The popular history of England; an illustrated history of society and government from the earliest period to our own times . and those who waited upon her, even greatlords, had to kneel while she was eating, which continued three hours. After dinner there was dancing,but the queen remainedsitting upon her stool, andher mother kneeled beforeher. t It is scarcely tobe wondered that kingEdward too frequently stoleaway from this frightfuletiquette, to be merry afterhis own vicious fashion;or that he would a huntingride, some pastime for tosee. J The court fool,with his jests and hisantics, must ha
The popular history of England; an illustrated history of society and government from the earliest period to our own times . and those who waited upon her, even greatlords, had to kneel while she was eating, which continued three hours. After dinner there was dancing,but the queen remainedsitting upon her stool, andher mother kneeled beforeher. t It is scarcely tobe wondered that kingEdward too frequently stoleaway from this frightfuletiquette, to be merry afterhis own vicious fashion;or that he would a huntingride, some pastime for tosee. J The court fool,with his jests and hisantics, must have been awelcome relief to thethree hours of dining andkneeling. But in the court ofEngland, after the re-estab-lishment of the house ofYork, there were morerational occupations thanthe processions and banquets of the great days of ceremony, as that day was onwhich the Bohemian lord was received. There were literary tastes in those times * See Paston Letters, vol. v. p. 7. + Extract translated in the Athenfeum, November 16, 1844, from the Travels of Lecvon Rozmital through the West of Europe. t Percy, Keliques, vol. iL. Court Fool and Bufioon. (Harl. MS. 4379.) PATRONAGE OF THE NEW ART OF PRINTING. 171 which had so recently witnessed the waste and ferocity of civil war. Edwardwas himself a reader. In his AVardrohe Accounts there are entries forbinding his Titus Livius, his Froissart, his Josephus, and his Bible; aswell as for the cost of fastening chests to remove his books from London toEltham. The brother of the queen was the patron of Caxton, who brouf^ht hisart to England in 1474. Eor Caxtons press the accomplished Eivers trans-lated The Dictes and Sayings of Philosophers, which was printed at West-minster in 1477; and he afterwards translated two other works for first printer was intimately connected with the family of Edward IV.
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