Brief Lives, Vol. 1

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Here (fol. 3v) in the margin is written:—'Vide Pond,' referring perhaps to a pocket almanac, in which Aubrey had marked the date of his going up to Oxford. See Clark's Wood's Life and Times, i. 11, 12. In a letter from Aubrey to Anthony Wood, of date Feb. 21, 1679/80, in MS. Ballard 14, fol. 127, is this interesting note:—'At Trinity College we writt our names in the Buttery-booke, when we were entred.'

Aubrey cites in the margin (MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 3^v):—'Horat. Epist. 2^d.' <i.e. Epist. ii. 2. 45>:—

'Atque inter sylvas Academi quaerere verum. Dura sed emovere loco me tempora grato.'

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