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" Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a grammar school : and whereas, before, our forefathers had no other books but the score and the tally, thou hast caused printing to be used, and, contrary to the king, his crown... "
The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare - Page 310
by William Shakespeare - 1821
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The French Fetish from Chaucer to Shakespeare

Deanne Williams - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 308 pages
...us'd; and, contrary to the King his crown, and dignity, thou hast built a paper-mill. It will be prov'd to thy face that thou hast men about thee that usually...abominable words as no Christian ear can endure to hear. (32-41) Shakespeare's Cade deviates from the sympathetic descriptions of him in the Chronicles. Hall...
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Child Welfare: Historical perspectives

Nick Frost - Political Science - 2005 - 448 pages
...wrote: Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a grammar-school. ... It will be proved to thy face that thou hast men about...abominable words as no Christian ear can endure to hear. But most Englishmen did not agree with Shakespeare that the creation of schools corrupted the youth...
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Kill All the Lawyers?: Shakespeare's Legal Appeal

Daniel Kornstein - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 296 pages
...Latin. The rebel leader refers to "benefit of clergy" later in the play as he charges one nobleman: Thou hast appointed justices of peace, to call poor...men before them about matters they were not able to answer. Moreover, thou hast put them in prison, and because they could not read thou hast hanged them....
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Religion, Allegory, and Literacy in Early Modern England, 1560-1640: The ...

John S. Pendergast - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 216 pages
...caused printing to be used, and contrary to the King his crown and dignity thou hast built a paper mill. It will be proved to thy face that thou hast men about...can endure to hear. Thou hast appointed justices of the peace to call poor men before them about matters they were not able to answer. Moreover, thou hast...
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The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare - Dramatists, English - 2007 - 1288 pages
...the tally, thou hast caused printing to be used; and, contrary to the king, his crown, and dignity, CT V. S abhominable words as no Christian ear can endure to hear. Thou hast appointed justices of peace, to...
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Sister Bernadette's Barking Dog: The Quirky History and Lost Art of ...

Kitty Burns Florey - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2007 - 180 pages
...Shakespeare's Henry VI, Port 2, the rebel leader Jack Cade lashes out against grammar schools and men who "talk of a noun and a verb, and such abominable words as no Christian ear can endure to hear." 65 During his colorful youth, my husband worked at a car wash in LA where he was once privileged to...
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The Third Citizen: Shakespeare's Theater and the Early Modern House of Commons

Oliver Arnold - Business & Economics - 2007 - 362 pages
...because they are literate, Cade suggests in his indictment of Lord Say, is a very precise revenge: "Thou hast appointed justices of peace to call poor...men before them about matters they were not able to answer. Moreover, thou hast put them in prison, and, because they could not read, thou hast hang'd...
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