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1671–1757 England
Colley Cibber (June 11, 1671 – November 12, 1757) was an English actor, playwright, Poet Laureate, first British actor-manager, and head Dunce of Alexander Pope's Dunciad.
England Actors Playwrights Poets Also known as: Cibber, Colley
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I 've lately had two spiders
Richard III (altered) (1700)
Words are but empty thanks.
O say what is this thing call'd Light,
Oh, say! what is that thing call'd light,
The Double Gallant, prologue (1707).
Sir W.—“Come, come, let’s see, Man! What’s this! Odd! this Law is a plaguy troublesome thing; for, now a days, it won’t let a Man give away his own, without repeating the Particulars 500 times over: When in former times, a Man might have held his Title to Twenty Thousand pound a year, in compass of an Horn book.”
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