 | Steven R. Fischer - History - 2004 - 388 pages
...'ten times', railing at him: I am the besom that must sweep the court clean of such filth as thou art. 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,... | |
 | Catherine M. S. Alexander - 2003 - 504 pages
...it cancelled by, his grotesqueries. His charge against Lord Say includes the absurd accusation that 'Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a grammar school', but that is soon followed by something more compelling: 'Thou hast appointed justices... | |
 | Dominique Goy-Blanquet - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 330 pages
...There was no place for surgerie, And old men knew not vsurie: (ll. 92-3l a nostalgia shared by Cade: 'before, our forefathers had no other books but the score and the tally.' Just as Cade's men are 'Marked for the gallows', the shadow of the hangman hovers over Jack Straw,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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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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, thou hast caused printing to be used ; and, contrary to the king, his crown,... 
