“My men, like satyrs grazing on the lawns,
Shall with their goat feet dance the antic hay.”

—  Christopher Marlowe

Gaveston, Act I, scene i, lines 57–58
Edward II (c. 1592)

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English dramatist, poet and translator 1564–1593

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