Sir John Arbuthnot

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“Treason doth never prosper; what’s the reason?
For if it prosper, none dare call it treason.”
—Sir John Harington (1561–1612)

“From alle wymmen mi love is lent
And lyht on Alysoun.”
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Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250–1918. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. (New ed., rev. and enl., 1939)

“All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.”
—John Arbuthnot (1667–1735)