RED LETTERS AND CONJURING
Smith. The clerk of Chatham: he can write and read and cast accompt.
Cade. O monstrous!
Smith. We took him setting of boys' copies.
Cade. Here's a villain!
Smith. Has a book in his pocket with red letters in't.
Cade. Nay, then, he is a conjurer.
W. Shakespeare. Second Part of King Henry the Sixth.