Good reading

Tuesday 11 October 2005 | general

Want to read an account of the coronation of Jan III Sobieski, King of Poland, published in London in 1676?

I didn’t think so. Those f-y looking seventeenth-century s’s get on my nerves, too.

(From Textism)

2 Comments

  1. I love how “his Majesty did not so much appear King by the Tokens belonging to his Royal Majesty, as by his lofty and warlike Countenance, whereby he was distinguished by all his following Nobles.” I guess that’s why they elected him.

  2. You’re probably the only one to take a look…