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<title>M49. [Anon: Anon died around 1477...]. Typescript fragment, with the author's ms. corrections, unsigned, and undated. 8p.</title>
<author>Virginia Woolf</author>
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<resp>Encoded by</resp>
<name>Joshua Phillips</name>
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<funder>The Leverhulme Trust: Grant ECF-2022-602</funder>
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<authority>The Estate of Virginia Woolf, administered by the Society of Authors</authority>
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<p>© Estate of Virginia Woolf 2022</p>
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<institution>New York Public Library</institution>
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<p>M49. [Anon: Anon died around 1477...]. Typescript fragment, with the author's ms. corrections, unsigned, and undated. 8p. Paginated 3-10. On verso of p. 8-9 her: People one would have liked to have met. Holograph fragment. 2p.</p>
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<p>Text encoded as part of 'The Digital "Anon": A Digital Genetic Edition of Virginia Woolf's Final Essays'. This project, funded by Leverhulme Grant ECF-2022-602, seeks to construct a TEI-XML based digital edition of the drafts of 'Anon' and 'The Reader', among the final documents Woolf wrote before her death.</p>
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<l>3</l>
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<l><rs type="person" xml:id="psn-anon" key="Anon">Anon</rs> died round 187<del>8</del><add place="above">7</add>. It was the printed book</l>
<l>with the authors name attached that killed him. After that</l>
<l>the audience was separate from the singer. After that</l>
<l>the song was attached to the singer. Anon gives place to</l>
<l><del>James or</del> <rs type="person" xml:id="psn-gcha" key="Chaucer, Geoffrey">Geoffrey</rs> or <rs type="person" xml:id="psn-jgow" key="Gower, John">
<choice>
<sic>Jogn</sic>
<corr>John</corr>
</choice></rs> or Peter; he lives in a house</l>
<l>and he has books.</l>
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<l>....<del>2</del>....</l>
</p>
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<l><add place="inline">[</add>The heart of this vast
<choice>
<sic>prolieferation</sic>
<corr>proliferation</corr>
</choice> of printed pages</l>
<l>remains the song. The song has the same power over the reader</l>
<l>in the 20th
<choice>
<sic>cen ury</sic>
<corr>century</corr>
</choice> as over the hearer in the 11th. To enjoy</l>
<l>singing, to enjoy hearing the sing, must be the most</l>
<l>deep rooted, the toughest of human instincts comparable</l>
<l>for persistency with the instinct of self preservation</l>
<l>It is indeed the instinct of self preservation.</l>
<l>Only when we put two and two together--two pencil strokes,</l>
<l>two written words, two <add place="above">[illeg.]</add> bricks do we overcome
<choice>
<sic>doissolution</sic>
<corr>dissolution</corr>
</choice></l>
<l>and set up some stake against oblivion. The passion with</l>
<l>which we seek out these
<choice>
<sic>creation</sic>
<corr>creations</corr>
</choice> and attempt endlessly,</l>
<l>perpetually, to make them is of a piece with the instinct</l>
<l>that sets us preserving
<choice>
<sic>out</sic>
<corr>our</corr>
</choice> bodies, with clothes, food,</l>
<l>roofs, from destruction.<add place="inline">]</add></l>
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<l>foreign to the</l>
<l>bodies instinct</l>
