The History, Theory, and Practice of Illuminating / Condensed from 'The Art of Illuminating' by the same illustrator and author

by Sir M. Digby Wyatt

But Death the while to fill his number,

With sudden call

Takes thee from all,

To prove thy daies but dream and slumber."

Joshua Sylvester, Mottoes.

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"Have more than thou showest;

Speak less than thou knowest;

Lend more than thou owest;

Learn more than thou trowest."