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Three Sisters

Wang Fei began her study of the guqin under Professor Li Xiangting at the Central Conservatory of Music in China in 1981. Wang Fei is also a well-known author in China. She and her two sisters are known as the Chinese Bronte Sisters. Their book “Three Sisters’ Skies and Dreams” was a bestseller in Beijing in 1997. She also plays the guzheng (21 stringed Zither) and does Chinese painting. 

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15 Points of a Good Horse – Wynkyn de Worde

Wynkyn de Worde

Wynkyn de Worde

Notabilia. 1
The fifteen points of a good horse: 2

“A good horse sholde have three propyrtees of a man, three of a woman, three of a foxe, three of a haare, and three of an asse.

“Of a man. Bolde, prowde, and hardye.

“Of a woman. Fayre-breasted, faire of heere, and easy to move.

“Of a foxe. A fair taylle, short eers, with a good trotte.

“Of a haare. A grate eye, a dry head, and well rennynge.

“Of an asse. A bygge chynn, a flat legge, and a good hoof.”—Wynkyn de Worde (1496).

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Trilogy – tragedies

A group of three tragedies. Everyone in Greece who took part in the poetic contest had to produce a trilogy and a satyric drama. We have only one specimen, and that is by Æschylos, embracing the Agamemnon, the Chophorœ, and the Eumen’ids.