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<l><del>But</del> <add place="above" >With</add> the <rs type="object" xml:id="obj-pres">printing press</rs> <del>brought</del><add place="above" >came</add> into existence</l>
<l>forces that cover over the original song--books themselves,</l>
<l>and the readers of books. If science were so advanced that</l>
<l>we could at this moment X ray the singers mind <add hand="pencil" place="above">at the moment</add> we should</l>
<l>find a nimbus surrounding the song; a
<choice>
<sic>steeam</sic>
<corr>[stream? steam?]</corr>
</choice> of</l>
<l>influences. Some we can name--education; class;</l>
<l>the pressure of society. But they are so many, and so</l>
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<l>4</l>
</p>
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<l>interwoven and so obscure that it is simpler to invent</l>
<l>for them nonsense names--- say <rs type="person" xml:id="psn-nin" key="Nin">Nin</rs> <rs type="person" xml:id="psn-crot" key="Crot">Crot</rs> and <rs type="person" xml:id="psn-pull" key="Pulley">Pully</rs>. Nin</l>
<l>Crot and Pully are always at their work, tugging, obscuring,</l>
<l>distorting. Some are visible only to the writer. Others</l>
<l>only to the reader. More and more
<choice>
<sic> omplex</sic>
<corr>complex</corr>
</choice> do they become as</l>
<l>time passes. The song beneath is only to be
<choice>
<sic>disocovered</sic>
<corr>discovered</corr>
</choice></l>
<l>in a flash of recognition; Some say they feel it when their</l>
<l>beards bristle; others that a thrill runs down the nerves</l>
<l>of the thigh. But the song is there still. For example:</l>
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<p>
<l> </l>
<l> </l>
<l> </l>
<l> </l>
<l> </l>
<l> </l>
<l> </l>
<l> </l>
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<l>....3....</l>
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<l>That babbling, child like, story telling singer, that</l>
<l>gossip at the farm yard door, that
<choice>
<sic>inno ent</sic>
<corr>innocent</corr>
</choice> eyed, naked,</l>
<l>lustful, <del>now</del><add place="above">alternately</add> obscene
<choice>
<sic> n </sic>
<corr>and</corr>
</choice> devout singer, who was now and ag</l>
<l>a great artist died in 147<del>8</del><add place="above">7</add>, And with him died</l>
<l>the part of his song that the audience sang--the voice that</l>
<l>filled in pauses, and added sometimes a
<choice>
<sic>nonsenical</sic>
<corr>nonsensical</corr>
</choice> chorus</l>
<l>To follow his fortunes further we must turn to one of those</l>
<l>commentators who tell us us so much about the invisible</l>
<l>influences. about Nin Crot and Pulley.</l>
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<l>But for him of course we have to wait until <add place="inline">'</add>winter</l>
<l>was past<add place="inline">'</add>; until time has drawn its blue veil</l>
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<l>5</l>
</p>
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<l>over the horizon; <del>until there is a past</del>. <del>Then</del><add >W</add>hen Anon</l>
<l>is
<choice>
<sic>lomg</sic>
<corr>long</corr>
</choice> dead,
<choice>
<sic>adnthe</sic>
<corr>and the</corr>
</choice> <del>Pil</del> <rs type="literary-work" xml:id="lit-cant" key="Canterbury Tales, The">Canterbury Pilgrims</rs> have gone</l>
<l>their way, somebody looks back. He is a representative man,</l>
<l><del>that is</del> he <del>has</del> is often repeated, <add hand="pencil" place="above">in other centuries</add>, with little variation.</l>
<l>He--<rs type="person" xml:id="psn-whar" key="Harrison, William">Harrison</rs> was his name-- is the first of that long line</l>
