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to secure a second book entitled
"A golden chaine", printed circa 1594,
and just about the height of
"the govenour", which also contained
the signature of White Kennet, Bishop
of Peterboro - The whirligig of time
thus brings these old room mates
- perhaps shelf-mates - together once
again in Ontario, probably after much
varied roaming.

Our next step in
progression, brings us to a name
that Lord Macauly said was
odious in literary history, as
is evident, for out of his surname
we have coined an epithet for
a knave, and out of his
christian name a synonyme
for the devil - Nicholas Macchiavelli.

The book is his Florentine
History, translated into English

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