 | John Aubrey - Biography & Autobiography - 1982 - 340 pages
...Jonson says of him, that he had but little Latin and less Greek, he understood Latin pretty well, for he had been in his younger years a schoolmaster in the country — from Mr Beeston. Sir Philip Sidney 1554-86 Soldier and poet. He was related to the Herberts of... | |
 | James G. McManaway - 1990 - 442 pages
...knew. The curriculum of the universities was a closed book to him. understood Latin pretty well: for he had been in his younger years a schoolmaster in the country." Such a youthful occupation is entirely compatible with scenes in several early plays. Holofernes in... | |
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Though, as Ben Jonson says of him, that he had but little Latin and less Greek, he understood Latin pretty well, for he had been in his younger years a schoolmaster in the country."! 