<l>of leisured and learned men who have time to think about the</l>
<l>past in
<choice>
<sic>hthe</sic>
<corr>the</corr>
</choice> quiet of the parsonage. Like <rs type="person" xml:id="psn-cole">Cole</rs>, like <rs type="person" xml:id="psn-skin">Skinner</rs></l>
<l><rs type="person" xml:id="psn-whar" key="Harrison, William">Harrison</rs> the parson of <rs type="place" xml:id="pla-radw" key="Radwinter">Radwinter</rs>, <add place="above">he</add>had a library; and dug up</l>
<l>coins. He already sees the present against the background</l>
<l>of the past. The past has
<choice>
<sic>necome</sic>
<corr>become</corr>
</choice> so settled, so ordered,</l>
<l>that
<choice>
<sic>yhe</sic>
<corr>the</corr>
</choice> present looks ungainly and degenerate against it.</l>
<l>There is too much comfort; too much silver; too many pillows.</l>
<l>The young <rs type="person" xml:id="psn-wsha" key="Shakespeare, William">Shakespeares</rs>, <rs type="person" xml:id="psn-cmar" key="Marlowe, Christopher">Marlowes</rs> are not the men their
<choice>
<sic>father</sic>
<corr>fathers</corr>
</choice>
</l>
<l>were. The smoke is drawn off from their sitting rooms</l>
<l>by
<choice>
<sic>chimensy</sic>
<corr>chimneys</corr>
</choice>, so that instead of being salted and</l>
<l>
<choice>
<sic>hardned</sic>
<corr>hardened</corr>
</choice> by the smoke eddying from the fire in the</l>
<l>brazier, they are tender and subject to rheumatism. They</l>
<l>dress most fantastically
<choice>
<sic>comparded</sic>
<corr>compared</corr>
</choice> with their ancestors.</l>
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<l>But the English seen past as seen by Harrison only served</l>
<l>to show up the physical, the material change --the</l>
<l>change that had come over houses,
<choice>
<sic>furniuture</sic>
<corr>furniture</corr>
</choice> and clothing.</l>
<l>To show up the change in the mind, there was no</l>
<l><del>English pattern</del>. There was no English literature, to show</l>
<l>up the decline of English literature. <quote source="#" rend="inline">"English "</quote> says the</l>
<l><rs type="person" xml:id="psn-whar" key="Harrison, William">historian</rs> <quote source="#" rend="inline">" had gone
<choice>
<sic>undergrounf</sic>
<corr>underground</corr>
</choice> for two centuries...</quote></l>
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<l>6</l>
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<l>English had
<choice>
<sic>gon </sic>
<corr>gone</corr>
</choice> down stairs into the kitchen, into the</l>
<l>farmyard. <rs type="person" xml:id="psn-anon" key="Anon">Anon</rs> had sung his song at the back door</l>
<l>in a jargon that was as uncouth to <rs type="person" xml:id="psn-whar" key="Harrison, William">Harrison</rs> as to
<choice>
<sic>ourslves</sic>
<corr>ourselves</corr>
</choice>:</l>
</p>
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<quote source="#" rend="block">
<l>Icham for woing al forwake</l>
<l>Wery no water in wore</l>
</quote>
</p>
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<l>An hendy hap ichable yghent</l>
<l>Ichot from hevene it is me sent</l>
</quote>
</p>
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<l>--
<choice>
<sic>yhhe</sic>
<corr>the</corr>
</choice> words were as difficult for him to spell out as</l>
<l>for ourselves; and more painful. For they reminded him of</l>
<l>his lack of intellectual
<choice>
<sic>ansctery</sic>
<corr>ancestry</corr>
</choice>. He goes back <add place="above">a very little way -</add> to</l>
<l>
<rs type="person" xml:id="psn-gcha" key="Chaucer, Geoffrey"><choice>
<sic>Cahucer</sic>
<corr>Chaucer</corr>
