“Love is a golden bubble, full of dreams,
That waking breaks, and fills us with extremes.”

Hero and Leander: a poem (1600), begun by Christopher Marlowe, and finished by George Chapman. Sestiad III.

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English dramatist, poet, and translator 1559–1634

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