For your behaviour, let it be free and negligent, not clogg… - George Chapman

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For your behaviour, let it be free and negligent, not clogged with ceremony or observance; give no man honour, but upon equal terms; for look how much thou giv'st any man above that, so much thou tak'st from thyself.

George Chapman

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George Chapman (c. 1559 – May 12, 1634) was an English dramatist, translator and poet.

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Exceeding fair she was not; and yet fair
In that she never studied to be fairer
Than Nature made her; beauty cost her nothing,
Her virtues were so rare.

Fortune, the great commandress of the world,
Hath divers ways to advance her followers:
To some she gives honour without deserving,
To other some, deserving without honour.

Man is a torch borne in the wind; a dream
But of a shadow, summ'd with all his substance.

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