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or public buses or U.S. Mail boxes or T-shirts, pants, and computer floppy disks or … and so on and so forth; even now the thought that the footnote might become a billboard strikes this consumer as absurd. And yet see also above, note 20, page 142.

* The thing that just now tilted your head downward or got you to adjust the book page upward. Ms. Bader herself mixes to good effect the book footnote and the hypertext reference in her article. For example: “Small children who would normally not read books with footnotes until secondary school know their way around bright blue hyperlinks.” Hyperlinks is indeed printed in a pleasantly bright blue and underlined in blue in the hypertext manner. The finger itches to click-click a mouse. Instead a reference mark beside the blue leads to the bottom of the article and a pleasant if conventional note: “Hyperlinks may lead to lovely places unless the links themselves have expired. Then they lea
error messages.”
* A teen’s eyes, of course, might judge the type more favorably than this writer’s eyes.

* A teen’s eyes, of course, might judge the type more favorably than this writer’s eyes.

* The report, however, is supposed to be available on microfilm, which simply reinforces the remarks made below about the need for storage redundancy.

* See chapter 6, “A Poetic Interlude II.”

* This quotation has been “translated” in part. In its original it read: “A man wold not thinke that he had devoured so much payne as he has susteined.” A judgment call: I judged that wold and thinke would not interrupt the easy flow of a reader, even one new to the Elizabethan era’s ad hoc spellings, whereas payne and susteined might. And I did not wish to distract attention from the artful word devoured ; the archbishop wants to believe Jugge so devout he was ravenous for the painstaking work that went into the Bishops’ Bible. Let us hope so.

* Between 1560 and 1611 there were more than 120 separate editions of the Geneva Bible compared with twenty-two for the Bishops’ Bible and only seven for the Great Bible (Henry the Eighth’s vain effort to unite his citizens behind a single version of God’s word). See Evelyn B. Tribble:
Margins and Marginality: The Printed Page in Early Modern England
(Charlottesville and London: University Press of Virginia, 1993), pp. 31-2.

* Ibid., p. 23. One may suspect that Henry the Eighth might not have been sincere in his quest for orderliness—just as one may suspect Jerry Springer is not always unhappy when his guests raise their voices or their fists. Public insincerity was not unknown to the king; he banned brothels (unsuccessfully), yet he is reputed to have hung a sign over some of the palace’s rooms proclaiming MY WHORES’ ROOMS —or something to that effect. See Gamini Salgado,
The Elizabethan Underworld
(New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1992), p. 41.