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Brother Stationers, our next business is the proposed amendment
to our Guild's rules of apprenticeship for the 13 boys of good
character who will permitted to produce Web pages next
year.
We must decide this with dispatch, for following on the agenda
is the enquiry into very serious allegation that Master Johnson,
of St Paul's Church-Yard, has charged less than the statutory one
hundred and nineteen new guineas per copy for The Tempest,
A Midsummer Nights' Dream, and sundry other works
by an author whose name is now sadly lost.
Since, Brother Stationers,
we are entrusted with perpetual ownership of the great works of our
age, we must be responsible in ensuring that they are preserved and
not cheapened.
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