"It is a known circumstance that when, at six years old, the tailor came to measure him for his first suit, he was sent into what was called Sidney’s little study, a small quiet room he much favoured; and on the man stating his errand, and his mother repeating it, Sidney said, “I am reading, come and tell me about this line; I cannot tell quite what Milton means here.” To which the man replied, “I know nothing about books, Sir, I am come to take your measure for your new clothes;” and poor Sidney was obliged to put down his Milton, saying, in his always sweet manner when a child “I am so sorry you do not know about such books, they would make you so happy.”"
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Anecdote reported by the author's elderly mother, published in The Poetical Remains of William Sidney Walker, ... with a Memoir, ed. J. Moultrie (1852), pp. iv–v
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William Sidney Walker
(4 December 1795 – 15 October 1846) was an English Shakespearean scholar and poet.
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