486411 Of to moche spekynge or bablynge, illustration from Alexander Barclay\'s English translation of \'The Ship of Fools\', from an edition published in 1874 (engraving) by German School, (15th century) (after); Private Collection; (add.info.: Alexander Barclay (c.1476-1552) Scottish born English poet, translated Sebastian Brandt\'s (1457-1521) Das Narrenschiff, as \'The Ship of Fools\' in 1509. Image is a facsimile of the original German woodcut of 1497 and shows a fool with a swollen tongue approaching a tree with a bird\'s nest in it\'s branches- \'Where as a hasty speker falleth in great domage, peryll and losse, in lyke wyse as the pye betrrays hir byrdes by hir chatrynge and crye\'. Foolishness of pointless chatter.); German, out of copyright.