A fop? In this brave, licentious age </br> To bring his mus… - Sir Samuel Tuke, 1st Baronet

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A fop? In this brave, licentious age </br> To bring his musty morals on the stage? Rhime us to reason? and our lives redress In metre, as Druids did the savages.

Sir Samuel Tuke, 1st Baronet

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Sir Samuel Tuke, 1st Baronet (c. 1615 – 26 January 1674, in Somerset House, London) was an English officer in the Royalist army during the English Civil War and a notable playwright.

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