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The journey-book of England. Berkshire (Derbyshire, Hampshire, Kent). - Page 176
by England - 1840
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The French Fetish from Chaucer to Shakespeare

Deanne Williams - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 308 pages
...upon the specific crimes of the lettered against the unlettered, the literati against the rustier. Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of...forefathers had no other books but the score and the tally, thou has caus'd printing to be us'd; and, contrary to the King his crown, and dignity, thou hast built...
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Popular Print Media

Andrew King, John Plunkett - Popular literature - 2004 - 544 pages
...chronicle in which Jack Cade, the Radical spouter of his day, is made to exclaim against Lord Say, ' Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a grammar-school ; and 500 and whereas, before, our forefathers had no other books but the score and tally, thou hast caused...
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Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare

Stephen Greenblatt - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 460 pages
...get their hands on one of their most hated enemies, Lord Saye, Cade lays out the charges against him: Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a grammar school; and, whereas before, our forefathers had no other books but the score and the tally,...
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Child Welfare: Historical perspectives

Nick Frost - Political Science - 2005 - 448 pages
...had probably been required to read Lyly's Latin Grammar). In Henry VI, Part II, Shakespeare wrote: Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a grammar-school. ... It will be proved to thy face that thou hast men about thee that usually talk of a noun, and a...
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An Introduction to Book History

David Finkelstein, Alistair McCleery - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2005 - 176 pages
...view of the classes excluded from reading in seeking to turn back the tide initiated by Gutenberg: 'Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a grammar school: and whereas, before, our forefathers had no other books but the score and the tally,...
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Medieval Schools: From Roman Britain to Renaissance England

Nicholas Orme - Education - 2006 - 462 pages
...minor feature of the rising."- The more famous words of Jack Cade in Shakespeare's Henry V1 Part 1I, 'thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a grammar school', are in the same tradition as Walsingham's anecdote, from which they may have been...
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De Vere as Shakespeare: An Oxfordian Reading of the Canon

William Farina - Literary Criticism - 2014 - 280 pages
...scene vii, almost defies description. As Cade condemns Lord Say to death, he catalogues Say's "crimes": "Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a grammar school ... thou hast caus'd printing to be us'd" (IV.vii.33, 36). But the final straw comes...
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The Third Citizen: Shakespeare's Theater and the Early Modern House of Commons

Oliver Arnold - Business & Economics - 2007 - 362 pages
...native culture: "Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm," he admonishes Lord Say, "in erecting a grammar-school; and whereas, before,...forefathers had no other books but the score and the tally, thou hast caus'd printing to be us'd" (2771/74.7.30— 34). Cade's solution to the nation's corruption...
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