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Great Goddesse to whose throne in Cynthian fires,
This earthlie Alter endlesse fumes expires,
Therefore, in fumes of sighes and fires of griefe,
To fearefull chances thou sendst bold reliefe,
Happie, thrise happie, Type, and nurse of death,
Who breathlesse, feedes on nothing but our breath,
In whom must vertue and her issue liue,
Or dye for euer.


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Be free, all worthy spirits,
And stretch yourselves, for greatness and for height.


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Obscuritie in affection of words, & indigested concets, is pedanticall and childish...

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And for the authentical truth of either person or actions, who (worth the respecting) will expect it in a poem, whose subject is not truth, but things like truth? Poor envious souls they are that cavil at truth's want in these natural fictions; material instruction, elegant and sententious excitation to virtue, and deflection from her contrary, being the soul, limbs, and limits of an authentical tragedy.

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He is at no end of his actions blest
Whose ends will make him greatest, and not best.


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Poetry, unlike oratory, should not aim at clarity... but be dense with meaning, 'something to be chewed and digested'...

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Born: 1559
Died: May 12, 1634 (aged 75)
Bio: George Chapman was an English dramatist, translator, and poet. He was a classical scholar whose work shows the influence of Stoicism.
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