Hoveden, a writer of the thirteenth century, informs us that Joannes Scotus, the early Scotch philosopher, being in company with Charles the Bold, king of France, that monarch asked him good-humouredly what was the difference between a Scot and a sot. Scotus, who sat opposite the king, answered -
"Only the breadth of the table."
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