</choice></rs>, <rs type="person" xml:id="psn-jlyd" key="Lydgate, John">Lydgate</rs>, <rs type="person" xml:id="psn-jwyc" key="Wycliffe, John">Wycliffe</rs>. <del>For him it was a very <del>short</del></del></l>
<l><del>little way</del>. So, to have
<choice>
<sic>anscestors</sic>
<corr>ancestors</corr>
</choice>, he must cross the</l>
<l><rs type="place" xml:id="pla-chan" key="Channel, The">
<choice>
<sic>chaneel</sic>
<corr>Channel</corr>
</choice></rs>; his ancestors by way
<choice>
<sic>o f</sic>
<corr>of</corr>
</choice> the mind are</l>
<l>the Greeks and the Romans. His page is burdened <add place="above">particularly [illeg.]</add>with these</l>
<l>proofs of good breeding. <del>He has to quote</del><rs type="person" xml:id="psn-agrip" key="Agrippa">Henricus Cornelius</rs></l>
<l><rs type="person" xml:id="psn-agrip" key="Agrippa">Agrippa</rs>, <rs type="person" xml:id="psn-suet" key="Suetonius">
<choice>
<sic>Suetoniius</sic>
<corr>Suetonius</corr>
</choice></rs>; <rs type="person" xml:id="psn-plin" key="Pliny">Pliny</rs>; <rs type="person" xml:id="psn-cice" key="Cicero">Cicero</rs>--they prove his good</l>
<l>breeding, as we prove ours by going
<choice>
<sic>vback</sic>
<corr>back</corr>
</choice> to <rs type="person" xml:id="psn-gcha" key="Chaucer, Geoffrey"><choice>
<sic>Cahucer</sic>
<corr>Chaucer</corr>
</choice></rs>, to</l>
<l><rs type="person" xml:id="psn-tbro" key="Browne, Sir Thomas">Sir Thomas
<choice>
<sic>Brwone</sic>
<corr>Browne</corr>
</choice></rs>. The <choice>
<sic>anicents</sic>
<corr>ancients</corr>
</choice> occupied the same place in</l>
<l>
<rs type="person" xml:id="psn-whar" key="Harrison, William"><choice>
<sic>Harrions</sic>
<corr>Harrison's'</corr>
</choice></rs> mind that the Elizabethans occupy in ours.</l>
<l>Those were the great books that were chained to the</l>
<l>
<choice>
<sic>selves</sic>
<corr>shelves</corr>
</choice> of the college libraries. The learned read them.</l>
<l>And in Harrisons day the nobles. <quote source="#" rend="inline"> "...our ancient ladies</quote></l>
<l><quote source="#" rend="inline">of the court"</quote> were to be found reading
<choice>
<sic>th</sic>
<corr>the</corr>
</choice> holy scriptures</l>
<l>as they did their
<choice>
<sic>needlwwork</sic>
<corr>needlework</corr>
</choice>; and histories. The noble</l>
<l>ladies <del>were [scholars?]</del> if they had a turn for
<choice>
<sic>rading</sic>
<corr>reading</corr>
</choice>, must</l>
<l>read Latin and
<choice>
<sic>reek</sic>
<corr>Greek</corr>
</choice>, <del>for <del>the English</del> English literature</del></l>
<l><del>could</del> xmmxmxmxmxmx not
<choice>
<sic>nough</sic>
<corr>enough</corr>
</choice> English</l>
<l>literature to keep a healthy appetite in being. They had <add place="inline">to learn</add></l>
</p>
</div>
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<l>7</l>
</p>
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<l>French, and Latin, and many were driven by hunger to master</l>
<l>Greek.</l>
</p>
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<l>In the minds background then stood the almost featureless</l>
<l>Roman busts-- <rs type="person" xml:id="psn-agrip" key="Agrippa">Agrippa</rs> <rs type="person" xml:id="psn-suet" key="Suetonius">Suetonius</rs>, <rs type="person" xml:id="psn-plin" key="Pliny">Pliny</rs>; <rs type="person" xml:id="psn-cice" key="Cicero">Cicero</rs>;</l>
<l>overpowering <rs type="person" xml:id="psn-gcha" key="Chaucer, Geoffrey">Chaucer</rs>, and <rs type="person" xml:id="psn-jlyd" key="Lydgate, John">Lydgate</rs> and
<rs type="person" xml:id="psn-agrip" key="Wycliffe, John"><choice>
<sic>Wyclicffe</sic>
<corr>Wycliffe</corr>
</choice></rs>. And in</l>
