Novella
A Dream of John Ball
- by William Morris
- 10-part serial, The Commonweal, 13 November 1886 to 22 January 1887
The date shut my mouth as if a key had been turned in a padlock fixed to my lips; for I saw that something inexplicable had happened, and that if I said much I should be mixed up in a game of cross questions and crooked answers.