Samuel PepysUp and walked to White Hall, to the Chappell, where preached one Dr. Lewes, said heretofore to have been a great witt; but he read his sermon every word, and that so brokenly and so low, that nobody could hear at any distance, nor I anything worth hearing that sat near.
the roamer" ... [Professor Dimm], said heretofore to have been a great witt; but he read his [lecture] every word [from last year's slides], and that so brokenly and so low, that nobody could hear at any distance, nor I anything worth hearing that sat near."
As the centuries pass, little changes.