“An Ambitious woman shewes her selfe to bee a troublesome disturber of the world, powerfull to make smale things great, and great monstrous”

— Thomas Overbury

The Just Downfall of Ambition, Adultery and Murder.

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(1581–1613) English poet and essayist 1581–1613

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