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1576–1634 England
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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For see, the dapple-grey coursers of the morn
Who winks and shuts his apprehension up.
Sing of the nature of women, and then the song shall be surely full of variety; old crotchets and most sweet closes. It shall be humorous, grave, fantastic, amorous, melancholy, sprightly, one in all, and all in one.
Wink and shut their apprehensions up.
A man! A man! My kingdom for a man!
A fool! a fool! my coxcomb for a fool!
Foul canker of fair virtuous action,
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