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With a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you; with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner.

Source: Defence of Poesie, written 1579-80; published 1595.
-- Philip Sidney, (Nov 30 1554-1586), English courtier, statesman; He was an Elizabethan courtier, statesman, soldier, poet, and patron of scholars and poets, considered the ideal gentleman of his day.

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