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APHTHONII SOPHISTAE PRAE EXERCITAMENTA INTERPRETE VIRO DOCTISSIMO. IMPRESSA Londini per Richardum Pynson regiū impressorem cum priuilegio a rege indulto/ ne quis nunc in regno Angliæ imprimat/ aut alíbí impressum/ importatūue in eo dē regno Anglie vendat.
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re mei dū tēpus est miserendi ne perdas me ī tēpore tui tremē]di iudicii/ O bone ihesu si merui miser prtōr de vera tua iusticia penā eternā [per] pctīs meis grauissimis Adhuc apello gfisus de tua iusticia vera ad tuā mīam ineffabilē/ Utiqz misereberis mei ut pi[us] pater et misericorsdn̄s/ O bone ihesu que enī vtilitas ī sāguine meo dū descēdero in corruptionē eternā Nō enī mortui laudabūt te/ neqzoēs qui descendūt in infernū O misericordissīe ihesu miserere mei O dulcissime ihesu libera me O püssie ihesu [pro]picius esto michi pctōri/ O ihesu admitte me miserū pctōrm̄ inter numerū electo[rum] tuo[rum] O jhesu salus in te sperantiū O jhesu salus in te credȳriū miserere mei dulcis remissio oīm pctō[rum] meorum O ihesu fili [vir]ginis marie insūde in me gr̄am tuā sapienciā caritatē castitatē & hūilitatē ac etiā in oībz aduersitatibus meis pacienciā scām vt possi te [per]
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¶ Thys Emprynted at temple barre be me: Julyan Notary Dwellynge in saynt clemētys parysshe.
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¶ Petri Carmeliani Carmen. Anglia perpetuos: tibi darrola rubra triūphos. Perpetuum nomen: perpetuumq[ue] decus. Her tua Celaceis: redolēs rosa crescit in hortis. Itoq[ue] aquuam lignis: iungit vtranq[ue] suis. Septimus hēricus: sapiēs rex Regula morum. Celeste ingenium: cum probitate tenens. Ad tantos solus: vigilans ie verit honores. Ergo abs te debet: iure volente coli.
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¶ Skelton Poeta.
Eterno mantura die dumlidera fulgent Equora dumq; tument hec lainea nostra virebit. Hinc nostrum celebre et nomē referetur ad astra. Vndiq; Skeltonis memorabitur altera donis.
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THE GARDEN OF THE Muses.
Quem reserent Musa vtuet dum robor & tellus, Dum cœlum stellas, dum vehet amnis aquas.
Printed at London by E. A. for Iohn Tap, and are to be sold at his shop at Saint Magnus corner. 1610.

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DESIGNS BY CLAUD LOVAT FRASER [1890–1921]
THE MORLAND PRESS 190 Ebury Street London SW 1
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Designs from the Foundry of Messrs P. M. Shanks & Sons, Ltd. (219, 220, 222), and from The University Press, Oxford (221, 223, 224).

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eche other lettres and messages for taccorde to goo to gydre, apoynted the tyme of departyng, and of the waye that they sholde holde. AND whan Marche was come, ye sholde haue seen horses arrayed, with sommyers, palfroyes, and stedes, tentes and pauyllons, and to make armures. Ye maye wel knowe that there was moche to doo of many thynges, ffor the barons were acorded that they shold not goo alle to gydre, ffor no contre myght suffyse ne fynde that which shold be nedeful for them, ffor whiche cause alle the hoostes neuyr assembled, as ye shal here, tyl they cam vnto the cyte of Ntycene. The mene peple charged them self not moche with tentes ne armures, ffor they myght not bere it, & therfor euery man garnysshid hym aftir that he was with
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Printers’ Decorations Designed by the late Claud Lovat Fraser, for the Curwen Press in 1920
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Printers’ Flowers and Decorations, designed by Percy J. Smith, for the Curwen Press in 1922
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