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Now I will show myselfTo have more of the serpent than the doveThat is--more knave than fool.

Christopher Marlowe

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Christopher Marlowe
Age: 29 †
Born: 1564
Born: February 23
Died: 1593
Died: May 30
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Dramatist
Playwright
Poet
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Canterbury
United Kingdom
Kit Marlowe
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Knaves
Serpent

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You stars that reigned at my nativity, whose influence hath allotted death and hell.
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I am Envy, begotten of a chimney-sweeper and an oyster-wife. I cannot read, and therefore wish all books were burnt I am lean with seeing others eat - O that there would come a famine through all the world, that all might die, and I live alone then thou should'st see how fat I would be! But must thou sit and I stand? Come down, with a vengeance!
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Had I as many souls as there be stars, I'd give them all for Mephistopheles!
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