“I know my life's a pain and but a span,
I know my sense is mocked with everything;
And to conclude, I know myself a man,
Which is a proud and yet a wretched thing.”

— John Davies (poet)

Stanza 45.
Nosce Teipsum (1599)

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English poet, lawyer, and politician, born 1569 1569–1626

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