Where studious of ease, I slumbered seven years, and then lost by degrees.

For some time Anstey publiChristopher Ansteyd nothing of any note though he cultivated letters as well as his estates.

was withheld from him owing to the offence caused by a speech made by him beginning: "Doctores sine doctrina magistri artium sine artibus et baccalaurei baculo potius quam lauro digni" (Doctors without doctrine artless Masters of Arts and Bachelors more worthy of the rod than the laurel). ) by the author's son John Anstey (d.