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The version is something more than a translation, and has considerable additions satirizing the follies of the English people of the time, particularly of the clergy. "The English Ship of Fools exercised an important direct influence upon our literature, pre-eminently helping to bury medieval allegory in the grave which had long yawned before it, and to direct English authorship into the drama, essay, and novel of character."-A. W. Ward. The unnumbered leaves at the end contain Barclay's Minor Poems: Mirrour of Good Manners, from Mancini, with the Latin in parallel columns, 42 leaves; and his Certayne Egloges, 24 leaves. 168 BARET (John). AN ALVEARIE ORTriple Dictionarie, in Englis he, Latin, and French: Very profitable for all fuch as be defirous of any of those three Languages... (Colophon :) Imprinted at London by Henry Denham, dwelling in Paternofter-rowe, at the figne of the Starre. 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