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The Copy Book

A Library of History and Literature in English

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1135

The Knight’s Tale

Two noble youths of ancient Thebes fall for the same princess.

1136

Sweet and Sour

The great Dr Johnson argues that you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.

1137

St Nicholas the Wet

Two frantic parents implore St Nicholas’s help in rescuing their baby boy.

1138

Ring out the Old, Ring in the New

For Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Christmas was a time to let the dead past bury its dead.

1139

The Voyage of the ‘Golden Hinde’

Elizabethan adventurer Sir Francis Drake combined sailing round the world with really annoying the King of Spain.

1140

Christmas Bells

The sounds of an English country Christmas helped Tennyson in his deep mourning for an old friend.