<l>the foreground there is the house, no longer a hut made of</l>
<l>branches; no longer thick with smoke; There is a pillow now,</l>
<l>instead of the old log with the hollow in it; and glass</l>
<l>in the windows; and silver to drink from. The ceilings are</l>
<l>curiously worked . Beyond the house there is</l>
<l><rs type="place" xml:id="pla-lond" key="London">London</rs>; a fine city; and <add place="above">the Queen's</add> ships riding at anchor;</l>
<l>and Inns upon the
<choice>
<sic>raod</sic>
<corr>road</corr>
</choice> and there though he cannot</l>
<l>see himself, is <rs type="person" xml:id="psn-whar" key="Harrison, William">Harrison</rs>, querulous yet kindly, using
<choice>
<sic>languag</sic>
<corr>language</corr>
</choice></l>
<l>to his patron <rs type="person" xml:id="psn-wcob" key="Cobham, Lord William">Lord Cobham</rs> that would have
<choice>
<sic>schoked</sic>
<corr>shocked</corr>
</choice> his</l>
<l>
<choice>
<sic>anecsotrs</sic>
<corr>ancestors</corr>
</choice> -- words as ornate as the carvings and</l>
<l>
<choice>
<sic>decorati s</sic>
<corr>decorations</corr>
</choice> that shocked him. And he digs in the earth for</l>
<l>coins has never gone more than forty miles from <rs type="place" xml:id="pla-radw" key="Radwinter">Radwinter</rs></l>
<l>in <rs type="place" xml:id="pla-ess" key="Essex">Essex</rs>; <add place="above">has a father</add>; and owns a mastiff. The age of anonymity is over</l>
<l>when we begin to furnish out the <del>individual</del><add place="above">writer</add> with</l>
<l><del>likeness</del> his own private features.</l>
</p>
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<add place="margin">
<l>CXI</l>
<quote source="#" rend="block">
<l>"with vain</l>
<l>affectation of</l>
<l>eloquence to</l>
<l>paint out a</l>
<l>rotten</l>
<l>sepulchre</l>
</quote>
</add>
</p>
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<l>8</l>
</p>
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<l>But how little even the most diligent, the most laborious,</l>
<l>of these searchers <del>can find
<choice>
<sic>o</sic>
<corr>of</corr>
</choice> the human being.</del></l>
<l><del>They</del> polish the shell only. They <del>linger</del><add place="above">remain</add> upon the habits and</l>
<l>the furniture, the house itself, It is as if we were told</l>
<l>that the novelist <rs type="person" xml:id="psn-hjam" key="James, Henry">Henry James</rs> had a tweed suit,</l>
<l>six hats, some bowlers some top hats; and <del>used to</del></l>
<l>take a walking stick in his hand and when he walked;</l>
<l>and had his meat cooked on a coal fire, by a woman whose</l>
<l>name was perhaps Joan. It is the
<choice>
<sic>hous t</sic>
<corr>house that</corr>
</choice> they preserve with</l>
<l><del>all their friction</del>; not the tenant of the house. Save for</l>
<l><rs type="person" xml:id="psn-gcha" key="Chaucer, Geoffrey">Chaucer</rs> and <rs type="person" xml:id="psn-jlyd" key="Lydgate, John">Lydgate</rs> and for the voice of <rs type="person" xml:id="psn-anon" key="Anon">Anon</rs> singing</l>
<l>at the back door the English might e be a dumb race who</l>
<l>enjoyed and suffered tacitly; a race of merchants,</l>
<l>soldiers and
<choice>
<sic>preists</sic>
<corr>priests</corr>
</choice>, who left behind them</l>
<l>stone houses,
<choice>
<sic>cu lt vated</sic>
<corr>cultivated</corr>
</choice> fields and vast cathedrals.</l>
<l>but not words. The great house is silent; Only the furniture</l>
<l>remains, stiff and ornate,
<choice>
<sic>fanatstic</sic>
<corr>fantastic</corr>
</choice> and uncushioned.</l>
</p>
