Epigraph
“A veritable monk of Bury St. Edmund’s: worth listening to, if by chance made visible and audible. Here he is; and in his hand a magical speculum, much gone to rust, indeed, yet in fragments still clear; wherein the marvellous image of his existence does still shadow itself, though fitfully, and as with an intermittent light.”
Carlyle: Past and Present. Chapter 1.