I DO NOT LIKE YOU, DR. FELL.

reference to a verse written by Thomas Brown (1663–1704) while a student at a college of Oxford University (one of the world's most prestigious universities). Brown is said to have composed these lines when John Fell (1625–1686), the dean of the college promised to remit a sentence of expulsion if the youth could make an impromptu translation of a Latin epigram. Translated, the epigram is: "I don't like you, Sabidus, I can't say why;/But I can say this: I don't like you, Sabidus."/Brown's version was:/"I do not love thee, Doctor Fell./The reason why I cannot tell;/But this alone I know full well,/I do not love thee, Doctor Fell." —State of Man Congress Approved Gls (14.5.92)