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“George is described in his entry in Athenae Oxonienses as a man who “was much adored there [at court], especially by the female sex, for his admirable discourse and symmetry of body.” He is also attributed popularity, particularly with the ladies, by George Cavendish, who would have seen George at court. 

Despite his antagonism toward the Boleyns, Cavendish cannot prevent himself from singing the personal virtues of George Boleyn, who he portrays as being graceful, attractive, and highly intelligent.

Cavendish’s verse praises the quality of his poetry and his wit (intelligence), and mentions the positions of trust to which he was exalted at an unusually young age:

A rare thing saw or seldom ever heard / So young a man so highly to be preferred

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