Seventeenth-century English Proverb

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    A degenerate nobleman is like a turnip. There is nothing good of him but that which is underground.
    Seventeenth-century English saying.

    My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the obscurity of a learned language.
    Edward Gibbon (1737–1794)