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De Bury described the brazen collecting techniques he came to employall made possible, he freely admitted, after he had attained the notice of the Kings Majesty. Along with this stroke of good fortune and high position came the power to notably advance or hinder, promote or obstruct both the great or the small. Though he always was delighted to hold friendly communion with men of letters and lovers of books, his newfound influence afforded a large opportunity of visiting wheresoever we would, and of hunting, as it were, through certain very choice preserves, to wit, the private and public libraries, both of the regulars and the seculars. He told how the f lying rumour of our love for books now spread everywhere, and how we were reported to be even languishing from our desire for them, chiefly for ancient books, and any one could easier obtain our favour by quartos than by money. Soon, there f lowed to us in place of pledges and presents, in place of gifts or prizes, bleared quartos and decrepit books, precious alike in our sight and our affection. The bishop insisted that justice suffered no harm by this manipulation of the courts business, yet he admitted that if he had loved gold and silver cups, spirited horses, or no small sums of money, he could easily have stored up a rich treasure for himself
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