This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1891 edition. Excerpt: ...0 Will. lIT., ch. 25. "'Hastow pite on pore men that mote nedes borwe?' ' I have as moche pite of pore men as pedlere hath of cattes That wolde kille hem, yf he cacche hem myghte, for coueitise of here skynnes.'"' 1 A PEDLAR ROBBED BY MONKEYS. (From the MS. 10 E. IV.) a practice which cannot fail to be ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1891 edition. Excerpt: ...0 Will. lIT., ch. 25. "'Hastow pite on pore men that mote nedes borwe?' ' I have as moche pite of pore men as pedlere hath of cattes That wolde kille hem, yf he cacche hem myghte, for coueitise of here skynnes.'"' 1 A PEDLAR ROBBED BY MONKEYS. (From the MS. 10 E. IV.) a practice which cannot fail to be deeply resented by all lovers of cats. The regular merchants whom Langland and Chaucer describe, with business enough to be in debt, adorned with Flaundrisch hats and forked beards, were a very different sort of people; but though no mere wanderers, they were, too, great wayfarers. Many of them had had to visit the continent to find market for their goods, and for their purchases. Through them 1 Text B, pas v. l. 246. tco, and it was in fact, perhaps, the safest and most reliable among many such channels of information, ideas of what was going on in the outer world and how things were managed in France and elsewhere, points of similitude and comparison, were introduced to England and made the subject of thought and discussion. During this century the foreign trade of England had greatly increased; there was a constant intercourse with Flanders, with Bruges above all other towns, for the sale of home produce: wools especially, and woolfels, cheese, butter, tin, coals,1 &c., with the Rhine country, with Gascony, with Spain, for the purchase of wines; 2 with the Hanse towns, Lombardy, Venice, and the East. Unintelligent regulations constantly interfered, it is true, -with this development, but so strong was the impulse that it went on steadily One of the most persistent and most noxious of these regulations was the prohibition to export money or bullion, which governments were never tired of renewing.1 English merchants were prohibited when...
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B&W art repros & drawings. As New in As New jacket. Book CONDITION: UNREAD, but not quite perfect, 1974 Corner House hardcover (red boards) & DJ (in mylar cover), third edition. B&W art reproductions and drawings illustrate. The book itself is NEW/As New condition-I can't find any flaws, but leaving room for something that I did not see. The dust jacket does have some edge wear bottom spine-not bad but there. In short, remarkably great shape for 1974 book. Questions welcome & answered.
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