Quote#Speech
His Comoedies will remaine witt as long as the English tongue is…
Quote byJohn Aubrey · 1626–1697
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Brief Lives, "William Shakespeare".
English (original)
His Comoedies will remaine witt as long as the English tongue is understood, for that he handles mores hominum [the ways of mankind]. Now our present writers reflect so much on particular persons and coxcombeities that twenty yeares hence they will not be understood.
— John Aubrey
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