amytye betwene them, a pollicye gretlye to be regarded, for the manye good effectes whiche issue from so woorthye cause.