"I went to Frankfort and got drunk With that most learn'd Professor Brunck: I went to Wortz and got more drunken With that more learn'd Professor Ruhnken."
— Richard Porson

January 1, 1970

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[This epigram is wholly imaginary, for Porson was never out of England. The lines are from Facetiae Canitabrigienses (1825)]