The impression produced on Defoe by what we consider the exceptionally beautiful scenery of the Lune valley is curious.
"Climbing in The British Isles. Vol. 1 - England"
W. P. Haskett Smith
Being now alone, he drew the card from his bosom, and, as if to convince himself that what he saw was truth and no cruel dream, he read aloud, but with a trembling voice: "On remarque, pour l'ordinaire, Qu'un songe eat analoque a notre caractere, On heros peut rever, qu'il a passe le Rhin, Un chien qu'il aboie a la Lune; Un joueur, qu'il a fait fortune, Un voleur, qu'il a fait butin.
"Berlin and Sans-Souci"
Louise Muhlbach
For instance, Richard Pynson printed, without date, an edition of the curious tract of Solomon and Marcolphus, to be sold at the sign of St. John the Evangelist beside Charing Cross; the Debate between Somer and Winter, printed by Laurence Andrewe, has the same colophon, and the De Cursione Lune, from the press of Richard Faques, has the same words, but not Wyer's name.
"A Short History of English Printing, 1476-1898"
Henry R. Plomer