Sir Walter Raleigh

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    “And they be these: the wood, the weed, the wag.
    The wood is that which makes the gallow tree;
    The weed is that which strings the hangman’s bag;”
    —Sir Walter Raleigh (1552?–1618)

    “Never say a humorous thing to a man who does not possess humour. He will always use it in evidence against you.”
    —Herbert, Sir Beerbohm (1853–1917)

    “I have loved her all my youth,
    But now old, as you see;
    Love likes not the falling fruit
    From the withered tree.
    Know that love is a careless child
    And forgets promise past;
    He is blind, he is deaf when he list
    And in faith never fast.”
    —Sir Walter Raleigh (1552?–1618)