"So in this way of writing without thinking, Thou hast a strange alacrity in sinking."

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Politicians from EnglandPoets from EnglandPlaywrights from EnglandMembers of the Parliament of EnglandChancellors of the University of Oxford
Original Language: English

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Charles Sackville, Earl of Dorset "On Mr Edward Howard, upon his British Princes"; cited from Geoffrey Grigson (ed.) The Oxford Book of Satirical Verse (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1980) p. 74