The result can be an incoherent festschrift, which only the press of the university to which the recipient's career had been dedicated would undertake to publish. Certainly commercial publishers regard such festschriften as drugs on the market.

The shepheardes daughters to gather flowres, To peinct their girlonds with his colowres

He was practically uneducated, barely able to read and write a simple sentence.

Now, a wise man will tell him that he playeth the fool, for the ale-pole doth but signifie that there is good ale in the house where the ale-pole standeth, and will tell him that he muste go near the house and there he shall find the drinke,, and not stand sucking the ale-pole in vayne."