To booke our dead.'
_Henry V_., iv. 7.

So all the copies, but `to book' is surely
a modern commercial phrase, and the

Herald here asked leave simply to `look,'
or to examine, the dead for the purpose
of giving honourable burial to their men
of rank. In the same sense Sir W. Lucie,
in the First Part of _Henry VI_., says:--

`I come to know what prisoners thou hast tane,
And to survey the bodies of the dead.'

We cannot imagine an officer with pen,
inkhorn, and paper, at a period when few
could write, `booking' the dead. We
may, I think, take it for granted that here
the letter _b_ had fallen over into the _l_
box.''

Another point to bear in mind is the
existence of such logotypes as _fi_, _si_, etc.,
so that, as Mr. Blades says, ``the change of
light into sight must not be considered as
a question of a single letter--of _s_ in the
_l_ box,'' because the box containing _si_ is
far away from the _l_ box, and their contents
could not well get mixed.