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Article #41936Re: Shakespeare Hacked the Bible.
From: Spy
Date: Thu, 06 Mar 1997 00:00
Date: Thu, 06 Mar 1997 00:00
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Yojimbo <vbeckett@icis.on.ca> wrote in article
<vbeckett-0203972009440001@ts5-11.lon.hookup.net>...
> According to Ben Jonson, Shakespeare knew but "small Latin and little
Greek".
Not quite. Jonson wrote "thou HADST [my caps.] small Latine and lesse
Greeke from whence to honour thee" - which is not a as clear an
indication of knowledge as it could refer to the contents of the works.
Perhaps not a major point, but clarification of the quote.
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