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The reader is here presented with one of the "Facs," or ornamental letters
in Pierce Ploughman's Creed.

PART VI.
The Alcove.

SYMPTOMS OF THE BIBLIOMANIA.——PROBABLE MEANS
OF ITS CURE.

"One saith this booke is too long: another, too short: the third, of due length; and for fine phrase and style, the like [of] that booke was not made a great while. It is all lies, said another; the booke is starke naught."