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Thus on the fatal banks of Nile,
Weeps the deceitful crocodile.
Nahum Tate
Dido and Aeneas, Act 3 (1689)
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The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power).
Dawn Powell
Nahum Tate
Born:
1652
Died:
July 30, 1715
(aged 63)
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