Sunday, January 23, 2011

a three-hundred-year-old case for nudism

"A certain man demanded of one of our loitering rogues, whom in the deep of frosty winter he saw wandering up and down with nothing but his shirt about him, and yet as blythe and Lusty as another that keeps himself muffled and wrapped in warm furs up to the ears, how he could have patience to go so! 'And have not you, good sir' (answered he) 'your face all bare? Imagine I am all face!'"

John Florio, English Prose, Wycliffe to Clarendon.


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