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Frobisher's last letter contained this sentence: "It was tyme for us to goa through with it." For Morison this sums up the code of the best mariners. It is his code too. At 83, Morison still sails. He rides horseback, too, and occasionally shows up at his office in Harvard's Widener Memorial Library in his riding britches, looking more like a pukka-sahib colonel than a professor or an admiral. At present he is working on a biography of Samuel de Champlain as well as a sequel to his present volume. When his own time comes...
...early as 1557, Britain's mail carriers were complaining about their paltry wages. According to one sympathetic chronicler, in that "busy tyme of the warres they were not hable to lyve of Xlld [12 pence] by the daye, which in tyme of peace was their ordinary wages." Not until last week, however, did the country's long-suffering letter carriers finally get around to staging the first nationwide strike in the history of the British post office. Britain's distinctive red mailboxes were sealed with brown tape as most of the 230,000 members of the Union...
...hadde him worde from nygh apothecaries That thogh the clerkes worthy al did sem Hir lechoury hadde longe in proces been. The knyght then in a loude tonge rendred That al by lak of vertu was engendred, And he could mak swyft remedie with powre By shortenyng hir synnyng tyme an houre...
...loss of some of the old laws might be said, from a dour point of view, to contribute to modern decadence. Among them: repeal of a prohibition (1579) against "gamyng and playing, passing to tavernis and ail-houses and wilfull remaning fra [away from] the paroche kirk in tyme of ser-mone or prayers on Sonday...
...tyme is nye spent awaye...