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Though it may seem odd to end with a note about prefaces and annotation, it is oddly appropriate to a study which has tried to shed a little light on the work of some English Reformation Bible revisers, themselves paratextual entries in general histories of the English Bible.
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In our tyme now, whan every manne is gyven to knowe muche rather than to live wel, very many do write, but after suche a fashion, as very many do shoote. Some shooters take in hande stronger bowes than they be able to mayntayne. This thyng maketh them sumtyme, to outshoot the marke, summetyme to shote far wyde, and perchaunce hurte summe that looke on. Other that never learned to shote, nor yet knoweth good shafte nor bowe, wyll be as busie as the best, but suche one commonly plucketh doune a syde...it were better for suche one to sit doune than shote“ . Roger Ascham. `To All Gentle Men and Yomen of Englande’ in Toxophilus. London : Daye, 1545. STC 724.
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Westbrook, V. (2001). A Paratextual Conclusion. In: Long Travail and Great Paynes. Studies in Early Modern Religious Reforms, vol 1. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2115-8_8
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