O. P.

Birmingham.

Is not this curious warning worthy of preservation in your columns? It

is copied from a black-letter label pasted to the inside of an old book

cover:

"Steal not this booke, my honest friende,

For fear ye gallows be ye ende;

For if you doe, the Lord will say,

'Where is that booke you stole away?'"

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