This Earle of Oxford, making of his low obeisance to Queen Elizabeth, happened to let a Fart, at which he was so… — John Aubrey Copy Share Image
The silver Thames takes some part of this county in its journey to Oxford. — John Aubrey Copy Share Image
The astrologers and historians write that the ascendant as of Oxford is Capricornus, whose lord is Saturn, a religious planet, and patron… — John Aubrey Copy Share Image
Arise Evans had a fungous nose, and said, it was revealed to him, that the King's hand would cure him, and at the first… — John Aubrey Copy Share Image
Mr. William Shakespeare was born at Stratford upon Avon in the county of Warwick. His father was a butcher, and I have been told… — John Aubrey Copy Share Image
How these curiosities would be quite forgot, did not such idle fellowes as I put them down. — John Aubrey Copy Share Image
He [William Harvey] bid me to goe to the Fountain-head, and read Aristotle, Cicero, Avicenna, and did call the Neoteriques shitt-breeches. — John Aubrey Copy Share Image
There is to some men a great Lechery in Lying, and imposing on the understandings of beleeving people. — John Aubrey Copy Share Image
Sir Walter, being strangely surprised and put out of his countenance at so great a table, gives his son a damned blow over the… — John Aubrey Copy Share Image
This Earle of Oxford, making of his low obeisance to Queen Elizabeth, happened to let a Fart, at which he was so abashed and… — John Aubrey Copy Share Image
About Thomas Hobbes: He was 40 years old before he looked on geometry; which happened accidentally. Being in a gentleman's library, Euclid's Elements lay… — John Aubrey Copy Share Image
He [William Harvey] did not care for chymistrey, and was wont to speake against them with an undervalue. — John Aubrey Copy Share Image
The silver Thames takes some part of this county in its journey to Oxford. — John Aubrey Copy Share Image