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The Blind Beggar of Alexandria

The Blind Beggar of Alexandria

The Blind Beggar of Alexandria is an Elizabethan era stage play, a comedy written by George Chapman. It was the first of Chapman's plays to be produced on the stage; its success inaugurated his career as a dramatist.


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“None ever loved but at first sight they loved.”

George Chapman The Blind Beggar of Alexandria

The Blind Beggar of Alexandria (1596); reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Compare: "Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?" Christopher Marlowe, Hero and Leander (1598).

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