> The farting courtier was someone else -- might be where I tripped over the
> Harringey/Harington thing. Though more likely it's simply because my mind
> confuses itself with a seive.
> Then there's Aubrey's story of de Vere, farting whilst bowing, exiling
> himself for seven years and returning to Court to be told, 'My Lord, We
have
> forgot the fart.'
THAT'S it, Christopher, the farting anecdote I was trying to remember.
But de Vere? Sure it wasn't Shakespeare?
Robin
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