Lot 360
Paulet, William, Marquess of Winchester. The Lord Marques Idleness: Conteining manifold matters of acceptable deuise; as sage sentences, prudent precepts, moral examples, sweete similitudes, proper comparisons, and other remembrances of speciall choise, first edition, wood-engraved title border, dedication, initial and head-piece, fore-edge shaved, occasionally touching upon marginal notes verso, contemporary annotations in ink, ?lacking first and final blanks, nineteenth century half morocco, bookplate of Elwin Millard, 4to, London: Arnold Hatfield, 1586 [STC 19485]
RARE. This work is reputed to have been privately printed by the author and presented as gifts. It is dedicated to Queen Elizabeth I. Among 'Pretie sayings in common places' we find the following, 'Men that reade much and worke little are as bells, which do sound to call others, and they themselves never enter into the church.' And on 'Women' he advises, 'I know not what justice this is, that they kill men for robbing and stealing money, and suffer women to live and steale men's harts.'
