Sir John Davies

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“At Flores in the Azores Sir Richard Grenville lay,
And a pinnace, like a fluttered bird, came flying from far away:
‘Spanish ships of war at sea! we have sighted fifty-three!’”
—Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)

“For beauties from worth arise
Are like the grace of deities,”
—Sir John Suckling (1609–1642)

“A Librettist is a mere drudge in the world of opera.”
—Robertson Davies (b. 1913)