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The article discusses seventeenth-century landscape architect Isaac de Caus, focusing particularly on his writings and criticisms regarding his creativity, originality, and plagiarism. The author discusses mimesis and other literary conventions of the period in Great Britain and Europe, as well as the influence of the 1615 book "Les Raisons des Forces Mouvants," by Salomon de Caus, Isaac de Caus's brother as well as a notable landscape architect and engineer, on Isaac's 1644 book "Nouvelle invention de level l'eau plus hault que sa source avec quelques machines mouvantes par le moyen de Veau, et un discours de la conduite d'icelle."

The article presents the author's perspectives on the contemporary plagiarism problems on the humanities research made by postgraduate students in Great Britain. The distinction of pedagogical methods of learned music theory has been associated to the objectives and aims of the composer's experiences in doing music repetition. It states that the students must know the difference between source for consumption and method for production in the research.

Examines an unpublished fragment of Middle English verse on King Harold, written in imitation of John Lydgate's `Verses on the Kings of England.' Inclusion of the fragment in the British Library Manuscript Cotton Julius B.xii; Highlights of the manuscript; Significance of the find for people's sense of Lydgate's repute during the later years of the 15th century.