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Of to moche spekynge or bablynge, illustration from Alexander Barclay's English translation of 'The Ship...

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Of to moche spekynge or bablynge, illustration from Alexander Barclay's English translation of 'The Ship of Fools', from an edition published in 1874 (engraving)
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German School, (15th century) (after) / German
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1874 AD (C19th AD)
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Alexander Barclay (c.1476-1552) Scottish born English poet, translated Sebastian Brandt's (1457-1521) Das Narrenschiff, as 'The Ship of Fools' in 1509. Image is a facsimile of the original German woodcut of 1497 and shows a fool with a swollen tongue approaching a tree with a bird's nest in it's branches- 'Where as a hasty speker falleth in great domage, peryll and losse, in lyke wyse as the pye betrrays hir byrdes by hir chatrynge and crye'. Foolishness of pointless chatter.

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