“BALTHAZAR: Subjects may stumble, when kings walk astray.
Thine acts shall be a new Apocrypha.”

— Thomas Dekker, The Noble Spanish Soldier

The Noble Spanish Soldier (1622)

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English dramatist and pamphleteer 1572–1632

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