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He [John Milton] was so fair that they called him the Lady of Christ's College.
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As they were reading of inscribing and circumscribing figures, said he, I will show you how to inscribe a triangle in a quadrangle. Bring a pig into the quadrangle and I will set the college dog at him, and he will take the pig by the ear, then I come and take the dog by the tail and the hog by the tail, and so there you have a triangle in a quadrangle; quod erat faciendum.
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His complexion exceeding faire – he was so faire that they called him the Lady of Christ's College.
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Oval face. His eye a dark grey. He had auburn hair. His complexion exceeding fair—he was so fair that they called him the lady of Christ's College.
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Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work—that goes on, it adds up.
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Born:
March 12, 1626
Died:
June 7, 1697
(aged 71)
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