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Thomas Flatman
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“Kings should disdain to die, and only disappear.”
Thomas Flatman (1635–1688) first seen 1685 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speaking of the death of Charles II, 6 February 1685.
“There’s an experienced rebel, Time, And in his squadrons Poverty; There’s Age that brings along with him A terrible artillery: And if against all these thou keep’st thy crown, Th’usurper Death will make thee lay it down.”
Thomas Flatman (1635–1688) first seen 1686 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Defiance", in Poems (1686)
“How happy a thing were a wedding, And a bedding, If a man might purchase a wife For a twelvemonth and a day; But to live with her all a man’s life, For ever and for aye, Till she grow grey as a cat, Good faith, Mr. Parson, I thank you for that!”
Thomas Flatman (1635–1688) said by 1688 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source