Robert Copland

Robert Copland (fl. 1508–1547) was an English printer and author. He is said to have been a servant of William Caxton, and certainly worked for Wynkyn de Worde.

Quotes

• And as we talked, there gathered at the gate
  People, as me thought, of very poor estate,
  With bag and staff, both crooked, lame and blind,
  Scabby and scurvy, pock-eaten flesh and rind,
  Lousy and scald, and pillèd like as apes,
  With scantly a rag for to cover their shapes,
  Breechless, bare-footed, all stinking with dirt,
  With a thousand of tatters drabbling to the skirt,
  Boyes, girles, and luskish strong knaves,
  Diddering and daddering, leaning on their staves.
  • The High Way to the Spittle House (n.d.)

External links

• Encyclopedic article on Robert Copland on Wikipedia