Early Modern Whale

There has been a small earthquake in Kent , http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/6605095.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/66031...

“The best is that which is tepid, of equall substance, not quickly running off the naile if put thereon, light, not viscous, but sweet, wit...

I was acting as a marshal at the Reading Cycling Club spring road race today. For me, this involved standing at the side of the road just up...

I, being born a woman and distressed By all the needs and notions of my kind, Am urged by your propinquity to find Your person fair, and fe...

The Cyclist Freewheeling down the escarpment past the unpassing horse Blazoned in chalk the wind he causes in passing Cools the sweat of hi...

I mentioned in a recent post my buying mineral specimens at a ‘Rock, Gem and Mineral Fair’. One thing I have noticed about these fairs is t...

When they had gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream. "Get up," he said, "take the child and his mother an...

I’ve been dipping into Josuah Sylvester’s translation, Du Bartas: His Divine Weekes And Workes (1621). The fourth part of the first day of ...

I am happy to announce the discovery of ‘A New Shakespeare Document’ Cressida’s Letter to Troilus (Tr...

I keep attempting little investigations for the blog that turn inconclusive, or simply become too big. This, for instance, I might wo...

“Mr. Pope was with Sir Godfrey Kneller one day, when his nephew, a Guinea trader, came in. ‘Nephew’ (said Sir Godfrey) ‘you have the honour...

After marking a couple of M.A. essays on the songs in Shakespeare’s comedies, I thought I’d get busy and post of few mp3’s transferred from...

I took myself off to a 'Rock, Gem and Mineral' Fair today, my jackdaw eye a-glint (when did I become so acquisitive?), rather hoping...

I was reading Paradise Lost , when it struck me that Milton is far friendlier to the Book of Tobit than he ought to be as a Protestant (see...

John Aubrey: what a blogger the world lost through the accident of his being born in the seventeenth century! Interested in everything, addi...