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His father was a Butcher, and I have been told heretofore by some of the neighbours, that when he was a boy he exercised his father's Trade, but when he kill'd a Calfe he would doe it in high style, and make a Speech.

— John Aubrey

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The astrologers and historians write that the ascendant as of Oxford is Capricornus, whose lord is Saturn, a religious planet, and patron of religious men.

How these curiosities would be quite forgot, did not such idle fellows as I am put them down.

There is to some men a great Lechery in Lying, and imposing on the understandings of beleeving people.

He pronounced the letter R (littera canina) very hard – a certaine signe of a Satyricall Witt.

He was a learned man, of immense reading, but is much blamed for his unfaithfull quotations.

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