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<l>At <rs type="place" xml:id="pla-gorh" key="Gorhambury">Gorhambury</rs> <add place="inline">,</add><add place="above">[illeg.]</add>old <rs type="person" xml:id="psn-abac" key="Bacon, Anne">Lady Bacon</rs> sat at her table writing</l>
<l><del>But</del> her letter to <rs type="person" xml:id="psn-fbac" key="Bacon, Francis">her son</rs> is <add place="above">a letter written from the [illeg.]</add> as intricate and
<choice>
<sic>foral</sic>
<corr>formal</corr>
</choice> as a </l>
<l>state paper. <del>It is a letter written from the pulpit</del></l>
<l>She admonishes and preaches. She is violent and irate.</l>
<l><del>The sound of the Bible is in her ears</del>.<del>They are letters</del> from</l>
<l>a counsellor to a
<choice>
<sic>conferedate</sic>
<corr>confederate</corr>
</choice>; <add place="above"><del>with</del> admonishing a subordinate</add> full of the wickedness of men,</l>
<l>the dangers and
<choice>
<sic>decits</sic>
<corr>deceits</corr>
</choice> of the world; and the praise of <add place="inline">her [illeg.]</add></l>
<l>God. <quote source="#" rend="inline">"God keep us sound
<choice>
<sic>inmthe</sic>
<corr>in the</corr>
</choice> faith and send us health</quote></l>
<l><quote source="#" rend="inline">and a care to please God above all...."</quote> <add place="above">[illeg.]</add> She drops into</l>
<l>Greek and Latin. If she
<choice>
<sic>ha </sic>
<corr>has</corr>
</choice> to
<choice>
<sic>decend</sic>
<corr>descend</corr>
</choice> the actual <add place="above">in a basket of</add>
<choice>
<sic>starbeery</sic>
<corr>strawberry</corr>
</choice>
</l>
<l>
<choice>
<sic>stra erry</sic>
<corr>strawberry</corr>
</choice> it <choice>
<sic>w h</sic>
<corr>with</corr>
<corr>wish</corr>
</choice> warning and craft. <quote source="#" rend="inline">"I have sent them by</quote></l>
</p>
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<l><hi rend="underline">People one
<choice>
<sic>wd</sic>
<corr>would</corr>
</choice> have liked to have met</hi></l>
</p>
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<l><rs type="person" xml:id="psn-eliz">Queen Elizabeth</rs>: not face to face; but with a pane</l>
<l>of glass between us <del>Not in her palace, but</del> at</l>
<l><rs type="place" xml:id="pla-gren">Grenwich</rs>: <del>passing up &</del> The first words
<choice>
<sic>wd</sic>
<corr>would</corr>
</choice> be awkward. About the <rs>Tower</rs> perhaps. She <choice>
<sic>wd.</sic>
<corr>would</corr>
</choice></l>
</p>
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<l><hi rend="underline">An adventure</hi></l>
</p>
<p> <!-- get IIIF selector for these paras -->
<l><del>Scenic</del> It was a <del>au</del> late autumn evening; the</l>
<l>lights – it was in the peace time – were up: the ships</l>
<l>still lit, though about the door grew the very flowers &</l>
<l>[peak?] of the autumn day <del>sw</del> when</l>
<l>everyone free [illeg.] thro' the streets</l>
<l>like <del>great</del> [illeg.], like gay dead leaves; like</l>
<l>& thus in a high [illeg.] [illeg.] of startling in the</l>
<l><del>loud</del> sound the higher [illeg.]</l>
</p>
<p>
<l>A tap on the window interrupted me.</l>
<l>An old lady, an old [body?] gatherer, <del>had</del> propped up on</l>
<l><del>c</del> pillows in the windows of a small house in a</l>
<l>alley had [illeg.] on the pane.</l>
</p>
<p>
<l>She was summoning me. But why? It</l>
<l>appeared, when I obliged, & went in, that</l>
<l>I reminded her of women she used to know.</l>
<l>She had thought I was Mrs Briggs who used to</l>
<l>live <del>we</del> at the Stag, round the corner. She had</l>
<l>been [since?] very mean. They had been friends.</l>
<l>She was a very old lady: about 75; propped on</l>
<l>cushions on a [luncheon?[ sofa; she spent her</l>
