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blueshinra * Grab the nearest book.
* Open the book to page 56.
* Find the fifth sentence.
* Post the text of the next seven sentences in your journal along with these instructions.
* Don't dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.
Ryght wurschypffull and welebelouyd Volentyne, in my most vmble wyse I recommande me vn-to yowe, &c. And hertely I thanke yowe for þe letture whech tht 3e sende me be John Bekurton, wherby I vnderstonde and knowe at 3e be purposyd to com to Topcroft in schorte tyme, and wyth-owte any erand or mater but only to hafe a conclusyon of þe mater betwyx my fadur and 3owe. I wolde be most glad of any creature on lyve so at the mater myght growe to effect. And ther as 3e say, and 3e com and fynde þe mater no more toward þen 3e dyd afortyme 3e wold no more put my fadur and my lady my moder to no cost ner besenesse for þat cause a good wyle afture, weche causyth myn herte to be full hevy; and yf þat 3e com and the mater take no non effecte, þen sculd I be meche more sory and full of heuynesse.
(It continues on for a bit about nothing in particular; it's from a series of letters that were written late 15th century by a person who had never properly learnt how to write... like most of England at the time. This was before there was a set way of spelling was established as well - it can be seen as an insight into the way common people talked at the time. It really was the closest book - bottom shelf of my desk has old university books, this one was from ENGL 224 - Literary History of the English Language)