Sir Thomas Browne

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    “My Poynz, I cannot frame me tune to fayne,
    To cloke the trothe for praisse withowt desart,
    Of them that lyst all vice for to retayne.
    I cannot honour them that settes their part
    With Venus and Baccus all theire lyf long;
    Nor holld my pece of them allthoo I smart.”
    —Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503?–1542)

    “After night’s thunder far away had rolled
    The fiery day had a kernel sweet of cold”
    —Edward Thomas (1878–1917)

    “We all labour against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.”
    —Thomas Browne (1605–1682)