<l>day in the window, watching passers by</l>
<l>When she had explained, then she invited me to</l>
</p>
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<l>9</l>
</p>
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<l>boy of my
<choice>
<sic>kr chen</sic>
<corr>kitchen</corr>
</choice>, a
<choice>
<sic>shrwed</sic>
<corr>shrewd</corr>
</choice>-witted boy and prettily ca</l>
<l>cachetizes, but yet an untoward crafty boy.... Be
<choice>
<sic>bot</sic>
<corr>not</corr>
</choice>
<choice>
<sic>speddy</sic>
<corr>speedy</corr>
</choice></l>
<l>of speech,
<choice>
<sic>not</sic>
<corr>nor</corr>
</choice>
<choice>
<sic>tal</sic>
<corr>talk</corr>
</choice> suddenly, but where
<choice>
<sic>disctretion</sic>
<corr>discretion</corr>
</choice></l>
<l>requireth, and that soberly then...Let not Lawson, that</l>
<l>fox, be
<choice>
<sic>acquanited</sic>
<corr>acquainted</corr>
</choice> with my letters..." <add place="inline">& [illeg.]</add></l>
</quote>
<l>The sound of the Bible is in her ears, her prose takes</l>
<l>its solemn pleats; and the prose of the bible will not</l>
<l>adapt <add place="above">[illeg.]</add> itself to the natural, to the easy, to the colloquial.</l>
<l>It is a garment to be put on when the mind is</l>
<l>erect and dignified.</l>
</p>
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<l>
<choice>
<sic> sing</sic>
<corr>Using</corr>
</choice> then only the prose of the Bible when they</l>
<l>speak to each other
<choice>
<sic>familiark</sic>
<corr>familiarly</corr>
</choice>, the Elizabethans are</l>
<l>hidden from us. They are never subttle. They are never</l>
<l>shaded. Carnation and
<choice>
<sic>snaow</sic>
<corr>snow</corr>
</choice>; ebony and gold <add place="above">are</add> meet on their</l>
<l>faces. We see when
<choice>
<sic>he</sic>
<corr>we</corr>
</choice> look at them <add place="above">wearing</add>
<choice>
<sic>farthibgales</sic>
<corr>farthingales</corr>
</choice> and ruffs;</l>
<l>
<choice>
<sic>yong</sic>
<corr>young</corr>
</choice> bodies stiffly sewn into slashed doublets;</l>
<l> <add>[high?]</add>
<choice>
<sic>youn</sic>
<corr>young</corr>
</choice> faces raised on a starched collar; and the</l>
<l>bodies of young women serving only to prop a heavy quilted</l>
<l>dress stuck about with huge pearls.</l>
</p>
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<l>The writer therefore, conscious of his
<choice>
<sic>plbeian</sic>
<corr>plebian</corr>
</choice> birth</l>
<l>hesitated on the threshold of the great room.</l>
<l>
<choice>
<sic>Thw riter</sic>
<corr>The writer</corr>
</choice> therefore, who had only lately emerged from
<choice>
<sic>anonymy</sic>
<corr>anonymity</corr>
</choice></l>
<l>hesitated on the threshold of the great room. He was</l>
<l>now separate from his audience; but he was after all,</l>
<l>
<choice>
<sic>cloesly</sic>
<corr>closely</corr>
</choice> connected with it. He was <add place="above">[finally?]</add> still unspecialised,</l>
<l>undifferentiated. The eye was stimulated by the crimsons</l>
<l>and golds and <choice>
<sic>greesn</sic>
<corr>greens</corr>
</choice> of the clothing. by the angles and the</l>
<l>patterns on the ceiling. The ear too was stimulated and</l>
<l>filled. Books were read aloud; each word was given</l>
</p>
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<p>
<l>sit down a moment, which I did. And she told me</l>
<l>the story of her life.</l>
</p>
<p>
<l>I forgot how it began –– in Suffolk I</l>
<l>think; then she married a <del>B</del> Billingsgate porter</l>
<l>by way of the sea. Fish had <del>he</del> brought them together ––</l>
<l>the fish wh. were caught at Aldeburgh –– yet, [when?]</l>
