A Joke Too Far
Colin Burrow: My Favourite Elizabethan, 22 August 2002
Sir John Harington and the Book as Gift
by Jason Scott-Warren.
Oxford, 273 pp., £45, August 2001,0 19 924445 6 Show More
by Jason Scott-Warren.
Oxford, 273 pp., £45, August 2001,
“... for sex) has declined, and in another of which (translated from a Latin epigram by Thomas More, one of Harington’s early Tudor heroes) he has to leave out a word in order to avoid telling his mother-in-law to eat shit. Lady Rogers, unsurprisingly enough, did not make her son-in-law the executor of her will, which led to violent disputes ... ”