Ouch!

Here's another interesting historical bitch slap. Nicholas Rowe, a loyal whig, tried to apply for a job with Oxford, a loyal Tory:

Oxford advised him to study Spanish, which Rowe did, in expectation of a possible foreign posting, only to be told by Oxford, when he reported his mastery of the language, ‘Then, Sir, I envy you the pleasure of reading “Don Quixote” in the original’.

Damn. That's gotta hurt.