Plautus/biography

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    What cared Duke Ercole, that bid
    His mummers to the market-place,
    What th’ onion-sellers thought or did
    So that his Plautus set the pace
    For the Italian comedies?
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    Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know the real truth about his or her love affairs.
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