 | Alfred Young - 1894 - 660 pages
...universities of this realm are not all clear in this detestable fact. I know a merchantman, who shall at this time be nameless, that bought the contents of two...shillings price; a shame it is to be spoken. This stuff hath he used instead of gray paper for the space of these ten years, and yet he hath store for as many... | |
 | William Roberts - 1895 - 380 pages
...ungodly gains, and so deeply shameth his natural country. I know a merchantman, which shall at this time be nameless, that bought the contents of two...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 years ; and yet he... | |
 | Royal Society of Literature (Great Britain) - 1895 - 944 pages
...small numbers, but at times whole ships full. I know a merchantman that bought the contents of two libraries for forty shillings price, a shame it is to be spoken ; this stuff hath he occupied instead of grey paper by the space of more than these ten years, and yet he hath store... | |
 | Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson - 1895 - 406 pages
...Ball, Bishop of Ossory, writing in 1549, says that he knew "a 376 377 merchantman, which shall at this time be nameless, that bought the contents of two noble libraries for 40s. apiece ; a shame in the days of King Henry VIII. A few of the salt, however, as for example Henry,... | |
 | Edward Edwards - 1901 - 410 pages
...ungodly gains, and so deeply shameth his natural country. I know a merchantman, which shall at this time be nameless, that bought the contents of two...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... | |
 | 1904 - 894 pages
...in whole ships full, to the wondering of foreign nations. I know a merchant man, that shall at this time be nameless, that bought the contents of two...price, a shame it is to be spoken. This stuff has he occupied in the stead of waste paper, by the space of more than ten years, and yet he hath store... | |
 | Clarence Griffin Child - 1904 - 128 pages
...ungodly gains and so deeply sbameth his natural country. I know a merchant man, which shall at this time be nameless, that bought the contents of two...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 years, and yet he bath... | |
 | Jean Mary Stone - 1904 - 534 pages
...whole ships full, to the wondering of the foreign nations. I know a merchant man, that shall at this time be nameless, that bought the contents of two noble libraries for xl. shillings price, a shame it is to be spoken. This stuff" hath he occupied in the stead of waste... | |
 | Clarence Griffin Child - 1904 - 128 pages
...by the space of more than these ten years, and yet he bath store enough for as many years to come. I judge this to be true, and utter it with heaviness, that neither the Britaius under the Romans and Saxons, iior yet the English people under the Danes and Normans,... | |
 | Jean Mary Stone - 1905 - 464 pages
...I know a merchant man," wrote Bale, Bishop of Ossory as quoted by Leland, "which at this time shall be nameless, that bought the contents of two noble libraries for forty shillings apiece. A shame it is to be spoken. This stuff hath he occupied, instead of grey paper, by the space... | |
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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... 
