"Speak, speak, let terror strike slaves mute, Much danger makes great hearts most resolute."
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The Wonder of Women, or The Tragedy of Sophonisba, Act II, sc. ii. (1606)
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John Marston
John Marston (1576 – June 25, 1634) was an English poet, playwright and satirist. In a short and stormy literary career two of his books were burned by order of the Archbishop of Canterbury, and he himself suffered imprisonment on account of a third.
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