"The Duke of Marlborough talking over some Point of English History once with Bishop Burnet, and advancing some Anachronisms and strange Matters of Fact, his Lordship, in a great Astonishment at this new History, enquired of His Grace where He had met with it. The Duke, equally surprised on His side to be ask’d That Question by so knowing a Man in History as the Bishop, replied, Why dont you remember? It is in the only English History of those Times that ever I red, in Shakespear's Plays."
January 1, 1970
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