A DREAM OF JOHN BALL 

 AND 

 A KING'S LESSON 

 

 BY 

 WILLIAM MORRIS 

 

 CONTENTS 

 

 

 

 A DREAM OF JOHN BALL 

 

 CHAPTER I 

 THE MEN OF KENT 

 Sometimes I am rewarded for fretting myself so much about present matters by a quite unasked-for pleasant dream. I mean when I am asleep. This dream is as it were a present of an architectural peep-show. I see some beautiful and noble building new made, as it were for the occasion, as clearly as if I were awake; not vaguely or absurdly, as often happens in dreams, but with all the detail clear and reasonable. Some Elizabethan house with its scrap of earlier fourteenth-century building, and its later degradations of Queen Anne and Silly Billy and Victoria, marring but not destroying it, in an old village once a clearing amid the sandy woodlands of Sussex. Or an old and unusually curious 

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