On 18-8-2015 10:45, Stephen wrote:
> On 8/18/2015 8:09 AM, Thomas de Groot wrote:
>> On 17-8-2015 19:52, Stephen wrote:
>
>>
>>>
>>> Hell. Nor is he out of it.
>>
>> No, I came hither of mine own accord.
>>
>
> I charge thee to return and change thy shape;
> Thou art too ugly to attend on me.
> Go, and return an old Franciscan friar;
> That holy shape becomes a devil best.  [Exit DEVIL
>
>
>>>
>>> (English Literature joke. ;-)  )
>>
>> (I confess I had to look that one up, although I had a wild guess...)
>>
>>
>
> I confess that it is one of my favourite quotes and I have been known to
> scribble it at many work places.
>
> Marlow is not the most multicultural of Elizabethan authors. Even by
> their standards.
>
After I finish Plutarch who is on my night table at this moment, I shall 
have a go at him. He is still a hole in my Elizabethan knowledge :-(

-- 
Thomas

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