By Kit Smart, who well deserved, though Dr. Johnson denied him, a
place in his British Poets. He possessed great wit and sprightliness
of conversation, which would readily flow off in extemporaneous verse,
says Dyer, and the three university bedels all happening to be fat
men, he thus immortalized them:
"Pinguia tergeminorum abdomina Bedellorum."
(Three bedels sound, with paunches fat and round.)
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