Quote #8

His complexion exceeding faire - he was so faire that they called him the Lady of Christ's College.

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  1. Dr. Kettle was wont to say that Seneca writes as a Boare does pisse, scilicet by jirkes.
  2. He pronounced the letter R (littera canina) very hard - a certaine signe of a Satyricall Witt.
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  7. How these curiosities would be quite forgott, did not such idle fellowes as I am putt them downe.
  8. He was a learned man, of immense reading, but is much blamed for his unfaithfull quotations.

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