"After-wit" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... as he was admitted into the Court and the Queen's favours, and here he was not to seek to play his part well and dexterously; but his play was chiefly at the fore-game, not that he was a learner at the latter, but he loved not the after-wit, for the report is (and I think not unjustly) that he was seldom behind-hand with his gamesters, and that they always went ...
— Travels in England and Fragmenta Regalia • Paul Hentzner and Sir Robert Naunton |
