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.
I saw him going the way of all flesh.
Vain the ambition of kingsWho seek by trophies and dead thingsTo leave a living name behind,And weave but nets to catch the wind.
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.
Glories, like glow-worms, afar off shine bright,But look'd too near have neither heat nor light.
All things do help the unhappy man to fall.
'Tis better to be fortunate than wise.
Glories, like glowworms, afar off shine bright,But looked to near have neither heat nor light.
Prosperity doth bewitch men, seeming clear;But seas do laugh, show white, when rocks are near.
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