Thomas Shadwell
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Thomas Shadwell
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Thomas Shadwell was an English playwright and miscellaneous writer who was appointed poet laureate in 1689.
The True Widow (1679)
- And wit's the noblest frailty of the mind.
- Act II, sc. i
- The haste of a fool is the slowest thing in the world.
- Act III, sc. i
- I am, out of the ladies' company, like a fish out of the water.
- Act III, sc. i
- Every man loves what he is good at.
- Act V, sc. i