"If men will shun swolne Fortunes ruinous blastes, Let them use Temperance. Nothing violent lastes."
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Sonnet "Upon Sejanus", appended to the quarto edition of Ben Jonson's Sejanus His Fall (1605)
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William Strachey
William Strachey (4 April 1572 – buried 16 August 1621) was an English writer whose works are among the primary sources for the early history of the English colonisation of North America. He is best remembered today as the eye-witness reporter of the 1609 shipwreck on the uninhabited island of Bermuda of the colonial ship Sea Venture, which was caught in a hurricane while sailing to Virginia. The survivors eventually reached Virginia after building two small ships during the ten months they spen
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