“于是便去了有卖艺人吹奏风笛的公爵街,在那儿吻过书店老板娘之后,便买下了一部《传说》,”这是塞缪尔·佩皮斯1668年4月10日对购买沃拉金《黄金传说》(温金·德沃德,1521)所作的简短记录。在这个老牌搜书人兼读者和浏览者的《日记》里,有众多此类的购书记载。就像同时代许多受过教育的人一样,他熟谙拉丁语,能够用这种语言跟一位不会说英语的荷兰商船队长进行交谈,并在早上四点 “Then he went to Duke Street where the entertainer played the bagpipe, and after he had kissed the bookstore proprietress there, he bought a” legends, “” This is Samuel Pepys, April 10, 1668 A brief record of the purchase of Wladimir “The Golden Legend” (Wenjin DeWard, 1521). There are many such books in the diary of this veteran scholar-reader and viewer. Like many educated people of his generation, he was familiar with Latin and was able to speak in this language to a Dutch merchant captain who could not speak English and spoke at four in the morning