Francis Bacon (1561–1626) English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, and author
No. 97
Apophthegms (1624)
“As old Chaucer was wont to say, that broad famous English poet.”
More Dissemblers besides Women (1614), Act i. Sc. 4.
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