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Thomas Osborne the bookseller, who purchased the library for 13,000l., a sum which Mr. Oldys says, in one of his manuscripts, was not more than the binding of the books had cost; yet, as Dr. Johnson assured me, the slowness of the sale was such, that there was not much gained by it.
Tho. Ashton, S.T.P., Præb. senr. Will. Blake, S.T.P., Decanus. Hen. Goodman, S.T.B., Præb. junr. "'Ah! said Uncle Oldys, 'grave discomfort! So he thought there might be something. I suspect it was that young man, he went on, pointing with the key to the line about the 'only Child and Heire. 'Eh, Mary? The viscounty of Kildonan was Saul. 'How do you know that, Uncle? said Mary.
"Tongues whisper to the Queen that this play is part of a great plot to teach her subjects how to murder kings." It is perhaps not generally known that Charles Shakespeare, William's brother, survived till the Restoration. Oldys says,
Lewis and Oldys suppose that between his fifteenth and eighteenth years he was put apprentice to one Robert Large, a mercer or merchant of considerable eminence, who was afterward, successively, sheriff and lord mayor of London, and who upon his death, in 1441, remembered Caxton in his will by a legacy of 20 marks. Caxton at this time had become a freeman of the Company of Mercers.
Maple, he said, and Mary ran off no one, I am sure, steps like her and soon came back at a soberer pace, with an elderly lady of discreet aspect. "'Have you the keys of these things, Mrs. Maple? said Uncle Oldys. Maple might have stood as the model for Miss Bates.
But they turned on him at the last, he says, and there's the mark still to be seen on the minster door where they run him down. And that's no more than the truth, for I got him to show it to myself, and that's what he said. A lord he was, with a Bible name of a wicked king, whatever his godfathers could have been thinking of. 'Saul was the name, said Uncle Oldys.
'A valuable servant, he said, nodding towards the door. 'Nothing goes wrong under her: the speeches are seldom over three minutes. 'How will Miss Oldys manage to make her remember about the box? I asked. "'Mary? Oh, she'll make her sit down and ask her about her aunt's last illness, or who gave her the china dog on the mantel-piece something quite off the point.
Will the American people act rationally about this matter, and protect their own interests? One by one the various state legislatures have been putting up the bars against the exportation or sale of any "game protected by the state." The U.S. Department of Agriculture says, through Henry Oldys, that "free marketing of wild game leads swiftly to extermination;" and it is literally true.
I am recalling these details to show that the amusement was popular and cheap. The ordinary price paid for a new play was less than seven pounds; Oldys, on what authority is not known, says that Shakespeare received only five pounds for "Hamlet."
In the College of Physicians was a fine collection 'in their own and the other faculties. Selden bequeathed to it his 'physical books, and it was enriched by a gift of the whole library of Lord Dorchester, 'the pride and glory of the College. We can only mention a few of the libraries described by Oldys.
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