Quote of the day
I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that you call a Gentleman and is nothing else.
Robert Southwell
Born: 1561
Died: February 21, 1595 (aged 34)
Bio: Robert Southwell, also Saint Robert Southwell, was an English Roman Catholic priest of the Jesuit Order. He was also a poet and clandestine missionary in post-Reformation England.
Known for:
- Mary Magdalen's funeral tears
- An humble supplication to Her Maiestie
- Complete poems of Robert Southwell, S.J