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Counterfeited Privilege in Grimmelshausen's 'The Magic Bird's Nest', N.N. (1675)

Source: Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna 1447-A.Alt Mag

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Counterfeited Privilege in Grimmelshausen's 'The Magic Bird's Nest', N.N. (1675), Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), eds L. Bently & M. Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org

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and may of his own accord pick
it up again later / indeed, he may
do this as often as he wishes /
time permitting; Similarly / no
one is to be forced / to have to
read the whole book from cover
to cover / in one go / or at one
sitting / irrespective of whether
he has acquired it merely to
while away the time / or whether
he is desirous of fishing out the
lessons / which the Author has
secretly concealed in it. What is
more, any owner of this little
treatise is at liberty / to read it
twice, / thrice, / four times, / or
even seventeen times / and even
to use it as a pillow at night / as
Alexander the Great did with his
Homer / if one reading alone doesn't







    

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