The story of English literature for young readers . he neck. Ofcourse her ladies dressed in keeping ; and the gentle-men of the court were so fine about their dress, with For Young Readers. 6i their satin cloaks, jeweled vests, and puffed sleeves,their silk hose and buckled shoes, that many writersmade sport of them. Fancy all this fine assemblage at Whitehall in London,or at some earls country-seat. The queen, glitter-ing all over with gems,and dressed in rustlinggreen satin, walks about,followed by courtiersready to bow down anddo her homage. Theymake merry, they laugh,and jest, and flatter,
The story of English literature for young readers . he neck. Ofcourse her ladies dressed in keeping ; and the gentle-men of the court were so fine about their dress, with For Young Readers. 6i their satin cloaks, jeweled vests, and puffed sleeves,their silk hose and buckled shoes, that many writersmade sport of them. Fancy all this fine assemblage at Whitehall in London,or at some earls country-seat. The queen, glitter-ing all over with gems,and dressed in rustlinggreen satin, walks about,followed by courtiersready to bow down anddo her homage. Theymake merry, they laugh,and jest, and flatter, be-cause the queen likes it ;while, far off, out of hear-ing, in the Tower, death-warrants are so often Gentleman of Elizabeths time, being given OUt. One of the prisoners of that day said he wondered why anyone cared to live ; to him there was only sadness inthat rich, merry-making England. Orcourse, with all this, had come a great increaseof learning. The ladies of the queens court were very knew Latin and Greek and French, and some. 62 The Story of English Literature science, and they read a great deal of poetry. Theprincipal reason for this was that printing had beenintroduced into England by one William Caxton abouti48o. The first books were printed on thin, yellowishpaper, and Caxton wrote many of them himself ; butamong the first was an edition of the Canterbury had to work hard enough, and sometimes he mademistakes. For instance, when his first edition of Chau-cer appeared, a gentleman called upon him and saidit was not like the MS. copy his father had ; and sopoor Caxton borrowed the correct version and had tobegin all over again. But now writers sprang up onevery side. In the reign of Henry VIII. the Earl ofSurrey and Sir Thomas More were famous. I wishthat in this space I could tell their story. They bothmet the same sad fate at the Tower, and Englandwaited long before such a Christian gentleman, such ascholar, such a man, as Sir Thomas More was
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