In smoak and stink they be evermore lying
with other pains innumerable.

_Kalendar of Shepherds. Sign G. vij. rev.
Pynson's edit., fol._

[Illustration]

Specimens of some of the tremendous cuts which are crowded
into this thin folio will be seen in the second volume of
the new edition of the _Typographical Antiquities_. However,
that the reader's curiosity may not here be disappointed, he
is presented with a similar specimen, on a smaller scale, of
one of the infernal tortures above described. It is taken
from a book whose title conveys something less terrific; and
describes a punishment which is said to be revealed by the
Almighty to St. Bridget against those who have "ornamenta
indecentia in capitibus et pedibus, et reliquis membris, ad
provocandum luxuriam et irritandum deum, in strictis
vestibus, ostensione mamillarum, unctionibus," &c.
_Revelaciones sancte Birgitte; edit. Koeberger, 1521, fol.,
sign. q., 7, rev._]

[Footnote 288: See many of the cuts in that scarce and
highly coveted volume, entitled, "_Idee Generale d'une
Collection complette d'Estampes_." Leips. 1771, 8vo.]

LIS. This is, at least, an original idea; and has escaped the sagacity
of every commentator in the last twenty-one volume edition of the
works of our bard.

LYSAND. But to return to Henry. I should imagine that his mind was not
much affected by the perusal of this description of books: but rather
that he was constantly meditating upon some old arithmetical work--the
prototype of Cocker--which, in the desolation of the ensuing half
century, has unfortunately perished. Yet, if this monarch be accused
of avaricious propensities--if, in consequence of speculating deeply
in _large paper_ and _vellum_ copies, he made his coffers to run over
with gold--it must be remembered that he was, at the same time, a
patron as well as judge of architectural artists; and while the
completion of the structure of King's college Chapel, Cambridge, and
the building of his own magnificent chapel[289] at Westminster (in
which latter, I suspect, he had a curiously-carved gothic closet for
the preservation of choice copies from Caxton's neighbouring press),
afford decisive proofs of Henry's skill in matters of taste, the
rivalship of printers and of book-buyers shews that the example of the
monarch was greatly favourable to the propagation