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So judiciously contrived that the wisest may exercise at once their knowledge and devotion; its ceremonies few and innocent; its language significant and perspicuous; most of the words and phrases being taken out of the Holy Scriptures and the rest are the expressions of the first and purest ages. COMBER
THE booke of the common praier and administracion of the Sacramentes, and other rites and ceremonies of the Churche: after the vse of the Churche of Englande.
LONDINI, _in officina Richardi Graftoni, Regij impressoris_.
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The author of Piers Ploughman, no doubt, embodied in a poetic dress just what millions felt. His poem as truly expressed the popular sentiment on the subjects it discussed as did the American Declaration of Independence the national thought and feeling on the relations between the Colonies and Great Britain. Its dialect, its tone and its poetic dress alike conspired to secure to the Vision a wide circulation among the commonalty of the realm, and by formulating--to use a favorite word of the day--sentiments almost universally felt, though but dimly apprehended, it brought them into distinct consciousness, and thus prepared the English people for the reception of the seed which the labors of Wycliffe and his converts were already sowing among them. MARSH
THE VISION of Pierce Plowman, now fyrste imprynted by Roberte Crowley, dwellyng in Ely tentes in Holburne. Anno Domini.
1550. Cum priuilegio ad imprimend[=u] solum.
By far the most important of our historical records, in print, during the time of Queen Elizabeth. DIBDIN
THE Firste volume of the _Chronicles of England, Scotlande_, and Irelande. CONTEYNING,
The description and Chronicles of England, from the first inhabiting vnto the conquest
The description and Chronicles of Scotland, from the first originall of the Scottes nation, till the yeare of our Lorde. 1571.
The description and Chronicles of Yrelande, likewise from the firste originall of that Nation, vntill the yeare. 1547.
_Faithfully gathered and set forth, by_ Raphaell Holinshed.
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Our historic plays are allowed to have been founded on the heroic narratives in the Mirror for Magistrates; to that plan, and to the boldness of Lord Buckhurst's new scenes, perhaps we owe Shakespeare. WALPOLE