“So in this way of writing without thinking,
Thou hast a strange alacrity in sinking.”

— Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset

Charles Sackville, Earl of Dorset "On Mr Edward Howard, upon his British Princes"; cited from Geoffrey Grigson (ed.) The Oxford Book of Satirical Verse (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1980) p. 74
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English politician and poet 1536–1608

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