In ancient days they said truth had fled to heaven: attacke… - Lope de Vega

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In ancient days they said truth had fled to heaven: attacked on every side, it's not been heard of since. We live in different ages, non-Spaniards and ourselves: they in the age of silver, we in the age of brass.

Lope de Vega

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Félix Lope de Vega y Carpio (or Lope Félix de Vega Carpio) (November 25 1562 – August 27 1635) was a Spanish Baroque playwright and poet. His surviving plays, numbering more than 400, form the foundation of the Spanish dramatic tradition.

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Alternative Names: Phoenix of Wits • Prodigy of Nature • Lope Félix de Vega Carpio • Lopez de la Vega • Félix Lope de Vega y Carpio • Félix Lope de 4545Vega Carpio

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Como las paga el vulgo, es justo
hablarle en necio para darle gusto.

De poetas no digo: buen siglo es éste. Muchos están en ciernes para el año que viene; pero ninguno hay tan malo como Cervantes ni tan necio que alabe a don Quijote.

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Thou didst seek after me, — that Thou didst wait,
Wet with unhealthy dews, before my gate,
And pass the gloomy nights of winter there?

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