Sowgelder. Ah! my old friend Dr. Harvey—I knew him right well—he made me sitt by him 2 or 3 hours together discoursing. Why! had he been stiffe, starcht[1140], and retired, as other formall doctors are, he had known no more then they. From the meanest person, in some way, or other, the learnedst man may learn something. Pride has been one of the greatest stoppers[1141] of the advancement of learning.
Notes.
[EQ] Aubrey gives (MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 64) in trick the coat:—'or, on a chief indented sable 3 crescents argent [Harvey]; quartering ..., 2 bars wavy ..., on a chief ... a lozenge charged with a Maltese cross....'
[ER] i.e. the inscriptions given here are extracted from the lost volume B. of Aubrey's antiquarian collections. July 2, 1674, Aubrey to Wood, in MS. Ballard 14, fol. 103:—'My brother William hath my liber B, wherin is the epitaph etc. of Dr. William Harvey's life.'
[ES] On MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 61, the blank address-side of Francis Potter's letter (of date Dec. 7, 1652) to Aubrey are found Aubrey's jottings of this conversation:—
'Vesalius
{ Bantinus
{ Anthocologia
J. Riolani.
de oculo
Julius Placentinus: de oculo et
auditu
de oculo et visione
Fabricius Aquapendente.