Sir John Scott

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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)

“I must have the gentleman to haul and draw with the mariner, and the mariner with the gentleman.... I would know him, that would refuse to set his hand to a rope, but I know there is not any such here.”
—Francis, Sir Drake (1540–1596)

“Thou hast brought him a pardon from good King John.””
—Unknown. King John and the Abbot of Canterbury (l. 108)

“For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)