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Keywords: FamHis076.png en A historiated letter N with an old usurer Not farre from Fryer Bacon dwelt an olde man that had great store of money which hee let out to use and would never doe any good with it to the poore though Fryer Bacon had often put him in minde of it and wished him to do some good whilest he lived At last this old Good-gatherer went to looke on this pot of gold but instead of gold he found nothing but earth at which sight he would have died had not his other gold hindred him which hee was to leave behind him so gathering up his spirits hee went to Fryer Bacon and told him he was abused and cheated; for which he would have the law of him unlesse he made him restitution as for the law he feared it not but bid him doe his worst p 76 1904 https //archive org/details/famoushistoirieo00thom Early English Prose Romances III Fryer Bacon Edinburgh Otto Schulz Co https //archive org/stream/famoushistoirieo00thom page/76/mode/2up p 76 a reprinting of William Thoms's 1828 edition of an English prose romance available in manuscript by 1555 and first printed in 1627 Anonymous William Thoms editor other versions PD-1996 PD-1923 PD-EU-no author disclosure PD-retouched-user Harold Nelson N as an initial The Famous Historie of Fryer Bacon Old men in art Decorative letters Historiated initials Uploaded with UploadWizard Glasses in art Pots in art Jews in art
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