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While I cannot be 100% sure about it, it might be in reference to a sentence in Dryden, cited in the OED entry for boorish:It (link) comes from Dryden's translation of Virgil's Eclogues, in the dedicatory preface. Theocritus was the inventor of bucolic poetry, of which the Eclogues are an example.Quote:1697 DRYDEN Virg. Ded., The Boorish Dialect of Theocritus has a secret Charm in it.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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