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 236 THE PORTRAITS OF JOHN KNOX. Beza, having no use for a poor Interpretation. In fact we should rather guess the success of Goulart in foreign parts, remote from Geneva and its reading population, to have been inconsiderable ; at least in Scotland and England, where no mention of it or allusion to it is made, and where the Book at this day is fallen extremely scarce in comparison with Beza's ; no copy to be found in the British Museum, and dealers in old books testifying that it is of extreme rarity ; and would now bring, said one experienced- looking old man, perhaps twenty, guineas. Beza's boiled Figure-head appears to have been regarded as the one canonical Knox, and the legitimate function of every limner of Knox to be that of Hondius, the reproduction of the Beza Figure-head, with such im- provements and in vigor ations as his own best judgment or happiest fancy might suggest. Of the Goulart substitution of Tyndale for Knox, there seems to have been no notice or remembrance anywhere, or if any, then only a private censure and suppression of the Goulart and his Tyndale. Meanwhile, such is the ^wild chaos of the history of bad prints, the whirligig of time did bring about its revenge upon poor Beza.