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“Bodley’s librarian Thomas Hearne responded gallantly that Wood himself was ‘always looked upon in Oxford as a most egregious, illiterate, dull blockhead, a conceited impudent coxcomb’. The” quote by Diane Purkiss — Download Open image

““Bodley’s librarian Thomas Hearne responded gallantly that Wood himself was ‘always looked upon in Oxford as a most egregious, illiterate, dull blockhead, a conceited impudent coxcomb’. The””

Diane Purkiss

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