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Dr. Fell
I do not like thee, Dr. Fell. A correspondent of Notes and
Queries says the author was Tom Brown, who wrote Dialogues of
the Dead, and the person referred to was Dr. Fell, Dean of
Christchurch
(1625-1686), who expelled him, but said he would remit the sentence
if he translated the thirty-third Epigram of Martial:
Non amo te, Zabidi, nec possum dicere quare;
Hoc tantum possum dicere, non amo te.
I do not like thee, Dr. Fell,
The reason why I cannot tell;
But this I know, I know full well,
I do not like thee, Dr. Fell.
T. Browm.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894 More on Dr Fell from Infoplease:
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