Note BO — AUBREY'S 'BRIEF LIVES' (continued 4)
Reading edition
Reported slightly more fully by Aubrey, writing April 7, 1673, in MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 199v:—'Mr. Johnson, minister of the Temple, buryed him, secundum usum Directory, where, amongst other things, he quoted "the sayeing of a learned man" (he did not name him) "that when a learned man dies, there dyes a great deale of learning with him," and that "if learning could have kept a man alive our brother had not dyed."'