Excerpt from Gammer Gurton's Needle: By Mr. S., Mr. Of Art Scholarly persons, living in academic celibacy, have often a singular taste for the manners of low life, and find in the crude humour and gross speech of the rustic a diversion from the niceties of classical culture. The type has become less common at Oxford and Cambridge, even in living memory, with the removal of the inhibition of marriage to fellows of colleges; but in the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries it was frequent enough. Bobert Burton of ...
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Excerpt from Gammer Gurton's Needle: By Mr. S., Mr. Of Art Scholarly persons, living in academic celibacy, have often a singular taste for the manners of low life, and find in the crude humour and gross speech of the rustic a diversion from the niceties of classical culture. The type has become less common at Oxford and Cambridge, even in living memory, with the removal of the inhibition of marriage to fellows of colleges; but in the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries it was frequent enough. Bobert Burton of Christ Church, who was a prey to the melancholy he made famous, is said to have found relief only by going to the bridge-foot and hearing the ribaldry of the bargemen, which rarely failed to throw him into a violent fit of laughter and we may well assume that Mr. S. Of Christ's College, who could portray a slang ing-match so admirably, must have gleaned some amuse ment from the rustic life and speech of the fen country. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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