nest Mr.
Faulkener is in his three-pair-of-stairs confined workshop
by five in the morning winter and summer, and oftentimes
labours 'till twelve at night. Severer toil, with more
uniform good humour and civility in the midst of all his
embarrassments, were never perhaps witnessed in a brother of
the ancient and respectable craft of _Book-binding_!]

LIS. I entreat you not to inflame my imagination by such tantalizing
pictures! You know this must ever be a fiction: the most successful
bibliomaniac never attained to such human happiness.

PHIL. Leave Lisardo to his miseries, and proceed.

LYSAND. I have supposed Edward to have spent some jovial hours with
this unfortunate nobleman. It is thought that our monarch and he
partook of the superb feast which was given by the famous NEVELL,
archbishop of York, at the inthronization of the latter; and I am
curious to know of what the library of such a munificent
ecclesiastical character was composed! But perhaps this feast
itself[282] is one of Lisardo's fictions.

[Footnote 282: Lysander is perfectly correct about the feast
which was given at the archbishop's inthronization; as the
particulars of it--"out of an old paper roll in the archives
of the Bodleian library," are given by Hearne in the sixth
volume of _Leland's Collectanea_, p. 1-14: and a most
extraordinary and amusing bill of fare it is. The last
twenty dinners given by the Lord Mayors at Guildhall, upon
the first day of their mayoralties, were only
_sandwiches_--compared with such a repast! What does the
reader think of 2000 chickens, 4000 pigeons, 4000 coneys,
500 "and mo," stags, bucks, and roes, with 4000 "pasties of
venison colde?"--and these barely an 18th part of the kind
of meats served up! At the high table our amiable EARL of
WORCESTER was seated, with the Archbishop, three Bishops,
the Duke of Suffolk, and the Earl of Oxford. The fictitious
archiepiscopal feast was the one intended to be given by
NEVELL to Edward IV.; when the latter "appointed a day to
come to hunt in More in Hertfordshire, and make merry with
him." Nevell made magnificent preparations for the royal
visit; but instead of receiving the monarch as a guest, he
was saluted by some of his officers, who "arrested him for
treason," and imprisoned him at Calais and Guisnes. The
cause of this sudden