A student recently wrote on her exam of Aemilia Lanyer's affair, not with
Lord Hunsdon, but with Lord Hungston!
On Mon, 25 Apr 2005, Kathryn Evans wrote:
> > A note on numerology: years ago I was telling a class about Kent
> > Hieatt's book on Epithalamion and used the word "numerology" without
> > writing it on the board. On her exam she said, "Spenser believed in a
> > New Morology and he thought this Morology would make his marriage
> > last a long time." I told Kent, who wrote back that "According to
> > Desiderius E. without the Old Morology nobody would get married to
> > begin with."
>
> A tenuously-related analogue: my favorite student-homophone story comes
> from a colleague who was teaching at Yale in the early 90s, and
> received a Paradise Lost paper that claimed, "After they eat the apple,
> Adam Eve experience lust for the first time, and have a night of post
> lapse Aryan bliss."
>
> Kasey Evans
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