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From the diary of Samuel Pepys (1663-1703)

Up and to the office; and at noon to the Coffee-house, where I sat
with Sir G. Asckue and Sir Wm. Petty, who in discourse is methinks
one of the most rational men that ever I heard speak with a tongue,
having all his notions the most distinct and clear; among other
things saying that in all his life these three books were the most
esteemed and generally cried up for wit in the world---_Religio
Medici_, Osbourne's _Advice to a Son_, and _Hudibras_.

		-- Pepys' Diary, 27 Jan. 1664

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