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Sir John Harington , of Kelston, Somerset, England, but baptised in London, was an English courtier, author and translator popularly known as the inventor of the flush toilet. He became prominent at Queen Elizabeth I's court, and was known as her "saucy Godson", but his poetry and other writings caused him to fall in and out of favour with the Queen. He was the author of the description of a flush-toilet forerunner installed in his Kelston house appears in A New Discourse of a Stale Subject, called the Metamorphosis of Ajax , a political allegory and coded attack on the monarchy, which is nowadays his best-known work. Wikipedia  

✵ 4. August 1560 – 20. November 1612
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“Best fishing in troubled waters.”

John Harington (writer)

Orlando Furioso (completed in 1591).

“Books give not wisdom where was none before,
But where some is, there reading makes it more.”

John Harington (writer)

Epigram in Muses Library (1737), p. 310.

“From your confessor, lawyer and physician,
Hide not your case on no condition.”

John Harington (writer)

Metamorphosis of Ajax (1596).

“Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason?
Why, if it prosper, none dare call it treason.”

John Harington (writer)

Epigrams, Book iv, Epistle 5. Compare: "Prosperum ac felix scelus/ Virtus vocatur" ("Successful and fortunate crime/ is called virtue"), Seneca, Herc. Furens, ii. 250.

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