United Kingdom, Dramatist 1580 – 1634.
Was an English Jacobean dramatist best known for his tragedies The White Devil and The Duchess of Malfi, which are often regarded as masterpieces of the early 17th-century English stage. He was a contemporary of William Shakespeare.
When I go to hell, I mean to carry a bribe: for look you, good gifts evermore make way for the worst persons.
Condemn you me for that the duke did love me?So may you blame some fair and crystal riverFor that some melancholic, distracted manHath drown'd himself in 't.
I saw him going the way of all flesh.
Prosperity doth bewitch men, seeming clear;But seas do laugh, show white, when rocks are near.
All things do help the unhappy man to fall.
'Tis better to be fortunate than wise.
Glories, like glow-worms, afar off shine bright,But look'd too near have neither heat nor light.
Glories, like glowworms, afar off shine bright,But looked to near have neither heat nor light.
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