Sir Thomas Robinson

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    “Was I not born of old worthy lineage?
    Was not my mother queen, my father king?
    Was I not a king’s fere in marriage?
    Had I not plenty of every pleasant thing?”
    —Sir Thomas More (1478–1535)

    “Give me the critic bred in Nature’s school,
    Who neither talks by rote, nor thinks by rule;
    Who feeling’s honest dictates still obeys,
    And dares, without a precedent, to praise.”
    —Martin Archer, Sir Shee (1769–1850)

    “They are all gone away,
    The house is shut and still,
    There is nothing more to say.”
    —Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935)