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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