Exceeding fair she was not; and yet fair In that she never … - George Chapman

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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.

George Chapman

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

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I will neither yield to the song of the siren nor the voice of the hyena, the tears of the crocodile nor the howling of the wolf.

'Tis immortality to die aspiring,
As if a man were taken quick to heaven.

Give me a spirit that on this life's rough sea
Loves t' have his sails fill'd with a lusty wind,
Even till his sail-yards tremble, his masts crack,
And his rapt ship run on her side so low
That she drinks water, and her keel plows air.

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