<l>it comes back. Fish <del>brought</del> in [illeg.] a young man</l>
<l>came from London; a smack; & going by sea; & so</l>
<l>she had come to live in P. alley, where, <del>w</del></l>
<l>she spent her life, watching the passers by.</l>
<l>She had had 10 children. Some had emigrated</l>
<l>She was alone; but happy, I understood. She</l>
<l>read. She [illeg.]. The [illeg.] [watched?] her. She</l>
<l>had eno' to live on. She knew all the bells in</l>
<l>the city. She never left the house, being</l>
<l>paralysed. She showed me her arm. She made</l>
<l>me feel a lump on her shoulder. Her name was</l>
<l>Everham.</l>
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<l>So I sat there, in the London evening twilight.</l>
<l>Then she told me what she remembered.</l>
<l>An old man [reading?] her [house?] to [ride?] to the sea;</l>
<l>an old man waiting in her garden with</l>
<l>her childen, a [case?] full of flower women; & a</l>
<l>fire in the garden. She <del>said this</del> told me</l>
<l>how she had known a young man who had</l>
<l>wedded a lady seen thro' a telescope. She told me</l>
<l>how a friend of hers had missed the train</l>
<l>because the clocks were slow. She told me the</l>
<l>story of the peacock who had eaten the wedding ring:</l>
<l>she [well?] across to tell someone stories before the</l>
<l>night came. She showed me a shell box; she</l>
<l>took out the portait of a young man</l>
<l>inside. He was</l>
<l>her son.</l>
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<l>given sharpness and substance by the speaking voice.</l>
<l>And there was the pear shaped lute. Lilt, rhythm, melody</l>
<l>was added to the substance and sharpness of words. In his</l>
<l><del>mind there was</del> a His mind was full of half born, <del>still</del></l>
<l>adhesive, undifferentiated words <add place="above">still</add>; old words;</l>
<l>new words; French words; Latin words. No grammar bound</l>
<l>them tightly <choice>
<sic>ogether</sic>
<corr>together</corr>
</choice>. <del>They could stretch</del> ; they could <choice>
<sic>refelc</sic>
<corr>reflect</corr>
</choice></l>
<l>many colours; follow many tunes; they could take the <choice>
<sic>rhym</sic>
<corr>rhythm</corr>
</choice></l>
<l><del>of the lute</del>; they could <del>[illeg.]</del> be danced to, or sung to.</l>
<l><add place="above">But </add>They could not yet <choice>
<sic>rhtym</sic>
<corr>rhythm</corr>
</choice> of the speaking voice.</l>
<l><add>[</add>Whether he was to <choice>
<sic>wrote</sic>
<corr>write</corr>
</choice> or to sing or to paint was</l>
<l>an open question. <add>[</add>The arts were closely related<add>]</add></l>
<l>For a moment there is a pause on the threshold of the</l>
<l>great <choice>
<sic>Elizabthan</sic>
<corr>Elizabethan</corr>
</choice> room. when the artist is not wholly</l>
<l>writer, wholly painter, or wholly musician. <rs type="literary-work" xml:id="lit-faer" key="Faerie Queene, The"><choice>
<sic>Faery Queen</sic>
<corr>Faerie Queene</corr>
</choice></rs></l>
<l>was the <del>natural</del> <del>product</del> of that momentary pause</l>
<l>on the threshold.</l>
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<l>It seems possible for a moment that the great English</l>
<l>art is going to be painting, or music. not literature</l>
<l>And then <rs type="person" xml:id="psn-espe" key="Spenser, Edmund"><choice>
<sic>Se neser</sic>
<corr>Spenser</corr>
</choice></rs> for <choice>
<sic>soem</sic>
<corr>some</corr>
</choice> reason <choice>
<sic>make </sic>
<corr>makes</corr>
</choice> his choice; the great</l>
<l>English art is to be poetry.</l>
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