Richard Rowlands — a remark

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“She had that instinctive malice that makes one pick out for hatred the very persons who have done one a good turn. She was not merely ungrateful, but her only response to a benefit received was to revenge it.”

A sharp characterisation of ingratitude turning into active hostility · Prose comment on Queen Elizabeth

About Richard Rowlands

Richard Rowlands

c. 1550–c. 1640

Richard Rowlands, better known to history as Richard Verstegan or Verstegen, was born in London about 1550 and died in Antwerp in 1640. He belongs to that unusually rich category of Renaissance figures whose lives resist simple professional labels. He was a poet, translator, engraver, publisher, controversialist…

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