John Shown

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    Fair, rich, and young: how rare is her perfection,
    Were it not mingled with one foul infection!
    I mean, so proud a heart, so curst a tongue,
    As makes her seem nor fair, nor rich, nor young.
    —Sir John Harington (1561–1612)

    I should be very willing to redress
    Men’s wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes,
    Had not Cervantes, in that all too true tale
    Of Quixote, shown how all such efforts fail.
    George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)