“Fear that makes faith may break faith; and a fool Is but in folly stable.”

— Algernon Charles Swinburne

Queen Mary Stuart as portrayed in Bothwell. Act I. Sc. 3.
Bothwell : A Tragedy (1874)

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English poet, playwright, novelist, and critic 1837–1909

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