/ · 1894 Brewer’s · G · Grosted or Robert Grosseteste
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Bishop of Lincoln, in the reign of Henry III., the author of some two hundred works. He was accused of dealings in the black arts, and the Pope ordered a letter to be written to the King of England, enjoining him to disinter the bones of the too-wise bishop and burn them to powder. (Died 1253.)
“None a deeper knowledge boasted,
Since Hodgé, Bacon, and Bob Grosted.”
Butler: Hudibras, ii. 3.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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