Sir Walter Raleigh

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    “Whosoever, in writing a modern history, shall follow truth too near the heels, it may haply strike out his teeth.”
    —Sir Walter Raleigh (1552–1618)

    “Well! If the Bard was weather-wise, who made
    The grand old ballad of Sir Patrick Spence,”
    —Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)

    “But true love is a durable fire
    In the mind ever burning;
    Never sick, never old, never dead,
    From itself never turning.”
    —Sir Walter Raleigh (1552?–1618)

    “Green springs the tree, hemp grows, the wag is wild,
    But when they meet, it makes the timber rot;
    It frets the halter, and it chokes the child.”
    —Sir Walter Raleigh (1552?–1618)