“ONAELIA: What sort of poets are there?
POET: Two sorts lady: The great poets and the small poets.
ONAELIA: Great and small! Which do you call the great? The fat ones?”

The Noble Spanish Soldier (1622)

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English dramatist and pamphleteer 1572–1632

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