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Bouchot, Henri, 1849-1906, Bigmore, E. C. (Edward Clements), 1838?-1899 · London, H. Grevel and co. · leaf 138
the offers ofFrancis I., but when Sforza paid him a larger sum, hereturned, giving as reason for his vacillation that the … Fig. 57.—Page of the Metamorphoses J of Ovid, by Petit Bernard.Edition of 1564. 128 THE PRINTED BOOK. sun had to travel the earth and warm it by its rays ;this was an emblematic answer, for his emblems hadall the coarse, sceptical humour which not a few hadthen already discovered. At most these…
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