Sir John Franklin

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    “Treason doth never prosper: what’s the reason?
    For if it prosper, none dare call it treason.”
    —Sir John Harington (1561–1612)

    “From alle wymmen mi love is lent
    And lyht on Alysoun.”
    —Unknown. Alison. . .

    Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250–1918. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. (New ed., rev. and enl., 1939)

    “A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance.”
    —Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790)