"'Tis good to have a cloake for the raine, a bad shift is better then none at all, Ile sit heere as if I were as dead as a doore naile."
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The Two Angry Women of Abington (1599) Nicholas loq.
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Henry Porter (playwright)
Henry Porter (died June 1599) was an English dramatist who is known for one surviving play, The Two Angry Women of Abington, and for the manner of his death: he was stabbed by another playwright.
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