Shakespeare and Richard, Earl of Cambridge
The Southampton Plot is dramatized in Shakespeare's Henry V, and in the anonymous play, The History of Sir John Oldcastle.
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“No care, no stop; so senseless of expense
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Nor cease his flow of riot, takes no account
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Of what is to continue.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
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