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...have not added ne mynneshed but have followed as nyghe as I can my copye wich was in dutche; and by me Willm Caxton translated in to this rude and symple englysshe in thabbey of Westminster, and finished the vi daye of Juyn in the yere of our Lord 1481, and the 21 yere of the regne of Kynge Edward the 1111th...
...story with all the gusty lustiness of earlier tellings; in a politer version Goethe made an epic poem of it. No less than 27 episodes of Le Roman de Renard were penned in medieval France. The last of these formed the basis of the Flemish-Dutch poem from which Caxton made his translation...
Herbert disclaims any intention of being "narrowly and offensively British." But the Great Bear (which Americans "flippantly but sensibly call the Dipper") becomes Great Britain; its stars: Shakespeare, Caxton, Pitt, Johnson, Wren, Reynolds and Handel. Herbert gives Cassiopeia to the U.S. Says he: "I shall graciously permit the Americans to have some say . . . but I have put down Lincoln, Washington, Jefferson, Grant and Roosevelt (he does not say which), and a smaller one for Paul Jones...
...William, 63, punch-pleased with the way things were going, broke off his lectures explaining the plan long enough to marry his former secretary, Mrs. Jessy ("Janet") Philip Mair, grandmother and economist in her own right. The marriage, performed by the Archbishop of Canterbury at Caxton Hall, was Sir William's first. Chirped he: "Though I have known the lady . . . for many years, yet marriage must always be an adventure. Yet my critics say that social security kills that spirit...
Maybe the phrases in London's overcrowded, smoke-fogged Caxton Hall failed to echo the thunder of Palmerston, the precision of Gladstone or the delicacy of Asquith. But the 800 delegates to the Liberal Party's annual conference last week, and the public which got it secondhand, agreed that the meanings did no dishonor to British Liberalism's revered granddaddies...