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Ten years the world upon him falsely smiled,
Sheathing in fawning looks the deadly knife
Long aimed at his head; that so beguiled
It more securely might bereave his life:
Then threw him to a scaffold from a throne.
Much doctrine lies under this little stone.
Sir Richard Fanshawe, 1st Baronet
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Sir Richard Fanshawe, 1st Baronet
Born:
June, 1608
Died:
June 16, 1666
(aged 58)
Bio:
Sir Richard Fanshawe, 1st Baronet was an English poet and translator. He was a diplomat and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1661 to 1666.
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