Remember ye not how within this thirty years, and far less, and yet dureth unto this day, the old barking curs, Dunce’s disciples, and like draff called Scotists, the children of darkness, raged in every pulpit against Greek, Latin, and Hebrew?—Tyndale, Works, 1575, p. 278.
We have set Dunce in Bocardo and have utterly banished him Oxford for ever with all his blind glosses.... The second time we came to New College after we had declared your injunctions, we found all the great Quadrant Court full of the leaves of Dunce, the wind blowing them in every corner.—Wood’s Annals, A.D. 1535, 62.
What Dunce or Sorbonist cannot maintain a paradox?—G. Harvey, Pierce’s Supererogation, p. 159.
As for terms of honesty or civility, they are gibberish unto him, and he a Jewish Rabbin or a Latin dunce with him that useth any such form of monstrous terms.—Id., ib. p. 175.
Maud. Is this your tutor?
Tutor. Yes surely, lady;
I am the man that brought him in league with logic,
And read the Dunces to him.
Middleton, A Chaste Maid in Cheapside, act iii. sc. 1.
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