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Quotation by Sir Walter Raleigh
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Sir Walter Raleigh (32)Additional Sources
"A Collection of Political Observations" The Cabinet Council"A Collection of Political Observations" The Cabinet Council (1751)A Farewell to False LoveAs You Came from the Holy Land (attributed to Raleigh)Even Such is Time The Poems of Sir Walter Raleigh, ed. Agnes M. Latham (1951)
Go, Soul, the body's guest,
Upon a thankless arrant:
Fear not to touch the best;
The truth shall be thy warrant:
Go, since I needs must die,
And give the world the lie.
Upon a thankless arrant:
Fear not to touch the best;
The truth shall be thy warrant:
Go, since I needs must die,
And give the world the lie.
Sir Walter Raleigh (1552?–1618), British poet. The Lie (l. 1–6). . .
Oxford Book of Sixteenth Century Verse, The. E. K. Chambers, comp. (1932) Oxford University Press.
Oxford Book of Sixteenth Century Verse, The. E. K. Chambers, comp. (1932) Oxford University Press.
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