Ballad of Gresham College

21.

A Doctor counted very able
Designes that all Mankynd converse shall,
Spite o' th' confusion made att Babell,
By Character call'd Universall.
How long this Character will be learning,
That truly passeth my discerning.

SOURCE: Ballad of Gresham College (1663). “In Praise of that choice Company of Witts and Philosophers who meet on Wednesdays weekly att Gresham Colledg.” 28 stanzas.

See also: Stimson, Dorothy (1932), “Ballad of Gresham College,” Isis 18 (1), pp. 103-117.

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