M.A., D.Lit
Late Reader in History in the University of
London and sometime Fellow and Lecturer of
Girton College, Cambridge
‘I counsel thee, shut not thy heart nor thy library’
CHARLES LAMB
First Published, 1924
To
my colleagues and students
at Girton College, Cambridge
1913-20
For if heuene be on this erthe. and ese to any soule,
It is in cloistere or in scole. by many skilles I fynde;
For in cloistre cometh no man. to chide ne to fizte,
But alle is buxomnesse there and bokes. to rede and to lerne,
In scole there is scorne. but if a clerke wil lerne,
And grete loue and lykynge. for eche of hem loueth other.
—LANGLAND, Piers Plowman