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[Joel Berson]

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Joel
    ----- Forwarded Message -----
  From: Russ Hunt <hunt at STU.CA>
 To: C18-L at LISTS.PSU.EDU 
 Sent: Thursday, April 9, 2015 6:42 PM
 Subject: [C18-L] Rochester, children, and theories
   
I should be able to find the answer to this, but it occurs to me 
that someone on this wonderful list may already know it, more 
quickly than I can find it. 

I just receive a posting in which Rochester is quoted as saying:

"Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up 
children; now I have six children and no theories."

I did a quick Google search, and found many attributions of this 
to Rochester, but none I trust. This sounds just flat wrong: my 
ear says nobody in the Restoration would speak, or write, this 
way. "Got married"? "six theories"? "Bringing up" children? 

And, well, Lord Rochester as a humbled domestic pater familias?

Does anyone know immediately whether this is actually a quote -- 
or, better, when or how it came to be attributed to Rochester?

-- Russ

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Russ Hunt
Professor Emeritus
Saint Thomas University
http://www.stu.ca/~hunt

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