"He had such an excellent inventive and prudentiall witt, and master of so good addresse, that when he was undon he could not only shift handsomely (which is a great mastery), but he would make such rationall proposalls that would be embraced by rich and great men, that in a short time he could gaine a good estate again, and never failed in any thing he ever undertooke but allwayes went through with profits and honour."
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John Aubrey, Brief Lives, ed. Andrew Clark, Vol. II (1898), p. 103
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John Ogilby
John Ogilby (17 November 1600 – 4 September 1676) was a Scottish translator, impresario and cartographer.
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