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Michael Drayton Quotes: All transitory titles I detest; a virtuous life I mean to boast alone. Our birth's our sires'; our virtues be our own.
         

All transitory titles I detest; a virtuous life I mean to boast alone. Our birth's our sires'; our virtues be our own.


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So in all humours sportively I range; My muse is rightly of the English strain, That cannot long one fashion entertain.



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