@inbook{10.2307/j.ctt13x1mvn.7, ISBN = {9780812246933}, URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt13x1mvn.7}, abstract = {Anent that, think again about those freakish eggs, shaped like heads and served up to the royal valets in London.¹ Their juxtaposition with the gruesome story of Hall’s execution effects a “tincture” that dyes the minor curiosity with the suggestion of violent death.² What the real valets (if there were real valets) thought is irrecoverable, but the report implies that a weird portentousness afflicts the characters in Usk’s chronicle as much as it afflicts the chronicle itself: if Usk saw only one of the eggs, he was not present when they were served, but if he saw that one, then}, bookauthor = {Steven Justice}, booktitle = {Adam Usk's Secret}, pages = {53--65}, publisher = {University of Pennsylvania Press}, title = {Prophecy}, year = {2015} }