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Richard Allestree, of Derby, was a noted almanac maker in Ben Jonson’s time.
“A little more
Would fetch all his astronomy from Allestree.”
Ben Jonson: Magnetic Lady, iv. 2 (1632).
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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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