Sir Walter, being strangely surprised and put out of his countenance at so great a table, gives his son a damned blow over the face. His son, as rude…

- John Aubrey

The astrologers and historians write that the ascendant as of Oxford is Capricornus, whose lord is Saturn, a religious planet, and patron of religiou…

- John Aubrey

Mr. William Shakespeare was born at Stratford upon Avon in the county of Warwick. His father was a butcher, and I have been told heretofore by some o…

- John Aubrey

There is to some men a great Lechery in Lying, and imposing on the understandings of beleeving people.

- John Aubrey

Arise Evans had a fungous nose, and said, it was revealed to him, that the King's hand would cure him, and at the first coming of King Charles II int…

- John Aubrey

About Thomas Hobbes: He was 40 years old before he looked on geometry; which happened accidentally. Being in a gentleman's library, Euclid's Elements…

- John Aubrey

Box about: 'twill come to my father anon.

- John Aubrey

The silver Thames takes some part of this county in its journey to Oxford.

- John Aubrey

I have heard him [William Harvey] say, that after his Booke of the Circulation of the Blood came-out, that he fell mightily in his Practize, and that…

- John Aubrey