“This Earl of Oxford, making of his low obeisance to Queen Elizabeth, happened to let a Fart, at which he was so abashed and ashamed that he went to Travel [for] 7 years. On his return the Queen welcomed him home, and said, 'My Lord, I had forgot the Fart.”

—  Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford

Anecdote recorded by John Aubrey in Brief Lives (1693).
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