“None can Protect themselves with their own Shade.
None for themselves are born.”

— John Ogilby

Fab. XLVII: Of the Rebellion of the Hands and Feet
The Fables of Aesop (2nd ed. 1668)

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Scottish academic 1600–1676

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“None can Protect themselves with their own Shade.
None for themselves are born.”