Oh,So Very True

Palissy on pottery.Written in 1584.Quoted in either Rhodes or Olsen's kiln book [Sydney and I had them both out yesterday].
A ream ,by the way,is 25 quires or 500 sheets - half a bundle,in short. We used to have to learn this stuff when I was at school,a time when decimals were something new-fangled and foreign,as they still are in the U.S.A.