Anthony Munday — a remark

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“Favour comes by conformity, and death by obstinacy.”

A terse observation on the practical consequences of yielding or resisting authority, drawn from his account of life among English Catholics in Rome · The English Romayne Lyfe (1582)

About Anthony Munday

Anthony Munday

c. 13 October 1560–10 August 1633

In the bustling, smoke-hung streets of Elizabethan London, where the clatter of hooves mingled with the cries of hawkers and the distant peal of church bells, a young man of quick wit and tireless pen emerged from the shadows of obscurity to become one of the most versatile, if underappreciated, literary figures of…

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