“I'm armed with more than complete steel,—
The justice of my quarrel.”

Lust's Dominion (c. 1600), Act iii. scene 4. Compare: "Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just, And he but naked, though locked up in steel, Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted", William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Act iii. scene 2.
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English dramatist, poet and translator 1564–1593

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