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used in Shakespeare’s day. They attempt, too, to learn
their fortune from snails, nuts, and apple-parings—
divinations which the poet Gay described nearly two and a
half centuries ago; they span wrists to know if someone
loves them in the way that Southey used at school to tell
if a boy was a bastard; and when they confide to each
other that the Lord’s Prayer said backwards will make
Lucifer appear, they are perpetuating a story which was
gossip in Elizabethan times.
The medieval monks’ reading carrel was indeed a singing booth.
* Chaytor, in his From Script to Print (p. 19), was the first
to tackle the problem of the medieval monk’s carrel or reading-
singing booth: