Sixteenth Century Quote of the Week

"The readers and the hearers

like my books,

But yet some writers cannot them digest;

But what care I? for when I make a feast

I would my guests should praise it,

not the cooks."

Sir John Harington (1561-1612)

English courtier, author and inventor of

the flush toilet

Epigrams. Of Writers Who Carp at Other Men's Books