Sir John Spencer

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    “Quit, quit, for shame; this will not move,
    This cannot take her.
    If of herself she will not love,
    Nothing can make her:
    The devil take her!”
    —Sir John Suckling (1609–1642)

    “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)

    “There St. John mingles with my friendly bowl
    The feast of reason and the flow of soul;”
    —Alexander Pope (1688–1744)

    “The Republican form of government is the highest form of government; but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature—a type nowhere at present existing.”
    —Herbert Spencer (1820–1903)