human
But the story is at least _ben trovato_, and morally true enough to serve as an illustration. Who the
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was has never been discovered. Of Crowne (who has some interest for us as a sometime student at Harvard) he says:
human
Many a cup of metheglm have I drank with little starch'd Johnny Crown; we called him so, from the stiff, unalterable primness of his long cravat. Crowne reflects no more credit on his Alma Mater than Downing. Both were sneaks, and of such a kind as, I think, can only be produced by a debauched Puritanism. Crowne, as a rival of Dryden, is contemptuously alluded to by Cibber in his
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Apology.