| C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917. | | | | Linguist |
| | | This is your devoted friend, sir, the manifold linguist. Shakespeare. | 1 |
| Small Latin, and less Greek. Ben Jonson. | 2 |
| Lashed into Latin by the tingling rod. Gay. | 3 |
| | He Greek and Latin speaks with greater ease |
| Than hogs eat acorns, and tame pigeons peas. |
Cranfield. | 4 |
| Away with him, away with him! he speaks Latin. Shakespeare. | 5 |
| Speaks three or four languages word for word without a book. Shakespeare. | 6 | | |
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