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“I do not like thee, Doctor Fell.”

I do not like thee, Doctor Fell,
The reason why – I cannot tell;
But this I know, and know full well,
I do not like thee, Doctor Fell.

— Tom Brown, circa 1680 (apocryphal)





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Chromolithograph of the Hall of Christ Church, Oxford, from the book Old England: A Pictorial Museum of Regal, Ecclesiastical, Baronial, Municipal, and Popular Antiquities (published by Charles Knight and Co., London, 1845)

“Flowers,” Abate Andrea Belvedere, 1680

Oil on canvas.

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