biography
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| lived:
| (1605–35)
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| biography:
| Poet and playwright, born in Newnham-cum-Badby, Northamptonshire, C England, UK. He studied at Cambridge, where he was elected a fellow of Trinity College, and soon began to write, gaining the friendship of Ben Jonson and leading a boisterous life. He left a number of bright, fanciful poems, and six plays, including Aristippus, or the Jovial Philosopher (c.1626), The Muses' Looking-glass (1630), and Hey for Honesty (1651). |
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