Katherine Philips (1632–1664) Anglo-Welsh poet and translator
'On the Death of my First and Dearest Child, Hector Philips' (1655), as reported in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, ed. Elizabeth Knowles (Oxford University Press, 1999), p. 575
“Rumor, I fear, is scarcely as accurate as he is rapid.”
Source: The Phoenix and the Mirror (1969), Chapter 9
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