Sir Thomas Browne

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    “What should I say,
    Since faith is dead,
    And truth away
    From you is fled?
    Should I be led
    With doubleness?”
    —Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503?–1542)

    “Haf owre, haf owre to Aberdour,
    It’s fiftie fadom deip,
    And thair lies guid Sir Patrick Spence,
    Wi the Scots lords at his feit.”
    —Unknown. Sir Patrick Spens (l. 41–44)

    “Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good.”
    —Thomas Browne (1605–1682)