• In our fathers' time nothing was read but books of feigned chivalry, wherein a man by reading should be led to none other end, but only to manslaughter and bawdry.

    Roger Ascham: In our fathers' time nothing was read but books of feigned chivalry,
 wherein a man by reading should be led to none other end, but only
 to manslaughter and bawdry.
    Roger Ascham (1815). “The English Works. A New Ed”, p.55