pipero

Updated: July 9, 2026

I believe he undoes himself with printing his translations. Nobody else will undergo the charge, because they never hope to sell enough of them to pay themselves withal. I was looking t'other day in a book of his where he translates Pipero as piper, and twenty words more that are as false as this. My Lord Broghill, sure, will give us something worth the reading.

Dorothy Osborne - The Love Letters of Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple, 1652-54