His plays now take considerable decoding : not just looking up " fardels " and " bodkin " and knowing " wherefore " doesn't mean " where, " but disentangling the syntax : " How in my words somever she be shent, " says Hamlet before going in to confront his mother, " To give them seals, never, my soul, consent !"
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Theodore Ledyard Cuyler described Cox as " one of the most famous celebrities in the Presbyterian Church . . . famous for his linguistic attainments, for his wit and occasional eccentricities, and very famous for his bursts of eloquence on great occasions . " When awarded the appellation of Doctor of Divinity by the College of New Jersey, which would later become Princeton University, he famously derided it as a couple of " semi-lunar fardels ".
