A Fitting Epithaph
Someday, perhaps, I will be remembered like the Elizabethan writer Robert Greene:
"Lo, a wild head, full of mad brain and a thousand crotchets: A Scholar, a Discourser, a Courtier, a Ruffian, a Gamester, a Lover, a Soldier, a Traveler, a Merchant, a Broker, an Artificer, a Botcher, a Pettifogger, a Player, a Cozener, a Railer, a Beggar, an Omnigatherum, a Gay Nothing: a Storehourse of bald and baggage stuff, unworth the answering or reading: a trivial and triobular Author for knaves and fools: an Image of Idleness; an Epitome of Fantasticality; a Mirror of Vanity." [Gabriel Harvey, quoted in Stephen Greenblatt's Will in the The World]

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