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One of the parables of Petrus Alfonsi, whose writings Caxton translated into English in 1484, pivots on an encounter with a memorial inscription. The epitaph enjoins contemplation here, from which subsequent action emerges:
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© 2009 Scott L. Newstok
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Newstok, S.L. (2009). “Killing rhetorick”: The Poetics of movere. In: Quoting Death in Early Modern England. Early Modern Literature in History. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230594784_5
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