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St. Anthonies fire burn you, Mahoom’s disease whirle you,
the squinance with a stitch in your side and the Wolfe in
your stomack trusse you, the bloody Flux seize upon you,
the curst sharp inflammations of wilde fire, as slender and
thin as Cowes haire, strengthened with quick silver, enter
into your Fundament, and like those of Sodom and
Gomorrha, may you fall into sulphur, fire and bottomless
pits in case you do not firmly beleeve all that I shall relate
unto you in this present Chronicle.
Typography as the first mechanization of a handicraft is itself
the perfect instance not of a new knowledge, but of applied
knowledge.
* But the amazing splitting away of the tactile quality in
language appears as an extreme development of this quality in