Sir Thomas Gresham

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    “Was I not born of old worthy lineage?
    Was not my mother queen, my father king?
    Was I not a king’s fere in marriage?
    Had I not plenty of every pleasant thing?”
    —Sir Thomas More (1478–1535)

    “At Flores in the Azores Sir Richard Grenville lay,
    And a pinnace, like a fluttered bird, came flying from far away:
    ‘Spanish ships of war at sea! we have sighted fifty-three!’”
    —Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)

    “The old forget the grief,
    Hack of the cough, the hanging albatross,
    Cast back the bone of youth....”
    —Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)