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George Chapman

1557 AD — 1634 AD

Listed in the author section of Bartlett’s ninth-edition anthology, in the linked 1905 printing. Dates reflect that historical edition and may differ from modern scholarship.

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The Blind Beggar of Alexandria
An Humorous Day's Mirth
All Fools
Monsieur D'Olive
The Gentleman Usher
Bussy D'Ambois
Conspiracy of Charles, Duke of Byron
Tragedy of Charles, Duke of Byron
Revenge for Honour
Eastward Ho
Epilogue to Translations
Musæus of Hero and Leander
Counsel · anthology attribution: George Chapman
Page 530 · printed citation: George Chapman · subject: SEEING—SIGHT

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01c. 1595 AD

Enough 's as good as a feast.

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02c. 1595 AD

Fair words never hurt the tongue.

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03c. 1595 AD

Let pride go afore, shame will follow after.

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04c. 1595 AD

I will neither yield to the song of the siren nor the voice of the hyena, the tears of the crocodile nor the howling of the wolf.

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05c. 1595 AD

As night the life-inclining stars best shows, So lives obscure the starriest souls disclose.

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06c. 1595 AD

Promise is most given when the least is said.

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07Undated

Let no man value at little price a virtuous woman's counsel.

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08Undated

Though all the doors are sure, and all our servants As sure bound with their sleeps; yet there is One That wakes above, whose eye no sleep can bind; He sees through doors, and darkness, and our thoughts; And, therefore, as we should avoid with fear, To think ourselves amiss before His search; So should we be as curious to shun All cause that others think not ill of us.

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09Undated

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

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10Undated

You men think old men are fools but old men know young men are the fools.

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11Undated

Flatterers look like friends as wolves like dogs.

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12Undated

Love is nature's second son.

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