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Updated: August 13, 2024
Without it, how should the water be got out of a draw-well? In what case would tabellions, notaries, copists, makers of counterpanes, writers, clerks, secretaries, scriveners, and such-like persons be without it? Were it not for it, what would become of the toll-rates and rent-rolls? Would not the noble art of printing perish without it? Whereof could the chassis or paper-windows be made?
22 'Paper-winkers, in every edition, except the first, which was from the author's manuscript, has been altered to 'paper-windows. Bunyan's allusion is to the winkers, called by many 'blinkers, put by the side of a horse's eyes, to keep him under the complete control of his driver and by 'paper-winkers' the flimsy attempt of Antichrist to hoodwink mankind by printed legends, miracles, and absurd assumptions it is one of the almost innumerable sparks of wit, which render all the writings of Bunyan so entertaining and strikingly instructive.
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