"Flattery Is monstrous in a true friend."
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Act I, sc. i.
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John Ford (dramatist)
John Ford (1586 β c. 1640) was one of the last English playwrights in the great Jacobean school that produced Marlowe, William Shakespeare and Jonson.
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