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Remember when this was posted a few years ago?  I used it with great success
(and humor) for high school students.


>"For him that stealeth, or borroweth and returneth not, this book
>from its owner, let it change into a serpent in his hand & rend him.
>Let him be struck with palsy, & all his members blasted.  Let him
>languish in pain crying aloud for mercy, & let there be no surcease
>to his agony till he sing in dissolution.  Let bookworms gnaw his
>entrails in token of the Worm that dieth not, & when at last he goeth
>to his final punishment, let the flames of Hell consume him for
>ever."
>
>17th century bookplate, translated in:
>ANATHEMA!: MEDIEVAL SCRIBES AND THE HISTORY OF BOOK CURSES
>by Marc Drogin (Totowa, NJ: Allanheld & Schram, 1983).
>

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Beverly A. Nelson
Media Generalist
Spring Grove Public School
Spring Grove, MN   55974
507-498-3221
bev.nelson@springgrove.k12.mn.us

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&gt;17th century bookplate, translated in:<BR>
&gt;ANATHEMA!: MEDIEVAL SCRIBES AND THE HISTORY OF BOOK CURSES<BR>
&gt;by Marc Drogin (Totowa, NJ: Allanheld &amp; Schram, 1983).<BR>
&gt;</TT> <BR>
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-- <BR>
Beverly A. Nelson<BR>
Media Generalist<BR>
Spring Grove Public School<BR>
Spring Grove, MN &nbsp;&nbsp;55974<BR>
507-498-3221<BR>
bev.nelson@springgrove.k12.mn.us<BR>
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