Edmund Waller (1606–1687) English poet and politician
On St. James's Park; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“To a bad king a worse counsellor.”
A re malvagio, consiglier peggiore.
Canto II, stanza 2 (tr. Max Wickert)
Gerusalemme Liberata (1581)
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